motley

• That villainous gateway to the Bad Lands was, it seems, the headquarters for a motley collection of guides and hunters, some of them experts,[1] the majority of them frauds, who were accustomed to take tourists and sportsmen for a fat price into the heart of the fantastic and savage country. —  Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
• How? soul of a pickle-herring, body of a spagirical tosspot, doublet of motley, and mantle of pilgrim, how art thou transmuted! —  Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873
• Clowns in motley, merry-makers of all kinds, great city dignitaries, lords and commons--everybody, in short, made a mad and merry holiday; and at night the houses were illuminated, and great bonfires were lighted in the streets All England was wild with joy; but the happiest person in the land was Richard Plantagenet, a boy eleven years of age. —  Strange Stories from History for Young People
• He was aware of the entrance of the hero, of his greeting by his motley-clad followers. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• You are not the blockhead we take you for after all; but you delight to see your public men in motley, and the rogues will fool you to the top of your bent, till it is your pleasure to put down the show. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847

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