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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 males alone are incurably careless, and will impudently bestrew the surface of the comb with their droppings, which the workers are obliged to sweep as they hasten behind them.

From The Life of the Bee by Sutro, Alfred

Now Autumn sickens on the languid sight, ��And leaves bestrew the wanderer's lonely way, Now unto thee, pale arbitress of night, ��With double joy my homage do I pay.

From The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas by White, Henry Kirk

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

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 Wray, Fitzwater

"According to the poets, the phœnix bestrews its nest with incense, bay, and cinnamon, but I swear by the gods that I would rather be in S�nnica's triclinium than in that nest!"

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente

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 Wisdom, J. H.

So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches.

From Tropic Days by Banfield, E. J. (Edmund James)

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

At the bottom of “Dows Hill” he stopped, and once more replenished his bag with the rough stones, which liberally bestrewed the pathway, choosing the largest for the purpose.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

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

Daa was a man of great eccentricity of appearance, tall and gaunt, with limbs flung wildly about, and his fine head recklessly bestrewn with disordered hair, grizzled and reddish.

From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund

Grace, who had no opinions on art, saw no merit whatever in those "impressions" on canvas from Nick's hand with which the place was bestrewn.

From The Tragic Muse by James, Henry

Away I went into the thick darkness of the men's dirty cave, groping my way into its innermost recesses among the bags, chests, and beds with which the deck was bestrewn.

From The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life by Bullen, Frank T.

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

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 Ford, H. J. (Henry Justice)

"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 Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith

Morning dawned so calm and clear that but for the swimming ground and the broken tiles bestrewing it, the priest would have thought he had dreamed a terrible nightmare.

From The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

He conveyed the impression that the collection of documents, books, telephones, and other paraphernalia bestrewing his table had reduced him to a state of stupor.

From Dope by Rohmer, Sax