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  • Strewing bodies all over town, when there are hunters lurking around every corner.

    ana-ng Diary Entry ana-ng 2009

  • Strewing with leaves of rose their scented wine,

    Collected Poems 2003

  • Strewing balls of orange flame in front of the counterattacking cavalry, he blinded the horses while the enemy Horde surrounded them and, one by one, brought down their armored riders.

    Kingdoms of Light Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2001

  • Strewing his path with buttons burst and fragments of his dress,

    The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss

  • Strewing in peace life's humblest ground with herbs, 300

    THE PRELUDE BOOK FOURTEENTH 1888

  • Strewing the paths they should have made more bright,

    Poems Fanny Kemble 1851

  • Strewing the earth with flowers, will come at last,

    Poems Fanny Kemble 1851

  • Churches with Yew -- Strewing Chaff before Houses.

    Notes and Queries, Number 19, March 9, 1850 Various

  • Strewing on the ground a few armfuls of hay, taken from the nearest of the stacks, around which the hungry cattle now gathered, eager for their food, he extended on it the yet inanimate form of the youth, embracing the body in order to impart to it the benefit of animal heat and in this position, his head being slightly raised, eagerly endeavored to discern through the darkness not only what might be seen on the opposite shore, but the approach of the party in the boat.

    Hardscrabble; or, the fall of Chicago. a tale of Indian warfare John Richardson 1824

  • Strewing them with rocks, if you please, "said Agatha.

    Modern Broods Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

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