bestrewn

Example Sentences

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Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2017

What had set me off on this track, a track that became narrower and narrower and finally petered out in a field bestrewn with burdocks and cow pats?

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

No fight is there!—you, sire, are old, Your hair and beard are all bestrewn with gray, And as a child your speech.

From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Rabillon, Léonce

Grace, who had no opinions on art, saw no merit whatever in those "impressions" on canvas from Nick's hand with which the place was bestrewn.

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry

I like to see the furniture all bestrewn with it, and Deppe himself seated at his table surrounded with piles of manuscript, pen in hand, going over and arranging them, bringing order out of chaos.

From Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay by Fay, Amy