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

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

So he returned to his place and sat down, where upon all the handmaidens stood up and the lady bade them perfume him with pastiles and besprinkle his face with rose- water.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 01 by Sir Richard Francis Burton

It is quite unlike the blossoms which besprinkle other rugs.

From The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by W. D. (William DeLancey) Ellwanger

To besprinkle the walking Englishmen as they came within range with a shower of circulars announcing that at "midi, chez Nigaud, il y aura un dejeuner chaud."

From In and out of Three Normady Inns by Anna Bowman Dodd

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

From Time Magazine Archive

It was "the end of the pilgrimage" to climb the steps behind this statue and kiss its 426 resplendent silver cape, studded with cockle-shells and besprinkled with gems.

From Spanish Highways and Byways by Katharine Lee Bates

There is no distinction between the meadow or pasture grounds and the forests, except that the latter are rather more bushy and besprinkled with a few trees, while the former are quite bare.

From Lachesis Lapponica A Tour in Lapland, Volume 1 by Carl von Linn?

When we came out of the wood, we saw a meadow thickly besprinkled with autumn flowers.

From The Romance of the Canoness A Life-History by Paul Heyse

We were very loving, recalled old times, and besprinkled each other mutually with great praise.

From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Here are the headquarters of a large division of British troops, the red coats besprinkling every street and roadway.

From Due West or Round the World in Ten Months by Maturin Murray Ballou

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

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

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 monster gave a frightful howl, and lashed violently with its tail, besprinkling us with the black slimy mud of the swamp.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 by Various