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

He cries "Spare thou thine exiles, lightly o'er thy dead, Alive, yet buried, be thy dust bespread.

Sad and silent our toast we bespread, At the empty chair looked we and sighed; All insipid tea, butter, and bread, For the salt of his wit was denied.

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.

The numerous ornaments, also, with which the hoops were bespread and decoratedthe festoonsthe tasselsthe rich embroideryall of a most catching and taking nature, every now and then affectionately hitched together in unpremeditated and close embrace.

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

The foremost of the two was Sir Giles Mompesson, and his usually stern and sinister features had acquired a yet more inauspicious cast, from the deathlike paleness that bespread them, as well as from the fillet bound round his injured brow.