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In Volume III Sterne's narrator says, "You will no more be able to penetrate the moral of the next marbled page motly emblem of my work! than the world with all its sagacity has been able to unravel the many opinions, transactions and truths which still lie mystically hid under the dark veil of the black one."

Celebrated marbled image in Tristram Shandy inspires fundraising auction 2011

Sterne, a clergyman who was born in 1713 and who was one of the most celebrated humorists of his day, taunted his readers with the idea that the mystery of the marbled page would never be solved, but he did suggest that it stood as a "motly sic emblem of my work".

Celebrated marbled image in Tristram Shandy inspires fundraising auction 2011

A motly assemblymen women and children all dressed in their gayest clothessuch brilliant colors.

Diary of a Choctaw mission school teacher, 1860 - BatesLine 2005

A motly assemblymen women and children all dressed in their gayest clothessuch brilliant colors.

BatesLine: June 2005 Archives 2005

Nay, so motly a thing is good company, that many people, without birth, rank, or merit, intrude into it by their own forwardness, and others slide into it by the protection of some considerable person; and some even of indifferent characters and morals make part of it.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

The entire story is a parade of bad decisions on top of which have been slapped some name meant to evoke World War II or Americanism - and instead have been motly assortment of mercenaries and raw recruits, lead by individuals who have little to no tactical, strategic, political or military understanding.

THE NEWS BLOG 2004

The entire story is a parade of bad decisions on top of which have been slapped some name meant to evoke World War II or Americanism - and instead have been motly assortment of mercenaries and raw recruits, lead by individuals who have little to no tactical, strategic, political or military understanding.

Archive 2004-12-01 2004

Kroon described members as a "motly group who were not susceptible to discipline and who preferred to do things their own way".

ANC Daily News Briefing 1995

A distant medley of voices reached their ears, and creeping to the southern edge of the cliffs, they saw a motly horde emerge from the fringe of trees along the western rim of the plateau, and stand there a space in debate.

The Conan Chronicles Howard, Robert E. 1989

As we crossed the ferry and entered the city, and witnessed the moving tide of human life that was surging through the city mart jostling against each other in their eager chase; and as we looked out upon the motly group, human life was to be seen in almost all its forms.

Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland Abigail Stanley Hanna