The right-hand slopes and edges of both pyramids burned in this light, while detached protuberant masses also caught the blaze, and mottled the mountains with effulgent spaces.
Slowly and solemnly the pure white cone appeared to rise higher and higher into the sunlight, being afterwards mottled with gold and gloom, as clouds drifted between it and the sun.
On emerging from these, a watery gleam on the mottled head of the Eiger was the only evidence of direct sunlight in that direction.
When Bull had picked up a rifle standing in a corner and departed, slamming the door behind him, Marie sat down on the lid of a mottled zinc trunk and wiped her hot face on a petticoat that hung on the wall conveniently to hand.
Vanessa hasn't got a stitch on except panther skins and pearls and mottledstockings to match.
The mottled blur in the sky had become a spot of brightness; sunshine filled the room; in a cage above, a tiny feathered creature began to chirp.
A day that threw out half-promises, that showed tentatively on the sky a mottled blur where the sun should have been!
One sherd from a small bowl is mottled in blue and touched with yellow (USNM 59.
Numerous 18th-century sites from Philadelphia to Williamsburg have yielded a series of bowls and porringers characterized by interior linings of slip that is streaked and mottled with manganese.
As I say, this mottled brown is the only kind of colouring which I have seen in these immature but comparatively advanced birds, and my impression is that, in the still younger birds, such mottling was either absent or not so noticeable.
The morning sun, cutting through the sharp notches between the southeastern peaks, was dappling the snow fields of the western walls in gay splashes of flaming rose and saffron, interspersed with mottled shadows of indigo and deep purple.
A pole stood up in the centre of this clearing, and something all mottled with red and black was tied up against it.
His hat was gone, his grizzled hair flying in the breeze, great splotches of powder mottled his mahogany face, and a weal across his right cheek showed where an Indian bullet had grazed him.
His thick hands were puffy and mottled purply white.
Harvey looked at the huge gray-and-mottled creature with unspeakable pride.
His mottled livery was grass-stained and earth-stained, and he had dizened it with a kind of woodland finery.
His grotesque body was enveloped in yet more grotesque apparel--the piebald of the buffoon, the mottled livery of the chartered mountebank.
What I'd like to know is where she got all that money of hers," piped an old man, with a mottled complexion and bleary eyes.
Color whitish, shaded, splashed and mottledwith light and dark crimson over most of the surface; light dots.
Fruit medium, oblate, whitish, mostly overspread, striped, splashed and mottledwith shades of red.
Yes, the fresh side of the piece was white and glistening--and the whiteness was mottled with dull yellow.
From the lower branches of a large leafy tree jutting out into the very course of the canoe was hanging a long, mottled object, swaying and weaving.
The red after-glow was in the western sky, and it mottled the broad, smooth river with crimson.
Then the angry red cheeks turned to a mottled pallor, there were liquid sounds in his throat, and, clapping his hand to his mouth, he rolled over on to his side.
The mottled face, the staring eyes, the helpless limbs shocked him.
Certainly the face had lost its mottled look, the eyes were now shut, the limbs lay more naturally.
It is mottled brown above, pale below, and the two middle tail feathers are much longer than the others.
Many epiphytes grew on the oaks, amongst which the mottled yellow flower of an orchid hung down in spikes six feet long.
Its body ismottled golden, orange and blue, with metallic lustre, darker above, pale or yellowish below.
The animals that live in deserts are almost all obscurely mottled with gray and brownish and sand-color so as to harmonize in color with their habitual environment.
Our wagonette had topped a rise and in front of us rose the huge expanse of the moor, mottled with gnarled and craggy cairns and tors.
I looked round, with a chill of fear in my heart, at the huge swelling plain, mottled with the green patches of rushes.
Bronzing bracken and mottled bramble gleamed in the light of the sinking sun.
She shot her arms out from her sleeves, and we saw with horror that they were all mottled with bruises.
A little way back from the edge of the flats a mottled brown marsh-hawk was flying hither and thither.
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