So when the king is a horseback he is sure to be the dirtiest person of the company, and they that make their court best are such as bespatter him most. ❋ Jonathan Swift (1706)
Conveniency for him to bespatter her with Scandal. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Every time he comes in at me from in front earth and sand from his bullets bespatter me right and left. ❋ Rudel, Hans-Ulrich (1973)
Bits of soft earth mixed with squashed berries came out of nowhere to bespatter us - until Oomark threw up one arm and gave a crowing cry. ❋ Norton, Andre (1970)
He was a proud man, who must hate standing by helplessly, holding the supreme office in Orvieto, watching the two great families bespatter his city with blood. ❋ Robert Shea (1963)
And as to the bulk of women, those who will benefit by our devotion, they bespatter us with mud, stone us, slander us, calumniate us; and even in the very act of taking advantage of the changes we have brought about, ignore us, slight us, push us under, and step up on our bodies to secure the benefits which our endeavours have made it possible for them to enjoy. ❋ Sarah Grand (N/A)
Lord Stanley are wont to bespatter and heap dirt on each other's heads in their legislative squabbles! ❋ Various (N/A)
Last night about 10.30 the Turks disturbed our peace by firing fifty or sixty shells about our Beach, some being very near our camp, near enough to bespatter our tents and dugouts with lumps of earth. ❋ George Davidson (N/A)
Hence, when they are gushing over, they bespatter everything about them with the white spume, but when they are spent the sharpest eye cannot discern them. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)
Therefore, said Handwan, he must mind that he did not rob of his empire the man with whom he sought alliance, nor bespatter her with the filth of ignobleness whom he desired to honour with marriage: else he would tarnish the honour of the union with covetousness. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)
But most people when they are abused do not consider whether the abuse really belongs to them properly, but look round to see what abuse they can heap on the abuser, and, as wrestlers get smothered with the dust of the arena, do not wipe off the abuse hurled at themselves, but bespatter others, and at last get on both sides grimy and discoloured. ❋ 46-120? Plutarch (N/A)
ASPE'RSE, _v. a._ bespatter with censure or calumny ❋ Various (N/A)
Fatima picked her way daintily through the mud, often half stopping for better footing (as if she knew she must not bespatter me when I was going to call at the President's house), and by that means the farmer's powerful horse (who seemed not to mind the mud, knowing there was no finery to be hurt by it) got well ahead. ❋ Mary Dillon (N/A)
O stout Amazonians, who thus couragiously, take the Weapons in hand, to defend and protect your Husbands, Children, Servants and houskeeping; why should not you have as great commendations given you, as those noble Souls of your Sex had in former times? and who would not rather ingage in the imbracing of you, then any waies to affront or bespatter you? ❋ A. Marsh (N/A)
Is it not the sport and divertisement of many to cast dirt in the faces of all they meet with? to bespatter any man with foul imputations? ❋ Various (N/A)
Agrarian contests of Rome, which were so long misunderstood; and through that misunderstanding has the word Agrarian, so proper in itself, been made to furnish one of the most reproachful terms that violent politicians have ever used when seeking to bespatter their foes. ❋ Various (N/A)
Was it not the act of the false apostles to say thus -- to bespatter a man that his doctrine might be disregarded? ❋ Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin (N/A)
Stirred by the wild barbaric music of clashing cymbals, rumbling drums, droning horns, and screaming flutes, the inferior clergy whirled about in the dance with waggling heads and streaming hair, until, rapt into a frenzy of excitement and insensible to pain, they gashed their bodies with potsherds or slashed them with knives in order to bespatter the altar and the sacred tree with their flowing blood. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Our dust would get into your eyes, our mud would bespatter you, but yet youre not up to our level, youre admiring yourselves unconsciously, you like to abuse yourselves; but were sick of thatwe want something else! we want to smash other people! ❋ Unknown (1917)
