"Besprent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... horse started from a dead body that lay across his path. He reined up for one instant, for the countenance, which looked upwards, struck him as familiar. What was his horror, when in that livid and distorted face he recognised his uncle! The thin grizzled hairs were besprent with gore and brains, and the blood yet oozed from the spot where the ball had passed through his temple. Falkland had but a brief interval for grief; the pursuers were close behind: he heard the snort of the foremost horse before he again put spurs ...
— Falkland, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... flanks with stars besprent, Worthy to swim in Castaly! The friend by whom such gifts are sent,— For him shall bumpers full be spent,— His health! be Luck ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866 • Various
... with crocus besprent, And the asphodel woodsides she left, And the lake-slopes, the ravishing scent Of narcissus, dark-sweet, for the cleft That tutors the torrent-brook, Delaying its forceful spleen With many a wind and crook Through rock to the broad ravine. By the ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith
... was indeed a wide extensive building Which open'd on their view, and o'er the front There seem'd to be besprent a deal of gilding And various hues, as is the Turkish wont,— A gaudy taste; for they are little skill'd in The arts of which these lands were once the font: Each villa on the Bosphorus looks a screen New painted, or ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... the subject, for fear of arousing what I hoped was growing too faint for remembrance. But at times I saw him in the moonlit evenings sitting on the rail alone, steadfastly gazing down into the star-besprent waters beneath him, as if coveting their ...
— The Cruise of the Cachalot - Round the World After Sperm Whales • Frank T. Bullen |
