bestrewn
Example Sentences
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Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2017
What had set me off on this track, a track that became narrower and narrower and finally petered out in a field bestrewn with burdocks and cow pats?
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2013
A fair romantic Island, crown'd With a glow of blossom'd trees, And underneath bestrewn with flowers, The happy dreamer sees.
From The Isle of Palms and Other Poems by John Lyde Wilson
No fight is there!—you, sire, are old, Your hair and beard are all bestrewn with gray, And as a child your speech.
From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Léonce Rabillon
Daa was a man of great eccentricity of appearance, tall and gaunt, with limbs flung wildly about, and his fine head recklessly bestrewn with disordered hair, grizzled and reddish.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
