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

Suddenly the belligerents drew blades on the very stage itself, and, while the bystanders were expecting to see poetical or vocal blood besprinkle the harpsichords and double basses, the Signora Tesi advanced toward the duelists.

From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris

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

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

And thus full of faith he laboured on, telling the people of these scattered islands, which besprinkle the southern ocean like stars in the milky way, of the love of Christ.

From Beneath the Banner by F. J. Cross

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 The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When we came out of the wood, we saw a meadow thickly besprinkled with autumn flowers.

From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse

Another theatre faced the square, gay with prismatic signs and besprinkled with electric lights.

From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews

The rabbi, in a velvet skullcap, faded and besprinkled with down, presided with pious dignity, though apparently ill at ease, at the head of the table.

From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Abraham Cahan

Petals five, small, ovate, yellow besprinkled with orange.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?

See! how the morning dews   They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop   Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.

From The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan by

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

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

Gurnemanz obeys, besprinkling him with a baptismal intention.

From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell