spattering

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Red cavalrymen trotted briskly through the muck, bespattering weary, sweating infantrymen on the way to another battle.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is no dilating on his crime, nor any bespattering him with epithets.

From Expositions of Holy Scripture St. Mark by Maclaren, Alexander

You can't leave the memory of an unassuming, honest, good-natured, amiable old duke alone, without bespattering it with your flunkeyism, can't you?

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, No. V, October, 1850, Volume I. by

In a sleigh drawn by two gray trotting-horses that were bespattering the dashboard with snow, Anatole and his constant companion Makarin dashed past.

From War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo, graf

When the vessel was dashed against the stones bespattering the aged drunkard with its contents, he fell upon the grass wringing his hands and bemoaning his hard fate.

From The Old Homestead by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)