A table drawn out center and within range of the gas-range was a blotch in the gloom, three figures surrounding it with arms that moved vaguely among a litter of dishes.

Now, bursting from the green, Beltane beheld Sir Pertolepe writhing in his bonds with Walkyn's fierce fingers twined in his red hair, and Walkyn's busy dagger at his upturned brow, where was a great, gory wound, a hideous cruciform blotch whence pulsed the blood that covered his writhen face like a scarlet vizard.

" <Spot, blotch, speckle, fleck, dapple, smear, smutch, brand, defacement, blemish, stain, discoloration, speck, mark, smudge, flaw, defect, blot>.

And now she came up to him, a little timidly, and she, too, looked back to the dark blotch of life out on the lake.

All of the pent-up madness of four years of slavery and abuse at the hands of men broke loose in thin red streams of fire in his veins, and when at last he saw a moving blotch far out on the plain ahead of him, the cry that came out of his throat was one that Gray Wolf did not understand.

Three hundred yards beyond that moving blotch was the thin line of timber, and Kazan and his followers bore down swiftly.

Kazan and the sledge became only a dark blotch to her.

They were not more than twenty feet ahead of herbut the blotch seemed to be a vast distance away.

At last, he took his pencil and pointed out an imperceptible black point in the scallops of an oval blotch, adding: "There it is."

V. be black &c adj.; render black &c adj.. blacken, infuscate^, denigrate; blot, blotch; smutch^; smirch; darken &c 421.

As they entered it, Bloundel arose, and placing his finger to his lips in token of silence, raised the blankets, and exhibited the blotch, which had greatly increased in size, under the arm of his slumbering son.

Its bill was held to the large blotch under my arm, and kept there till the fowl died from the noxious matter it drew forth.

Ever and anon they passed under the lee of some island, and the heavy air grew full of idle night-sweetness; the waning moon with all its sad and alien power hung low,dun, malign, and distant, a coppery blotch on the rich darkness of heaven.

As soon as the chauffeur of the leading car spied a blotch of khaki against the road, on went his brakes, and we would come sliding into the midst of the troops and stop.

In the clarid gold of the platform I saw her fez and corals reflected as an elongated blotch of florid red.

He struck the door so frantically with his naked hands that he left a blotch of blood with every blow.

It left a red blotch upon my wrists and my ankles, as it cut the thongs which bound me.

I made a blotch of red wax on the back as large as a dollar, that thereon I might the more indelibly impress a seal, with a couple of pigeons cooing upon it, and 'toujours wotre' for the motto.

At one point a single broad shaft of light slid down between two pines and cast a golden blotch upon their track.

As he passed a bullet came piping through one of the narrow embrasures and starred itself in a little blotch of lead upon the opposite wall.

The lantern which illuminated the interior of the room showed only a round blotch against the darkness.

He couldn't see the distant blotch of fire against the low starshe didn't want to.

The day was dull and cold; the sun resembled a milky blotch in the midst of a leaden sky.

The last sail passed around the bend in the stream, and only a desolate blotch in the wilderness was left to tell of England's attempt to colonize America; only a great gash in the forest, there in the quiet and the sunlight, at the edge of the river.

Mukoki, doubled over in his harness, was hardly more than a blotch in the early night.