strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
Example Sentences
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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
Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild disorder seen, With throngs promiscuous strow the level green.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Pope, Alexander
But he’s none of Flora’s friend That will not the rose commend; Strow about! strow about!
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
Their widend beards this aire so broad doth strow Incurvate, and or more or lesse decline: If not, let sharper wits more subtly here divine.
From Democritus Platonissans by More, Henry
Now with bright holly all the temples are strow; With Laurel green and sacred Mistletoe.
From Christmas Entertainments by Kellogg, Alice Maude
He is a very hard man that will reap where he hath not sowed, and gather where he hath not strowed, Mat.
From The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America by Ward, Nathaniel
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.
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
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
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
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
Such wild and lavish grace Had whispers in it of a coming doom; As richest flowers lie strown about the face Of her that waits the tomb.
From Three Sunsets and Other Poems by Carroll, Lewis
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
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 Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)
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