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bestrow

American  
[bih-stroh] / bɪˈstroʊ /

verb (used with object)

Archaic.
bestrowed, bestrown, bestrowed, bestrowing
  1. an archaic variant of bestrew.


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Half smilingly, our hearts delay, Half mournfully forego The blue fantastic twisted day When faithful Konojo, For small white Lily Hasu-ko Knelt in the Butsudan, And her tomb opened to bestrow Lilies thro' old Japan.

From Collected Poems Volume One by Noyes, Alfred

Methinks I see her frantic with despair, Her streaming eyes, wrung hands, and flowing hair Her Mechlin pinners, rent, the floor bestrow, And her torn fan gives real signs of woe.

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

Methinks I see her frantic with despair, Her streaming eyes, wrung hands, and flowing hair; Her Mechlin pinners, rent, the floor bestrow, And her torn fan gives real signs of woe.

From The Home Book of Verse — Volume 4 by Stevenson, Burton Egbert

The bare ground with hoarie mosse bestrowed Must be their bed, their pillow was unsowed And the frutes of the forrest was their feast.

From The Bridge of the Gods A Romance of Indian Oregon. 19th Edition. by Balch, Frederic Homer

Haste, or e'er the third hour glowing With its eager thirst prevail O'er the moist pearls, now bestrowing Thymy slope and rushy vale.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

It was a jasmine bower, all bestrown With golden moss.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John

Did ye not see this place all bestrown with dark hued rocks?

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

From the safe shore their floating carcasses And broken chariot wheels; so thick bestrown Abject and lost lay these, covering the flood.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Lo, there Tarentum's harbour and the town, If fame be true, of Hercules, and here Lacinium's queen and Caulon's towers are known, 622 And Scylaceum's rocks, with shattered ships bestrown.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

Adown beside the setting sun, hard on the ocean's rim,480 Lies the last world of Æthiops, where Atlas mightiest grown Upon his shoulder turns the pole with burning stars bestrown.

From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William

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