Streaked

Examples

• His eyes were large and blue, with brown lashes; his high forehead, colourless as ivory, was partially streaked over by careless locks of fair hair. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• His black beard, now streaked with grey, seemed to spring out of the waxy flesh of a corpse. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Maurice and Justinian were thrown to the ground, and high above, amid the encircling peaks, shot up a mighty column of smoke, streaked with red fire. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Light and darkness were struggling together, and the orient was streaked by roseate and golden rays. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• No vegetation softened the nakedness of these rugged rocks, which, streaked with green, yellow, and red, presented a singularly forbidding appearance. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• One single white hair streaked her nut-brown tresses; she plucked it out with a shudder. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• She made no answer, and he sat in silence, watching her profile grow indistinct against the snow-streaked dusk beyond the window. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Dawn faintly streaked the sky as he closed this farewell letter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The sweat-streaked, bristly face bent down by him and Robert Jordan smelt the full smell of Pablo. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• It was insensible, if not virtually dead; it was mutilated, and streaked the water all about it with dark red streaks. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His brown, sweat-streaked, muscular body, glistening in the moonlight, shone supple and graceful among the uncouth, awkward, hairy brutes about him. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• My face and back were streaked with yellow; the skin was thoroughly oxidized. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Typist: Stanley