He speared a dark-spotted trout, and soon half a dozen. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
Blake had fallen back on his elbows, and in the curve of his neck and right shoulder I could just see, though so near, the dark-spotted body of the panther. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures in Many Lands] Reference
I hoped that the reduced amount of sugar in the chutney would mean more green, but the recipe called for brown sugar, and currants, so the result was a dark-spotted pale olive preserve. From Wordnik.com. [Niagara Grape Conserve: It's Not Easy Being Green] Reference
The dark-spotted leaves of the dog-tooth violet begin to show. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
I wept for him even more than myself, -- wept for the "dark-spotted flower" twined with the roses of love. From Wordnik.com. [Ernest Linwood or, The Inner Life of the Author] Reference
They wear much plainer clothes than the Bluebirds and Robins, on their olive or russet-brown backs and light-tinted, dark-spotted breasts, but have the most beautiful voices in all. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
The hummer being a metal halide bulb, which is premised on the smaller incandescent bulb Patterns of light delivery also improve as the room moves away from inefficient dark-spotted halide 'cone patterns'. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
The scenery, the perpetual stone fences, (some venerable old fellows, dark-spotted with lichens) the many fine locust-treesthe runs of brawling water, often over descents of rockthese, and lots else. From Wordnik.com. [A Specimen Tramp Family. Specimen Days] Reference
The scenery, the perpetual stone fences, (some venerable old fellows, dark-spotted with lichens) -- the many fine locust-trees -- the runs of brawling water, often over descents of rock -- these, and lots else. From Wordnik.com. [Specimen Days; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose] Reference
(some venerable old fellows, dark-spotted with lichens) -- the many fine locust-trees -- the runs of brawling water, often over descents of rock -- these, and lots else. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy] Reference
The impossibility that the boy should have got so far on foot made Laetitia doubtful of his veracity, until she heard that a gentleman had taken him up on the road in a gig, and had driven him to a farm to show him strings of birds 'eggs and stuffed birds of every English kind, kingfishers, yaffles, black woodpeckers, goat-sucker owls, more mouth than head, with dusty, dark-spotted wings, like moths; all very circumstantial. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith] Reference
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