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
Vials of good sweet waters, and casting bottels of glasses to besprinkle the ghests withall, after their comming aboord.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Richard Hakluyt
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
You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.
From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
My God, my Mercy, with how much gall didst Thou out of Thy great goodness besprinkle for me that sweetness?
From The Confessions of St. Augustine by E. B. (Edward Bouverie) Pusey
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
They came close to the little Peppers, so that the stiff black silk coat, now plentifully besprinkled with mud, brushed them as it passed.
From Ben Pepper by Margaret Sidney
Chattering and laughing, they march up the middle of the street, warm and rosy-cheeked after their labours, besprinkled with fish scales up to the eyes.
From Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland
There is no distinction between the meadow or pasture grounds and the forests, except that the latter are rather more bushy and besprinkled with a few trees, while the former are quite bare.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
It was "the end of the pilgrimage" to climb the steps behind this statue and kiss its 426 resplendent silver cape, studded with cockle-shells and besprinkled with gems.
From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates
This then—taken together with the stories now besprinkling the newspapers—was the situation.
From Sir George Tressady — Volume I by Mrs. Humphry Ward
Others there be, whose parts stand not so much towards Tall Words and Lofty Notions, but consist in scattering up and down and besprinkling all their sermons with plenty of Greek and Latin.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber
They are continually besprinkling themselves with eau de Cologne, esprit de Lavande, agua rica, or mistura.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross
Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
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
