mottlings

A soft shade of subtle cream it was, too, with markings and mottlings of a darker shade of pale brown.

Owlflight Lackey, Mercedes 1997

Dark mottlings shot up, up — in an instant heat had cleared the ivory clouds.

Tides Of Light Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1989

Skirting the foothills of the drifting foam mountains were myriads of small, sharply defined clouds, all about the same size and patterned with similar red and brown mottlings.

2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987

The night-dark dot of Urth crept across its face, nearly lost among its mottlings; and in the dying moments of that night I wandered, bewildered and wondering, underground.

The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987

Skirting the foothills of the drifting foam mountains were myriads of small, sharply-defined clouds, all about the same size and patterned with similar red and brown mottlings.

2010 Odyssey Two Clarke, Arthur C. 1982

Hues were iron-rusty and desert-tawny, overlaid by blue-green mottlings, hoar polar caps, fierce glint off the few shrunken seas which remained.

A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1974

The skin was glabrous, bluish, with brown and black mottlings that were beginning to turn gaudy colors as mating season approached.

A Circus of Hells Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1969

There are a large number of species, the differentiating features being more or less the form and sculpture of protorax, the size of the head, the length and size of the prosternal spine, the comparative length and size of the hind thighs and shanks, the amount and arrangement of the tegmina mottlings, the comparative length of wings, and the general build of the entire insect, which may be robust or fairly slender.

Argentina from a British Point of View Various

The fish are a Cyprinus and a Barbus, or Oreinus with small scales, thick leathery mouth, and cirrhi; a Loach of largish size, flat head, reddish, with conspicuous brownish mottlings, and a Silurus.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

Now Solomon and Mrs. Otus were both gray, except, of course, what white feathers and black streaks were mixed up in their mottlings and dapples; so it seems strange enough to see two of their children distinctly reddish.

Bird Stories Robert J. [Illustrator] Sim