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  • verb Simple past of bestrew.

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Examples

  • Still it sickens! — blood of men bestrewed our path,

    The Voyage of Magellan 2010

  • As they file away – ideally killed by the zombies that bestrewed the capital in 28 Days Later, who then perform a ballet giving a glimpse of what Stratford will look like once everyone has gone – Kate Winslet comes on.

    London Olympics opening ceremony imagined – Ewan McGregor, Kate Winslet and a giant toilet bowl 2010

  • In his Lives of the Saints, he writes, We read in the books both in the Old Law and in the New that the men who repented of their sins bestrewed themselves with ashes and clothed their bodies with sackcloth.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Mirtika 2006

  • In his Lives of the Saints, he writes, We read in the books both in the Old Law and in the New that the men who repented of their sins bestrewed themselves with ashes and clothed their bodies with sackcloth.

    March 2006 Mirtika 2006

  • In his Lives of the Saints, he writes, We read in the books both in the Old Law and in the New that the men who repented of their sins bestrewed themselves with ashes and clothed their bodies with sackcloth.

    DIES CINERUM or Why A Bit Of Ash On The Noggin May Be Good For You Mirtika 2006

  • 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 2006

  • “George” Inn. 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 and Meccah 2003

  • 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 2003

  • Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.

    Dracula 2003

  • Shirt and his attendants mentioned that cedar-logs and other attractive flotsam bestrewed the beaches, and volunteered to conduct the strangers to the best places on the understanding that they, being alien and hostile, should remain under the protection of the rifle-carrying white men.

    Tropic Days 2003

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