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Definition of Sprinkled
1. sprinkle [v] - See also: sprinkle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sprinkled
Literary usage of Sprinkled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"... -sprinkled bunting ! flag of stars! Long yet your road, fateful flag — long
yet your road, and lined with bloody death, For the prize I see at issue at ..."
2. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"O hasten flag of man — O with sure and steady step, passing highest flags o!
symbol — run up above them all, Flag of stars ! thick-sprinkled bunting ! kings ..."
3. The Art of Bookbinding: A Practical Treatise by Joseph William Zaehnsdorf (1890)
"sprinkled Edges.—Most shops have a colour always ready, usually a reddish brown,
which they use for the whole of their sprinkled edge books. ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Under an oak his servants spread a feast 650 Or tended on the offering of an ox,
Whilst women sprinkled all the meats with meal. ..."
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