Verb (used with object) : The floor of the forest was blotched with cool, dark moss. From Dictionary.com.
I looked at him through a veil blotched with bees. From Wordnik.com. [Behind the (Beekeeper's) Veil] Reference
Why is the skin of a drunkard always red and blotched?. From Wordnik.com. [Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics] Reference
The tongue was blotched red, pimpled with tiny ulcers. From Wordnik.com. [The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection]
Her hair fell in a mass on her snow-blotched shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920] Reference
Hardy evergreen shrubs, some having blotched leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening for the Million] Reference
EGGS -- Three or four; greenish, blotched with pale brown. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
She shook her head, cheeks blotched red and wet with tears. From Wordnik.com. [Magnificent Pigs] Reference
Their skin was blotched with scurvy and many had toothless gums. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral Games]
He had a red face, a bald scalp blotched with large brown freckles. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
The eggs are of a clear greenish-ground color, blotched with pale brown. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
EGGS -- One to three; dull white, spotted and blotched with chocolate marking. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
EGGS -- Four or five; white or grayish white, speckled or blotched with rufous. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
His eyes were filled with tears and both they and his cheeks were blotched red. From Wordnik.com. [Truly]
Scores of dark miniature continents blotched the pallid sea like eczema lesions. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
The old woman had no teeth, and a face as wrinkled, and blotched as a rotten apple. From Wordnik.com. [BEFORE THE NEBRASKA SEA] Reference
I make my way to the subway, down those gum-blotched stairs, one hand on the railing. From Wordnik.com. [Stars] Reference
EGGS -- Three to four; cream buff or buffy white, heavily blotched with deep chocolate. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
Courtney swung round, brushing her hair back from her blotched face and blinking madly. From Wordnik.com. [Marriage At A Price]
One or all were true, thought Monroe, as spots of telltale color blotched Eleanor's face. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Evil]
"Many of its forms become disfigured and present a rather blotched and coarse appearance.". From Wordnik.com. [The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada] Reference
The curtains were rotted as if long unused, dirty and blotched with mould staining the leather. From Wordnik.com. [Valley of the Croen] Reference
And about us in the bubble, the chaos-stuff swirled and crawled and blotched the same as before. From Wordnik.com. [Port Eternity]
So the Dome of Security remained blotched and dingy, the sole permanent building of Satellite City. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Stories]
As the car drifted forward the black blotched golden sand ran the opposite way like a whirling panorama. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
The trout were small and of two varieties -- a dark, heavily-blotched, lanky fish, with coarse head, and. From Wordnik.com. [Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler] Reference
Unlike the majority of rouges now before the public it does not give that blotched appearance to the face. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Far down on Knapdale, and back in the recesses of Lochow, were burning homes, to judge from the blotched sky. From Wordnik.com. [John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn] Reference
This greasy substance attracts dirt, dust and germs, and soon blackheads, pimples or blotched skin will result. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
She would emerge blotched, pale, and haggard, and companionship between herself and her husband was out of question. From Wordnik.com. [Despair's Last Journey] Reference
The Sultan has the appearance of being about fifty-five years of age; and his blotched face, and red nose, sufficiently indicate. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference
The eggs, usually four or five in number, are dull white, spotted, clouded, and blotched over the entire surface with brownish green. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
Brett dropped his hands from the fat man's arms, stood looking at him: the blotched face, pale now, the damp forehead, the quivering jowls. From Wordnik.com. [It Could Be Anything] Reference
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