The color is gray, with mottlingsof dark spots, the result of firing.
I have seen but few pieces that, even after the bleaching of centuries, did not show traces of the dark mottlings that result from imperfect firing.
His colours faded at once, and the dirty grey mottlings which broke out upon his sides proclaimed him a degenerate.
We noticed the yellow mottlings of autumnal decay on the chestnut trees and elms, the ruddier shade of the beeches; we discussed the failure of the blackberry crop, and pretended to knowledge about turnips.
These mottlings must be running in one direction mainly, but in a haphazard sort of way, and not uniformly as in ladder rungs.
The chief beauty of ordinary maple lays in its mottlings and not in its veinings.
The sponge is held in the hand and by pressure and release of the same in going over the surface the color is unevenly distributed, which, when properly blended, will form mottlings coarse or fine, long or short, as wanted.
Mottlings of no great prominence by their depths of coloring are the only markings.
This should be blended at once and if the color has been properly applied with the sponge, the mottlings produced by the blending of the color will usually suffice and a few more of a deeper tone may be added in the overgraining.
Again the sponge in distemper work is used and by the proper use of the badger blender beautifulmottlings are made without the use of any brush at all.
In the crotch mahogany veneers one will frequently notice a fine set of veins which cross the mottlings or featherings in an opposite direction.
His coat is covered with long hairs of a dark grey hue, besprinkled with black, the extremities of which are white, with dark mottlings here and there on the back.
The ground was dingy reddish pink, and the whole of the egg was thickly mottled all over with very deep blood-red, the mottlings being so thick at the large end as to form an almost perfectly confluent cap.
In one egg the markings are all of one colour, a sort of chocolate-brown, a dense almost confluent mass of mottlings in a broad irregular zone round the large end and elsewhere pretty thickly set over the entire surface of the egg.
The face is often flushed, and irregular mottlings of the skin, especially upon the neck and chest, have been frequent in some of the epidemics.
His flanks had lost their sombre olive shade, and were suffused with mottlings of velvet black, mottlings that turned to purple as they crept across his orange front.
Note the broad rounded appearance of the head, the single central head ridge, and the dark bluish-gray coloration, interrupted only by mottlings of grayish white.
The markings and mottlings in this wood are certainly superb in fine specimens.
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