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Probably they were seeking to elude the persecution of the stage-coaches, which, for the last thirty hours, had been scattering at all the inns and road-side cabarets hand-bills describing their persons and dress.

From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by De Quincey, Thomas

The birds that had been silent all winter were chirping under the eaves, or fluttered up from the causeway where she had been scattering corn, at the sound of her footsteps across the little farm-yard.

From Cobwebs and Cables by Stretton, Hesba

Despotism engenders ignorance and cruelty; and despotism did but reap the awful harvest of blood and woe, of which, during countless ages of oppression, it had been scattering broadcast the seed.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None by Harper, Various (magazine)

The spring fairy had been scattering flowers over the fields with lavish hands; it was a little glimpse of paradise.

From Amiel's Journal by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

Then he spread his wings and slowly flew back and forth just above the rushes and wild rice, at the place where the man had been scattering the corn.

From Blacky the Crow by Burgess, Thornton W. (Thornton Waldo)