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... desolate than that of a burnt prairie. The ocean when its waves are grey—a blighted heath—a flat fenny country under a rapid thaw—all these impress the beholder with a feeling of chill monotony; but the water has motion, the heath, colour, and the half-thawed flat exhibits variety in its mottling of ...

— The War Trail - The Hunt of the Wild Horse • Mayne Reid

... wondered. Was the splotch of color—that mottling of crimson and copper and gray—a part of the metallic mass? He rubbed his smarting eyes—and when he looked again the color was gone. But he had a conviction that eyes, sinister and deadly, had been staring into his, that a living mass had withdrawn softly ...

— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... alert, but the mark of the Venus Shadow was on his face. There was a faint mottling, a ...

— Wind • Charles Louis Fontenay

... the hot afternoon they spent on the grass, whose mottling of white clover filled the wandering airs with the odours of the honey of Hymettus. And after tea Kate sang, and Alec drank every tone as if his soul lived ...

— Alec Forbes of Howglen • George MacDonald

... death of the part varies in different cases. Sometimes a dark-blue spot appears on the medial side of the great toe and gradually increases in size; or a blister containing blood-stained fluid may form. Streaks or patches of dark-blue mottling appear higher up on the foot or leg. In other cases a small sore surrounded by a congested areola forms in relation to the nail and refuses to heal. Such sores on the toes of old persons are always to ...

— Manual of Surgery - Volume First: General Surgery. Sixth Edition. • Alexis Thomson and Alexander Miles

... (in alcohol) dull brown above with irregular dark brown blotches; dorsal surfaces of limbs brown with narrow darker brown transverse bars; posterior surfaces of thighs cream-color with brown spots and mottling; groin and dorsal surfaces of first and second toes white; belly cream-colored; glandular areas orange-brown; chest and chin having black spots. Ventral surfaces of hind limbs and first toes cream-colored; undersides of other toes and soles ...

— Descriptions of Two Species of Frogs, Genus Ptychohyla - Studies of American Hylid Frogs, V • William E. Duellman

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