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Bestrew

verb
(past bestrewed; past part. bestrewn; pres. part. bestrewing)  (Spelt also bestrow)
1.
Cover by strewing.






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"Bestrew" Quotes from Famous Books



... thou dost break her virgin knot before All sanctimonious ceremonies may With full and holy rite be minister'd, No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow; but barren hate, Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly That you ...
— A Life of William Shakespeare - with portraits and facsimiles • Sidney Lee

... does. I see that people get worked up into furies over what they think is right and wrong, and kill each other on account of it. 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. I fear I am in a very bad state of mind. It is true, as you intimate in your letter, that I am passing through a certain humiliation of spirit; and I am thus inclined to speculate on the value of all truths and philosophies. I seem to ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters



Words linked to "Bestrew" :   straw, strew



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