Why do those lucent palms Strew thy feet's failing thicklier than their might, Who dost but hood thy glorious eyes with night, And vex the heels of all the yesterdays?
Thus, wherever a village has encamped, the trunks of these trees strew the ground, their upper limbs and smaller branches peeled of their bark, and looking as white and smooth as if scraped with a knife.
When the heap is reduced to ashes, take the ashes and strew them in a circle round the hill.
God answered, “Take these gobbets of flesh and carry them into all lands and drop them everywhere, and strew dust on them; and wherever they are laid, that land will I give to thy posterity to inherit.
Rouse thy winds to fury, and overwhelm their sinking vessels, or drive them asunder and strew ocean with their bodies.
Give me lilies in full hands; let me strew bright blossoms, and these gifts at least let me lavish on my descendant's soul, and do the unavailing service.
At eve I gather purple flowers, To strewabove the withered hours.
Have your pan over the fire, with some good lard; drop the paste in; fry the puffs a light brown, and strew sugar over them when you send them up.
Boil rose-water and sugar till it becomes a syrup; when the cakes are almost done, spread this syrup all over them, and strew them with comfits.
To three quarters of a pound of cherries stoned take one pound and a quarter of sugar; leave out a quarter of a pound to strew on them as they boil.
Dry and rub them with yolk of egg; flour orstrew some fine bread crumbs on them; when fried, lay them in the dish with their tails in the middle of it.
Strew over bread crumbs, and stick on bits of butter.
Blanch and beat fine two ounces of sweet almonds, with orange-flower water, or brandy; beat the whites of three eggs to a very high froth, and then strew in a little sifted sugar till it is as stiff as paste.
Strew comfits on the top, and garnish as you like.
After basting them well in this manner, strew over a few crumbs of bread and a little salt, cut fine some shalots, with a little gravy, salt and pepper, and the juice of half a lemon.
Then melfoil beat, and honey-suckles pound, With these alluring savors strew the ground, And mix with tinkling brass the cymbal's drowning sound.
Good Frend sticke not to strew with crimson flowers This marble stone, wherein her cindres rest, For sure her ghost lives with the heavenly powers, And guerdon hathe of virtuous life possest.
It is customary at all funerals to strew evergreens before the door of the house where the body lies, but it is only for some very distinguished person indeed they are strewn all the way to the burial place.
Above all I loved the procession of the Blessed Sacrament: what a joy it was to strew flowers in God's path!
The only way I have of proving my love is to strew flowers before Thee--that is to say, I will let no tiny sacrifice pass, no look, no word.
I wish to suffer for Love's sake, and for Love's sake even to rejoice: thus shall I strew flowers.
On the larger leaves may generally be seen relics of the repast, shrivelled bodies, wings, and legs, reminding one of the picked bones that strew the entrance to the giant's cavern in the fairy tale.
According to a piece of weather-lore in Sweden, there is a saying that to strew ash branches in a field on Ash Wednesday is equivalent to three days' rain and three days' sun.
First I'd seize him round the waist, and lift him high, Then dash his head against the ground, and strew The pavement with his brains.
From the altar then Take herbs and strew them underneath.
Karna smote my chariot-driver and my standard rent in twain, Shattered car and lifeless horses strew the red inglorious plain, Scarce with life in speechless anguish from the battle-field I fled, Scorn of foes and shame of kinsmen!
Time may strew Its fragments blindly o'er the face of Earth, Scatter its spotless beauties, yet pass on And leave the world no poorer than it was.
Thou sat'st thy lust upon the sapless husks That strew the highways of this pilgrimage, Closing thine eyes unto their emptiness, And out of folly turning sour to sweet.
I saw a man set up a net, hard by my nest, peg down its pegs, strew grain in its midst and withdraw afar off.
Lay the gold in the bottles andstrew it over with olives: then stop them and cover them and take them with thee in the ship.
Lay sliced apple over this, sprinkle with citron; strew sugar and a little of the seasoning over all, and put the next layer of bread.
Put a thick substratum of peaches in the bottom of a buttered baking-dish; strew with the sugar and pour the créma gently over them.
Strew the onion and parsley over all, cover the saucepan (or tin pail, if more convenient) closely, and set in a pot of cold water.
When about half done open the oven-door; strew a few currants upon each cookey, and close the door again immediately, lest the cakes should get chilled.
Roll out the pastry thin; strew grated cheese, seasoned, over the whole sheet and roll it up tightly.
Sprinkle each layer lightly with powdered sugar, and strew the same thickly over the uppermost cake.
Butter a mould very thickly and strew it with currants, covering the inside entirely.
Break the eggs into this, pepper and salt them, and strew the bread-crumbs over them.
Strew bread-crumbs over the top, and set on the upper grate of a quick oven until the crumbs begin to brown.
Have the upper and lower halves of the shell ready buttered, strew bread-crumbs thickly in the bottom of each, moisten these with cream, and pour in the lobster mixture while still very hot.
Roll out again, even thinner than before; strew the rest of the cheese; roll up and set in a cold place, half an hour, until crisp.
Butter a mould thickly; strew with the cherries until the inside is pretty well covered; put in the mixture—leaving room for puffing—and boil for an hour and a half.
Strew the bottom of a buttered dish with bread-crumbs, put in the mixture, spread evenly, and cover with very fine crumbs.
