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Definition of Bestrewn
1. bestrew [v] - See also: bestrew
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bestrewn
Literary usage of Bestrewn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... And cheese of goats' milk grated fine thereon Through brazen grater, and white
meal bestrewn; Then gracious of her mingling bade them drink: And, ..."
2. The Discourse on the All-Embracing Net of Views: The Brahmajala Sutta and by Bhikkhu Bodhi, Gautama Buddha (1992)
"The forest clearing through which they were walking appeared then as though it
were bestrewn with garlands and wreathes made of gems or with the dust of ..."
3. Pennsylvania School Journal by Pennsylvania state educational association, Pennsylvania. Dept. of public instruction (1876)
"The directors, teachers, and between two and three hundred pupils, followed her
remains to Newton cemetery, where, her silent form bestrewn by tender hands ..."
4. The Folk-lore Record by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1880)
"... bestrewn with the stars of the heavens, and sea-water-coloured, with gold
fishes swimming about ; while the third is interwoven with little bells and ..."
5. The Entomologist's Monthly Magazine by Nathaniel Lloyd and Company (1901)
"Head and thorax stone-grey, the latter slightly bestrewn with darker scales.
Fore-wings stone-grey, thickly bestrewn with pale greyish fuscous scaling; ..."
6. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"As you draw near the powder-mills, you see the hill behind bestrewn with the
fragments of mills which have been blown up in past years, — the fragments of ..."
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