570 Contest, with sharpen'd knives, in cloisters drawn, And all with blood bespread the holy lawn.

He got out the box of ointment and bespread the strips of torn handkerchief.

They were the simplest sayings and doings of childhood,handfuls of such wild-flowers as bespread the green turf of nursery-life everywhere, but miraculous blossoms in the eyes of these good women, whom Saint Agnes had unwittingly deprived of any power of making comparisons or ever having Christ's sweetest parable of the heavenly kingdom enacted in homes of their own.