strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
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Whose lot wilt be the way to strow 160On which to Church our Bride must goe?
From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Cyril Brett
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
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
Divers, divers flowers affect For some private dear respect; Strow about! strow about!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Isaac Disraeli
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa, where th' Etrurian shades High over-arch'd imbower.
From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by John Bartlett
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
They mos'ly strowed round in the woods in pole cabins an' bresh arbors.—Sah?
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
Wide open stood the door, he need not climb, And she herself before the pointed time Had spread the board, with roses strowed the room, And oft looked out, and mused he did not come.
From Hero and Leander by Christopher Marlowe
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 Henry Nicholson Ellacombe
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
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 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
All that long and dreary night, Sir Roland watched beside the dead, Humbly kneeling in the rushes strown around the carven bed.
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
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
Skilful the rune of symbols to unravel, And mute avowals hearkened unawares, Before the light from lips of flowers fares With chosen petals I have strown the gravel.
From Contemporary Belgian Poetry Selected and Translated by Jethro Bithell by Various
“The sea-sands bare and brown, With broken shells and sea-weed strown, And stranded drift,” my soul replied.
From Poems by William Dean Howells
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