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
Suddenly the belligerents drew blades on the very stage itself, and, while the bystanders were expecting to see poetical or vocal blood besprinkle the harpsichords and double basses, the Signora Tesi advanced toward the duelists.
From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by George T. (George Titus) Ferris
Then take her blood, and cast it on this brake, And therewithal besprinkle all his face, And he shall be restored to his sense, His health and memory, as heretofore.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by William Carew Hazlitt
I. "By the Urdar fount dwelling, Day by day from the rill, The Nornas besprinkle The Ash Ygg-drasill."
From Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete by Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron Lytton
He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.
From Secret Bread by F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson) Jesse
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a man of barely middle age, although his black hair was besprinkled with grey and growing a little thin at the temples.
From The Wicked Marquis by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
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
His soul fastened itself now on the after-flora of his love, the Agnola besprinkled by Zeusel.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography by Jean Paul
Body black, rugged, its wing-cases besprinkled here and there with clustered dirty spots.
From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?
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
Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Then, he drew together a great heap of crisp shavings and slathers, plentifully besprinkling it with what remained in the can.
From At Fault by Kate Chopin
You that build the shade-roof, and you that court the rays, You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent: He has been our fellow, the morning of our days!
From Poems — Volume 2 by George Meredith
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
