| 单词 | bestrew |
| 例句 | Lafayette Square, bestrewed with garbage and covered with graffiti, looked terrible in the images that emerged, and the president didn’t look much better. Perspective | Trump wanted a photo op. He delivered the most ominous message of his presidency. 2020-06-02T04:00:00Z 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? Falling short: seven writers reflect on failure 2013-06-22T07:00:00Z More than a decade after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, concrete security barriers still bestrew the east side of 23rd Street NW. A new front door opens up an insular enclave at State Department 2015-06-12T04:00:00Z Some he depicted as he saw them, bestrewn with marble stumps and fallen capitals. The Ancient Syrian City ISIS Is Destroying, Preserved Online 2017-02-15T05:00:00Z Their bestrewed compositions also owe a debt to Pollock’s allover paintings — so much for abstraction denied. Review: ‘Peter Saul: From Pop to Punk,’ a Firebrand Willing to Offend 2015-03-12T04:00:00Z 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? David E.H. Jones, Scientist Whose Alter Ego Challenged Conventions, Dies at 79 2017-07-30T04:00:00Z Tears will bedew, if wigs do not bestrew the green.” Perspective | Most British Open clubs admitted women begrudgingly. This year’s site started 127 years ago. 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z Next there came into sight another horse, whose harness and caparison were of blue satin, fringed with gold and bestrewn with stars made of embroidery of gold stuff on a violet field. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z On the left of the steep road stood two cottages; on the right the gable end of a larger house rose heavily from the hillside, and from the sparse gorse bushes that bestrewed it. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z At one view I comprehended this—I read it in the aperture sawn through the doubled planking, and in the fragments of casks and cases with which the ice was bestrewn around. Mathieu Ropars: et cetera 2012-03-15T02:00:28.013Z By night a ridged and chimneyed blackness bestrewed with lights rewards the curious gazer from the deck of a Sound steamboat. Nooks and Corners of the New England Coast 2012-02-22T03:00:25.113Z 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. 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 2012-02-09T03:00:13.500Z The cape was serrated, the points interblending, and was bestrewn with a profusion of great pearls, and at each point hung a great tassel of other pearls. The Catholic World; Volume I, Issues 1-6 A Monthly Eclectic Magazine 2012-04-05T02:00:40.207Z London is bestrewn, to my sense, with reminders of his happy career here, and his company and his talk. The Letters of Henry James (volume I) 2012-02-08T03:00:15.197Z The way is desert and bestrewn with mountains; and the pest of mosquitoes is suffered, as well as the extreme heat. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 29 of 55 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing the Political, Economic, Commercial and Religious Conditions of Those Islands from Their Earliest Relations with European Nations to the Close of the Nineteenth Century 2012-02-03T03:00:18.817Z In this neighbourhood there are many of those curious relics of bygone times, which are bestrewn about Cornwall more thickly than any other part of England. Cornwall 2012-01-20T03:00:16.790Z 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. The Ascent of the Matterhorn 2011-11-19T03:00:23.233Z They rushed upon the oranges that bestrewed the ground, devoured several, and filled their pockets with them. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z His chest heaved higher, the powerful muscles of his arm grew stiffer, his eyes seemed to shoot out light, as their upward gaze sought in imagination the dark sky bestrewn with stars. For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. I (of II) A Romance of the Present Time 2011-10-13T02:00:45.883Z I like to see the furniture all bestrewn with it, and Deppe himself seated at his table surrounded with piles of manuscript, pen in hand, going over and arranging them, bringing order out of chaos. Music-Study in Germany from the Home Correspondence of Amy Fay 2011-09-07T02:00:17.597Z There is a rude engraving of the author for frontispiece, title in red letter, a tedious preface, and the text is plentifully bestrewn with Latin and Greek quotations. Wild Life in a Southern County 2011-08-04T02:00:27.037Z 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. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Splendor and night and fragrance bestrewed the Jacob's-ladder of the terraces down which he passed. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z Big stones bestrew the slopes; here and there a cottage seems little better than a pile of such stones covered with slabs of slate or coarse thatch. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z No wonder the wretch saw in his future a thorny entanglement—a path, if bestrewed with flowers, beset also by death’s-heads and skeletons! The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z 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. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Rugs and skins from all parts of the world bestrewed the polished parquet floor. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z More perilous even than these animals, to the wanderer in the forest, are the innumerable serpents that lurk beneath the accumulation of dead leaves bestrewing the ground. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 370, August 1846 2011-04-01T02:00:28.747Z From this point the way along the shore is wilder and rougher—more bestrewn with slabs and boulders than any we have yet seen. A Month in Yorkshire 2011-04-24T02:00:10.977Z A heavy footfall—evidently that of a man—was heard approaching along the path, and shuffling among the crisp leaves with which it was bestrewed. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z The very streets are equally neglected; bestrewed with the disgusting remains of dogs, cats, and similar nuisances. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z The Court was all bestrewn with herbs, and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.” In Jail with Charles Dickens "But why, Y�del dear, when they thought I was buying Palestinian earth to bestrew me after death, was I looked upon almost like a saint?" Yiddish Tales Then, robed in white and bestrewn with flowers, they were placed on the biers in the marble atriun. Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs “The servants presently brought the poor tinker a silver basin, ‘full of rose-water, and bestrewed with flowers.’ Zigzag Journeys in Europe Vacation Rambles in Historic Lands Some points on this coast have been observed to be occasionally deserted, and then again at another season thickly bestrewed with erratics. Principles of Geology or, The Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants Considered as Illustrative of Geology 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. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 Tell me, those Palestinian Jews who were so interested in my death, and brought earth from over there to bestrew me—tell me, are they also only there to die? Yiddish Tales The bottom of this strange valley was nearly level, and well grown with tall forest trees and undergrowth; not so thick, however, but that there were grassy open spaces, bestrewn with large rocks and boulders. The Induna's Wife Fragments of rocks in wild despair they wield, And helms and shivered swords bestrew the field. The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles Vol. 2 Even the men had tied bright silk handkerchiefs about their necks, and they were bestrewed with bits of gold and silver paper, and festooned with colored ribbon. Ancestors A Novel "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!" Sónnica What is all this about bestrewing the body? Yiddish Tales The room in which they were sitting was bestrewn with fragments of dresses and bonnets, which were being torn to pieces in a most wholesale way, with a view to a general rejuvenescence. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine Their scarfs of plush are lying On ripening grape and peach; Their sea-shells 'neath the apple trees, Each Spring bestrew their beach. Mother Truth's Melodies Common Sense For Children It is not bedotted with artists’ sunshades as with unknown mushrooms, nor bestrewn with the remains of English picnics. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers All around Autumn leaves are falling; Signs of death bestrew the ground, Winter time recalling. A History of the English Church in New Zealand A brownish-green carpet of moss and grass spread over the plain, bestrewn with flowers of rare beauty. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 Vol. I The sands of the little cove seemed harder and whiter than ever, and were thickly bestrewn with the shells and seaweed which the upturnings of the night had brought in. The Pearl of Orr's Island A Story of the Coast of Maine 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. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 But quickly she extricated herself, and they picked their way cautiously over the bestrewn threshold out into the hall. The Strollers Then by all means bestrew your scenes With half the lotuses that blow, Pothooks and fishing-lines and things, But let the human woman go! The Battle of the Bays Not many miles below, is a high sloping beach, picturesquely bestrewn with gigantic boulders which have in ages past rolled down from the hill-tops above. Afloat on the Ohio An Historical Pilgrimage of a Thousand Miles in a Skiff, from Redstone to Cairo He would smile grimly as with dogged persistence he started this latest child of his fancy out along the trail so thickly bestrewn with the skeletons of elder offspring. A Breath of Prairie and other stories But lately I beheld “Torn planks bestrew the shore: and oft I've read “On empty tombs, the names of dead inscrib'd. The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II Children climb about its walls and windows; cockneys scratch their names, and picnic parties bestrew the grass with paper. Highways and Byways in Surrey That side of the savage host falls back hurriedly, leaving the ground bestrewn with bodies, dead, dying, crushed. The Sign of the Spider Good morning to this primrose too, Good morrow to each maid; That will with flowers the tomb bestrew Wherein my love is laid. A History of Elizabethan Literature "Out from here, you dirty loafer you!" she shrieked, and grabbed a calcimining brush from one of the many paintpots that bestrewed the hallway. Elkan Lubliner, American They threw up rat-fur in the air; They piled up rat-tails everywhere; And slaughtered rats bestrewed the ground For ten or twenty miles around. Poems for Pale People A Volume of Verse The soil is clayey, and thinly bestrewed with alpine grass, intermingled with syngenesious and cruciferous plants. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests And Saronia took the face bestrewn with golden hair between her jewelled hands, and passionately kissed the trembling lips of the daughter of Lucius. Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus With pearls of white enchantment I bestrew The happy realms where lovers hunt their bliss; My ray is pale as frost and soft as dew; My path is woven in snow through the abyss. The Masque of the Elements We came across directly after the gale, with the Channel all bestrewn with floating wreck, and with a hundred and fifty sick schoolboys from Calais on board. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 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. A London Life and Other Tales It seemed to have no end, but disappeared deep in the thicket, and, as far as they could see, it was all bestrewn with similar treasures. The King of Root Valley and his curious daughter "The fiddle of which the wreck bestrewed your chamber when you left it," replied the stranger. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843 Till then it would be well for you to seek of the wisdom of Merlin guidance to overcome the dangers bestrewing your path.’ The Red Romance Book Next day we saw near one of the islands, where the water was very clear, the sea-bottom bestrewed with innumerable fish of the same species. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II No fight is there!—you, sire, are old, Your hair and beard are all bestrewn with gray, And as a child your speech. La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon Gautier It is true they perplexed her not a little, since no single one of them bestrewed the house with fallen aspirates, sang while sweeping nor spoke ill of her fellow. Men of Affairs Unluckily, their beds were so thickly bestrewn with rock that neither of them was navigable for any considerable part of its long course through the ill-starred province. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot Because he was to her so infinitely dear, his path seemed ever bestrewn with dangers. A Book of Myths Marks of them are therefore met with nearly everywhere, and the dune accordingly is everywhere bestrewed with broken implements or refuse from the chase. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Nothing now was to be seen but the face of horror and despair, blood stained the floors of the houses, dead bodies bestrewed the streets, groans and cries were heard from all parts. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs All the discrepancies which bestrew ordinary life are absent. Human Traits and their Social Significance A slight struggle ensued, in the midst of which the pocket-book fell to the ground, and a considerable number of bank-notes bestrewed the pavement. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 Verily he trots off, comforting his angry belly with his plenteous tail, flattened and bestrewn under it. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection All who have even a slight acquaintance with sagas know the extraordinary periphrases for common objects, for men and maidens, for ships and swords, that bestrew them. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) Never, did even their enemies declare, was a field of battle bestrewn with a finer, perhaps with a nobler race. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III. For as the husbandman bestrewing the dense wheat-ears mows the harvest yellowed 'neath ardent sun, so shall he cast prostrate the corpses of Troy's sons with grim swords. The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus How many corpses bestrew the coup d'état of December? Napoleon the Little 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. The Tragic Muse As yet you have seen no house, and wonder whither the gravel-walks are to conduct you, winding fancifully and fantastically through the smooth-shaven lawn, bestrewed by a few large leaves of the horse-chestnut or sycamore. Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2 They passed into the ancient shipyard which lay beyond, and which was now a mere vague, grass-grown approach to the waterside, bestrewn with a few remnants of supererogatory timber. The Bostonians, Vol. II (of II) Even Father Time joined in the fun, and Christmas and New Year bestrewed the floor with cotton batting as they danced with the old ladies. The Story of the Big Front Door The pitfalls that bestrew their path are still numerous. Messages to the Bahá’í World: 1950–1957 What a hecatomb of mouldering bones would bestrew those fields of ice! The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Charred benches and desks, broken bottles, retorts, and glass cases, bestrewed it. Foe-Farrell When villagers my shroud bestrew With pansies, rosemary, and rue,— Then, lady, weave a wreath for me, And weave it of the cypress-tree! The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume I. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century The ground rose sharply from the water's edge in a rough hillside thickly studded and bestrewn with boulders great and small; fallen cleavings and hewings from the crags of the eastern cliff. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady The future was roseate indeed, and when he took his next pilgrimage to holy Benares they would bestrew his pathway with lotus flowers. The Adventures of Kathlyn Another, of rounded shape, presents inside a vault bestrewn with small flowers and decorated with bas-reliefs, one of which represents a female laying a fillet on the bones of her child. The Wonders of Pompeii Across the course hangs the shoulder of a hill, and from the fastnesses of the hill a brook gushes down to the sea through the boulders that bestrew its banks. Rembrandt But 'tis no good meeting troubles halfway, and I resolutely kept my thought from dwelling on the manifold dangers that bestrewed our path to liberty. Humphrey Bold A Story of the Times of Benbow Later ages view the matter as of no importance; and the lives that are lost in the struggle are as forgotten as the multitudinous leaves which bestrew the ground of an autumnal forest. Children of the Market Place Old lindens encircled the grounds, which, in summer, overshadowed the gray masonry with their green leaves and bestrewed the turf with their fragrant white blossoms. Memories A Story of German Love He took no notice of the proffered seat, and they remained standing, as they were, with the round table, bestrewn with letters, between them. The Inner Shrine "How terrible!" cried the sympathetic Olivetta, pushing into place a few of the inconstant hairpins that threatened to bestrew the floor. No. 13 Washington Square 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. The Talking Beasts A sable hearse bestrewn with snow is bearing a dead man through the storm to his frozen bed. Twice Told Tales 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. The Splendid Idle Forties Stories of Old California At another time, you may see them both folded together in sleep, like the Babes in the Woods all bestrewn with leaves. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 04, February, 1858 And the earth, bestrewn in a short time with the corpses of elephants belonging to the Kauravas, looked like the sky overcast with masses of black clouds. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Translated into English Prose Virata Parva All Goethe's work, whether poetry or prose, his plays, his novels, his letters, his conversations, are richly bestrewn with the luminous sentences of a keen-eyed, steadfast, patient, indefatigable watcher of human life. Studies in Literature He could hear no more of the men's talk than muttered grumblings plentifully bestrewn with curses; and wonder what was forward and why they remained inactive grew more and more upon him. The Castle Inn The precious potion bestrewed the ground, making a garden of that desolate place. French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France Wistfully she looked down her road to Arcady; but how far away the end and so bestrewn with terrors. In the Claws of the German Eagle True, their hands were grimy, their clothing tattered, and the floors were bestrewn with hair from hides and bits of broken bullock bones; but of connubial, parental, or filial inhumanity, there were no signs. The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic Fate The court was all bestrewn with herbs and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever. A Tale of Two Cities He found him, pen in hand, bent over a great table bestrewn with papers, as if worshipping an enormous double inkstand of bronze and crystal. The Secret Agent a Simple Tale And coming from a garden, Tom, bestrewn with flowers by children's hands, thy sister, little Ruth, as light of foot and heart as in old days, sits down beside thee. Martin Chuzzlewit Into a room, half surgery, half study, I was shown to await his coming, and I found it, by a series of elaborate accidents, bestrewn with testimonies to Joe. The Uncommercial Traveller Why, then,—while so much of the soil around him was bestrewn with the virgin forest leaves,—why should Colonel Pyncheon prefer a site that had already been accurst? House of the Seven Gables Books open with torn pages bestrewed the floor; other books lay about grimy and black, looking as if they had never been opened. Almayer's Folly: a story of an Eastern river Its smooth tiled floor, comfortably bestrewn with rugs, was on a level with the path outside. The Market-Place Who then of the Nymphs had sung, Or who with flowering herbs bestrewn the ground, And o'er the fountains drawn a leafy veil?