bespatters

Now that the Lacedaemonians might have no less share of his malice than the Athenians, behold how he bespatters Othryadas, the man most admired and honored by them.

Essays and Miscellanies 2004

The grave irony of this poem so bespatters the theologian's God with his own mud that we dread the image and recoil.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various

'Tis well known I took her out of a bawdy-house, and made her an honest woman, but now blown up like a frog she bespatters herself; a very block, no woman: But this poor boy born in a hovel, never dreams of palaces.

The Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

If thou wouldst conquer him, thou must use thy shield and stretch thereon bulls 'hides, and cover thy body with the skins of kine, nor let thy limbs lie bare to the sharp poison; his slaver burns up what it bespatters.

The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo

[5] This "sea Mediterranean" is a most filthy, fetid, uncovered gutter, running down the middle of the most, even of the best streets, and with which every merciless Jehu most liberally bespatters the unhappy pedestrian.

The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 282, November 10, 1827 Various

When its life-blood bespatters the rocks, the peasants throw down their weapons and lift up their voices in supplication to the dragon divinity of the stream, exhorting him to send down forthwith a shower to cleanse the spot from its defilement.

Chapter 5. The Magical Control of the Weather. § 2. The Magical Control of Rain 1922

When its life-blood bespatters the rocks, the peasants throw down their weapons and lift up their voices in supplication to the dragon divinity of the stream, exhorting him to send down forthwith a shower to cleanse the spot from its defilement.

The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion 1922

When its life-blood bespatters the rocks, the peasants throw down their weapons and lift up their voices in supplication to the dragon divinity of the stream, exhorting him to send down forthwith a shower to cleanse the spot from its defilement.

The Golden Bough James George Frazer 1897

No genius can pardon or excuse the abuse and filth with which Voltaire bespatters the immortal memory of the glorious Maid of Orleans.

Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

This gentleman, the most active investigator of Homer since the days of the good bishop of Thessalonica, bespatters you with more learning in a minute than others communicate in half a year; quotes Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac, etc., with a formidable fluency; and drove me from one end of the room to the other with all the thunder of erudition.

Dreams Waking Thoughts and Incidents Beckford, William 1891