bestrewn

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Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2017

What had set me off on this track, a track that became narrower and narrower and finally petered out in a field bestrewn with burdocks and cow pats?

From The Guardian • Jun. 22, 2013

Verily he trots off, comforting his angry belly with his plenteous tail, flattened and bestrewn under it.

From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage

He would smile grimly as with dogged persistence he started this latest child of his fancy out along the trail so thickly bestrewn with the skeletons of elder offspring.

From A Breath of Prairie and other stories by Marchand, J. N.

The floor was bestrewn with the forms of midshipmen from the Cura�oa—“boldly say a wilderness of gunroom”—and in the midst of this sat Mrs. Strong throned on the sofa and reading aloud Gleams of Memory.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Lang, Andrew