strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
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These deathful deeds as great Columbus eyed, With anxious tone he thus addrest the Guide: Why combat here these transatlantic bands, And strow their corses thro thy pathless lands?
From The Columbiad by Joel Barlow
The four thousand words have been meticulously examined through intellectual microscopes in judicial opinions, textbooks, and other commentaries which are as "thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks in Vallombrosa."
From The Constitution of the United States A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution by James M. (James Montgomery) Beck
Here was democratic raw material which could not be permitted to run to waste.—Sympathizers were "Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa."
From The History of Peru by Henry S. Beebe
Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild disorder seen, With throngs promiscuous strow the level green.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
Let's strow around some crumbs of bread, And then he'll live till snow is gone.
From The Only True Mother Goose Melodies by Anonymous
Hark! all the tribes Hosanna cry; O Savior meek, pursue thy road With palms and scattered garments strowed.
From The Otterbein Hymnal For Use in Public and Social Worship by Edmund S. Lorenz
Ef ders enny kinder cake w'at I likes de mos', hit 's dish yer kine w'at's got reezins strowed 'mongs' it.
From Nights With Uncle Remus Myths and Legends of the Old Plantation by Joel Chandler Harris
Some broke the surface of the earth, others strowed seeds or kernels of fruits, others removed the weeds which threatened to impede the harvest.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
They mos'ly strowed round in the woods in pole cabins an' bresh arbors.—Sah?
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
The sea strond is also strowed with sundry fashioned & coloured shels, of so diuersified and pretty workmanship, as if nature were for her pastime disposed to shew her skil in trifles.
From The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue by Richard Carew
Beyond the gathering and the strowing I shall be soon; Beyond the ebbing and the flowing.
From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Bliss Carman
As I watch the strowing of the winds, my melancholy slips away.
From The Hills of Hingham by Dallas Lore Sharp
Oh, calm below the marble grey My father's dust was strown!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The little rail-enclosed plots that lay between the pavements and the hotels were magpied with torn paper and strown with lying figures.
From Mushroom Town by Oliver Onions
All the shades, and touches, and tinges of blue flow over his gaudy mantle; and how orderly and lavishly they are strown over him.
From The Puddleford Papers, Or Humors of the West by H. H. Riley
So o'er the field that host lay strown, By Viśvámitra's darts o'erthrown.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin) Griffith
It is overloaded with prettinesses, many of which would tell well in conversation, but being rather strown over than woven into his narrative, deform where they should adorn.
From Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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