The upper windows and red-tiled roofs of the houses were crowded with pale-faced women and children, who peered out to eastward, where the splotches of crimson upon the dun-coloured moor marked the position of our enemies.
The evening light, shining through one of the few unbroken stained-glass windows, cast great splotches of vivid crimson and of sickly green upon the heap of motionless figures.
Ahead of us were splotches of ruddy light twinkling through the fog which marked the Royal watch-fires.
Others pulled the stray pieces of flesh from amidst the rods, bars, and wheels of the engine and washed the splotches of blood from the sleepers and rails.
Apparently taking no heed of the splotches of blood, now darkly red, and almost the colour of the slag on which they lay, he approached the bag which covered the body.
Both men were stripped to the buff, and red splotches of blood and dirt covered their steaming bodies.
Not a sound could be heard, the street stretching along before them a broad white ribbon, with splotches of mottled shade along the edges, the dark line of houses across the street like mysterious creatures crouching in the shadow.
Ten miles out they came into a stretch of rolling meadow where the shadows of trees were like purple splotches upon the shimmering mist of the grass.
Item; one French aviation uniform with leather coat, helmet, and gloves all bearing stiff and curious splotches of brown or rust-colour which you might not recognize as dried blood stains.
There were splotches of brown on the backs of their hands, and on the temples and forehead.
Was he a red-haired man with big splotches of red on his face?
The boys were able to see that the man had bright red hair and that his face was covered with huge freckles or splotches of a dark, reddish brown hue.
As Grant ran, tears fell in the little, coal-stained face, and made white splotches on the child's cheeks.
Moore lay unconscious, with ghastly, bloody features, and his bandaged foot showed great splotches of red.
Splotches of red vine colored the soft gray of sage.
The eyes were sunken; and the veins stood out in deadly clear purplish reticulation with splotches of transfused blood under the shrivelled skin of the hands.
There were queersplotches of blood under the skin on the backs of his hands; but when the brandy relieved his fatigue, he stopped babbling of the sea and spoke coherently.
The electric arcs, splotches in the veil, revealed on the Common phantom trees; and in the distance, against the blurred lights from the Warren Street stores skirting the park could be seen phantom vehicles, phantom people moving to and fro.
The grassy path leading through the vista was trimly kept, and on either side of it in the moist, green shade of the great trees flowers bloomed in a profusion of startling colors,--in splotches of scarlet and white and royal purple.
Nicodemus tugging at the reins, and great splotches of mud flying in at the windows.
Those splotches of waxy light which marked certain trees, bushes, and scrubby ground-hugging plants were spreading, running together in pools.
And the path before Shann now was dotted by splotches of that radiance, not as brilliant as the chemical-born flames the attackers had kindled in the camp, but as quick to betray the unwary who passed within their dim circles.
His gaze was concentrated on two small splotches of ink where, it seemed, the pen had scratched as Miss Thorne signed her name.
Scattered around the table, brilliant splotches of color, are the uniformed envoys of the Orient--the smaller the country the more brilliant the splotch.
There were three red splotches of wax upon it, each impressed with the legation seal; the envelope was without marks otherwise.
But the spy stood with his back against the stone wall, a hand thereon to steady himself, and the other hand, a mass of torn flesh, hanging and dripping big red splotches on the floor.
Passing beneath an electric lamp, the light fell an instant on his face--pale beneath the stubble beard and the splotches of grime.
Mrs. Turner at a single sweep of her eye noted these details and also certain splotches that were unmistakably ink spots on the walls and on the carpet.
Jane glanced down, and again, and upon steadier vision made out splotches of blood on the stones, and broad, smooth marks in the dust, leading out toward the sage.
Lassiter climbed with slow, measured steps, and blood dripped from him to make splotches on the white stone.
I wondered if the people knew how homely they looked with those splotches on their faces, like great birth-marks.
The sunlight through the stained glass projected colored splotches here and there.
Men dropped at the corner of every lane and alley; corpses scattered here and there upon the pavement, singly or in little groups, made splotches of dark color, hideously splashed with red.
Five splotches showed on the mountain side,--the roofs of as many cabins; the rest of them were buried in snow.
Black splotchesagainst the snow, two figures suddenly had come out of the sweeping veil,--a girl and a man.
Eastward from the tilt splotches of water could be discerned, where the little river ran down to join Seal Lake.
And there were the splotches of pigment of which Calhoun had heard.
Then your parents had the splotches fade, so you never had them," he said absorbedly.
Some people are born with bluish splotches on their skin, but they fade out while they're children.
The flush had partly left his face, leaving splotches of white here and there.
It drove splotches of pallor into the crimson of his father's face.
He was a heavier man; his movements were more sluggish, his hair was turning white, his face was wrinkled and had the brown splotches indicative of a disordered liver.
Silas hammered diligently for a moment, and then the furrows on his kindly brow deepened as he stared steadily through his glasses, which were seldom free from splotches of lampblack and beeswax.
The light came back and the awed girls at the little window saw below them in the emerald meadows, wide ugly yellow splotches that grew as they looked, meeting other growing patches of swirling yellow water from the lanes and roads.
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