strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
Example Sentences
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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 Barlow, Joel
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.)
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
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 Taylor, Edward Fairfax
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 Beck, James M. (James Montgomery)
They mos'ly strowed round in the woods in pole cabins an' bresh arbors.—Sah?
From John March, Southerner by Cable, George W.
They went in the smokehouse and got all the sugar and rice and strowed it up and down the streets and not carin' at all that victuals was scarcer than hen's teeth in them parts!
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume XVI, Texas Narratives, Part 3 by United States. Work Projects Administration
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
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 Stevens, Bertram
Plenty of corn was brought in from the cribs and strowed along where everybody could get to it freely.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Arkansas Narratives, Part 7 by Work Projects Administration
As I watch the strowing of the winds, my melancholy slips away.
From The Hills of Hingham by Sharp, Dallas Lore
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
But, Leofric, the high festival is strown by the servant of God upon the heart of man.
From Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection by Landor, Walter Savage
Mordanto gallops on alone; The roads are with his followers strown; This breaks a girth and that a bone.
From Old Roads and New Roads by Donne, William Bodham
Oh, calm below the marble grey My father's dust was strown!
From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
With me along some Strip of Herbage strown That just divides the desert from the sown, Where name of Slave and Sultán scarce is known, And pity Sultán Máhmúd on his Throne.
From Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám and Salámán and Absál Together With A Life Of Edward Fitzgerald And An Essay On Persian Poetry By Ralph Waldo Emerson by FitzGerald, Edward
“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 Borrow, George Henry
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