speckled

• A white-speckled grey filled the infra-red screen, radiation from the still warm sand and stone. —  Planet of the Damned
• In half a minute Mrs. Cratchit entered--flushed, but smiling proudly--with the pudding like a speckled cannon-ball so hard and firm blazing in half of half-a-quartern of ignited brandy, and bedight with Christmas holly stuck into the top Oh, a wonderful pudding! —  Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6
• She added, how Jupiter, concealed under the form of a Satyr, impregnated {Antiope},[15] the beauteous daughter of Nycteus, with a twin offspring; {how} he was Amphitryon, when he beguiled thee, Tirynthian[16] dame; how, turned to gold, he deceived Danaë; {how}, changed into fire, the daughter of Asopus;[17] {how}, as a shepherd, Mnemosyne;[18] and as a speckled serpent, Deois. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Vol. I, Books I-VII
• On the summit of the mountain a handsome ruddy cock, with a splendid dark-green arched tail, clucked, chuckled, and scratched for his speckled, rose-crowned hens, a green-headed, curly-tailed drake "steered forth his fleet upon the lake" of brown ducks and their yellow progeny, and pigs of the plum-pudding order rooted in the intermediate regions. —  The Carbonels
• [243 We may therefore compare par_g in par_g_anya with such words as p_ri_shata, p_ri_shatî, speckled, drop of water;[244] also par_s_u, cloud, p_ris_ni, speckled, cloud, earth; and in Greek etc.[245 If derived from par_g_, to sprinkle, Par_g_anya would have meant originally "he who irrigates or gives rain. —  India: What can it teach us? A Course of Lectures Delivered before the University Of Cambridge

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