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  • adjective Sprinkled with.

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Examples

  • His vesture was dabbled in blood—and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • His vesture was dabbled in blood—and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • His vesture was dabbled in blood—and his broad brow, with all the features of the face, was besprinkled with the scarlet horror.

    Nevermore Kelly Creagh 2010

  • A valley, through which flowed a small tributary stream, exhibited the wild, but not unpleasant, features of “a lone vale of green braken;” here and there besprinkled with groups of alder-trees, of hazels, and of copse-oakwood, which had maintained their stations in the recesses of the valley, although they had vanished from the loftier and more exposed sides of the hills.

    Castle Dangerous 2008

  • When she saw me, she rose and came hurriedly at me with a gugglet58 of water; and, muttering spells over it, she besprinkled me and said, “Come forth from this thy shape into the shape of a dog;” and I became on the instant a dog.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • There are certain holy ones, sisters born — three virgins 208 gifted with wings: their heads are besprinkled with white meal, and they dwell under a ridge of

    Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, and Homerica 2007

  • The flowery grass came down to the very water, and first was a fair meadow-land besprinkled with big ancient trees; thence arose slopes of vineyard, and orchard and garden; and, looking down on all, was

    The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

  • We were now in a narrow channel, with sloping banks on either side, besprinkled with pleasant villas, and made refreshing to the sight by turf and trees.

    American Notes for General Circulation 2007

  • He then, in cant terms, with which his whole conversation was plentifully besprinkled, but which would be quite unintelligible if they were recorded here, demanded a glass of liquor.

    Oliver Twist 2007

  • ‘“MERCIE — thank you,” said the Lady Flabella, as the lively but devoted Cherizette plentifully besprinkled with the fragrant compound the Lady Flabella’s MOUCHOIR of finest cambric, edged with richest lace, and emblazoned at the four corners with the

    Nicholas Nickleby 2007

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