- The Bucolics and Eclogues Young Madame de Bellegarde was dressed in an audacious toilet of crimson crape, bestrewn with huge silver moons—thin crescent and full disks. The American The arbor was vacant, and its floor, table, and circular bench were still damp, and bestrewn with twigs and the disarray of the past storm. House of the Seven Gables Those lads were however careful enough in what they did, but as for him, he let the box, he held, slip from his hands, and bestrewed the whole courtyard with cakes. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books On his person, he wore a long silvery-red coat, more or less old, bestrewn with embroidery of flowers. Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Afar the lofty head-light gleamed; Afar the whistle shrieked and screamed; And glistening bright, and rising high, Our flakes of fire bestrewed the sky, Up the line. Farm Ballads Old Haygarth had helped his industrious and respectable son-in-law along the stony road that leads to fortune, and had no doubt given him many a lift over the stones which bestrew that toilsome highway. Birds of Prey The purple violet and the yellow crocus bestrewed the ground. Imogen A Pastoral Romance But the moment she turned round, she espied a small door over which hung a soft portière, of leek-green colour, bestrewn with embroidered flowers. Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books The farm-yard was bestrewn with straw, and when the wind swirled in between the houses it seized the oat-straws by the head, raised them on end, and set them dancing along like yellow spectres. Tales of Two Countries 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. In Exile and Other Stories What an ill-conditioned cur he is, and how he mouths and mangles the roses that bestrew his pathway, always bent upon finding the worm at the core! Birds of Prey Dressed in a summer dress, Yellow and white, bestrewn with curtain-flowers; But you had lost the glistening laughingness Of our delirious former loving hours. Poems of Paul Verlaine So thick bestrewn, Abject and lost, lay these, covering the flood, Under amazement of their hideous change. National Epics In the spring prayers were offered up for the dead and a religious procession paraded round the village, the outskirts of which were bestrewn with ashes. Tales of the Wilderness For a haze of oblivion is formed by lapse of time and space; a kindly haze which obliterates the thousand fretting annoyances wherewith the traveller's path in every country is bestrewn. Alone So might it be possible to ascribe to particular months the tokens with which the obliging sea bestrews the beaches. Tropic Days We found it in the keeping of a gentleman who had turned it from a non-smoking into a smoking compartment, and bestrewn it with his cigar ashes. Seven English Cities No fight is there! you, sire, are old, Your hair and beard are all bestrewn with gray, And as a child your speech. National Epics The house, made of huge pines, with timbered walls, plain white- washed ceilings and floors, was bestrewn with pelts of bears, elks, wolves, foxes, and ermines. Tales of the Wilderness 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. The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White : With a Memoir by Sir Harris Nicolas V. disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion &c. Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases No more she said, When poor blind Ball, with stumbling tread, _30 Fell prone; o'erturned the pannier lay, And her mashed eggs bestrewed the way. The Poetical Works of Addison; Gay's Fables; and Somerville's Chase With Memoirs and Critical Dissertations, by the Rev. George Gilfillan “Come along!” said the captain, and, turning the base of the hillock, we all ran along the edge of the beach between the blackish stones that bestrewed it. An Antarctic Mystery It was a large, bare apartment containing only a massive mahogany writing-table, covered with a faded green cloth and bestrewn with a quantity of old- fashioned ornaments; there was also an armchair and a sofa. Tales of the Wilderness When winter trees bestrew the path, Still to the twig a leaf or twain Will cling and weep, not Winter's wrath, But that foreknown, forlorner pain— To fall when green leaves come again! The Vigil of Venus and Other Poems by "Q" Or if a ravenous haste was in you—as commonly comes up in the middle afternoon—you waived this slower method and crammed yourself with a recklessness that bestrewed the purlieus of your mouth. There's Pippins and Cheese to Come The glen was beginning to bestrew itself with want of light, instead of shadows; and bushy places thickened with the imperceptible growth of night. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale Two thousand of the foe bestrewed the field, Not reckoning numbers swallowed by the flood, While of our company not one was slain. Maid of Orleans Pine-trees surrounded the glade; the earth was bestrewn with dry, withered leaves; the night sky was blue. Tales of the Wilderness We can only picture to ourselves the Roman tessellated pavement bestrewn with wine, bones, and fragments of the barbarous revelry. A Book of Golden Deeds Piles of dead!