Thy great goodness besprinkle for me that sweetness?. From Wordnik.com. [The Confessions] Reference
He shook off the earth with which he had tried to besprinkle himself and scrambled up. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
So long as thou dost not besprinkle those same bodies with thy water, there is no salvation for these same Sagara's sons. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
The waves break on these huge masses without intermission, with a hollow and alternating roar, or rise up in sheets of foam, which besprinkle their hoary fronts. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
So he returned to his place and sat down, where upon all the handmaidens stood up and the lady bade them perfume him with pastiles and besprinkle his face with rose-water. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference
Now the ancients, when about to make a league, were wont to besprinkle their footsteps with blood of one another, so to ratify their pledge of friendship by reciprocal barter of blood. From Wordnik.com. [The Danish History, Books I-IX] Reference
When the bees inside the hive hang clustering to one another, it is a sign that the swarm is intending to quit; consequently, occasion, when a bee-keepers, on seeing this, besprinkle the hive with sweet wine. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
It is said that a thousand isles besprinkle its surface; they are crowded together in the most picturesque and varied groups, forming streams, and bays, and a chain of smaller lakes, and continually revealing some new and attractive feature. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands] Reference
Be, about, as besprinkle; also for or before, as bespeak. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Speller; Containing Exercises for Oral Spelling; also, Sentences for Silent Spelling by Writing from Dictation. In Which the Representative Words and the Anomalous Words of the English Language are so Classified as to Indicate Their Pronunciation, and to be Fixed in the Memory by Association.] Reference
There were drops other than the cold ones to besprinkle the white face. From Wordnik.com. [Witness to the Deed] Reference
The novel goes on apace; but I shall besprinkle it with local color afterwards. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
` If I pull it out, I squirt a hundred miles, and besprinkle everything that I choose. From Wordnik.com. [Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources] Reference
It is equally unpleasant as "little woman" or "dearie," both of which besprinkle all his sentences. From Wordnik.com. [The Reflections of Ambrosine A Novel] Reference
And when they goe abroade, they besprinkle them selues with fragraunt oyles, to be swete at the smelle. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 06 Madiera, the Canaries, Ancient Asia, Africa, etc.] Reference
Already had the snow begun to besprinkle the sky, and the branches of the trees were covered with rime like rabbit-skin. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Russian] Reference
Vials of good sweet waters, and casting bottels of glasses to besprinkle the ghests withall, after their comming aboord. From Wordnik.com. [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04] Reference
Is it wickedness that speaks in you: 'I feel bad,' you say, 'let him also feel bad -- there, I'll besprinkle his heart with my poisonous tears!'. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
They twisted their bodies painfully to stick a cigar between dead lips, and besprinkle them with the last drops of liquor in their cups, laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
But George said to the man who held his thumb in the bottle in place of a stopper: ` You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything. From Wordnik.com. [Sixty Folk-tales from Exclusively Slavonic Sources] Reference
They twisted their bodies painfully to stick a cigar between dead lips, and besprinkle them with the last drops of liquor in their cups, laughing a benediction. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
So he returned to his place and sat down, where upon all the handmaidens stood up and the lady bade them perfume him with pastiles and besprinkle his face with rose - water. From Wordnik.com. [Arabian nights. English] Reference
'Shepherd,' he says, addressing the rustic worshipper, 'at the first streak of dawn purify thy well-fed flocks: let water first besprinkle them, and a branch sweep clean the ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Religion of Ancient Rome] Reference
Linda Pallant, young as she was, and fresh and fair and charming, gentle and sufficiently shy, looked somehow exclusive -- as if the dust of the common world had never been meant to besprinkle her. From Wordnik.com. [Louisa Pallant] Reference
He pretended to be angry, and asked her, with a frown, how she could dare to besprinkle her sovereign; she replied -- "When children play together there is no distinction between the prince and the peasant.". From Wordnik.com. [A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II] Reference
"News," replied Stewart, taking off his hat with a jerk, so as to besprinkle the face of Prose with the water that had accumulated on the top of it, and laughing at his sudden start from the unexpected shower. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Own] Reference
Eventide was falling with tardy languor, but, as yet, the sun, though become a gigantic, dull, red lentil in appearance, was not hidden, and the waves were still powerless to besprinkle his downward road of fire. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
Is it wickedness that speaks in you: ‘I feel bad,’ you say, ‘let him also feel bad — there, I’ll besprinkle his heart with my poisonous tears!’. From Wordnik.com. [The Man Who Was Afraid] Reference
"If I pull it out, I squirt a hundred miles, and besprinkle everything that I choose. From Wordnik.com. [Folk Tales Every Child Should Know] Reference
But George said to the man who held his thumb in the bottle in the place of a stopper: "You said, if you pulled your thumb out, you could besprinkle everything. From Wordnik.com. [Folk Tales Every Child Should Know] Reference
And therewithal besprinkle all his face. From Wordnik.com. [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6] Reference
The Nornas besprinkle. From Wordnik.com. [Harold : the Last of the Saxon Kings — Complete] Reference
A suckling creature’s blood besprinkle him. From Wordnik.com. [The Eumenides] Reference
Be - (on all sides, overly) bedeck, beset, besmear, besprinkle. From Wordnik.com. [Improve Your Vocabulary by Knowing These Latin Prefixes « Esl Articles « Articles « Literacy News] Reference
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