Example Sentences

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Do you ever think of those artist-monks who have strewed Italy with altar-pieces and missal miniatures till there is not any little lonely dusky town of hers that is not rich by art?

From Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida by Ouida

These four women have long-meditated your destruction, and many are the thorns with which they have strewed your path in life.

From Prince Eugene and His Times by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

I thought to have decked thy bride bed, sweet maid, not to have strewed thy grave.

From Tales from Shakespeare by Lamb, Mary

Could any "fortuitous concourse of atoms" have strewed the depths of space with those mighty and beautiful orbs, and defined for each the exact limits of its movements?

From The Story of the Herschels by Anonymous

I hoped thou shoulds't have been my Hamlet's wife; I thought thy bride-bed to have decked, sweet maid, And not t' have strewed thy grave.

From Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden by Richardson, David Lester