besprinkle
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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
Then take her blood, and cast it on this brake, And therewithal besprinkle all his face, And he shall be restored to his sense, His health and memory, as heretofore.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by Aimée G. Leffingwel McKenzie
My God, my Mercy, with how much gall didst Thou out of Thy great goodness besprinkle for me that sweetness?
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
The waves break on these huge masses without intermission, with a hollow and alternating roar, or rise up in sheets of foam, which besprinkle their hoary fronts.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
His soul fastened itself now on the after-flora of his love, the Agnola besprinkled by Zeusel.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
He removed his wide slouched hat as he entered, and his long cloak, which was besprinkled with snow-flakes, fell from his shoulders, revealing a much-worn and faded doublet with tarnished braid and ominous stains.
From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton
The Goddess of Liberty is ideally a creature of beautiful form, but really her face is scarred and worn, her figure gnarled and warped with time, and her garments besprinkled with blood.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
Then said one: 'There sits Sigurd blood besprinkled, the heart of Fafnir at the fire roasting; wise methinks were the ring despoiler, if he the gleaming heart were eating.'
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Angelica and her mother were busy besprinkling her and rubbing her forehead with essences.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Here are the headquarters of a large division of British troops, the red coats besprinkling every street and roadway.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.
From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse
The clouds hung low, and at intervals warm light showers descended besprinkling both alike.
From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education
