bespatter
Example Sentences
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Howell has a poem “On some who, blending their brains together, plotted how to bespatter one of the Muses’ choicest sons, Sir William D’Avenant.”
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Isaac Disraeli
It seems his pleasure to cast filth into the face of purity; and bespatter innocence with foul imputations.
From Talkers With Illustrations by John Bate
I saw her, the other day, bespatter the Governor himself with water, at the cattle-trough in Spring Lane.
From The Scarlet Letter by Mary Hallock Foote
As Stars may without Pillories dispence, To slit some Ears for Forgeries of sense, Which Princes, Nobles, and the Fame of Men, Sought to bespatter by a worthless Pen.
From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Harold Whitmore Jones
They would hide behind a hedge and bespatter enemies and friends alike.
From Atlantic Narratives Modern Short Stories by Elizabeth Ashe
