Lining these chambers, we see living sponge-units of a type different from the shapeless specks we noted to occur in the meshes of the sponge substance itself.
Now I've got him on his reputation," thought Crane, idly brushing specks of cigar ash from the front of his coat.
It was a living wall, and through little chinks in its quivering face he could see specks of blue close up where raced Lauzanne.
The eggs of the Philippine bustard quail are grayish white, densely covered with specks and dots of yellowish brown and small blotches of pale purple.
On our arrival from England, we remained an entire season at Paris, all that time rubbing the specks off the diamond, when my uncle suddenly took it into his head that we ought to see the East.
To Remove Fly Specks from Gilding--Old ale is a good thing with which to wash any gilding, as it acts at once on the fly dirt.
Of a Plant growing in the blighted or yellow specks of Damask-rose-leaves, Bramble-leaves, and some other kind of leaves.
These you will recognise by those white specks and little crooked lines, before mentioned, as is represented in Fig.
Those yellow orbs were fiery in the light and the rifle sights with the specks of fire were lined.
Miles away to the southeast we saw some white specks showing, flashing and disappearing.
No eye-specks have been found, but they must exist, since the animal is sensible to approaching danger and quickly retreats.
The animal is the same as /Buccinum/, but with small irregular specks of black.
Small specks of bile pigment deposited in the renal tissue, and blocking up the urine tubes.
The black specks vary in size from the minutest visible point to that of a pin-head.
Yonder, in the workshop, where Baker Jorgen and the rest sat and gossiped, he could see nothing but dancing specks of light, and his work swam round in the midst of them; and of his comrades he saw nothing but their aprons.
The lamp swayed slightly, and the specks of light wriggled hither and thither like tadpoles, so that the work was continually left in darkness.
Perhaps it had, for behind the sugar horse, standing in the lowermost niche, two specks of fire gleamed from the shadow.
Chujju had caught sight of the sugar horse, and was creeping towards it, now on his little fat hands, now tottering on his little fat feet, his glistening eyes fixed on the niche which held those gleaming specks of fire.
It is these starch grains which form many of those bright specks that we see dancing in a ray of light sometimes.
Skin rather smooth, of a pretty brown color, dotted with large gray specks which are very regular and very apparent.
Two thirds of the way up, I saw specks of people climbing.
And the slant white sails and the black specks of boats on it hung in the sky, and were as unsubstantial as the whole pageant.
There are a few red specks on it--very small ones," I said.
The primordial utricle or protoplasm lining the processes was also thickened here and there into irregular and variously shaped specks of yellowish translucent matter, as occurred in the case of Utricularia neglecta under similar treatment.
The ground-colour is white or slightly greyish white, and towards the large end it is profusely speckled with minute dots of brownish and purplish red, a few specks of the same colour being scattered about the rest of the surface of the eggs.
The markings are all very fine and small, but where they are closely set at the large end there a few little pale purplish-grey specks and spots are intermingled.
In some few there are also a few specks of bright yellowish brown.
They wheeled and soared and flew, a bevy of winged black specks hurrying to the north.
And where he had hovered at the first were now a dozenspecks of black upon the hot, bright blue.
They had been watching the balloon off and on for about an hour when one of the group saw two tiny specks on the horizon, off to the northwest.
But as they watched, the two specks began to move in fast, and within a few seconds the observers could see that "the airplanes" were actually two round, dull white objects flying in close formation.
To some she sold stamps with an air of "God speed you," and they were soon but dwindlingspecks on the horizon.
After a couple of hours’ hard riding he could dimly make out specks moving on that huge background of space, and presently his horse neighed and put fresh spirit into his gait, recognizing his fellows in moving dots on the vast perspective.
The men were specks of humanity standing on a shining metal hull, and all about them there was the desolation of nothingness.
Specks of flame, like the tiniest of new stars, flickered against the background of space.
It was a gigantic mass of white, fleecy specks and spots which would be clouds, and between the whiteness there was a muddy dark greenish color which would be the ocean.
Then yet more signs: muddy pools told mute tales of recent visits; high over the hill that fell sheer to the valley were specks of vultures, hovering over recent kills.
He examined them closely, and found that where the sand had not been disturbed a thin layer of such specks was lying upon the surface.
Scooping up a quantity of this with his hands he found golden specks all through it as well as a number of small nuggets each about the size of rice.
Detaching some pieces of stone from the base of this boulder I saw fine specks of gold in them in sufficient quantity to give promise of a paying reef.
The huge boulder in which I had found specks of gold had been blasted away, and I was informed that a wonderful amount of gold had been taken from it.
The specks were so finely distributed that they could only be won by the aid of fire, water, and quicksilver, and the pulverizing stamps of a crushing machine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "specks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
