bestrewn
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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
The room in which they were sitting was bestrewn with fragments of dresses and bonnets, which were being torn to pieces in a most wholesale way, with a view to a general rejuvenescence.
From The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Court was all bestrewn with herbs, and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.”
From In Jail with Charles Dickens by Alfred Trumble
There is a rude engraving of the author for frontispiece, title in red letter, a tedious preface, and the text is plentifully bestrewn with Latin and Greek quotations.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
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