bestrew
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Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 19, 2017
More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, concrete security barriers still bestrew the east side of 23rd Street NW.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 12, 2015
Uprooted trees, torn chunks of pavement and twisted iron fences bestrew the roadsides.
From Time Magazine Archive
The future was roseate indeed, and when he took his next pilgrimage to holy Benares they would bestrew his pathway with lotus flowers.
From The Adventures of Kathlyn by Harold MacGrath
Bismillah!" quoth the high priest gravely, "we have caused prayers to be offered up from each minaret of the mosques, and have commanded that all true believers should bestrew themselves with dust and ashes.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
It is safe to say that Richardson would have delivered a more nuanced movie—his Mahogany would undoubtedly have avoided the camp that bestrews the Gordy version.
From Slate ● Oct. 29, 2015
So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches.
From Tropic Days by E. J. (Edmund James) Banfield
We depart—the only two living beings to be seen in that unreal and miasmal place, that village which bestrews the earth and lies under our feet.
From Under Fire: the story of a squad by Fitzwater Wray
Branches of bloom-laden bird-cherry trees peep in at my window, and now and again the breeze bestrews my writing-table with their white petals.
From A Hero of Our Time by J. H. Wisdom
Lafayette Square, bestrewed with garbage and covered with graffiti, looked terrible in the images that emerged, and the president didn’t look much better.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 2, 2020
Why, Daedalus wondered, are the world’s cities bestrewed with graffiti even though scientists, years ago, had perfected the porcelain enamel surfaces that make self-cleaning ovens possible?
From New York Times ● Jul. 30, 2017
Their bestrewed compositions also owe a debt to Pollock’s allover paintings — so much for abstraction denied.
From New York Times ● Mar. 12, 2015
Not only was Flappy Bird by far the No. 1 free app on both the iPhone and Android app stores, but blatant rip-offs like Flappy Plane, Fly Birdie, and Ironpants bestrewed the top 50.
From Slate ● Feb. 10, 2014
No more she said, When poor blind Ball, with stumbling head, Fell prone; o'erturned the panniers lay, And her mashed eggs bestrewed the way.
From The Talking Beasts by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
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
It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Court was all bestrewn with herbs, and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.”
From In Jail with Charles Dickens by Alfred Trumble
She had rather a dread of new stories—it took the little boys so long to get initiated and the first steps were so terribly bestrewn with questions.
From A London Life and Other Tales by Henry James
What is all this about bestrewing the body?
From Yiddish Tales by Various
Till then it would be well for you to seek of the wisdom of Merlin guidance to overcome the dangers bestrewing your path.’
From The Red Romance Book by H. J. (Henry Justice) Ford
"Thou dost know that the china-packer comes early to-morrow morn, and that e'en now the barrels and boxes and excelsior are bestrewing the dining room?"
From Mother Carey's Chickens by Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
The casement opened, and first appeared a fair hand, which, with a long tapering jug of blue and white Dutch porcelain, was bestrewing water upon the flowers in the little wooden balcony.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
She was on her feet now, and he saw how entrancing she was, in a blue muslin frock and a broad white hat with a wreath of pink roses bestrewing the tilted brim.
From In Exile and Other Stories by Mary Hallock Foote
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