—Heaps, masses, hills of dead bestrewed the plains! The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 I heard their outcries about the house behind us, as we stumbled over the frozen rubbish heaps with which the lane was bestrewn. The Splendid Spur The shells of the snails he has devoured bestrew the garden-walks. John Keble's Parishes His bed was bestrewn with decaying foliage and overgrown with moss. Tales of the Wilderness We can only picture to ourselves the Roman tesselated pavement bestrewn with wine, bones, and fragments of the barbarous revelry. The Junior Classics — Volume 7 Stories of Courage and Heroism She too was rather resplendent in a black jet gown, and she was liberally bestrewn with jewels. Green Fancy One of these cases had been removed from its place and stood on the desk, which was bestrewn with oblong slips of paper blackened with minute handwriting. Lord Jim The ragged walls of our rooms were clammy with dirt, the smoky rafters foul with cobwebs, and the floor, bestrewed with kit, in terrible confusion, was black with hosts of cockroaches, ants, and flies. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 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. The Life of the Bee The trees bestrew the ground or have disappeared, torn away, their stumps mangled. Under Fire: the story of a squad She would have bestrewn the whole earth with the words of her son, and she looked into the doctor's face with eyes ready to beg. Mother Each year that we live shall we sing it anew, With a water untravelled before us for sailing And a water behind us that wrecks may bestrew. A Century of Roundels In the vaults, very elaborately wrought, nothing but blacks and gold: a background of black bestrewn with golden roses, and bordered with arabesques like gold lace. Egypt (La Mort de Philae) These elevated summits consist of rounded cones, between which the soil is bestrewn with erratic blocks of stone and gravelly bowlders. Five Weeks in a Balloon 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. Under Fire: the story of a squad The hour has come, when yon fierce man no more With bleeding princes shall bestrew the floor; Lo! The Odyssey She had been born with a capacity for helping lame dogs over stiles; accordingly, her pathway, from a very early age, had been bestrewn with stiles, and processions of lame dogs ever limping towards them. Marm Lisa Mr. Ness would stroll to the office after the six hours’ hard reading were over—leaving Mr. Corbet still bent over the table, book bestrewn—and see what Mr. Wilkins’s engagements were. A Dark Night's Work "A walk does one good, Mr. Kennedy, but this isn't the easiest ground in the world," he said, kicking aside some fragments of quartz with which the soil was bestrewn. Five Weeks in a Balloon The black cloth bestrewn with white beads blew up from time to time, laying bare the coffin. Madame Bovary Sheets of grey coarse official paper bestrewed the floor. Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard Almost everywhere they are distractingly crooked, and in many places they are plentifully bestrewn with boulders of varying sizes. New Forces in Old China An Inevitable Awakening On the day of the raise in salary his sister got the children to bed and straightened up the litter of small garments that seemed always to bestrew the house, even to the lower floor. The Amazing Interlude The soil, in fact, was bestrewn with quartz and porphyritic rocks. Five Weeks in a Balloon Say thou wilt walk: we will bestrew the ground: Or wilt thou ride? The Taming of the Shrew That night when the greetings and the supper were over, the entire family, including Buff, the yellow dog, bestrewed itself upon the front porch. The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million For them in some glory of hair, Or nest of the heaving mounds to lie, Or path of the bride bestrew. Poems — Volume 3 Not a hand with laurel would bestrew me, All the way by which I drew anear— Night my banner, and my herald Fear. Bulchevy's Book of English Verse Leaving out of consideration those maxims of state which still furnish some European and eastern statesmen with principles of action, "The Prince" is bestrewn with truths that can be proved at every turn. The Prince 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. Dope What of the day when I first taught them, to run with wood-shod feet over the shore of the Kurlanders, and the path bestrewn with countless points? The Danish History, Books I-IX Cracks a globe, and feathers, feathers, Feathers all the ground bestrew. Poems — Volume 3 He kept sending flowers, as if to bestrew the path of his retreat, which was never the path of a return. The Pupil The flooring was bestrewn with bright mantles, which a man would fear to trample on. The Danish History, Books I-IX Such a carnage broke out on the first day of this combat that the three chief rivers of Russia were bestrewn with a kind of bridge of corpses, and could be crossed and passed over. The Danish History, Books I-IX Then, cutting his body into morsels, he seethed it in boiling water, and flung it through the mouth of an open sewer for the swine to eat, bestrewing the stinking mire with his hapless limbs. The Danish History, Books I-IX Of them a world of coltish heels for school We have; a world with driving wrecks bestrewn. Poems — Volume 3 |
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