Bespread

Word BESPREAD
Character 8
Hyphenation be spread
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When I came to myself I strengthened my heart and, entering, found myself in a chamber whose floor was bespread with saffron and blazing with light from branched candelabra of gold and lamps fed with costly oils, which diffused the scent of musk and ambergris. ❋ Unknown (2006)

So they lined the road on either hand, and the birds bespread their wings over the host of creatures to shade them, warbling one to other in all manner of voices and tongues. ❋ Unknown (2006)

And therein stood censers of aloes-wood and ambergris and strong-scented musk, and at the upper end was a couch bespread with cloth of gold on which he seated himself, marvelling at the magnificence he saw and knowing not what was written for him in the Secret Purpose. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The old man brought him into one of the parlours, which was variegated with many-coloured marbles, the ceiling thereof being decorated with ultramarine and glowing gold; and the floor bespread with silken carpets. ❋ Unknown (2006)

No whaler could attack the huge rollers that raised their monstrous backs, plunged over with a furious roar, and bespread the beach with a swirl of foam. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The numerous ornaments, also, with which the hoops were bespread and decorated -- the festoons -- the tassels -- the rich embroidery -- all of a most ❋ Various (N/A)

They were the simplest sayings and doings of childhood, -- handfuls of such wild-flowers as bespread the green turf of nursery-life everywhere, but miraculous blossoms in the eyes of these good women, whom Saint Agnes had unwittingly deprived of any power of making comparisons or ever having Christ's sweetest parable of the heavenly kingdom enacted in homes of their own. ❋ Various (N/A)

However, he expressed satisfaction with the mahogany side-board that some previous occupant had loaned from a neighbouring house; our servants had bespread it with newspapers and made a washing-table of it. ❋ George Herbert Fosdike Nichols (N/A)

Then renewed strength will come to thy limbs, then shall undreamed-of might enter thy sinews, and an accumulation of stout force shall bespread and nerve thy frame through-out. ❋ Grammaticus Saxo (N/A)

When I came to myself I strengthened my heart, and entering found myself in a chamber bespread with saffron and blazing with light .... ❋ Mary Hastings Bradley (N/A)

Wordsworth says, “A grave is a tranquillizing object: resignation in time springs up from it as naturally as wild flowers bespread the turf.” ❋ Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 (1916)

A moment later the hot-water bag reached the floor in as noiseless a manner as that previously adopted by the remains of the little pill, and Penrod once more bespread his soul with poppies. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)

The general scratched along, without answering, and the colonel looked meditatively into the street; then he began to smile, and the smile glowed into a beam that bespread his countenance and sank into a mood that set his vest to shaking "like a bowl full of jelly." ❋ William Allen White (1906)

They had first met at my own rich cake and jam-puff bespread tea-table. ❋ William John Locke (1896)

Nor Hawthorne’s manse, wïth ancient moss bespread, 45 ❋ Edmund Clarence Stedman (1895)

The air with smoke bespread, the field with corses. ❋ Alfred Biese (1893)

Ruddy mottlings bespread the wife's kindly countenance. ❋ Lucas Malet (1891)

She had turned back to her desk and was pushing about the various articles with which it was plentifully bespread; but this did not hide the flush which had crept into her cheeks and even dyed the snowy whiteness of her neck. ❋ Anna Katharine Green (1890)

The fantastic story, and the wonders with which it was bespread, seem to have absorbed the attention of writers and hearers; and nobody seems to have thought of any more. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

She sat upon cushions and leaned against an empty box and barrel, robe bespread, which formed a defence from the invading draughts. ❋ O. Henry (1886)

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