strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
Example Sentences
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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 Cobb, Samuel
Nor strow with Captive Kings the † Velvet Plain; Omit awhile the Silver Peal to ring, Nor talk dulcissant, nor mellifluous sing, Nor hang suspended, nor adherent cling.
From Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast by Guerinot, J. V. (Joseph V.)
After some discussion it was decided that the syllable must be "strew or strow," and then they waited to see if it was a good guess.
From Eight Cousins Or, The Aunt-Hill by Alcott, Louisa May
Let's strow around some crumbs of bread, And then he'll live till snow is gone.
From The Real Mother Goose by Wright, Blanche Fisher
After some discussion it was decided that the syllable must be "strew or strow" and then they waited to see if it was a good guess.
From Eight Cousins by Alcott, Louisa May
They mos'ly strowed round in the woods in pole cabins an' bresh arbors.—Sah?
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
But the author of the "Remedie of Love," formerly attributed to Chaucer, says— "My chambre is strowed with myrrhe and incense With sote savouring Aloes and sinnamone, Breathing an aromaticke redolence."
From The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare by Ellacombe, Henry Nicholson
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 Lorenz, Edmund S.
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 Harris, Joel Chandler
The men strowed seats for me on deck, and touched their caps with respectful sympathy.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
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 Carman, Bliss
As I watch the strowing of the winds, my melancholy slips away.
From The Hills of Hingham by Sharp, Dallas Lore
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 Onions, Oliver
Altars must be strown with broken minds, and incense rise amid abject aspirations.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
“The sea-sands bare and brown, With broken shells and sea-weed strown, And stranded drift,” my soul replied.
From Poems by Howells, William Dean
Blue lotuses through all the land The glories of their blooms expand, And the resplendent earth is strown With peerless pearl and precious stone.
From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
Where ’Vangie lies strown folios Like Vallambrosan leaves repose, The sad, the blithe, the quaint, the queer, The good, the punk are scattered here— A pile of poof in verse and prose.
From The So-called Human Race by Taylor, Bert Leston
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