speck

• It raced on for thousands of yards, then turned sharply and strung a gray column alongside the first A close observer might have noted a fleeing dark speck at the head of the gray worm, seeming to pull it along This speck was a monster trimotored plane, the engines silenced as perfectly as modern knowledge allowed. —  007 - The Lost Oasis
• When those photos were blown up, it became apparent that the speck was a bat. —  ABC News: ABCNews
• I shouldn't wonder if there wa'n't a speck of it in the house Not a speck was there to be found Your uncle's pockets must ha' had a good hole in 'em by this time," remarked Barby, as they came back from the cellar. —  Queechy, Volume I
• On the contrary, her detention of our posts, seems to be the speck which is to produce a storm. —  Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1
• This speck is the organ, and the organ is the sentient circumference drawn inwards, far within itself, according to a law which (however unconscious we may be of its operation) presides over every act and exercise of vision--a law which, while it contracts the sentient sphere, throws, at the same time, into necessary objectivity every phenomenon that falls external to the diminished circle. —  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843

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