Strewn

Examples

• He has strewn with misery the paths of others, and he will live to strew with misery the path of this woman by his side. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We walked out into the grass-grown, fragment-strewn court beyond the Parthenon. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She laid both hands on Gerty's shoulders, with a smile that was like sunrise on a sea strewn with wreckage. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Miss Havisham had settled down, I hardly knew how, upon the floor, among the faded bridal relics with which it was strewn. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It should be strewn with roses; it should lie through bowers, where there was no spring, autumn, nor winter, but perpetual summer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There were also a dagger and several metal ornaments strewn about as though torn from their wearer in a struggle. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It was like sitting in a vault strewn with dead bodies--the cap, the noose, the pinioned arms, the faces that he knew, even beneath that hideous veil. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It did not cease till the Atlantic was strewn with wrecks: it did not lull till the deeps had gorged their full of sustenance. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The path of scientific progress is strewn with the ruins of overthrown hypotheses. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Why, damn their audacity, so they have,' said Captain Boldwig, as the crumbs and fragments that were strewn upon the grass met his eye. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The roads were strewn with the debris of broken wagons and the carcasses of thousands of starved mules and horses. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Already the gay dance vanished, the green sward was strewn with corpses, the blue air above became fetid with deathly exhalations. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Unopened letters and unsorted papers lay strewn about the desk. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• As I did the same I felt the hand of the man behind me grab at my ankle, but I kicked myself free and scrambled over a grass-strewn coping. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• I turned to the corse-strewn earth; and felt ashamed of my species. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• He was writing at a table, with a great confusion of clothes, tin cases, books, boots, brushes, and portmanteaus strewn all about the floor. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The noise of wheels and tread of people were as hushed, as if the streets had been strewn that depth with feathers. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.

Edited by Jonathan