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

You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.

From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

He pretended to be angry, and asked her, with a frown, how she could dare to besprinkle her sovereign; she replied—"When children play together there is no distinction between the prince and the peasant."

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by William Sleeman

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Yet even for these levities with which his pages are so liberally besprinkled or bedaubed, some half-apology may be circumspectly urged.

From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres

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

After we had shaken hands with them they hung garlands of flowers round our necks, thrust small bouquets on us and liberally besprinkled us with scent.

From Life in an Indian Outpost by Gordon Casserly

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?

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

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

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

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

Before, the boy never bothered the sailors in this playful and light work; nay, he took an active part, besprinkling them with water and laughingly running away, when they threatened to pour water over him.

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein