With the first sight of the decoration Valiant had had a sudden memory of a splotch of vivid red against the belted gray-blue of a gown.
In one corner, in a splotch of bright sunshine, lay the bulldog, watching a strayed blue-bottle darting in panic hither and thither near the ceiling.
John Valiant blankly, and the hat he held dropped to the claret-colored rug like a huge white splotchof sudden fright.
With thirty-odd horsemen and twoscore or more rifle men afoot, they now dashed after their fleeing opponents, who made a dark splotch in the moonlit road far ahead.
Then the screech-owl would hurtle away, and the phantom would stalk back and lie down, and resolve itself again into that fearsome, crimson death-splotch that naught save fire could ever obliterate.
From a point some seventy yards above the heads of the party, and a considerable distance away, there rang out another report, while a splotch of flame leaped from the mountain side.
Once more the same red splotchof flame spurted from the mountain side.
Robed in a long black cassock, he showed like a vigorous splotch of ink amidst the bright sunshine streaming around him; and he was walking on at such a fast, stern, regular pace that he suggested Destiny on the march.
There is nothing, nothing all around you, but the flat line of the horizon with the onesplotch of an isolated tower, and yet that nothing is instinct with sovereign majesty.
This after-dinner note had a splotch on it not yet quite dry.
He looked at Winifred--the splotch had clearly come from her; and he checked the words: 'Good riddance!
He folded up the letter with the splotch inside, and said: "What's it all about, now?
In all of it, his furtive eyes, shining out of the splotch of eyebrows above, glanced inquiringly around and obsequiously followed every movement of his superior.
Nashville Banner, or show in the feculent columns of the Kansas City Star like a splotch of soot on the marble face of Raphael's Madonna.
Of them all we see but one star that blazes the brighter as the years run on, and that one long mistaken for a mere erratic comet-- sans substance, or unformed nebulae hanging like a splotch of semi-luminous vapor in a great void.
What I saw was a swiftly moving black splotch coming out of the hills, with huge dust-heaps flying here and there before it.
He pressed his wounded arm tighter to him, lurched past the still twitching sea thing to that splotch of brown fur on the sand, shaping the wolverine's whistle with dry lips.
Which might mean his visitor had recently arrived, or else merely that a splotch of spray had landed there not too long before.
When a twist in the narrow passage cut off the splotch of daylight, Shann drew his stunner.
Many leagues behind them, and rising high into the heavens, they could see a luridsplotch of light, glowing red and yellow in the mystic darkness.
For a second or two thereafter he could see nothing above a brilliant splotch of red, with the massive outline of de Claverlok looming gigantic in its center.
But when the heavier clouds rolled beneath it, the land was blotted out in deepest darkness, which the splotch of light shed by the wavering torch served well to accentuate.
But the thought of the cruise south, of venturing toward that sprawling splotch Hobart and Lablet identified as a city was somehow distasteful, and he was reluctant to think about it.
A wide-winged living splotch of color fanned by overhead; there was a distant yap of sound.
There was a splotch of blood where the Indian had been, and a red trail leading to where there had been ponies.
Presently there appeared a faint luminous splotch ahead of them, growing brighter as the seconds passed.
To the west, the Kennesaw Mountains made a splotch of black against the dark blue sky, and the houses and woods along the track were visible in the half light.
And old Shorty up on the telegraph-pole, making a black splotch twisting about in the moonlight, was the last bit of Palomitas he seen!
Milapak ang pintal nga basà sa íyang buktun, His arm got a splotch of wet paint on it.
Náay pula nga tap-ing sa íyang nawung kay gilihian siyag kundíman, He has a purple splotch on his cheek because his mother craved red cloth in her pregnancy.
Hopalong fired and a splotch of red stained the white mask as the robber fell against the door and slid to the platform.
A leaden splotch appeared on the rock almost under his nose and launched a crescendo scream into the sky to whine into silence.
They were genuine, and on the G-string was a splotch of crimson, muddy with dust.
But now if you see on an artist's canvas a splotch of red and blue and yellow, part of a work only begun, it gives you no adequate idea.
Then the splotch of colour would take its place as part of a harmonious whole; and would give you an adequate idea just as it does to the artist.
A moving splotchof red showed above a clump of greasewood half way down the hill.
But at last he saw in the distance a splotch of green trees through which shone whitewashed walls.
On another occasion, he was wandering about the municipal temple when he noticed an image of Liu Ch'uean presenting the melon,[689] in whose eye was a great splotch of dirt.
You once took a splotch of dirt out of my eye that was troubling me very much.
Mr. Murphy dropped the carver and fork, and made a splotch of gravy on the table.
The young folk were resting on the back porch on Thursday afternoon, chattering like magpies, when suddenly Neale O'Neil spied a splotch of brilliant color coming along Willow Street.
Sam O'Neill stood picking at a splotch on the ancient plaster, with strong, yellow-gloved hands.
He was bareheaded; a long splotch ran up his cheek, into his hair.
On another occasion, he was wandering about the municipal temple when he noticed an image of Liu Ch'uean presenting the melon,[334] in whose eye was a great splotch of dirt.
Was the splotch of color--that mottling of crimson and copper and gray--a part of the metallic mass?
Another filmy, fibrous mass that had been torn from one of the monsters of the heights slid from above to make a splotch of colorless matter upon the floor.
