strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
Example Sentences
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Now, rose by rose, I strip the leaves And strow them where Pauline may pass.
From Browning and the Dramatic Monologue by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
Here The coming spring would first appear, And all this place with roses strow, If busy feet would let them grow.
From Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham by Sir John Denham
O'er his fresh Marble strow the fading Rose And Lilly, for his Youth resembled those.
From Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707) From Poems On Several Occasions (1707) by Samuel Cobb
Were not the King here, he should strow the chamber like a rush.
From Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois by Frederick S. Boas
Go, fill your hands with lilies; let me strow The purple blossoms where he lies below.
From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Edward Fairfax Taylor
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
But loud through all the bugles rings a cadence in mine ear, And on the winds my hopes of peace are strowed.
From An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens
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
They mos'ly strowed round in the woods in pole cabins an' bresh arbors.—Sah?
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
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
As I watch the strowing of the winds, my melancholy slips away.
From The Hills of Hingham by Dallas Lore Sharp
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
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
Some of the drawers of the desk were open, and there was a litter of papers on the desk, and others were strown in the big rattan chair, some on the floor.
From Waring's Peril by Charles King
“There’s spread enough of the silken stuff, And plenty of gold is strown; But better I ween in heaven sheen With our Father God to wone.”
From The Return of the Dead and Other Ballads by George Henry Borrow
It was now only getting up and falling down, and this continued until they had stumbled out of the circuit where the brands had been strown.
From Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer by Oliver Optic
In a moment they sprang to their feet, but only to fall again upon the burning brands which were strown over the ground.
From Field and Forest The Fortunes of a Farmer by Oliver Optic
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