Example Sentences

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With one cold relentless palm she threatens to take from Anthony, who hath not, even that which he hath: with the other she is strewing blossoms upon what is to be his path.

From Anthony Lyveden by Yates, Dornford

The day is called Flowering Sunday, and its peculiar feature is strewing the graves of the dead with flowers.

From British Goblins Welsh Folk-lore, Fairy Mythology, Legends and Traditions by Sikes, Wirt

Well, Langdon Chester is strewing the roses thick enough.

From Ann Boyd by Harben, Will N. (Will Nathaniel)

A wondrous youth of lovely mien Rich gifts of joy is strewing; O'er hill and vale, where'er are seen His footsteps, light is glowing.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

When the year, itself renewing, All the world with flowers is strewing, Then through Youth's Arcadian land, Love and song go hand in hand.

From The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar by Howells, William Dean