The road before us is hard, steep, bestrewn with sharp shards. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
"Sulla is a mulberry bestrewn with barley meal," and much similar banter. From Wordnik.com. [Plutarch's Morals] Reference
The flooring was bestrewn with bright mantles, which a man would fear to trample on. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
From its crater the slopes fell rough and bestrewn, hundreds of meters down to surf. From Wordnik.com. [Starfarers]
Because he was to her so infinitely dear, his path seemed ever bestrewn with dangers. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Myths] Reference
At the far end, a dais held a table bestrewn with letters, records, and writing materials. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
His vision ranged over a slope bestrewn with shrubs and boulders, to a valley full of shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
On his person, he wore a long silvery-red coat, more or less old, bestrewn with embroidery of flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
Thorsen was a heavy, dusty, tobacco-bestrewn individual of sixty-six, who was a little dull but genial. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
These elevated summits consist of rounded cones, between which the soil is bestrewn with erratic blocks of stone and gravelly bowlders. From Wordnik.com. [Five Weeks in a Balloon] Reference
And Saronia took the face bestrewn with golden hair between her jewelled hands, and passionately kissed the trembling lips of the daughter of. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
But the moment she turned round, she espied a small door over which hung a soft portière, of leek-green colour, bestrewn with embroidered flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
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?. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference
But for the Diva's use bestrewn is the genial bedstead. From Wordnik.com. [The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus] Reference
For this the still west saith, with plumy flames bestrewn. From Wordnik.com. [Ride to the Lady And Other Poems] Reference
It was a region, rude, sterile, and lonely, bestrewn with rocks, and embarrassed with bushes. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
Its smooth tiled floor, comfortably bestrewn with rugs, was on a level with the path outside. From Wordnik.com. [The Market-Place] Reference
And at every turn it seemed impossible to go farther over that narrow and rock-bestrewn floor. From Wordnik.com. [Wildfire] Reference
Patty sat down on the divan and surveyed the dictionary-bestrewn room with an appreciative smile. From Wordnik.com. [When Patty Went to College] Reference
Pine-trees surrounded the glade; the earth was bestrewn with dry, withered leaves; the night sky was blue. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference
I heard their outcries about the house behind us, as we stumbled over the frozen rubbish heaps with which the lane was bestrewn. From Wordnik.com. [The Splendid Spur] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [House of the Seven Gables] Reference
On descending the stair, you perceive two long ranges of table thickly bestrewn with dishes containing beefsteak, ham, fish, chicken, game. From Wordnik.com. [Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I.] Reference
We came across directly after the gale, with the Channel all bestrewn with floating wreck, and with a hundred and fifty sick schoolboys from. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2 (of 3), 1857-1870] Reference
Grace, who had no opinions on art, saw no merit whatever in those "impressions" on canvas from Nick's hand with which the place was bestrewn. From Wordnik.com. [The Tragic Muse] Reference
She wore a velvet diadem, Honiton lace lappets, and a variety of chains, beads, and bangles bestrewn about her that made a tinkling as she moved. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Elsmere] Reference
Weak and trembling from loss of blood, Roland passed to and fro over the corpse-bestrewn field, and gathered together his comrades: here, Gerin and. From Wordnik.com. [National Epics] Reference
She had rather a dread of new stories -- it took the little boys so long to get initiated and the first steps were so terribly bestrewn with questions. From Wordnik.com. [A London Life and Other Tales] Reference
One of these cases had been removed from its place and stood on the desk, which was bestrewn with oblong slips of paper blackened with minute handwriting. From Wordnik.com. [Lord Jim] Reference
Into a room, half surgery, half study, I was shown to await his coming, and I found it, by a series of elaborate accidents, bestrewn with testimonies to Joe. From Wordnik.com. [The Uncommercial Traveller] Reference
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