mottled

• "I assure you that for me this is a red-letter day," I added She made no response, until after a pause, looking round her, she said abruptly, though gently, "We are very much afraid about the fruit this year My eyes wandered to the mossy, mottled, garden walls, where plum-trees and pear-trees, flattened and fastened upon the rusty bricks, looked like crucified figures with many arms. —  The Author Of Beltraffio
• Systemic Defect Since the early 1930's we have seen occasional individuals with abnormal foliage--somewhat mottled, usually curled and often misshapen. —  Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 43rd Annual Meeting Rockport, Indiana, August 25, 26 and 27, 1952
• "I don't want my net cut to pieces; I'll do it myself He threw the portion of the net containing the captive on one side in the bottom of the boat, and hauled in the rest, which contained nothing but a sickly green, mottled-looking wrasse of about a couple of pounds weight. —  Cormorant Crag A Tale of the Smuggling Days
• During the whole course of the disease the skin is never allowed to get blue or mottled, being quickly restored to the normal red color by the mustard sheet bath, the short hot-blanket pack, or the dry-blanket pack with hot-water bottles. —  The Mother and Her Child
• And since bronchitis is usually accompanied by alarming symptoms of high fever, weakened heart, embarrassed breathing, mottled or blue skin, green stools, troublesome cough, disturbed sleep, "stopped up nose," and "choked up throat," it is of utmost importance not only to seek medical aid early, but also that the mother, herself, should have definite ideas concerning the proper manner of doing the following things in the line of treatment 1. —  The Mother and Her Child

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