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
V. be variegated &c. adj.; variegate, stripe, streak, checker, chequer; bespeckle†, speckle; besprinkle, sprinkle; stipple, maculate, dot, bespot†; tattoo, inlay, damascene; embroider, braid, quilt.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
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
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
To besprinkle the walking Englishmen as they came within range with a shower of circulars announcing that at "midi, chez Nigaud, il y aura un dejeuner chaud."
From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Goddess of Liberty is ideally a creature of beautiful form, but really her face is scarred and worn, her figure gnarled and warped with time, and her garments besprinkled with blood.
From History of Human Society by Frank W. (Frank Wilson) Blackmar
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
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
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
Angelica and her mother were busy besprinkling her and rubbing her forehead with essences.
From The Serapion Brethren. Vol. II by Ernst Theordor Wilhelm Hoffmann
Gurnemanz obeys, besprinkling him with a baptismal intention.
From The Wagnerian Romances by Gertrude Hall Brownell
There were several spots upon the white linen shirt, besprinkling the plaits upon the bosom, and others upon the sleeves; also the cheeks of the youth showed a drop or two on their pallid ground.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid
The clouds hung low, and at intervals warm light showers descended besprinkling both alike.
From The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book by Ontario. Ministry of Education
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
