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

It is quite unlike the blossoms which besprinkle other rugs.

From The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by W. D. (William DeLancey) Ellwanger

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

From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Linda Pallant, young as she was, and fresh and fair and charming, gentle and sufficiently shy, looked somehow exclusive—as if the dust of the common world had never been meant to besprinkle her.

From Louisa Pallant by Henry James

It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences.

From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn

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

From Time Magazine Archive

When the Tadmorians had inspected the mine, and had come back muddy and besprinkled with water and besmirched with candle-drippings, the train went on its way down the canyon.

From A Romance in Transit by Francis Lynde

Now what figure, think you, would a critic cut who besprinkled these writers with such compliments as Mr. Bennett peppers his contemporaries withal?

From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell

He removed his wide slouched hat as he entered, and his long cloak, which was besprinkled with snow-flakes, fell from his shoulders, revealing a much-worn and faded doublet with tarnished braid and ominous stains.

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton

The spiders had now spread their curious mathematical webs over the pales and fences, and they were rendered conspicuous by the moisture with which the fog had besprinkled them.

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

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

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

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

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