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

He pretended to be angry, and asked her, with a frown, how she could dare to besprinkle her sovereign; she replied—"When children play together there is no distinction between the prince and the peasant."

From A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II by Sleeman, William

He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up.

From Secret Bread by Jesse, F. Tennyson (Fryniwyd Tennyson)

Suddenly the belligerents drew blades on the very stage itself, and, while the bystanders were expecting to see poetical or vocal blood besprinkle the harpsichords and double basses, the Signora Tesi advanced toward the duelists.

From Great Singers, First Series Faustina Bordoni To Henrietta Sontag by Ferris, George T. (George Titus)

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 The Campaner Thal and Other Writings by Jean Paul