strow
Americanverb
verb
Etymology
Origin of strow
1300–50; Middle English strowen, variant of strewen to strew
Example Sentences
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Now with bright holly all the temples are strow; With Laurel green and sacred Mistletoe.
From Christmas Entertainments by Alice Maude Kellogg
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
Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks In Vallombrosa.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
Let's strow around some crumbs of bread, And then he'll live till snow is gone.
From Mother Goose The Original Volland Edition by Frederick Richardson
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
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 Robert Louis Stevenson
The vault was open, and papers was strowed plentiful round on the floor under it.
From At the Mercy of Tiberius by Augusta J. (Augusta Jane) Evans
Where Sherman's army stopped and ate and fed their horses the Negroes went and picked up the grains of corn they strowed there and parched and ate them.
From Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves, North Carolina Narratives, Part 2 by Work Projects Administration
They mos'ly strowed round in the woods in pole cabins an' bresh arbors.—Sah?
From John March, Southerner by George W. Cable
Some broke the surface of the earth, others strowed seeds or kernels of fruits, others removed the weeds which threatened to impede the harvest.
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
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
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 William Morris
The quivering memories of love's fair birth Now strown as deathless flowers o'er its decease!
From Song-Surf by Cale Young Rice
Some of the drawers of the desk were open, and there was a litter of papers on the desk, and others were strown in the big rattan chair, some on the floor.
From Waring's Peril by Charles King
The gardener's care the seed has strown, To deck our home with flowers; Our Father's love from high has shone, And sent the needed showers.
From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Margaret Fuller
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
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