bedews

He watches Lolita lying on the lawn, as a sprinkler bedews her as if she were a giant flower.

Lolita's Fatal Attraction 2008

America an image of God often runs five or six leagues to get a dinner; whilst among us the image of God bedews the ground with the sweat of his brow, in order to procure bread.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

He has acknowledged the cup (which is a part of the creation) as His own blood, from which He bedews our blood; and the bread (also a part of the creation) He has established as His own body, from which He gives increase to our bodies.

ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

The saint is thrown into a pit, blood bedews all the wounds which the dread power of death had caused.

Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life

But soon four hours 'deprivation of the drug gave rise to a physical and mental prostration that no pen can adequately depict, no language convey: a horror unspeakable, a woe unutterable takes possession of the entire being; a clammy perspiration bedews the surface, the eye is stony and hard, the noise pointed, as in the hippocratic face preceding dissolution, the hands uncertain, the mind restless, the heart as ashes, the "bones marrowless."

The Opium Habit Horace B. Day

He dwells as a King in our midst -- He lets us share the honours of His Royalty -- His Divine Blood bedews our petals -- and His Thorns as they wound us spread abroad the perfume of our love.

Story of a Soul (l'Histoire d'une Ame): The Autobiography of St. Therese of Lisieux 1873-1897 1912

GOD, who is called a gardener while He is in man's soul: He rives up sins by the roots, and grafts in that soul virtues and good ways: what was dry He bedews it with grace: what was black and mirk, He makes it white: what was bound, He looses: what was cold, He makes warm with love.

The Form of Perfect Living and Other Prose Treatises Richard Rolle 1901

Intensely loyal to the Union to-day, she bedews with her tears and covers with her rarest flowers the bier of him who devoted his best energies to destroy it.

The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 1. 1898

Whence comes this pity that will not be denied, but bedews your faces?

The Treason and Death of Benedict Arnold A Play for a Greek Theatre John Jay Chapman 1897

Although the pomp, the state, and the pageantry of love were her ransom, yet hither, in moments when surrounding objects were forgotten, had retired the afflicted, and poured forth the watery tribute that bedews the cheek of those that mourn “in spirit and in truth.”

Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Haight, Canniff, 1825-1901 1885