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

It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences.

From The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel by Elinor Glyn

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

Beflower, be-flow′ėr, v.t. to cover or besprinkle with flowers.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various

And when they goe abroade, they besprinkle them selues with fragraunt oyles, to be swete at the smelle.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc. by Richard Hakluyt

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

From Time Magazine Archive

The rabbi, in a velvet skullcap, faded and besprinkled with down, presided with pious dignity, though apparently ill at ease, at the head of the table.

From Yekl A tale of the New York ghetto by Abraham Cahan

Petals five, small, ovate, yellow besprinkled with orange.

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

"Good-evening!" said a familiar voice when the door was unclosed, and Dr. Baxter walked in as naturally and coolly as if it were not ten o'clock at night, and he plentifully besprinkled with rain.

From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland

We have Horace Walpole’s authority for saying that the oaths with which they were plentifully besprinkled were far more masculine than they can be said to have been tender.

From A Cursory History of Swearing by Julian Sharman

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

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

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

At intervals the sedulous attendants went to and fro, besprinkling their heads with the scented contents of their vases.

From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Herman Melville