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
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
He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.
From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
And when they goe abroade, they besprinkle them selues with fragraunt oyles, to be swete at the smelle.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt
Linda Pallant, young as she was, and fresh and fair and charming, gentle and sufficiently shy, looked somehow exclusive—as if the dust of the common world had never been meant to besprinkle her.
From Louisa Pallant by Henry James
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
When the Tadmorians had inspected the mine, and had come back muddy and besprinkled with water and besmirched with candle-drippings, the train went on its way down the canyon.
From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde
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
The neighbourhood of Ana-Capri also, and in fact the whole western portion of the island, is likewise plentifully besprinkled with ancient ruins, one of which is still known by the suggestive title of Timberino.
From The Naples Riviera by Herbert M. (Herbert Millingchamp) Vaughan
Body black, rugged, its wing-cases besprinkled here and there with clustered dirty spots.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
The monster gave a frightful howl, and lashed violently with its tail, besprinkling us with the black slimy mud of the swamp.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
Then, he drew together a great heap of crisp shavings and slathers, plentifully besprinkling it with what remained in the can.
From At Fault by Kate Chopin
The raven falls upon a monumental tomb of the whitest marble, which there is there under the trees, besprinkling it with his blood.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
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
You that build the shade-roof, and you that court the rays, You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent: He has been our fellow, the morning of our days!
From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith
