besprinkle
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I will scatter seeds criminally thickly on the surface, pat them down, and then remember that they need cover and besprinkle them with some soil that I’ve inevitably dropped on the kitchen floor.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 23, 2019
To besprinkle or scatter over with, or as with, flowers.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards.
From The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters by McKenzie, Aimée G. Leffingwel
It is quite unlike the blossoms which besprinkle other rugs.
From The Oriental Rug A Monograph on Eastern Rugs and Carpets, Saddle-Bags, Mats & Pillows, with a Consideration of Kinds and Classes, Types, Borders, Figures, Dyes, Symbols, etc. Together with Some Practical Advice to Collectors. by Ellwanger, W. D. (William DeLancey)
Love, like men, dies oftener of excess than of hunger; it lives on love, but it resembles those Alpine flowers, which feed themselves by suction from the wet clouds, and die if you besprinkle them.—
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas
So he fires away 264 pages of verbosity, besprinkled with large capitals, cryptic exhortations, capital I's.
From Time Magazine Archive
They cast off their burdens into the flowery meadows and besprinkled themselves with the pools of crystal water beneath the fountains.
From The Three Mulla-mulgars by De la Mare, Walter
When the Tadmorians had inspected the mine, and had come back muddy and besprinkled with water and besmirched with candle-drippings, the train went on its way down the canyon.
From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis
Another theatre faced the square, gay with prismatic signs and besprinkled with electric lights.
From Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Matthews, Brander
The Goddess of Liberty is ideally a creature of beautiful form, but really her face is scarred and worn, her figure gnarled and warped with time, and her garments besprinkled with blood.
From History of Human Society by Blackmar, Frank W. (Frank Wilson)
At intervals the sedulous attendants went to and fro, besprinkling their heads with the scented contents of their vases.
From Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I by Melville, Herman
Having once passed it in, I find 'You that leap besprinkling the rock stream-rent,' with its delicate labial pause and its delicate consonantal chime, one of the most fascinating lines in the stanza.
From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
Before, the boy never bothered the sailors in this playful and light work; nay, he took an active part, besprinkling them with water and laughingly running away, when they threatened to pour water over him.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman
There were several spots upon the white linen shirt, besprinkling the plaits upon the bosom, and others upon the sleeves; also the cheeks of the youth showed a drop or two on their pallid ground.
From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Reid, Mayne
See! how the morning dews They sweep, that from their feet besprinkling drop Dispersed, and leave a track oblique behind.
