Speckled
['spɛkld]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Speckle
(a.) Marked or variegated with small spots of a different color from that of the rest of the surface.
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Examples
- No, said the smith, turn on, we shall have it bright by-and-by; as yet 'tis only speckled. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The park was speckled by tents, whose flaunting colours and gaudy flags, waving in the sunshine, added to the gaiety of the scene. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Yes, said the man, but _I think I like a speckled axe best_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- It was a chance to fight, an opportunity to loot, and they rose to the bait as a speckled trout to a fly. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The dark bean-shaped cells are the normal blood corpuscles, and the few speckled cells are those infested with the malarial parasites. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- She could climb a tree to rob the nests of the feathered songsters of their speckled spoils. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mr. Pickwick called attention to his speckled silk stockings, and smartly tied pumps. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- Which occasioned the inexhaustible baby to square at him with the speckled fists, and demand in a threatening manner what he meant? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- At each division administering a soft facer with one of the speckled fists. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The speckled fowls were so numerous that Mr. Brooke observed, Your farmers leave some barley for the women to glean, I see. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Ah, and what did you gather from this allusion to a band--a speckled band? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
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