strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
Example Sentences
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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 Brett, Cyril
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)
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Webster, Noah
Shut in himself, the war without he hears, Safe in the tempest of their rattling spears; The cumber'd strand their wasted volleys strow; His sport, the rage and labour of the foe.
From The Poetical Works of Edward Young, Volume 2 by Young, Edward
Then receive this equall dombe: Virgins, strow no teare or bloome, No one dig the Parian wombe; Raise her marble heart i'th' roome, And 'tis both her coarse and tombe.
From The Lucasta Poems by Lovelace, Richard
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
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
And angelys senssyd hym that tyde; With besaunts riche many a fold, They strowed oure kyng on every syde.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Nicolas, Nicholas Harris, Sir
He stayed on de yuther side 'twell all de res' had got 'crost, den he got down offen his horse an' took a bottle of somp'in' an' strowed it all over de bridge.
From Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves: Volume I, Alabama Narratives by United States. Work Projects Administration
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 by Winter, Milo
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
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
Nor rough nor barren are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strown with flowers.
From English Verse Specimens Illustrating its Principles and History by Alden, Raymond MacDonald
While others serve the seething brass, and o'er the herbage strown Set coaly morsels 'neath the spit, and roast the inner meat.
From The Æneids of Virgil Done into English Verse by Morris, William
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
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 Optic, Oliver
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