Specks

Examples

• Not only this, but on the table I found a small ball of black dough or clay, with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Rather specks I am, said Sam; did yer see Missis up stars at the winder? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• They range from mere specks scarcely visible with a powerful magnifying glass, to large black spots or clusters of large or small black specks sometimes quite plain to the naked eye. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• White specks and bubbles are common flaws, which vary in size and which may be best illustrated by looking at a pane of glass in your window. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• There you will find small knots, white bubbles and whitish specks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The little flotilla was drifting into the light, a company of white specks in the distance. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He knew that some of these specks even represented Christopher as capable of harbouring designs in 'that head,' and as being a crafty impostor. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The blackest and often most numerous carbon specks occur in the finest white and blue-white stones. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A cloud of smoke drifted over the last ridge that he could see in the high country and the planes were three steadily receding specks in the sky. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It would lie in this attitude all day, with its bright specks of eyes open, wondering (as I used to imagine) how it came to be so small and weak. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Condemned to a passage through the world by such narrow little dimly-lighted ways, and picking up so few specks or spots on the road! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

Edited by Hattie