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  • Before us, over the margin of the dump, we could see the sun still striking aslant into the wooded nick below, and on the battlemented, pine-bescattered ridges on the farther side.

    The Silverado Squatters 1884

  • And where the door stood open, Dick could look in upon arras-covered walls and rush-bescattered floors, glowing in the light of the wood fires.

    The Black Arrow Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • Before us, over the margin of the dump, we could see the sun still striking aslant into the wooded nick below, and on the battlemented, pine-bescattered ridges on the farther side.

    The Silverado Squatters Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

  • All now empty and vain, by breath of the breezes bescattered!

    The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus 1855

  • An opportunity so favorable for amusement was not suffered long to pass unimproved by the younger ones, and group after group of merry boys and girls were soon bescattered over the adjoining prairie, engaged in their innocent sports, — for of play all children possess an intuitive fondness, be they white, red, or black.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • Thus we see the whole week bescattered with Saxon idols, whose pagan gods were the godfathers of the days, and gave them their names.

    Literary Remains, Volume 2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803

  • Whose head befringed with bescattered tresses, II.

    The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 Robert Herrick 1632

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