"Bestrew" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... twine for me the cypress bough; But, O Matilda, twine not now! Stay till a few brief months are past And I have look'd and loved my last! When villagers my shroud bestrew With pansies, rosemary, and rue,— Then, lady, weave a wreath for me, And weave ...
— The Modern Scottish Minstrel , Volume I. - The Songs of Scotland of the past half century • Various
... does. I see that people get worked up into furies over what they think is right and wrong, and kill each other on account of it. Later ages view the matter as of no importance; and the lives that are lost in the struggle are as forgotten as the multitudinous leaves which bestrew the ground of an autumnal forest. I fear I am in a very bad state of mind. It is true, as you intimate in your letter, that I am passing through a certain humiliation of spirit; and I am thus inclined to speculate on the value of all truths and philosophies. I seem to ...
— Children of the Market Place • Edgar Lee Masters
... the City and none knew me; None came forth, none shouted 'He is here! Not a hand with laurel would bestrew me, All the way by which I drew anear— Night my banner, and ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy
... stop the breath of the old fellow himself who gave being to this monster; then as for his prompter, Syrus, out upon him! how I would tear him piecemeal! I would snatch him by the middle up aloft, and dash him head downward upon the earth, so that with his brains he would bestrew the road: I would pull out the eyes of the young fellow himself, {and} afterward hurl him headlong {over some precipice}. The others I would rush upon, drive, drag, crush, and trample them {under foot}. But why do I delay at once to acquaint my mistress ...
— The Comedies of Terence - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes • Publius Terentius Afer, (AKA) Terence
... far distant now; "My sight prophetic tells,—when here will come "Bacchus new-born, of Semele the son, "Whose rites, if thou with honor due, not tend'st "In temples worthy,—scatter'd far and wide, "Thy limbs dismember'd shall the ground bestrew: "Thy blood the forests shall distain;—thy gore "Thy aunts,—nay e'en thy mother, shall pollute: "For thou such honors, as immortals claim, "Shalt to the god deny; then wilt thou find "Beneath this darkness I but see too ...
— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid |
