dappled

• “I grab my bowl, that Mary had added a heap of cilantro, Parmesan and cabbage, and wander over to the table with the window view of the fog-draped, rain dappled, slow-moving Milwaukee River taking its sorry-ass time through the warehouse district on its way to Lake Michigan.”

  jeff winke | in the soup « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground

• “I woke in dappled shade to the sound of laughter and splashing water.”

  A Time to Every Purpose « A Fly in Amber

• “She had great, dreamy, hazel eyes, a milky skin dappled with little golden freckles, and delicately arched eyebrows, giving her a demure, questioning look which made people, especially lads in their teens, want to answer it.”

  Rilla of Ingleside

• “Behind us, fair, light-smitten hills in dappled splendor lie,”

  The Watchman and Other Poems

• “Dappled sun/dappled shade: Similar to partial sun, the term dappled refers to sunlight that is filtered overhead by the leaves and branches of a tree or other tall planting.”

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• “The child's eye recalls the dappled light on the Solent, the blue water off the southern coast of England in May.”

  Fictionaut: ɘloЯ

• “But you would no sooner use the word "dappled" of this place than you would come here to read a love letter.”

  The Guardian: In search of the real Philip Larkin

• “I was forced to study Hopkins for English A level several years ago and hated it - I need a "dappled" room”

  'This is the worst.'

• “The Minnow hath, when he is in perfect season, and not sick, which is only presently after spawning, a kind of dappled or waved colour, like to a panther, on its sides, inclining to a greenish or sky-colour; his belly being milk white; and his back almost black or blackish.”

  The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation

• “To take the prize for best purple prose, Mike Pedersen of North Berwick, Maine, relied on a thesaurus'-worth of synonyms:"As his small boat scudded before a brisk breeze under a sapphire sky dappled with cerulean clouds with indigo bases, through cobalt seas that deepened to navy nearer the boat and faded to azure at the horizon, Ian was at a loss as to why he felt blue.”

  USA Today: Wisconsin professor wins 2011 bad writing contest

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