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• But at times I saw him in the moonlit evenings sitting on the rail alone, steadfastly gazing down into the star-besprent waters beneath him, as if coveting their unruffled peace Two-thirds of our stay in the islands had passed away, when, for a wonder, the captain took it into his head to go up to the chief village one morning. —  The Cruise of the Cachalot Round the World After Sperm Whales
• He that buries himself among his manuscripts, "besprent," as Pope expresses it, "with learned dust," and wears out his days and nights in perpetual research and solitary meditation, is too apt to lose in his elocution what he adds to his wisdom; and when he comes into the world, to appear overloaded with his own notions, like a man armed with weapons which he cannot wield. —  The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 04 The Adventurer; The Idler
• The holly of the English Christmas, all-besprent with crimson drops, is hard to be found in New England, and you will have to thread the courses of the brooks to seek the swamp-loving black alder, which will furnish as brilliant a berry, but without the beautiful thorny leaf. —  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 27, January, 1860
• The corpse, indeed, with each returning morn, Around his comrade's tomb Achilles drags, Yet leaves it still uninjur'd; thou thyself Mightst see how fresh, as dew-besprent, he lies, From blood-stains cleans'd, and clos'd his many wounds, For many a lance was buried in his corpse. —  The Iliad
• He thought of her as of a white rose, dew-besprent, and gently swayed by the sweet air of a sunny morning; a white rose newly spread, its heart virgin from the hands of shaping Nature. —  Demos

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