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
You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.
From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
And thus full of faith he laboured on, telling the people of these scattered islands, which besprinkle the southern ocean like stars in the milky way, of the love of Christ.
From Beneath the Banner by F. J. Cross
The waves break on these huge masses without intermission, with a hollow and alternating roar, or rise up in sheets of foam, which besprinkle their hoary fronts.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 by Various
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 Richard Hakluyt
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
At the conclusion of dinner, all the guests were served with basins and ewers of water, and very liberally besprinkled with rose and orange-flower water.
From The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon by Habeeb Risk Allah
But the Staub-bach of the heavens had scattered itself in spray, and only Luna's fall of light any longer besprinkled the landscape.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
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
We have Horace Walpole’s authority for saying that the oaths with which they were plentifully besprinkled were far more masculine than they can be said to have been tender.
From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman
The monster gave a frightful howl, and lashed violently with its tail, besprinkling us with the black slimy mud of the swamp.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various
The raven falls upon a monumental tomb of the whitest marble, which there is there under the trees, besprinkling it with his blood.
From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann
One of the elders, using a knife of quartz, made incisions in the young man’s body, afterwards besprinkling them with urine.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various
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
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
