Poppies grow abundantly before the door of the cave, and other herbs, from whose juices Night collects slumbers, which she scatters over the darkened earth.
The north wind, which scatters the clouds, was chained up; the south was sent out, and soon covered all the face of heaven with a cloak of pitchy darkness.
The besom of a biting wintry wind whips our skin, sweeps away and scatters our words and our sighs.
Rasselas was the fourth son of the mighty emperor in whose dominions the Father of Waters begins his course; whose bounty pours down the streams of plenty and scatters over half the world the harvests of Egypt.
Her limber darts she scatters o'er the field, Her arms untired the ponderous axe can wield.
This is religion, and all that gathers not with this, scatters abroad.
The mighty Mahmud, the victorious Lord, That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters and slays with his enchanted Sword.
The mighty Mahmud, Allah-breathing Lord, That all the misbelieving and black Horde Of Fears and Sorrows that infest the Soul Scatters before him with his whirlwind Sword.
Every draught that the Cup-bearer scatters upon the earth Quenches the fire of anguish in some burning eye.
I am grown so timorous, every trifling noise Scatters my spirits, and announces to me The footstep of some messenger of evil.
All o'er those wide extended plains, Shines one eternal day; There God, the son forever reigns, And scatters night away.
Stay: that plant Shall never wave its tangles lightly and softly, As a queen's languid and imperial arm Which scatters crowns among her lovers, but you Shall be reminded to predict to me Some great success!
There is a Celtic legend to the effect that every unborn babe taken from earth becomes a spirit whichscatters down upon the earth some new and lovely flower to cheer its parents.
Suckers are sent up about the roots of the fire-killed trees, and the wind scatters the seeds broadcast for a new crop.
Nothing is left of them when the witch hazel scatters its dainty stars along the twigs in October and November.
The wind scatters these buoyant little bags, that travel far.
It scatters them far and wide; each seed has a wing that adapts it to long journeys in front of a gale.
The grief of children is like the clouds in the sky--a mere nothing causes them, a nothing scatters them; and the sun appears more beautiful than ever after a shower.
And the shy dreams that follow in thy train, The silly flock that scatters at a touch?
Madame enters the one that is to have the honour of harbouring her mousseline and silk and lace, lifts her exquisite sunshade, scatters smiles and gay jests among her friends, and is off to the races.
After the bathing hour the crowd scatters again to the hotels and villas, and though in the afternoon there is an immense and amusing crowd on the promenade, the very smart set is not seen there again until the next morning.
He then rises, and scatters the grain thrice on the soil.
The procession is usually headed by a Kurumba, who scatters fragments of tud (Meliosma pungens) bark and wood as he goes on his way.
Do you call it power in a child, if he is allowed to play with the wheels and bands of some vast engine, pleased with their murmur and whirl, till his unwise touch, wandering where it ought not, scatters beam and wheel into ruin?
A paviour cannot be said to compose the heap of stones which he empties from his cart, nor the sower the handful of seed which he scatters from his hand.
Yet still on the crumbling piers of the town, When the midnight moon shines free, A woman walks in a velvet gown And scatters corn in the sea.
Mr. Scatters was called to testify in his own defence, but refused to do so.
Whenever Mr. Scatters appeared he was greeted with deference and admiration.
Mr. Scatters demurred, but in fact nothing could have pleased him better, and the open smile with which he dropped into his place at the table was very genuine and heartfelt.
Mr. Scatters is gone out," he said, as the old man entered and deposited his hat on the floor.
Scatters went on, warming to his subject as he progressed.
Mr. Scatters began, tapping his host's breast and looking at him fixedly, "You had a brother some years ago named John.
Scatters was finally persuaded, and the men only paused long enough in the house to tell the curiosity-eaten Martha Ann the news, and then started for Albert Matthews' store.
It stood aside and looked on with something like adoration when Mr. Scatters and Mrs. Dunkin met and talked of ineffable things--things far above the ken of the average mortal.
All his pent-up wrath burst forth in a sudden explosion, Even as a hand-grenade, that scattersdestruction around it.
He can behold Aquarius old Walking the fenceless fields of air; And from each ample fold Of the clouds about him rolled Scattering everywhere The showery rain, As the farmer scatters his grain.
And this extraordinary bleating, scarcely human, scatters and changes my ideas, which were very nearly clear at the moment I awoke.
With a disdainful little foot, clothed as usual in exquisite socks with a special hood for the great toe, she pushes away the piles of white dollars and scatters them on the mats.
Far more frequently than the world knows, might this epithet in truth be spoken, for it is not by any means from notorious spendthrifts and open profligates, that wicked waste scatters the goods of a household.
The one scatters his forces as he seeks to refresh them, the other concentrates his powers in the very process of renovation.
This also is the difference between cleansing and discussing medicines, the one makes thick humours thin, and so scatters them, but a cleansing medicine takes the most tenacious humour along with it, without any alteration.
Also it helps digestion, scatters congealed blood in any part of the body.
It softens and assuages hard swellings, and scatters the humours offending, applied to the side it softens the hardness of the spleen, assuages pains thence arising.
The crowd scatters in every direction; It looks like a fight at a city election.
From moonrise on until dawn he scatters from a tireless throat, music like light and laughter.
Then warmed be our hearts to that kindly Power That scatters bright roses o'er life's rough way; That unfolds the cup of the snowdrop's flower, And mantles the earth with the gems of May!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scatters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
