The local celebrity of Sir Ralph and Sir Peter, Silly Will and Captain Tom the Tailor, has vanished, and Defoe's hurried and formless lines, incisive as their vivid force must have been, are not redeemed from dulness for modern readers by the few bright epigrams with which they are Besprinkled.
"Daniel Defoe"
William Minto
Sir Reginald-a fine-looking old man, the whiteness of whose silvery locks, secured behind a well-tied pig-tail, was increased by the hair-powder which Besprinkled them-sat at the foot of the table in the wheel-chair used by him to move from room to room.
"Won from the Waves"
W.H.G. Kingston
There lay the Tsar, a noble figure in death, as he was in life, and by his side a stronger King than he-a bony figure, in General's uniform, snow-Besprinkled, who 'beckons him away.
"The History of "Punch""
M. H. Spielmann