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

In this neighbourhood there are many of those curious relics of bygone times, which are bestrewn about Cornwall more thickly than any other part of England.

From Cornwall by Mitton, G. E. (Geraldine Edith)

The cape was serrated, the points interblending, and was bestrewn with a profusion of great pearls, and at each point hung a great tassel of other pearls.

From The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine by Rameur, E.

A brownish-green carpet of moss and grass spread over the plain, bestrewn with flowers of rare beauty.

From Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I by Nansen, Fridtjof