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Example sentences for "bestrewn"

Lexicographically close words:
bestowment; bestowments; bestows; bestrew; bestrewed; bestridden; bestride; bestrides; bestriding; bestrode
  1. Then we got up and went on foot down the slopes bestrewn with troublesome rubbish and granite boulders.

  2. From the mountains on the northern side a flattish cone of detritus, or, more correctly, a slope bestrewn with rubbish, descends to the level, open valley.

  3. The arbor was vacant, and its floor, table, and circular bench were still damp, and bestrewn with twigs and the disarray of the past storm.

  4. The sands of the little cove seemed harder and whiter than ever, and were thickly bestrewn with the shells and seaweed which the upturnings of the night had brought in.

  5. The room in which they were sitting was bestrewn with fragments of dresses and bonnets, which were being torn to pieces in a most wholesale way, with a view to a general rejuvenescence.

  6. Your hair and beard are all bestrewn with gray, And as a child your speech.

  7. In the vaults, very elaborately wrought, nothing but blacks and gold: a background of black bestrewn with golden roses, and bordered with arabesques like gold lace.

  8. From this point the way along the shore is wilder and rougher--more bestrewn with slabs and boulders than any we have yet seen.

  9. There is a large garden, with paths winding among the trees, and open places bestrewn with tables and chairs enough for the innumerable guests who quench their thirst at the brewery.

  10. When at last we gained the top, by dint of clambering over rail-fences and up steep slopes bestrewn with mulleins and boulders, and over patches of freshly-plowed hardscrabble, the sight was well worth the rough climb.

  11. Not many miles below, is a high sloping beach, picturesquely bestrewn with gigantic boulders which have in ages past rolled down from the hill-tops above.

  12. Within bestrewn thy bridegroom see On couch of Tyrian cramoisy All imminent awaiting thee.

  13. But for the Diva's use bestrewn is the genial bedstead, Hidden in midmost stead, and its polisht framework of Indian Tusk underlies its cloth empurpled by juice of the dye-shell.

  14. The soil, in fact, was bestrewn with quartz and porphyritic rocks.

  15. These elevated summits consist of rounded cones, between which the soil is bestrewn with erratic blocks of stone and gravelly bowlders.

  16. The road to perdition is not quite so smooth and flower-bestrewn a path as we are sometimes taught to believe.

  17. The cape was serrated, the points interblending, and was bestrewn with a profusion of great pearls, and at each point hung a great tassel of other pearls.

  18. Next there came into sight another horse, whose harness and caparison were of blue satin, fringed with gold and bestrewn with stars made of embroidery of gold stuff on a violet field.

  19. On his person, he wore a long silvery-red coat, more or less old, bestrewn with embroidery of flowers.

  20. The flooring was bestrewn with bright mantles, which a man would fear to trample on.

  21. Such a carnage broke out on the first day of this combat that the three chief rivers of Russia were bestrewn with a kind of bridge of corpses, and could be crossed and passed over.

  22. What of the day when I first taught them, to run with wood-shod feet over the shore of the Kurlanders, and the path bestrewn with countless points?

  23. And the earth, bestrewn in a short time with the corpses of elephants belonging to the Kauravas, looked like the sky overcast with masses of black clouds.

  24. The lion then composed himself on his back on a sofa on one side of the drinking-table, while the jackal sat at his own paper-bestrewn table proper, on the other side of it, with the bottles and glasses ready to his hand.

  25. The court was all bestrewn with herbs and sprinkled with vinegar, as a precaution against gaol air and gaol fever.

  26. Thus, all the vessels, which otherwise would have been beautiful, were bestrewn with little morsels of flint, so firmly attached to them that they could not possibly be removed.

  27. A sable hearse bestrewn with snow is bearing a dead man through the storm to his frozen bed.

  28. Their garments are thickly bestrewn with dust; their whiskers and hair look hoary; their throats are choked with the dusty atmosphere which they have left behind them.

  29. In the deepening twilight, while the surf is dashing near their hearth, the ruddy gleam of the fire throws a strange air of comfort over the wild cove, bestrewn as it is with pebbles and seaweed and exposed to the "melancholy main.

  30. We can only picture to ourselves the Roman tessellated pavement bestrewn with wine, bones, and fragments of the barbarous revelry.

  31. It was a large, bare apartment containing only a massive mahogany writing-table, covered with a faded green cloth and bestrewn with a quantity of old- fashioned ornaments; there was also an armchair and a sofa.

  32. His bed was bestrewn with decaying foliage and overgrown with moss.

  33. By the walls stood a sofa, and a desk whose green cloth was untidily bestrewn with the accumulated litter of years and copiously spotted with candle grease, reminiscent of the long, dreary nights Ivanov had spent--a prey to loneliness.

  34. Pine-trees surrounded the glade; the earth was bestrewn with dry, withered leaves; the night sky was blue.

  35. In the spring prayers were offered up for the dead and a religious procession paraded round the village, the outskirts of which were bestrewn with ashes.

  36. The frozen ground was bestrewn with fallen leaves, which rustled in little flocks along the hard road when stirred by a passing breeze, seeming like startled birds.

  37. When they had passed beyond the ruined gateway all halted in wonderment, for before them spread the entire plateau and they saw it was literally bestrewn with fallen columns and shattered statues.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bestrewn" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.