stippled

• “Lilith smiled, and it was a cruel expression stippled in moonlight and shadows.”

  Simon & Schuster: Hellgate London Covenant

• “stippled," it is covered with fine dots made by a graver directly on the surface of the metal after the plate has been etched and the wax cleaned off.”

  The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing

• “a great if literal example of this type of treatment with its branded 'stippled' surface, but other brands also use the perception of the material use to borrow product values.”

  TheDieline.com: Package Design

• “stippled" the ceilings of the White House with interns.”

  Yahoo! Sports - Top News

• “Accordingly, Wolverton's illustrations, done in the same unmistakable, stippled style that characterized his grotesqueries, show off the grim, the violent, and the destructive in the Old Testament, putting the blood and guts in the spotlight.”

  Boing Boing

• “Her books capture the peculiar grandiloquence of children's speech; the ornate sentences, stippled with adverbs like raisins in a cake.”

  The Guardian: A life in books: Lauren Child

• “A similarly heightened, highly poetic, sensibility invades the etchings that began in the 1980s, black whorls and stippled textures fanatically worked, the artist relishing the "element of danger and mystery" that accompanies slipping a heavily worked plate into acid.”

  The Guardian: Lucian Freud obituary

• “Ten vocabularies scumbled inner hello, stippled wit black inc.”

  Fictionaut: The light that draws the flower

• “In that place of darkness and great light, of absolutes and essences that are far removed from the stippled, reddish, purplish hurts of this existence, divine justice shines through.”

  Simon & Schuster: In the Valley of the Shadow

• “Céret, Rooftops" 1911, nearly abstract, stippled with a vengeance, opens like a nest of boxes.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Modern Movement Unto Himself

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