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

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 Hakluyt, Richard

She had still to bring away luggage from Maienthal, to besprinkle her friendships, and once more to set foot in the magic circle of her beloved teacher; and had, therefore, gone off.

From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography 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 Dodd, Anna Bowman

The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.

From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel