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His skin was blotched as a dying banana. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z
The material was loose, and blotched with whitish mold. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Crow's hands trembled, her face blotched with hate. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z
The stone banisters on the outside stairways were chipped, their surfaces blotched with dirt, and the edges of the stone steps were round and smooth from years of use. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z
In places, blood had dripped from the drainage pipes and congealed on the floor in puddles of black and burgundy, some blotched with mold. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z
The inked word “Paris” is blotched, penned, it appears, in haste. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z
Its eyes and teeth were a dull yellow, its skin pale and blotched with dark spots, its hair a long, matted nest. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z
The blotched and sagging face twisted grotesquely into the grimace of extreme grief. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z
I thought of all those heroines of fiction who looked pretty when they cried, and what a contrast I must make with blotched and swollen face, and red rims to my eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z
There it was, wrapped in its blotched green cloth. said Doon. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z
Black hold, the detonations fierce, floor puddled with wet sick; heaving; victory blotched by fog and rain, the wind meddling, ships luffing, stoving up as if careened; and I below. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z
And the art of craft was glorified both on the bare walls blotched with arty markings and on dresses splodged with color. Fashion Review: Bottega Veneta: Tomas Maier Turns Soft Into Sharp 2014-02-23T18:32:32Z
Eyes closed, head shaven, skin blotched and pallid, Turk certainly looks the part, but the work is also, unconsciously or otherwise, about the death of the photographer. Self-portraits 2010-08-07T23:02:00Z
His books sell so well that even the pirated copies still circulate widely, disseminating his trademark wit and wry, earthy humor with uneven margins and blotched text. The Essential Gabriel García Márquez 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z
Danny sat on the bed, head down, face blotched, shoulders shaking. Why I put 400 condoms in the kitchen drawer for my sons 2016-01-23T05:00:00Z
He is persuasive and vivid about the art itself, as when he describes Freud’s “beady-eyed focus on humid, blotched skin and sagging flesh,” in paintings that were “raw and rash-ridden.” ‘The Art of Rivalry’ Dissects Four Jostling Pairs of Artists 2016-08-21T04:00:00Z
Still, in the contents of this collection, some blotched with stray fingerprints or grease splatters, O’Keeffe left traces of her daily effort to maintain Abiquiu as a sanctuary. Own the Recipes of Georgia O’Keeffe 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z
In their place were sheep, their white wool blotched with blue or red ink to mark them as someone’s property. Lost in Ireland 2010-10-22T21:19:00Z
At least two other threatened species — the Gulf sturgeon and yellow blotched map turtle — also occupy the Pearl darter’s designated critical habitat and will benefit from the protections. Threatened fish gets 524 miles of habitat in Mississippi 2023-04-07T04:00:00Z
As Bowling discovered in Palau, blotched anthias require very specific temperatures. Mysterious breeding habits of aquarium fish vex experts 2022-10-19T04:00:00Z
An example of the founder effect is the cyclical dominance of three throat-color patterns in side- blotched lizards. Biology for AP Courses 2022-06-09T00:00:00Z
Altered taqpep genes were already known to cause blotched tabby patterns in cats, as well as king cheetahs’ unusually large spots and stripes. Secrets of Ultrarare Black Tigers Revealed 2021-12-21T05:00:00Z
Many varieties contain petals blotched with multiple colors that surround a rich, chocolate brown center. 7 fall flowers to brighten up your patio, porch or table | Provided by Koelsch Communities 2021-09-27T04:00:00Z
Inside Local & State, a black smear blotched a columnist’s face. The end of an era as Times plant prints its final papers 2021-03-06T05:00:00Z
In a last video clip before he was hospitalized, his face was pale and puffy, blotched with sweat and fever. Boris Johnson, who almost died of covid-19, wishes Trump a ‘speedy recovery’ 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z
The camera then shows the victim writhing on the ground, his white shirt blotched with red stains, as the attacker grabs the man’s phone and flees. The Border Patrol made this dramatized video showing migrant killing innocent victim in a dark alley 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z
Richard Bloch once said he was worried customers might say the firm had “blotched” their taxes. Henry Bloch, whose H&R Block became world’s largest tax-services provider, dies at 96 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z
Expect to witness plenty of wrinkled, blemished, blotched and freckled skin from principles such as Mr. Russell, Mr. Johnson, Mr. Van Diesel and Mr. Straham. The Fate of the Furious review (4K UHD) 2017-07-13T04:00:00Z
A landscape of cattle ranches became blotched with well pads. Sister on a mission: the Texas nun using oil company money to fight fracking 2016-10-09T04:00:00Z
Before the start of the twelfth round, a doctor ascended into the ring to examine Vargas’s face, which was swollen and blotched, partly as a result of a series of head clashes. Boxing After Ali 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z
She wears a polka-dot sundress, her skin blotched purple and white. Anchorage mother mourns loss of adult daughter to heroin 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z
US President Barack Obama denounced the blotched execution as "deeply troubling" and called for a national review of the death penalty. Oklahoma agrees to stay of execution 2014-05-08T18:08:30Z
Eventually he set the jar of white resin down on the ground, and filled the blotched concrete. Mortar flowers 2013-06-12T17:50:53.917Z
In places it looked white, elsewhere blotched and dirty, according to the amount of soil and ashes it carried with it.” How Pompeii Perished 2012-11-27T14:45:10.340Z
The - a resource providing images, zoological descriptions and footage of wildlife - explains that their "skin is dark brown, black or greenish in colour and irregularly blotched". Are these animals too 'ugly' to be saved? 2012-11-20T01:27:34Z
In fact, cheetahs with the blotched pattern were initially thought to be a separate species: They were crowned with the name king cheetahs to distinguish them from the more common, spotted kind. New research reveals how cats get their stripes 2012-09-24T18:39:00Z
In fact, cheetahs with the blotched pattern were initially thought to be a separate species—they were crowned with the name king cheetahs to distinguish them from the more common, spotted kind. How the Tabby Got Its Blotches 2012-09-20T20:58:00Z
Her face was puffy and blotched with red. Well: Think Like a Doctor: An Ugly Rash 2012-06-07T04:01:27Z
His once fair face was so gored with powder and blotched with colored fires, that not a vestige of likeness remained.” The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z
April–July.—Leaves somewhat blotched with whitish as they grow old. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
To give their blotched and blistered bodies ease. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z
Pied birds blotched with patches of white, are frequent, but are not comparable, in point of beauty, with those of the original wild color. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z
Schizanthus pinnatus: hardy, 1 to 2 ft., purple-lilac, prettily blotched; curiously lobed flowers. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 7 "Horticulture" to "Hudson Bay" 2012-03-04T03:00:13.390Z
After the pure white, the most common variety is an egg with a white ground, densely and uniformly spotted or blotched with red. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z
Leaves sessile, sinuate-lobed, and with prickly teeth, often blotched with white. The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee 2012-04-12T02:00:30.140Z
It lays four eggs, large for the size of the bird, oval in shape, and white in colour, thickly blotched with dull red. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z
Leaves.—Two; oval-elliptical to narrowly oblanceolate; four to fifteen inches long; blotched with brown. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
His face was blotched and bloated; his forehead disfigured by an ugly cicatrice which turned of a bright red when he was far gone in liquor or in passion. My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z
The eggs are five, the ground-colour white spotted or blotched with reddish brown. Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:17.560Z
The hall was close and inconvenient; its murky skylight thick with dust, its jaundiced walls sallow and blotched with damp. My Lords of Strogue Vol. III, (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:27.667Z
They are more or less heavily spotted and blotched, varying in colour from burnt-umber to tawny olive, and in some of the lighter coloured specimens from a French grey to a drab-grey. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z
The sepals are veined with deeper lilac and blotched with orange. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
The sky Is filled with oval violet-tinted clouds Through which the sun long settled strikes at random, Enkindling here and there blotched circles of rosy light. Goblins and Pagodas 2012-02-14T03:00:24.740Z
Their pale stems dripped slime, and just there their foliage was blotched and spotted as with smears of flour. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z
Beyond the hedge, cornfields blotched with poppies, and cropped meadows, faded into the cold blueness of the east. Delilah of the Snows 2012-01-23T03:00:09.087Z
The eggs never exceeded three in a nest; the ground-colour generally bluish white, blotched and clouded very irregularly with dull red-brown, the rufous tint sometimes being replaced with ash-grey.” Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z
It is far more like the alum-root in habit and appearance, and its leaves are prettily blotched in the same manner. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
The dead Dragon was on its feet in a moment; in another, Jimmy had thrown off the mask, showing a shock of hair and a blotched crimson face, spotted with great beads of perspiration. The King of Schnorrers Grotesques and Fantasies 2011-12-28T03:00:34.587Z
The eggs of the Black Tern are much smaller, and of a rich liver-brown, heavily blotched with black. Wild Spain (Espa?a agreste) Records of Sport with Rifle, Rod, and Gun, Natural History Exploration 2011-12-05T03:00:38.980Z
Eggs pale green, thickly blotched with olive and dark-brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The eggs are three or four in number, nearly spherical, blotched with deep red on a white or creamy ground; sometimes the whole egg is marbled with red; but there are endless varieties. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z
Flowers.—Erect; cup-shaped; white, lilac, pink, claret, magenta, purple, or rarely light yellow; of uniform color or shaded; plain or variously oculated, stained, or blotched. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
Female—Head, dark buff; breast, lighter buff with brown mottlings; legs, orange colored; speculum same as the male; bill, yellow, blotched with brown. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z
Hawks build large-bulky nests of sticks placing them usually well up in large trees, and lay, as a rule, four eggs which are generally whitish, blotched with brown. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z
Collectors of eggs should carefully avoid cleaning the eggs of the Buntings, as the dark colouring matter with which they are blotched is easily rubbed off with a damp cloth. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The nest is made on the ground among long grass, or in reed-beds in marshy places, and the eggs are white blotched with dark red. Argentine Ornithology, Volume II (of 2) A descriptive catalogue of the birds of the Argentine Republic. 2012-02-26T03:00:16.210Z
These are delicate pink, blotched with rich crimson. The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits 2012-02-17T03:00:37.163Z
It contains from three to four grayish eggs, blotched with brown. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z
Entire body plumage, ochraceous, blotched and barred with black and above tipped with white or ochraceous: below black bars wider and no white tips. Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix 2011-11-15T03:00:21.677Z
Eggs purplish grey, blotched and lined with dark purple brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
"Where in the world can we put the things?" asked Marjory, sitting up suddenly and displaying a blotched and swollen countenance very unlike her usual fair, rose-tinted face. Dandelion Cottage 2011-10-29T02:00:16.960Z
If it is 40 Leagues north of M�xico City, the locality would be in an area where the species has a blotched instead of a flecked or spotted pattern. A Taxonomic Revision of the Leptodactylid Frog Genus Syrrhophus Cope 2011-10-23T02:00:22.253Z
As the spawning season approaches, the jaws of the males become lengthened and badly distorted and the color changes to more of a pinkish hue and blotched in appearance. Game Birds and Game Fishes of the Pacific Coast 2011-11-18T03:00:28.323Z
Fruit medium to large, globular, truncated, slightly flattened, regular; Surface smooth, yellow, or greenish, covered, mixed, blotched, striped and splashed dull red, becoming brighter when ripe; Dots minute. American Pomology Apples 2011-10-03T02:00:29.477Z
Eggs reddish white, blotched and mottled with dark red-brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The light showed a narrow stretch of water, sliding past, blotched with foul brown foam. The Coast of Adventure 2011-10-03T02:00:25.810Z
The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured; walls blotched, and bare of plaster here and there; high crevices unstopped, and widening every day; beams mouldering and tending downward. The Cricket on the Hearth A Fairy Tale of Home 2011-10-02T02:00:12.587Z
Wear on the carapace produces the same general effect; but markings of the carapace, although they may become blotched, are never obliterated in Terrapene o. ornata. Natural History of the Ornate Box Turtle, Terrapene ornata ornata Agassiz 2011-10-01T02:00:30.200Z
A tall man, with a blotched, irascible face and a wad of tobacco in his mouth, lurched out on the porch, and stopped short at the sight of his visitors. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z
Eggs yellowish green, blotched and spotted with black. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Following these we have numerous Liliums—white, yellow, orange, red, variously blotched and speckled, and provided with long wiry stems that are often a great advantage. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z
He wore a captain's uniform in the Canajoharie Regiment; and, as he stared up at me, his throat still clutched by the Saguenay, I found I was gazing upon the blotched features of Captain Moucher! The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z
Calvin's face was blotched with purple, like the sky before a storm. The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories 2011-09-02T02:00:23.810Z
"What!" cried Bar Noemi, wrathfully, "that bellowing monster, with divided hoofs, blotched and cracked hide and loathsome body, a god!" Tales From J?kai 2011-09-02T02:00:19.183Z
Eggs dirty yellow, blotched and spotted with brown and grey. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Roezli, 2 to 3 feet high, with dark blotched orange-red flowers. Beautiful Bulbous Plants For the Open Air 2011-09-10T02:00:24.197Z
Every word was a betrayal of comrades; every whine a plea for his own blotched skin. The Little Red Foot 2011-09-09T02:01:04.147Z
We crossed that, and went along hot narrow streets, by blotched and shabby walls, to the office to which our ship was consigned. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z
There was a Victorian gown of thick green silk, with a creamy blotched cross-over shawl. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z
Eggs dull light red, spotted and blotched with deep red. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Near by is a beech, its smooth bark wrinkled where branches bent away from it, and blotched with spots of white and patches of black and gray lichen. In New England Fields and Woods 2011-07-27T02:00:26.953Z
And, once more, as in a dream, Luke saw Cyril Mallow’s blotched face gazing at him full of malice, and a look of deadly hatred in his eyes, before he was hurried away. Eli's Children The Chronicles of an Unhappy Family 2011-07-08T02:00:20.557Z
The trees mostly were arborescent laurels I believe, with smooth brown boles which were blotched through their outer cuticle peeling away, much in the manner of that of the plane tree. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z
The usual long table, with this time a foully blotched table-cloth. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z
Eggs bluish white, blotched and spotted with deep rusty brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Several beautiful butterflies were seen, a rather common species, with velvety black wings, blotched with turquoise, constantly flitting up and down the course of the stream. In the Andamans and Nicobars The Narrative of a Cruise in the Schooner "Terrapin" 2011-06-30T02:00:24.487Z
His face flushed and showed blotched in the sudden scarlet. The Trail of the Axe A Story of Red Sand Valley 2011-06-27T02:00:56.823Z
With shame-faced reluctance she destroyed the blotched page and typed it anew. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z
But there was a deadlier snake to find and destroy, somewhere in the blotched shadows of the forest. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z
Eggs reddish white, blotched and spotted with dark reddish brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
For a few minutes the kind little woman hid her face in her apron, and sadly blotched with tears the apron was when she took it down. A Letter of Credit 2011-05-20T02:00:40.410Z
These, of course, were not confined to the crew alone: out of twenty-four men but five were without ulcerated gums and blotched limbs. Explorers and Travellers 2011-05-11T02:00:17.627Z
It was a dingy-looking document, blotched over with postmarks, stained by travel, and a good deal embrowned by being kept several years in the atmosphere of a London law-office. The Finger of Fate A Romance 2011-04-21T02:00:43.830Z
Those of its colors he will find in many cases, though governed always by a certain rude symmetry, yet irregular, blotched, imperfect, liable to all kinds of accidents and awkwardnesses. The Seven Lamps of Architecture 2011-04-20T02:00:20.760Z
Eggs greyish green, blotched with brown and black. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The design is confused in many cases with colour blotched and blurred, and seemingly laid on rather with the knife than with the brush. Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z
I am a good workman and, like every other really conscientious artisan, it distresses me to see a job blotched or scamped for the lack of a little skill or perseverance. First Person Paramount 2011-04-07T02:00:19.233Z
That it should be so blotched, so disfigured in that short time, bore witness to the violence of whatever the feeling was that had torn and still was tearing the woman. The Messenger 2011-03-26T02:00:14.523Z
The staircase, narrow and without balustrade, ran up steeply between walls once painted green, now blotched and smeared. Miss Maitland Private Secretary 2011-03-08T03:00:39.100Z
Eggs yellowish brown clouded with greenish, blotched and spotted with dusky and olive. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
On the table, in addition to the candle, there was a broken pitcher half-filled with water, and a small chunk of brown bread blotched with stains of mould. Lord Tony's Wife An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel 2011-01-31T03:00:13.650Z
The hair of his face and of his head was bristling frightfully; his ghastly complexion was blotched with livid spots. The Pobratim A Slav Novel 2011-01-11T03:00:27.460Z
He had on, although in the saloon, a broad-brimmed, slouched hat, with an ornament of blotched mud. The Boys of '61 or, Four Years of Fighting, Personal Observations with the Army and Navy 2011-01-05T03:00:55.123Z
One cheek was blotched with ugly red mosquito bites, there were dark circles under her eyes, and her hair hung in strings. Voice from the Cave 2011-01-04T03:01:09.533Z
Eggs dark olive-brown, blotched and spotted with black. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Stat. r. timber        13 Head, upper brown spotted white; under brown blotched tawny and white; disc indistinct; f., slightly larger. An Australian Bird Book A Pocket Book for Field Use 2010-12-31T03:00:10.497Z
Her freckled face was blotched with mosquito bites. Hoofbeats on the Turnpike 2010-12-20T17:11:45.463Z
Eggs—Four or five, pale bluish green, speckled, spotted, and blotched with reddish-brown, or uniform chocolate brown. Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [January, 1898] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life
Although this common species displays no bright tints, yet it is prettily marked, its whitish wings being peppered and blotched all over with black or very dark brown. Butterflies and Moths (British)
Eggs greenish yellow, blotched and spotted with brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The bill is yellow, blotched with dark-brown, the general colour of the plumage dusky-grey, the head, neck, and breast slaty, the legs blackish. The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis
Even at a distance the blotched coloration of the side and the white coloration of the rostrum of rough-toothed dolphins may be visible. Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification
She was far too proud to cry like Addie Parker, whose eyes were already red and swollen, and whose cheeks were blotched with tears. A Pair of Schoolgirls A Story of School Days
The ground colour of the wings is creamy white, with a yellow transverse band, and a yellow blotch at the base; and the whole surface is more or less blotched with black. Butterflies and Moths (British)
Eggs greenish white, blotched and spotted with brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The origin of the blotched as a special type is wholly unknown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt"
They are somewhat blotched with grayish white and are often extensively scratched or scarred. Whales, Dolphins, and Porpoises of the Western North Atlantic A Guide to Their Identification
Tilda, her round face blotched with pallor, went straight to her lady. Shadows of Flames A Novel
His body was blotched with blood and mud, and under it the ragged gashes made by glass and bush stung painfully; he was hungry and stiff and tired and miserable. Astounding Stories, August, 1931
Eggs greenish or bluish, blotched and streaked with black. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Cats of the striped type are no doubt descended from the European and North African wild cats; but the origin of cats exhibiting the blotched pattern appears to be unknown. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt"
P. depr. dry, yellowish, blotched purple or olive, corrugated, flesh sulphur yellow; g. broad, yellow, edge darker; s. conical, reticulately rugose, greyish purple. European Fungus Flora: Agaricaceae
The mad stream came down directly from a blue hill blotched with pink, through a sky-blue gorge also pink-blotched. From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel
Most common of all are those which have leaves blotched or edged with golden or creamy yellow and white, such as the variegated Hollies and El�agnuses. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens
Eggs greenish-grey, blotched and spotted with slate and brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
As he was thus employed, he caught sight of his face reflected in a much-cracked mirror over the fireplace, and stood gazing for a few seconds at his blotched and bloated countenance. One Of Them
The long gold nails of his left hand twined about a red tulip blotched with black, a tulip shaped like a dragon's mouth or the flames bellying about a pagoda of sandalwood. A Pushcart at the Curb
I know they are short-lived; I see in their pale, haggard, blotched, and bloated faces premature death.  The Night Side of London
Of this there is also a variety maculatus blotched at the base with purple crimson, which forms a delightful shrub. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens
Eggs olive-brown, blotched and spotted with ash and dusky. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Women, their faces blotched and purple with emotion, shrieked and screamed. Triplanetary
While he jockeyed the fourth crate into the hold, a huge shadow suddenly blotched out part of the star lines off to the port side. Spillthrough
Sepals deep reddish brown, with yellow edges; petals yellow, blotched with reddish-brown. The Woodlands Orchids
The group displays a wide range of colouring, pink and deep rose predominating, but a few are red, and many are prettily spotted or blotched with red or chocolate. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens
Eggs olive-brown, irregularly blotched with dull red and deep brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The spathes are short, very thin and scarious, and enclose the bases of their rather small solitary flowers, which are “white, lightly striped and blotched with yellow and purple.” Garden and Forest Weekly, Volume 1 No. 1, February 29, 1888
The nest is placed on the ground and 4-7 grayish, blotched eggs are laid late in May or early in June. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season
Buff or greenish yellow, lip white, fringed; all heavily blotched and spotted with dark brown. The Woodlands Orchids
The next break of importance, also the work of Lemoine, came with the use of G. papilio, pale lilac, blotched and overlaid with dull red. The Gladiolus A Practical Treatise on the Culture of the Gladiolus
Eggs greenish stone colour, blotched and spotted with dusky. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The blotched and bloated old rum-butt turned his face aside and downward, and thrust out his hands as if to fight off flame. Stories by American Authors, Volume 10
The nest is in the alders, button-bushes, or reeds, or even on the ground, and although the birds come in March, their pale blue, spotted, blotched, and scrawled eggs are not laid until May. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season
Large, very broad of sepal and petal, pale yellow, blotched and spotted with brown. The Woodlands Orchids
The blotched skin and bleary eyes told of debauchery and drunkenness, and a slight alcoholic fœtidness was unpleasantly perceptible, as from the breath of one who sleeps away the effects of a carouse. Stories by American Authors, Volume 8
Eggs pale greenish ash, blotched and spotted with brown and dark green. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Fascinated, they watched the great, yellowish blotched snake. Boys' Book of Frontier Fighters
They nest in colonies, building in bushes and laying in April 3-5 bluish white eggs, strikingly blotched and scrawled with blackish. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season
Very large, rose colour, heavily blotched with reddish purple; lip paler, covered with brown spots. The Woodlands Orchids
Less than eight hundred yards of slate and drab-coloured soft ground, blotched with rust-red expanses of wire entanglements, separated the hostile lines. "And they thought we wouldn't fight"
Eggs yellowish olive, blotched and spotted with dusky brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The walls were of white, plain plaster, innocent of paper and in some places darkly blotched with damp and mildew. The Bandbox
The white eggs, heavily blotched with brown, are laid in May. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season
The petals are yellowish, tinged with rose on the outer halves and blotched with dark purplish chocolate. The Woodlands Orchids
I do not know how Pinkerton felt, but I had death in my soul as we came down the outside stair from the den of this blotched spider. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25)
Eggs olive-brown to stone buff, blotched and spotted with dusky black. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Going to a window, he stood with his back to them looking at the sky, now blotched red and gold in the waning rays of the sun. Ashton-Kirk, Criminologist
There his nest is made sometimes 80 or more feet above the ground, and in late May or early June the white eggs, spotted, speckled and blotched with brown, are laid. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season
They widened involuntarily, and the face was drained of its blotched color. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930
The eggs are beautiful, being a bright, light emerald green, spotted, dotted, and blotched with various shades of lilac, brownish-purple, and dark brown. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 November 1897
Eggs white, blotched and spotted with two shades of brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
The eggs are often six in number, of a yellowish or clayey-white, blotched and marbled with dashes of purple, light brown, and purplish gray. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 6 June, 1897
The 4-5 grayish white eggs, spotted and blotched chiefly at the larger end, are laid in mid-May. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season
They are oval in shape, have a light bluish ground, and are marbled, lined and blotched with markings of light and dark purple and black. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 2 February, 1897
The eggs are greenish-drab in color, spotted, blotched, and dotted irregularly and thickly with yellowish and umber brown. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 November 1897
Eggs olive-green, blotched and spotted with brown and dark green. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Eggs—Four, grayish white or bluish white, distinctly and obscurely spotted, speckled, and blotched with cinnamon brown or olive brown. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897
The 3-7 eggs are usually pale bluish, heavily blotched and scrawled with brown and black. What Bird is That? A Pocket Museum of the Land Birds of the Eastern United States Arranged According to Season
On Gramps' bureau was his will, smeared, dog-eared, perforated and blotched with hundreds of additions, deletions, accusations, conditions, warnings, advice and homely philosophy. The Big Trip Up Yonder
The eggs are spotted, blotched, and speckled with shades of brown, purple and lavender. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 3 March 1897
Eggs whitish grey, blotched and speckled with grey and two shades of brown. British Birds in their Haunts 2011-11-23T03:00:23.677Z
Eggs—Four or five, white or bluish white, finely or evenly speckled or spotted, sometimes heavily blotched at the larger end with rufous-brown. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 4 October, 1897
They are three or four in number and have a ground color of dull white, or pale greenish blue and are quite heavily blotched with several shades of brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
They were naked, and their bodies, that would have been almost crimson in the light of day, were blotched and ghastly in the green light. Two Thousand Miles Below
There were lean fingers clutching at his throat, a press of blood-red bodies thick about him, and a clustering of faces where color blotched and flowed. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930
Wood hard, heavy, and beautifully blotched or waved with black, green, and yellow, on a gray ground. Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination
Gun shields caught by the gusts of shell were cut out like fretwork; funnels were blotched with blackened holes; but of them all not one was out of action. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships
Their eggs are from three to five in number, vary from grayish ash to pale greenish or bluish in color, blotched with light brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Yet from under those lowered lids he seemed to see a wild medley of red warriors, their faces blotched and ghastly in the green light of their weapons. Two Thousand Miles Below
She ran and seized it up, and holding it awkwardly but with menace, advanced on a doctor who toiled with sleeves rolled high, and face and beard and arms blotched with red grime. In a Little Town
For a moment it appeared what it was: a blotched, disordered huddle, ugly, raw, fit companion of the swamp and jungle. The Bluff of the Hawk
His menore was gone, his tight-fitting uniform was in shreds, and blotched with blood. Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930
They lay two eggs of a brownish buff color, irregularly blotched with brown, and with fainter marking of gray. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
I bequeath to my daughter Mary my yellow, blotched and pimpled complexion, resulting from my own bad habits of life. Almost A Man
Some colliers passed, tramping heavily up the wet road, their voices sounding out, their shoulders up to their ears, their figures blotched and spectral in the rain. The Rainbow
Before the mound were many wolf tracks, and there it was that the blotched trail began. Connie Morgan in the Fur Country
They were blotched by mosquito bites and tanned to a leather brown. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
They lay from three to eight eggs having a ground color of buff or grayish white and blotched with light brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
She lifted an arm, and pointed to where the Devil’s Cauldron blotched the cliffs of the mountainside ... Heart of the Blue Ridge
The Holly runs into a great many varieties, with the leaves of all shapes and sizes, and blotched and variegated in different fashions and colours. The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare
They were not blotched; they were very distinct. The Ranch at the Wolverine
He was blotched by mosquito bites, thin and weak with hunger, and his clothes hung in tatters. The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse
They lay from six to ten eggs of a creamy or pale buff color sparingly blotched with chestnut. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Thrice did this lovely creature gracefully incline her head and kiss the blotched countenance of that inanimate saint. The Land of Thor
A woman by her dress, an old, old woman, with a seamed, blotched face; an ugly, human wreck, all torn and battered and discolored by the storms of life. A Budget of Christmas Tales by Charles Dickens and Others
Two large greenish eggs, blotched with dark-brown, lay in its hollow; and the wife sat upon them week after week, and covered them with the warm feathers of her broad, white breast. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals
Bits of cloth lay about and examining the stains of blood that plentifully blotched the walk, he discovered that some of it was human blood. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton
The eggs are of a brownish or greenish buff color, spotted and blotched with black and brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
It was cool and damp in this semi-subterranean causeway; the stone flagging was blotched with lichenous growth, and ferns flourished rankly in the wall crevices. The Doomsman
Many lay beside the table, some on it, their faces blotched with great, unsightly wheals, their chests bloated until they seemed about to burst. The Sword and the Atopen
He had a red face, a bald scalp blotched with large brown freckles. It Could Be Anything
Three ugly blotched and snorting pigs ran out from under some bushes and followed him. Ringfield A Novel
The three or four eggs are buffy or grayish, and are blotched and spotted with shades of brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
She stared at him, her face at last blotched with tears, and a look of bewildered anguish in her eyes. Studies in love and in terror
His skin appeared coarse and blotched, his lips were thick and purple-coloured, and his teeth—an unusual thing among Moors—very black and dirty, when he spoke. Athelstane Ford
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. It Could Be Anything
The eggs, usually four or five in number, are dull white, spotted, clouded, and blotched over the entire surface with brownish green. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897
Their nests are grass lined depressions, and the eggs are grayish or greenish buff, blotched with brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Her grey paint was blotched, blistered, and stained. The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War
The newcomer had a huge reddish-brown head with bulging cheeks; his blotched body, adorned with wicked spines, tapered slimly off to an inconspicuous tail. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good
Mud was smeared upon every path and every roadway, and Bobby’s automobile slipped and slid in the oily, yellow liquid that lay  sluggishly in every gutter and blotched every rod of his clean asphalt. The Making of Bobby Burnit Being a Record of the Adventures of a Live American Young Man
The eggs are of a clear greenish-ground color, blotched with pale brown. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897
Their eggs number three or four and have a ground color of grayish or greenish buff, sometimes quite dark, and are blotched with dark brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
And he threw out his chest, increased his familiarities, and even pretended to kiss her, pushed his blotched and pimpled mug close to that charming face. The Bill-Toppers
They fought with mosquitoes, and fell into creeks; they were blotched with poison oak, black from exposure, lame from undue exercise, and looked worse than vagrant gipsies—but they came home happy. American Cookery November, 1921
The curtains were rotted as if long unused, dirty and blotched with mould staining the leather. Valley of the Croen
Eggs—Four or five; white or grayish white, speckled or blotched with rufous. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897
The eggs have a grayish white ground and are boldly blotched with rich brown and chestnut with fainter markings of lilac. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
The crimson staining gives him the appearance of having washed his face in some bright-red pigment, and like an awkward child, blotched his bosom with it in the absence of a napkin. Birds of the Rockies
They were a little smaller than a robin's egg, and of a soft creamy white, blotched irregularly with dull purplish maroon of varying tone. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life
They change to miserable and filthy ruins in the rain, their white walls blotched and scabrous, and their paths mud tracks between the styes. Old Junk
Eggs—Three to four; cream buff or buffy white, heavily blotched with deep chocolate. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897
The eggs number from three to five and are of a grayish buff color, spotted and blotched with blackish brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Its thick, waxen petals of rosy carmine are heavily blotched and striped with dark red, shading to crimson. Amateur Gardencraft A Book for the Home-Maker and Garden Lover
The old rag carpet which disfigured the floor was worn into shreds and blotched with grease, for the chamber was cooking- and dining- as well as sleeping-room. The Uncalled A Novel
Even the great cottonwood trees springing beyond the hut, with their shattered branches, and blotched and greenish trunks, breathed decay. Two on the Trail A Story of the Far Northwest
Eggs—Three or four; greenish, blotched with pale brown. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897
The three or four eggs have an olive or greenish brown color and are blotched with dark brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Bare rocks alone, all fissured, blotched and blurred As with red stain of battle-fields unseen. Lilith The Legend of the First Woman
The screen was blotched and milky, but a large splash of light in the lower left hand corner outshone everything else. The Circuit Riders
Louis sat back in his chair as he spoke, his blotched gums showing in a grin between his thin lips, his dull eyes half veiled by the drooping of the leaden-hued lids. The Justice of the King
Eggs—One to three; dull white, spotted and blotched with chocolate marking. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 2 August, 1897
The eggs are brownish gray in color and are spotted and blotched with blackish brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
“Well, it was only just a little piece of snow,” said Jones, showing in his blotched face every other contemptible passion fused into the one feeling of abject fear. St. Winifred's, or The World of School
On either side, beyond the heaped-up piles of ice, rose the scarred buttes, weather-worn into fantastic shapes and strangely blotched with spots of brown and yellow, purple and red. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
Confinement and suspense had blighted them, the harsh light of the hall betrayed their weariness and the anguish they had endured, beating down on faded lids, blotched and pimpled cheeks, white, drawn lips. The Gods are Athirst
The eggs are not unlike those of the English hawfinch; the ground colour is pale greenish grey, blotched and spotted with blackish brown. Birds of the Indian Hills
The eggs are an olive buff in color, spotted and blotched with brownish black. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
The curtain was lowered, disclosing a round, red face heavily blotched with shaving-powder. David Malcolm
The limp morocco cover was spotted with mildew and half-revealed pages of close, fine writing blotched in places with rusty stains. The Thing from the Lake
They were patched with a hideous, greenish mould-colour, blotched, as if with leprosy. The Lost Girl
It looked like a series of giant steps blotched and chequered with dark patches of forest which contained so many secrets hidden from the eyes of man. The Heart of Unaga
The six to fifteen eggs are a bright buff color, blotched and spotted boldly with various shades of brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
His limbs were stiff, like those of a corpse which has for hours been such; his eyes protruded from their sockets; his face was livid and blotched. Rookwood
In color they are usually either orange or yellow, checkered or blotched with black or black with yellow or bright orange markings. An Elementary Study of Insects
The crooked river flowed between a perfect mass of solid green blotched with blazes of flowers. Gold Seekers of '49
The woman drew herself closer to him, and her ruddy buxom face became blotched with white. The King's Esquires The Jewel of France
These are brownish buff in color, spotted and blotched with rich brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Their bodies were smeared with indigo and blotched with large discs of white paint; their faces were painted white, but their noses were covered with soot. Sacrifice
He would shave himself and bathe and put on clean loose garments, all white except where the stains of the wild, yellow berries had blotched them. From Place to Place
An angry face, red, blotched, and evil, shot out of the open window of the closed limousine.  Danger! and Other Stories
The blotched skin gradually lightened to its natural red. Bloom of Cactus
The eggs are creamy white, profusely blotched and spotted with reddish brown and umber. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Mis-shapen, distorted, blotched, drabbled and crimsoned, it spread away to the horizons, east and west, its scars showing under the rays of the sun which shone out from the mares' tails of the departing hurricane. The Boy with the U. S. Weather Men
Just at this juncture, lightning flashed through the cracked window and played above the face of the babe until the red of the fire mark from head to shoulder glowed crimson under the blotched skin. Tess of the Storm Country
In contrast with the clean, hard, hawk-eyed miners, he looked blotched and unwholesome. The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance
His ghastly face was blotched with angry purple. Bloom of Cactus
Their three or four eggs are white, beautifully spotted and blotched, in endless variety, with various shades of brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Stifling their laughter, but exchanging glances of amusement every time they caught sight of Kitty's blotched and swollen countenance, the girls dressed and went to seek advice for the sufferer. Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party
Swift he bore it from below, Hastened to the studio, Where with anxious eyes he studied If the ruin, blotched and muddied, Could by any human skill Be made a normal picture still. Songs Of The Road
Water and soapsuds blotched the broken floor, amongst which played two little boys, absolutely naked. The Garret and the Garden
Below this break the mesa side pitched steeply into a great basin that was blotched with white alkali flats, wave-marked with sand dunes, and broken with jagged hills and skeleton-like ridges. Bloom of Cactus
They nest upon the ledges of high cliffs, laying three or four eggs of a buffy color, blotched and finely specked with reddish brown, this color often concealing the ground color. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
A woman with face all seared and blotched by something that had burned through the skin sat propped up in the doorway of a Bowery restaurant at four o'clock in the morning, senseless, apparently dying. Children of the Tenements
The elderly gentleman had a red, blotched face, a thick neck, and swollen hands, with hair on the backs of them. Priscilla's Spies
She was so irritable later, when Joyce exclaimed over her blotched and mottled appearance, that Mrs. Ware decided she must be coming down with some kind of rash. The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor
Q. Did not you describe the person as one that had a great red nose, and a blotched face? The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814
The eggs are generally deposited upon the bottom of the cavity with no lining; they are creamy or yellowish buff in color, sprinkled, spotted or blotched in endless variety, with reddish brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
The Blind Girl never knew that ceilings were discoloured, walls blotched and bare of plaster here and there, high crevices unstopped and widening every day, beams mouldering and tending downward. The Cricket on the Hearth
That long, bare slope lay beyond, blotched with snow. Pluck on the Long Trail Boy Scouts in the Rockies
As we broke through the atmosphere, we could see that the sand, although blotched with dark patches here and there, was comparatively smooth. Out Around Rigel
Patches of white skin, patches of brown, patches of black, blotched and twisted across the faces. Invaders from the Infinite
They lay two or three eggs of a bright creamy color, handsomely blotched with bright chestnut brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
This greasy substance attracts dirt, dust and germs, and soon blackheads, pimples or blotched skin will result. Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep
A mosquito lit on Rivers' blotched cheek, and he raised a heavy arm to brush it away. Civilization Tales of the Orient
The mile-stones, which had been showy, painted affairs of iron, were now deeply bitten and blotched with rust. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 77, March, 1864
Arcot looked at their strangely blotched and mottled heads, faces, arms and hands. Invaders from the Infinite
The four to six eggs are white, slightly glossy and spotted, blotched or wreathed with reddish brown and lilac; size .80 × .60. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Its flesh was ghastly, and deep discolorations blotched it from the neck up. The Forfeit
Every one of the patients was blotched in one place or another with blood, and some of them were lying in pools of the crimson fluid. Captain Jinks, Hero
The woman had seen a vision of herself in that blotched, repulsive child, and of Christ's wonderful love for her in spite of her sinfulness. Making the Most of Life
And then he felt the stab of a mosquito, and putting up his hand found it blotched with blood. The Man Who Rocked the Earth
Their nests are made of grasses and shreds of bark, lined with hair and finer grasses, and the eggs are white, specked, spotted and blotched with shades of brown and neutral tints; size .72 × .52. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
They were not lordly in the sense of conquest; no rusting armor hung upon their walls; no ancient blood-stains blotched their stairways—there were no skeletons in dungeons deep beneath the banquet hall. An Arkansas Planter
Clumsy sandals shod his feet, and his legs, up to thigh level, were striped with healing scratches and blotched with bruises. Star Hunter
Heavy cushions of grey cloud blotched the sky; through the mist ridges of ploughed field rose like bars. The Prelude to Adventure
The overalls got soiled, then dirty, then disgracefully blotched with wagon grease and picturesque stains, and Hampton made no apologies for them. Judith of Blue Lake Ranch
Their eggs are specked and blotched with light reddish brown and lavender. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
The leaves may be briefly described as oval, lance-shaped, toothed, and veined; dark green, and often spotted or blotched. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
By the uncertain light and in the rain, Ugo saw only the blurred vision of an individual in a ragged and dripping overcoat, with an ugly, blotched face and a ruined hat. The White Sister
There was no colour in her blotched face, and in the moonlight the red rims of her eyes looked leaden, and her voice was unsteady. A Certain Rich Man
After dark the people came in from the fields and gossiped about their doors, and the red light of flitting lanterns blotched the steady rainpour. A Little Swiss Sojourn
The eggs, which are laid during May or June, are pale greenish blue, spotted and blotched with pale brown or russet. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Down the bare slope with its dead grass blotched by craters the eye travels and then up another slope to a crest which you see as a cumulus of shell-tossed earth under an occasional shell-burst. My Second Year of the War
This is spotted and blotched with crimson; beneath these spots there are clouds of pale purple which have the appearance of lying beneath the surface of the shell. A Bird Calendar for Northern India
He was lean and ungainly, shy and savage, dressed in a long greasy silk morning gown, blotched with wine and punch over the breast. The House by the Church-Yard
Alcohol often causes the skin to become red and blotched, and tobacco gives it a dingy and unhealthy appearance. First Book in Physiology and Hygiene
It is similar both in size and shape to that of the Puffins, but is often quite heavily blotched with brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Her face was red and blotched; her black eyes wide open, and her short, thick lips failed to hide her white, protruding teeth. The Awakening The Resurrection
The flowers are—that is, they ought to be—six inches in diameter, rich yellow, blotched with reddish purple. About Orchids A Chat
The blotched face of the bad man grew purple. The Sheriff's Son
The brands were blotched, but I knew 'em anyway. Skyrider
Color white, sometimes heavily blotched, as above, and again unspotted. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
He was smiling mirthlessly, his face blotched and bloated with mingled fear and rage. Square Deal Sanderson
Its proper inflorescence, as one may put it, is greenish yellow, blotched with brown, three inches in diameter, clothing a spike sometimes twelve feet long. About Orchids A Chat
The veins in his blotched face stood out as he glared down at her while he adjusted himself to this latest threat. The Sheriff's Son
His face, streaked and blotched with drying bloodstains, scarred with a red gash that split his cheek from the hair above one ear to a corner of his mouth, hardened into ugly lines. Poor Man's Rock
They lay a single egg, the ground color of which is buff; they are quite heavily blotched with brownish. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Now the single strains produce large flowers, beautiful in form, including self colours and others which are striped, blotched, and veined, in almost endless diversity. The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition
How many can trace the lineage of Mr. Bull's Od. delectabile—ivory white, tinged with rose, strikingly blotched with red and showing a golden labellum? or Mr. Sander's Od. About Orchids A Chat
Tiny beads of sweat stood out on the blotched face of the rustler. The Sheriff's Son
Some indians of this large type have white skins, blotched with disagreeable red or purple. In Indian Mexico (1908)
The eggs are laid about the first of June; they number two to three and have a ground color of brownish or greenish brown and are blotched with umber. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
But presently he saw a long chair by the wall, and on its cushions a blotched face and a gross, full body. The Judge
There stood the grog-drinker with his blotched face in full flower, his eye glazed in his head, and his protuberant paunch projecting over his shrunk and diminished limbs. Phelim Otoole's Courtship and Other Stories Traits And Stories Of The Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three
And while Maurice was trying to get in a word, there came another whimper from the room where Jacky lay, red and blotched, talking brokenly to himself: "Maw!" The Vehement Flame
His ruddy face was all blotched and lined with sorrow or age, and for a while he could say nothing. The History of Richard Raynal, Solitary
The nesting season commences in May, they laying three eggs of a brownish or greenish color, very heavily blotched with blackish brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
He thought of that blotched face, that gross, full body.... The Judge
Mr. Chesterton's book is blotched with this particular form of curt arrogance as with a skin complaint. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
The painter himself was an elderly man with a blotched face, a bibulous eye, and half unclothed, he having wrapped a dirty blanket about his body to conceal decently his lack of nether garments. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
The face was now somewhat hollowed out, darkened, lined, and blotched; and elongated with meek resignation. Philip Winwood A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American Captain in the War of Independence; Embracing Events that Occurred between and during the Years 1763 and 1786, in New York and London: written by His Enemy in War, Herbert Russell, Lieutenant in the Loyalist Forces.
