besprinkle

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

Beflower, be-flow′ėr, v.t. to cover or besprinkle with flowers.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster

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

Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger; it lives on love, but it resembles those Alpine flowers, which feed themselves by suction from the wet clouds, and die if you besprinkle them.—

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle

So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

There are some squat, tubby-looking little pails in a row; while close by stands a shiny-hatted straw-bit besprinkled Triton blowing his pipe.

From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn

He was a man of barely middle age, although his black hair was besprinkled with grey and growing a little thin at the temples.

From The Wicked Marquis by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Mr. Whistler writes in an off-hand, colloquial style, much besprinkled with French—a style which might be called familiar if one often encountered anything like it.

From Views and Reviews by Henry James

Gurnemanz obeys, besprinkling him with a baptismal intention.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell

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

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

At intervals the sedulous attendants went to and fro, besprinkling their heads with the scented contents of their vases.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville

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