bestrewn
Example Sentences
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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
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
No fight is there!—you, sire, are old, Your hair and beard are all bestrewn with gray, And as a child your speech.
From La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier by Léonce Rabillon
So we resumed our harness and departed; not, however, before a huge cairn had been built out of the blocks of gneiss with which the summit is bestrewn.
From The Ascent of the Matterhorn by Edward Whymper
