"Besprent" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... spacious plains Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-towers, And spires whose silent finger points ...
— The Warriors • Lindsay, Anna Robertson Brown
... a silence that neither we nor his people cared to break. Only the wind sang in the brown branches, and from some forest brake came a stag's hoarse cry. As he sat in the sunshine he glistened all over, like an Ethiop besprent with silver; for his dark limbs and mighty chest had been oiled, and then powdered with antimony. Through his scalp lock was stuck an eagle's feather; across his face, from temple to chin, was a bar of red paint; the eyes above were ...
— To Have and To Hold • Mary Johnston |
