strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
Example Sentences
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Let’s strow around some crums of bread, And then he’ll live till snow is gone.
From The Only True Mother Goose Melodies Without Addition or Abridgement by Unknown
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
Now with bright Holly all the temples strow With Laurel green, and sacred Mistletoe.
From A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide by Behrend, Arthur C.
"I have just told you that the dead are there also, 'Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa,'" said the librarian.
From Lilith, a romance by MacDonald, George
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)
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
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
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
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.
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
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
His inaugural discourse, as Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow, thickly strown with Greek and Latin quotations, was, as the preface informs us, written during the business of the Northern Circuit.
From Sketches of Reforms and Reformers, of Great Britain and Ireland by Stanton, Henry B.
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
My steps are not alone In these bright walks; the sweet southwest, at play, Flies, rustling, where the painted leaves are strown Along the winding way.
From Poetical Works of William Cullen Bryant Household Edition by Stoddard, Richard Henry
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 Riley, H. H.
It is sad to see these great blocks of Pentelican marble, that had been so perfectly fashioned and chiselled, now strown over the summit of the hill.
From From the Lakes of Killarney to the Golden Horn by Field, Henry M. (Henry Martyn)
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