bestrew
verb (used with object)
to strew or cover (a surface).
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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"Thou dost know that the china-packer comes early to-morrow morn, and that e'en now the barrels and boxes and excelsior are bestrewing the dining room?"
From Mother Carey's Chickens by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith