They feed two or three friends and scatter a little of the food over the post.
When the first showers of rain fall they scatter seed of the small millets into the soft covering of wood ashes, and the fertility of the soil is such that without further trouble they get a return of a hundred-fold or more.
It is the duty of the men of these sections to scatter the sonpani or 'water of gold' [147] as an act of purification over persons who have been temporarily put out of caste for social offences.
Probably many individuals in Buenos Ayres remain through the winter in sheltered situations, to scatter over the surrounding country whenever there comes a warm bright day.
Hugh called out to Jack, "Now, son, I want you all to scatter out and to see that none of these Indians get close to this timber.
It's warm over there, and a good many antelope coming back in spring get over there and stop for a while before they scatter out through the Basin.
I can break thy sceptre; I can take away thine existence; I can level thy throne with the dust; I can scatter thy people; I can destroy even the earth which thou inhabitest; and yet thou hast the folly to believe thou art a god.
Hence they burn the body of a murderer and scatter the ashes to the winds, thinking that this treatment will prevent his spirit from assuming human shape in the other world.
At the boundary they strip it of its clothes, tear it in pieces, and scatter the fragments about the fields.
On reaching a field which belongs to a neighbouring village they lay down the figure, cudgel it soundly, and scatter the fragments over the field.
Scatter over these a little minced onion and some bits of butter, with pepper, salt, and sugar.
Strew a little onion in the bottom of a bake-dish; put in a layer of meat, peppered and salted; scatter bits of floured butter over it; then more onion.
Scatter sliced onion over it, salt slightly, and, if you have any good gravy, add this to the cupful of boiling water you pour over the meat.
Pepper and salt each sparingly; scatter the herbs upon the onions; put in more meat, and so on.
Scatter over this a sliced turnip, a sliced onion, and two sliced tomatoes, with a little pepper and salt.
Scatter fried onion over the rabbit and proceed in this order until your meat is used up.
Arrange slices of orange in a glass dish; scatter grated cocoanut thickly over them; sprinkle this lightly with sugar, and cover with another layer of orange.
Line a pie-dish with a good crust; put in a layer of sliced potatoes; sprinkle abundantly with sugar; scatter in four or five whole cloves, and cover with more slices.
Mince a small onion and a bunch of sweet herbs, and scatterover these.
As it was, their few shots made the Chinese scatter still more rapidly, and they vanished to cover without firing a shot.
Shrapnel shell have a small bursting charge and scatter round bullets when they burst.
Oh, isn't it glee to do it, and see The lady-pedestrian flinch, With jubilant rush to scatter the slush And miss her foot by an inch!
So side by side we merrily ride, And scatter the murmuring throng, Who think the police should compel us to cease, And mournfully ask, "How long?
They got dust to shake on the flies, and boughs of trees to beat them with, but they were not able to scatter them, nor to go as far as the tree.
He was very extravagant, and he used to scatter the gold money as another person would scatter the white.
But, will they take up arms and scatter carnage and blood throughout the land?
Generations had watched the clouds gather under certain circumstances and scatter under certain others and they naturally drew conclusions.
It is safer to have them lessen in number rather than increase, scatter rather than combine.
Where the frost trees shoot with leaf and spray And frost gems scatter a silver ray.
If a stone impedes thy pathway, Crash and scatter it asunder; 470 Lies a branch across thy pathway, Break the branch in twain when passing; If a hero bar thy passage, Drive him boldly from thy pathway.
The terror beam doesscatter a little, like a searchlight beam in thin mist.
You can see a light beam at night because dust motes scatter some part of it.
These minced leaves on me, and passing through Those files of dead, scatter the same around, And thou wilt see the issue.
For now the sun, which had been driven by the Frost-giants far away towards the South-land, had begun to return, and Frey was on his way once more to scatter peace and plenty over the land.
At length the morning came, but the light was not strong enough to scatter the fogs and thick vapors that rested upon the land.
Then Brunhild called to Dankwart, and gave him her golden keys, and bade him unlock her closets where her gold and jewels were stored, and to scatter with hands unstinted her treasures among the poor.
You and I Would scatter them like water from a dish.
The power of God, Whose breath shall scatter your white tents abroad, As flakes of snow.
The people spread their garments in the way, And scatter branches of the palm-trees!
Break the painted Panes, that flame with gold and crimson; Scatter them like leaves of Autumn, Swept away before the blast!
Wake you to sin and crime again, Whilst on your dreams, like dismal rain, I scatter downward through the night My maledictions dark and deep.
Sack the house of God, and scatter Wide the ashes of the dead!
But if in thy Providence A tempest should arise To drive the French fleet hence, And scatter it far and wide, Or sink it in the sea, We should be satisfied, And thine the glory be.
God sent his messenger of faith, And whispered in the maiden's heart, "Rise up and look from where thou art, And scatter with unselfish hands Thy freshness on the barren sands And solitudes of Death.
Close at the margin of the well leaves would decay to skeletons and mummies, which at length some stronger gust would carry clear of the cañon and scatter in the subjacent woods.
He had lessoned his clergy who, once the disasters were past, would scatter the good seed of Truth.
It was desirable to scatter such crowds as soon as possible, for riots were always smouldering in their midst.
If they are seen to yawn, "then things ought to be said to them to awaken their attention, or to scatter the sad thoughts which may have come into their minds.
To scatter trees and bushes over the area defeats the fundamental purpose of the place,--the purpose to make every part of the grounds lead up to the home and to accentuate its homelikeness.
Scatter manure in the furrow and plow back the soil so as to raise the center at least 6 inches above the level of the soil.
Beauperthuy not only discussed the role of mosquitoes in the transmission of disease, but he taught, less clearly, that house-flies scatter pathogenic organisms.
They are prone to scatter about the person and abandon the fragment of cloth to which the adult clings.
