besprinkle

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

Is it wickedness that speaks in you: 'I feel bad,' you say, 'let him also feel bad—there, I'll besprinkle his heart with my poisonous tears!'

From The Man Who Was Afraid by Herman Bernstein

Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger; it lives on love, but it resembles those Alpine flowers which feed themselves by suction from the wet clouds, and die if you besprinkle them.

From The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul

You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything.

From Folk Tales Every Child Should Know by Hamilton Wright Mabie

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

So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.

From Time Magazine Archive

He removed his wide slouched hat as he entered, and his long cloak, which was besprinkled with snow-flakes, fell from his shoulders, revealing a much-worn and faded doublet with tarnished braid and ominous stains.

From The Golden Galleon BEING A NARRATIVE OF THE ADVENTURES OF MASTER GILBERT OGLANDER, AND OF HOW, IN THE YEAR 1591, HE FOUGHT UNDER THE GALLANT SIR by Robert Leighton

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

Another theatre faced the square, gay with prismatic signs and besprinkled with electric lights.

From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews

Now what figure, think you, would a critic cut who besprinkled these writers with such compliments as Mr. Bennett peppers his contemporaries withal?

From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell

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

See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.

From Anecdotes of Dogs by Edward Jesse

The nuptial ceremony was concluded by an elder besprinkling the happy pair.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" by Various

Others there be, whose parts stand not so much towards Tall Words and Lofty Notions, but consist in scattering up and down and besprinkling all their sermons with plenty of Greek and Latin.

From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Professor Thomas Seccombe Arber

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