There were provisions in plenty strewn on the ground, having been thrown out of the wagons to make room for the wounded, and from such store Sergeant Corney gathered up as much as would serve us during four and twenty hours.

Machine guns, belts and boxes of ammunition, equipment of all kinds were strewn about the paths, and not a few wounded Turks had given up the effort to escape and had lain down to die.

The wounded were first evacuated, and they, poor fellows, had a bad time of it getting back to Foka in the dark over four miles of rock-strewn country.

Already since Rose had quitted them, her bier strewn with flowers, they had feared to see their prosperity and fruitfulness checked and interrupted now that there was an open breach.

At times, when the hill was thickly strewn with leaves or particularly steep, they completely disappeared, though violent pulsations among the scattered branches and the aforesaid leaves told us they were not lost, but only temporarily buried.

Behind a table piled with papers and strewn with maps the famous soldier and his Chief of Intelligence were deep in plans and figures.

And I am doomed to lasting solitude upon my way, strewn with the bones of men and marked by ruins.

So, having closed the door and strewn some crumbs on the steps of the altar, he placed himself in front of the hole with a stick.

Terraces of flowers extended to the shell-strewn shores of a beautiful bay.

I love better than any theory the sound of the Gate of Ivory, turning upon its hinges, and hold that he alone who has passed the rose-strewn threshold can catch the far glimmer of the Gate of Horn.

Both floor and walls were padded with rose color, and the floor was strewn with toys.

In places weatherworn to a slippery smoothness; in others jagged, fragment-strewn; where the rain had washed an earth-covering upon the rock the cheerful kinnikinick spread its mantle of shining green.

She had so nearly finished her task that she had sent the children in to prepare for tea, declaring that she would follow them in five minutes, and then just at the last a whole mass of ivy and holly, upon which the boys had been at work, had slipped and strewn the chancel-floor.

From the flowers strewn under one's feet, one can always chose the most beautiful, or not choose at all, but always tread upon them.

Whence the million stars were strewn, Why each atom knows its own, How, in spite of woe and death, Gay is life, and sweet is breath.

The storm did not cease till the Atlantic was strewn with wrecks.

And there, on the fifth day after his falling softly asleep, amid a concourse of loving friends, the earthly tenement of the great art critic and lover of righteousness was laid to rest, his grave strewn with myriad wreaths, garlands, and crosses of beautiful, bright flowers.

Here and there, too, a Cannon-ball tree rose, grand and strange, among the Balatas; and in one place the ground was strewn with large white flowers, whose peculiar shape told us at once of some other Lecythid tree high overhead.

When the time comes that the drum-tap calls to quarters, and the decks are strewn with sand,when with silence as of the grave, fore and aft, the frigate moves stately and proud into the line of her adversaries' fire, then it is that the officer and the man meet face to face, and the awful truth of battle compels them to own their common brotherhood.

The bridemaids, each as beautiful as Eve in Eden's bow'rs, Shed bitter tears upon the path they should have strewn with flow'rs.

Our limits compel us to break off once more, which is a source of regret, especially when our path is strewn with such gems as these: A gentle star lights up their solitude And lends fair hues to all created things; And dreams alone of beings pure and good Hover around their hearts with angel wings Hearts, like sweet fountains sealed, where silent rapture springs.

Yet when all was done which could be done, we stood there upon the slippery weed-strewn sand, and looked in one another's faces helplessly.

The yellow Nile had turned to blood before her watching eyes It was branded into memorya haunting death-strewn sight; The very dust upon the street the rod had made to rise In a living moving horror, of atoms, leprous-white.

A way strewn with ambiguities which a modest maiden had to ignore despite herself.

Luxuriant vines, laden with clusters of ripe grapes, twined around and festooned the trees to their summits, while the ground beneath was strewn with the hard-shelled hickory-nut and sweet mealy chestnut, which pattered down in thousands with the falling leaves.