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
She had still to bring away luggage from Maienthal, to besprinkle her friendships, and once more to set foot in the magic circle of her beloved teacher; and had, therefore, gone off.
From Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. I. A Biography by Jean Paul
Vials of good sweet waters, and casting bottels of glasses to besprinkle the ghests withall, after their comming aboord.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Richard Hakluyt
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
You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.
From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
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?
Then said one: 'There sits Sigurd blood besprinkled, the heart of Fafnir at the fire roasting; wise methinks were the ring despoiler, if he the gleaming heart were eating.'
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
There are some squat, tubby-looking little pails in a row; while close by stands a shiny-hatted straw-bit besprinkled Triton blowing his pipe.
From Original Penny Readings A Series of Short Sketches by George Manville Fenn
Mr. Whistler writes in an off-hand, colloquial style, much besprinkled with French—a style which might be called familiar if one often encountered anything like it.
From Views and Reviews by Henry James
They are continually besprinkling themselves with eau de Cologne, esprit de Lavande, agua rica, or mistura.
From Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests by Thomasina Ross
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
See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.
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
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
