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Definition of Bestrewing
1. bestrew [v] - See also: bestrew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestrewing
Literary usage of Bestrewing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ancient Lowly: A History of the Ancient Working People from the Earliest by Cyrenus Osborne Ward (1900)
"Also, at the rosalia in May, they went through the same strange forms of kindred
worship, bestrewing the graves with roses. In March they observed another ..."
2. The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by Various Writers by Thomas Humphry Ward (1917)
"... hair floating on the Eastern breeze.' This is the true poetic fire of Gray's '
Bard,' not the language of convention. 'The moist pearls now bestrewing ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1845)
"... which, with a long tapering jug of blue and white Dutch porcelain, was bestrewing
water upon the flowers in the little wooden balcony. ..."
4. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1911)
"Her sibyl else, The vatic leaves bestrewing in thy cave; Or fair Pandora with
her half-ope'd box Loosing thy loving gifts in every hour, But keeping hope ..."
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