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Count the sands of the shore, and thence thou mayst guess the number of joys that I will strew before thee.

From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry

Ay, Sir Councillor—'tis true I stand here an unfriended widow; yet may you trust my word when I prophesy that this visit to Ostrat will strew your future path with thorns.

From Henrik Ibsen's Prose Dramas Vol III Lady Inger of Ostrat by Ibsen, Henrik

We will strew all England, every morning, with bread-crumbs for you, will you but stay and help us to play at summer!

From Yet Again by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

For the sake of some things That be now no more I will strew rushes On my chamber-floor, I will plant bergamot At my kitchen-door.

From Second April by Millay, Edna St. Vincent

Night will strew On the damp grass myriads of lingering leaves, And with them shall I die; nor much it grieves To die, when summer dies on the cold sward.

From Endymion A Poetic Romance by Keats, John