besprinkle

Example Sentences

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The red sun stands before my pen and besprinkles my paper with running shadows.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

Mr Escott besprinkles his pages with biting epigram and humorous innuendo.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

Him close the curtains round with vapours blue, And soft besprinkles with Cimmerian dew.

From The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 2 by Gilfillan, George

If he drinks, it is with his mouth full, interrupting the whole company with, "to your good health, Sir," and "my service to you;" perhaps coughs in his glass, and besprinkles the whole table.

From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by Moore, John Hamilton

They start again, to pass through the fiery furnace, while he re-enters his cool hermitage, and besprinkles it with a pail of briny water from the stream beneath.

From The Toll Gatherer's Day (From "Twice Told Tales") by Hawthorne, Nathaniel