A heavy footfall-evidently that of a man-was heard approaching along the path, and shuffling among the crisp leaves with which it was bestrewed.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
The package, carefully made up and directed like an express parcel, was addressed to him in all the fullness of formality, but it had rained in the interval, and when in the morning the servant took it up, on opening the door, the wet paper broke and the remnants of the feast bestrewed the doorway.
"The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume I"
William James Stillman
Having made it known that they belonged to a neighbouring islet at the moment unfriendly to the overbearing Dunk Island tribe, Blue Shirt and his attendants mentioned that cedar-logs and other attractive flotsam bestrewed the beaches, and volunteered to conduct the strangers to the best places on the understanding that they, being alien and hostile, should remain under the protection of the rifle-carrying white men.
"Tropic Days"
E. J. Banfield