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  • p. p. of bestrew.

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  • verb Past participle of bestrew

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Examples

  • And Scylaceum's rocks, with shattered ships bestrown.

    The Aeneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor 70 BC-19 BC Virgil 1902

  • Heaved less for thy bright plains and hills bestrown

    MEMORIALS OF A TOUR IN ITALY, 1837 XI. FROM THE ALBAN HILLS, LOOKING TOWARDS ROME 1888

  • Above all the public heaps of them, the high-piled receptacles at every turn, touched the street as with a sort of southern plenty; the note of the rejected and scattered fragments, the memory of the slippery skins and rinds and kernels with which the old dislocated flags were bestrown, is itself endeared to me and contributes a further pictorial grace.

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

  • How many a soldier my sword at will * Struck down like a cow on the ground bestrown?

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Hearing this Manjab the master of the house shrieked out a mighty loud shriek and tare his upper dress and fell aswoon to the ground, and as Al-Rashid looked upon him (and he bestrown in his fainting fit) he beheld upon his sides the stripes of scourging with rods and palm-sticks.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • Did ye not see this place all bestrown with dark hued rocks?

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • 'Last summer, I met thy mood in nature, on those wide impassioned plains flower and crag-bestrown.

    Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli Ossoli, Margaret F 1851

  • Some travellers, however, speak of large Indian villages in different parts, deserted and in ruins, whose sites are bestrown with human bones and sculls, as if the entire population had been swept off by the frightful ravages of deadly pestilence, and so suddenly that not a soul was left to bury their dead; and hence they suppose the country occasionally subject to devastating sicknesses.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • The valleys are of a heavy loam, enriched by the debris and other fertilizing properties borne from the high grounds by the annual rains, together with the constant accumulation of decayed herbage and grass so lavishly bestrown at each returning season.

    ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE 1841

  • 'Last summer, I met thy mood in nature, on those wide impassioned plains flower and crag-bestrown.

    Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Volume I Margaret Fuller 1830

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