They lay from three to five eggs, having a creamy or yellowish buff ground, blotched with black, chestnut and lilac. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
His face was blotched by ruddiness resembling that of raw meat. The Ramrodders A Novel
Before old Pierre could get audience with his house accounts, De Chaumont was in Madame de Ferrier's rooms, inspecting the wafer blotched letter. Lazarre
It was blotched with crimson flowers; in the marshy spots there were streaks of purple; broad squares of darker wheat checkered the sweep of grass, and dwarf woods straggled across it in broken lines. Ranching for Sylvia
Again Montgomery's ragged cap served him in lieu of a handkerchief, and as he swabbed his blotched and purple face he shot a swift furtive glance in Gilmore's direction. The Just and the Unjust
The eggs are three or four in number, generally of a greenish buff color, spotted and blotched with brown and blackish. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
It's blotched pretty bad, but I made it out. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
Some were orange and orange-tawny; others white and purple; not a few peered forth livid, blotched, and speckled, as with venom spattered from some reptile’s jaws. Children of the Mist
A rotted log, streaked with velvet moss and blotched with fan-shaped, orange-colored fungi, lay by the wayside, and the two sat down upon it to wait for the coming horseman. Audrey
Dawn rose slowly; the sky became blotched with snaky tints of dull yellow and livid grey; the gale kept on, and the schooner was hove-to to meet a sea of terrifying speed and height. A Dream of the North Sea
Their nesting habits are similar to others of the family; they lay three or four eggs with a brownish or greenish buff color, heavily blotched and spotted with shades of brown and chestnut. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
They tried to learn from Weary what he had done with Glory, and whence came the mud-colored cayuse with the dim, blotched brand, that he bestrode. The Lonesome Trail and Other Stories
Finally, Isabella did not die; but she escaped only with the loss of her hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes, her face swollen, her bloom gone, her skin blotched and blistered, and her eyes red and humid. The Exemplary Novels of Cervantes
The little animal with the blotched trunk recognised him at once and came to him, and the other calves soon followed its example and made friends with him. The Elephant God
Everywhere the laths grinned through torn gaps in the ceilings and walls; everywhere the latter were blotched and mildewed with damp, and the floor-boards rotting in their tracks. At a Winter's Fire
The three or four eggs are greenish buff in color, spotted and blotched with brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
He remembered how he had looked up to the horizon and the sky was blotched with scarlet; and the earth was deep red, with red woods and red fields. The Hill of Dreams
His matted hair was nearly white, face blotched and cavernous; and the relaxation of sleep emphasised the mean cunning of the mouth. Lady Merton, Colonist
The gun is all blotched green and yellow. Unhappy Far-Off Things
So saying, he led us through a wide, cool, dusky place, with arched roof and high windows, the walls blotched and peeling, with the steam of many monkish dinners. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
The eggs have a dark brownish buff ground color and are blotched with brownish black. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
His heart had burnt with fury, and when he looked up the sky was blotched, and scarlet as if it rained blood. The Hill of Dreams
The straggling white locks falling round his blotched and feverish face caught Anderson's attention. Lady Merton, Colonist
The man's shabby, untidy dress and blotched complexion did not escape Sir Henry's quick eye. Elizabeth's Campaign
They were dropped with a sharp, jerky motion on the slimy mass of their fellows, all blotched with the inky discharge. Sweetapple Cove
They are three or four in number, grayish or buffy in color, and are quite heavily blotched and spotted with rich brown and grayish or lilac. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
A few of the stones that had formed the base of the cross still remained in position, grey with age, blotched with black lichen and green moss. The Hill of Dreams
Its high white walls were blotched with patches of mildew, and in some parts there were long greenish stains from roof to ground, like tear streaks on the crumbling plaster. The Firm of Girdlestone
The eggs are pale blue, spotted and blotched with pale and reddish brown. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
It looked to me a little blotched, but if I'd been called on to name it, I'd called it a thief's brand. The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
The three or four eggs have a brownish, or sometimes greenish, buff ground color and are blotched with umber, and have fainter markings of lilac. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Grief had blotched her cheeks, but she was as warm and as curving as Flora. Every Soul Hath Its Song
Shosshi was a gawky young man with a blotched sandy face ever ready to blush deeper with the suspicion that conversations going on at a distance were all about him. Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People
The ground-colour is greenish white, blotched and freckled with ruddy brown, with a ring at the larger end of confluent spots. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
We rode in by pairs, a man of ours with each stranger, and after riding leisurely through the herd for half an hour, cut out three head in the blotched brand called the "Window Sash." The Log of a Cowboy A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
The three or four eggs have a buff ground and are blotched with yellowish brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
His face was very white, swollen, it looked, and blotched with purple. The Penalty
The expression of Theresa's round little face, still puffy and blotched from her last night's weeping, held a world of reproachful remindings. Deadham Hard
The eggs, generally five in number, are of the usual corvine green, blotched, spotted, and streaked, as a rule, most densely about the large end with umber mingled with sepia-brown. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Had the spirit then so rife really prevailed, the map of America to-day might have been no less blotched with the morbid tetter of particularism than that of the Germany of sixty years ago. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe
The nesting habits are the same as those of the Long-billed species; the three or four eggs have a brownish buff ground color and are blotched with blackish brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
The world is not his; he is the world's, and all his petty doings have its gaudy stencil blotched upon them. A Roman Singer
McCraw, stupefied with amazement and rage, stood mopping the blood from his blotched face, staring at me out of his crazy blue eyes. The Maid-At-Arms
The ground is white or reddish white, and they are thickly speckled, spotted, and even blotched with brick-dust red; they have little or no gloss. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
I well recall the map of Germany I studied when a boy, a page blotched and seamed with bewildering spots of colour. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe
They lay from eight to twenty eggs with a creamy white or buffy ground color, handsomely blotched with shades of brown and yellowish brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
The sheriff sprang to his feet, his heavy face bloated and blotched with terror. The Desire of the Moth; and the Come On
Aucuba.—Hardy evergreen shrubs, some having blotched leaves. Gardening for the Million
Other eggs subsequently obtained by myself were very similar, but slightly larger and rather more thickly and boldly blotched, the majority of the markings being still at the large end. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
A new pimple could hardly break out on the blotched face of the moon, without a lecture from a professor next day to explain the theory of its development. The Last Leaf Observations, during Seventy-Five Years, of Men and Events in America and Europe
They lay from six to ten eggs of a buffy color, sparsely spotted and blotched with brownish. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
The colour is pale, irregularly blotched, spotted, and streaked with brown, the markings varying considerably in different individuals; it is also dotted irregularly with white. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 564, September 1, 1832
A great rotten trunk, all green with mould and blotched with pink and purple fungi, lay to one side of where they stood. The Refugees
Eggs five only, shape ovato-pyriform, size 1·06 inch by 0·8 inch; colour pale greenish white, blotched and tinged with yellowish grey and neutral markings; vary much in intensity and colour. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
"Many of its forms become disfigured and present a rather blotched and coarse appearance." The Fern Lover's Companion A Guide for the Northeastern States and Canada
They lay from six to sixteen eggs which have a ground color of buff or brownish buff, heavily speckled, blotched and marbled with blackish brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
I fell to studying the dark, thick, blunt body in my hands; I noticed that the livid, rudely blotched, scaly surface showed in some lights a lovely play of prismatic colours. Green Mansions: a romance of the tropical forest
A gilt harp, blotched with many stains and with two of its strings missing, was tucked under one of his arms, while with the other he scooped greedily at his platter. The White Company
The usual number of eggs is five; the ground-colour pale greenish white, boldly blotched and spotted with olive marks in an irregular zone round the large end. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Abject tears stood in its eyes, and stained the blotched red of its cheeks. Our Mutual Friend
During June, they lay from six to twelve eggs having a creamy background, speckled and blotched with chestnut brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Its color is reddish or yellowish brown, blotched with black and white. The Gutenberg Webster's Unabridged Dictionary Section F, G and H
The door which faced them was blotched and discoloured, and a faint light in the fan pane above, it served to show the dust and the grime which covered it. Tales of Terror and Mystery
The ground-colour is white, and the egg is blotched, speckled, and spotted, chiefly, however, in a sort of irregular zone round the large end, with brickdust-red and somewhat pale purple. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
A corpulent straddling epergne, blotched all over as if it had broken out in an eruption rather than been ornamented, delivered this address from an unsightly silver platform in the centre of the table. Our Mutual Friend
The eggs are creamy or bluish white, spotted and blotched with shades of brown, and with fainter markings of lavender. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
The tears came this time—great rushing tears that blinded her and blotched the paper. Adam Bede
In front of one of these places, whence came the sound of a violin vigorously scraped, the patter of feet on boards and the ring of loud laughter, there stood a man with blotched features. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets
The fourth egg is blotched, not spotted, with the same colour. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
The door which faced them was blotched and discoloured, and a faint light in the fan pane above it served to show the dust and the grime which covered it. Round the Red Lamp
The eggs are bluish white, beautifully blotched and spotted with shades of brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Its back was corrugated and ornamented with ungainly bosses, and a greenish incrustation blotched it here and there. The Time Machine
Her son turned to look at her as she reeled and swayed in the middle of the room, her fierce face convulsed with passion, her blotched arms raised high in imprecation. Maggie, a Girl of the Streets
In shape they are somewhat elongated ovals, more or less compressed towards one end; the general colour is greenish white, very thickly blotched and streaked with dull brown and very pale purple. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Dyspeptic men, anemic women, blotched faces, bilious complexions—they flowed past him, they needing him, he needing them, and yet the remorseless bar of professional etiquette kept them forever apart. Round the Red Lamp
The eggs number from two to four, and are white, sometimes heavily, and sometimes sparingly, blotched and spotted with various shades of brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
"It's a farce—a crazy farce," he repeated, his eyes fixed on the long vista of the room reflected in the blotched glass between the windows. House of Mirth
His brushes and razors were spread out on the blotched marble of the chest of drawers. The Reef
The eggs are figured as white, spotted and blotched almost exclusively at the large end with yellowish brown, and measuring 0·8 by 0·52 inch, but no actual measurements are recorded. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
A vulgar flaring paper adorned the walls, but it was blotched in places with mildew, and here and there great strips had become detached and hung down, exposing the yellow plaster beneath. A Study in Scarlet
They lay three or four eggs with a white ground color, variously blotched and spotted, either sparingly or heavily, with different shades of brown. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
His rumpled grey hair stood up above his forehead like the crest of an angry bird, and the leather-brown of his veined cheeks was blotched with red. Summer
It was long, whitish, and blotched with pimples, the nose flattened, and the lower jaw projecting, with a bristle of coarse whiskers round the chin. The Lost World
These are thickly spotted and blotched with brown and a washed-out purple, on a pale greyish-yellow ground. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
There was palpable effort in her light tone, and in the stormy sort of smile which she forced upon her blotched and perturbed countenance, but they were only too welcome to Theron's anxious mood. The Damnation of Theron Ware
Their four or five eggs have a brownish buff ground color, heavily blotched with brown and chestnut. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
His glance explored the melancholy penumbra of the long narrow room, resting on the blotched walls, the discoloured rows of books, and the stern rosewood desk surmounted by the portrait of the young Honorius. Summer
We now stood amazed at the sight, for their blotched and warty skins were of a curious fish-like iridescence, and the sunlight struck them with an ever-varying rainbow bloom as they moved. The Lost World
This bird lays one or two light blue eggs beautifully blotched with purple in the holes of trees. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
There were dark stains on his hunting coat, which he removed to expose a shirt blotched with red. The Last Trail
Their eggs are of a reddish buff color, speckled and blotched with reddish brown, they being much darker than those of the American Sparrow Hawk. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
A red-headed man was on his left, with his back to Andy; but now and again he turned, and Andy saw a heavy jowl and a skin blotched with great, rusty freckles. Way of the Lawless
They fought fiercely, both breathing hard, their faces were red and blotched, and their eyes were staring. Bob Cook and the German Spy
The ground-colour is a pale, rather dingy greenish blue, and it is blotched, spotted, and speckled, almost exclusively at the larger end, and even there not very thickly, with reddish brown. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
In spite of his bluster his red face was growing blotched with patches of gray. Harrigan
Their two or three eggs have a ground color varying from buff to bright cinnamon, and are dotted and blotched with all shades of brown and umber. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
I found myself looking with a curious impersonal interest upon this heavy, large-featured countenance, always heretofore so deeply flushed with color, and now coarsely blotched with varying depths of pallor. In the Valley
He studied himself in the blotched and wavy mirror and nodded in grave approval. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California
The ground is pale green, and it is streaked and blotched with pale dull brown. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Handsome delicate hardy grape-like vines with mostly three-lobed blotched leaves and bluish berries. Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)
The eggs are a grayish white color, marbled, blotched and spotted with darker shades of gray. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Although it had crept only a little way down from the horizon, the wondering boy could discern its progress plainly among the dark masses of seaweed that blotched the graying water. The Cruise of the Dry Dock
There were noise and scuffle and dingy distraction and mobs of little white-faced, nervous men and women, and a drab content with blotched beauty … but none of these things had romance in them. The Foolish Lovers
The eggs are pinky white, blotched with red, forming in some a ring round the larger end. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
When she looked out across the Green she caught the hard stare of the Belks' house, the tall, lean, grey house blotched with iron stains. Mary Olivier: a Life
The three or four eggs have a creamy or a creamy pink ground color, spotted and blotched with dark brown and lilac, most numerously about the large end. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
There lay a young man in a troubled sleep, his face swollen and red and blotched with the small-pox; but through the disfigurement she recognized her brother. Weighed and Wanting
Yesterday I saw a horrid creature; her face blotched with red by acid stain or by a birth mark. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day
The ground-colour varies from white, very faintly tinged with pink, to a delicate pink, and they are profusely speckled, spotted, blotched, or clouded with various shades of red, brownish red, and purple. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
The ground color is yellowish, blotched with lurid brownish crimson, the long pendent tails being blood color, and the interior of the sepals are almost shaggy. Scientific American Supplement, No. 384, May 12, 1883
They lay from four to six eggs of a buffy color, blotched and lined with dark brown and lavender. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
The panelling of carved and polished sandal-wood was blotched with foul smudges and chipped with bullet-marks fired in some drunken revelry. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales
Another time, his mother pointed out to him a man with terribly swollen legs, and a red face blotched all over, lifted out of a fine coach by two footmen in fine liveries. Tales and Novels — Volume 02
He says: "Lay in May, June, and July; eggs, four: shape, blunt ovato-pyriform; size, 0·87 by 0·62; colour, deep pink, blotched with deep claret-red; nest, a neat cup of vegetable fibres in bushes." The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
The male moth is much more blotched than the female, and although of a smaller size, is much more showy than the female. Scientific American Supplement, No. 344, August 5, 1882
They lay three eggs of a rich creamy color, spotted and blotched, chiefly about the larger end, with reddish brown and lilac gray. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
He throws his basket down to climb the tree And wonders what the red blotched eggs can be: The green woodpecker bounces from the view And hollos as he buzzes bye "kew kew." Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
Of "sweat" brands, blotched brands, brands added to and altered, of trials, of shootings, of hangings, even, and "getaways" spectacular and humorous and pathetic. Lonesome Land
The ground-colour is a rich rosy pink, boldly, but sparingly, blotched and spotted with deep maroon, underlaid by clouds and spots of pale purple, which appear as if beneath the surface of the shell. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
So Lord ——'s coat has been seen covering a group of children blotched with small-pox. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
The eggs are a yellowish gray color spotted and blotched with brown and grayish. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
She looked up, showing a face drawn and blotched with ugly colour. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing
And all the while the evil thing that is drawing his life-blood is growing like a poisonous, blotched fungus in a wine-cask. Expositions of Holy Scripture Isaiah and Jeremiah
In colour they were bright blue, most irregularly blotched with various shades of purplish brown: some of the blotches very large, some mere specks. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
The world was all splashed and blotched and misty. Lying Prophets
The three to five eggs are grayish white, blotched, clouded, spotted or streaked with brownish and purple. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Then hastily she scribbled a note, but her hand trembled so much that before she had said half what she intended the paper was covered with blotched and blurred lines. A Mummer's Wife
The country grew lonelier and drearier as we mounted, and the wind blew colder over the fields blotched with that sort of ground-palm, which lays waste so much land in southern Spain. Familiar Spanish Travels
In one clutch the ground-colour is white, spotted and blotched, not very thickly, with neutral tint and inky purple, chiefly at the larger end. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
After the big spotted and blotched eggs were hatched, the hen would perch on the side of the nest within a foot of admirers, accepting compliments with tilted head and bright and twinkling eyes. Tropic Days
The eggs are bluish white, specked and blotched chiefly about the large end with blackish brown and lilac gray. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
"Haredale?" and passed the paper to me whereon I read these words, blotched with water, yet still legible:   You are unreasonable, but this is feminine. Peregrine's Progress
He is described as having blue eyes, and a pale face so blotched over that it was likened to a mulberry sprinkled with meal. The Gracchi Marius and Sulla Epochs of Ancient History
The eggs are lovely little oval fragile shells of a deep blue, blotched and speckled and covered with fine hair-like lines, chiefly at the large end, of a deep chocolate-brown. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Most of the orchids are in full flower, the coral-trees glow, the castanospermum is full of bud, loose bunches of white fruit decorate the creeping palms, and the sunflower-tree is blotched with gold in masses. Tropic Days
They lay from four to six bluish white eggs, spotted and blotched with brown and lavender. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Beautiful and distinct is I. Aquifolium Lawsoniana, with ovate, flat, almost spineless leaves, heavily and irregularly blotched with yellow in the centre. Hardy Ornamental Flowering Trees and Shrubs
His eyes were bloodshot, and his skin looked coarse and blotched; his coat was thrown aside, displaying a shirt which bore evidence of having been useful in its day and generation. Jack's Ward
Some eggs are scantily marked, and have the spots very small; while others are densely spotted and blotched, the spots often being more or less confluent at the larger end. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
It was kept by Madame Broquette, a woman of forty, with a dignified if somewhat blotched face, who was always very tightly laced in a faded silk gown of dead-leaf hue. Fruitfulness
The eggs are laid in May or June; they vary from three to five in number, of a pale bluish green color, spotted, blotched and clouded with shades of brown and gray. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
His face became a blotched red and white. The Unspeakable Gentleman
They were slightly blotched and sprinkled with a dark colour in a way which was certainly not natural, and Gifford, held by the peculiar sight, looked in wonder from the flowers to the girl's face. The Hunt Ball Mystery
The eggs are from three to five, of a dull greenish ash-grey, blotched and speckled with brown dashes confluent at the larger end, the ends nearly equal in size. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
Why is the skin of a drunkard always red and blotched? Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
Like the Snowflakes they nest on the ground in moss, but the four to six eggs that they lay are grayish, heavily mottled and blotched with chocolate brown; size .80 × .60. 536a. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
As the car drifted forward the black blotched golden sand ran the opposite way like a whirling panorama. The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure
His whole face was grotesquely blotched and swollen. Average Jones
I have one egg before me bright blue and almost as glossy as a Mynah's, thickly blotched and speckled at the broad end, and thinly spotted elsewhere with olive-green, blackish-brown, and pale purple. The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1
If the use of liquor is habitual, this "Vascular enlargement," that at first slowly passed away after each indulgence, becomes permanent, and now the discolored, blotched skin reveals the state of the entire mucous membrane. Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
The nests are made of grasses and sometimes moss; three or four eggs laid in June or July; white, blotched, lined and obscurely marked with brown and purplish; size .75 x .55. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Soon each of us had a neck like an old fighting bull walrus; enormously swollen, corrugated with bloats and wrinkles, blotched, bumpy, and bloody, as disgusting as it was painful. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou; Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
When at last aroused by the shriek of a locomotive, he found that the sun was up and shining on the blotched and broken wall above him. Barriers Burned Away
Glass's ruddy face was blotched, and he seemed to rest in the grip of some blighting malady. Going Some
There needs a pen with wings or that by leaping violence of script, by characters blotched, huge and run together, would symbolise the pace at which the thing now goes. This Freedom
The eggs number from four to eight in a set and from four to eight sets a season; the eggs are whitish, spotted and blotched with shades of gray and black. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Side by side with Haldane stood a creature whose dishevelled, rusty hair, blotched and bloated features, wanton, cunning, restless eyes, combined perfectly to form the head of the mythological Harpy. A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
The pyramidal summit was tinged the palest lilac in the waning light; the mighty pallid walls were streaked and blotched with deep azure; the green swell sucked and thundered in the wave-worn caverns. The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914
The latter was asleep on the bench, his head rolling from side to side, his mouth half-opened, and an incredible expression of stupidity on his blotched face. The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman-Burglar
He limped as he walked off, and the gray pallor of his unshaven face was grotesquely shaded and blotched with coal dust. Out of the Primitive
Their three to five eggs vary greatly in markings from finely and evenly dotted all over to very heavily blotched, the ground color being grayish white. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
A merciless little hat, that gives no quarter to a blotched skin, a too large nose, colorless eyes. Roast Beef, Medium
Burly, bulky, blotched as he was, dirty in his person, and in his dress careless to the point of scandal, he had the respect of every student of the Bo. The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca
Her features were not bad, but her nose was blotched, her face strongly freckled and her red hair very untidy. Mary Louise
In a retired spot near Amanges, half shrouded in trees, stood a small hovel of the rudest construction; its roof was of turf, and its walls were blotched with lichen. The Book of Were-Wolves
The eggs are not different from many specimens of savanna; they are light greenish white heavily blotched with various shades of brown and lavender. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Even through the make-up one could see that her face was blotched and swollen. The Film Mystery
He was an ill-made, ugly, stumpy man, about fifty; with a blotched face, straggling sandy hair, and grey shaggy whiskers. The Kellys and the O'Kellys
"I'm all right now," said Violet suddenly, raising a face so terribly blotched and swollen from tears that Susan was genuinely horrified. Saturday's Child
The captain had spent a restless night, and found himself blotched with innumerable chinch-bites; and on examining the berths and lockers, he found them swarming in piles. Manuel Pereira
During June or July, they lay three to five dull whitish eggs, blotched, splashed and spotted with light shades of brown and gray. The Bird Book Illustrating in natural colors more than seven hundred North American birds; also several hundred photographs of their nests and eggs.
Drawing back, I glanced again at her face, which I had already noted was blotched and somewhat swollen beneath the make-up. The Film Mystery
His eyes, likewise, were bloodshot, and his skin looked coarse and blotched; his coat was thrown aside, displaying a shirt which bore evidence of having been useful in its day and generation. Timothy Crump's Ward A Story of American Life
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