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
So he returned to his place and sat down, where upon all the handmaidens stood up and the lady bade them perfume him with pastiles and besprinkle his face with rose- water.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
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
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
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
"Good-evening!" said a familiar voice when the door was unclosed, and Dr. Baxter walked in as naturally and coolly as if it were not ten o'clock at night, and he plentifully besprinkled with rain.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
It was followed by a whole lamb fried in oil, stuffed with pounded pistachio nuts, pepper, nutmeg, and coriander seeds, and liberally besprinkled with rose-water and musk.
From The Brass Bottle by F. Anstey
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
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
See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.
Here are the headquarters of a large division of British troops, the red coats besprinkling every street and roadway.
From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou
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
