164 examples of blotched in sentences

They were slightly blotched and sprinkled with a dark colour in a way which was certainly not natural, and Gifford, held by the peculiar sight, looked in wonder from the flowers to the girl's face.

When they leave the Souris valley the hills are blue with distance and seem to promise wooded slopes, and maybe leaping streams, but a half-day's journey dispels the illusion, for when the traveller comes near enough to see the elevation as it is, it is only a rugged bluff, bald and bare, and blotched with clumps of mangy grass, with a fringe of stunted poplar at the base.

It was kept by Madame Broquette, a woman of forty, with a dignified if somewhat blotched face, who was always very tightly laced in a faded silk gown of dead-leaf hue.

It was so high that I could stand erect with ease, and the old lichen-blotched stones which lined the walls told of its great age.

The murmuring pines and the hemlock aren't in it with this impenetrable jungle liberally blotched with yellow, this so-called sunflower patch.

His eyes were bloodshot, and his skin looked coarse and blotched; his coat was thrown aside, displaying a shirt which bore evidence of having been useful in its day and generation.

Beautiful and distinct is I. Aquifolium Lawsoniana, with ovate, flat, almost spineless leaves, heavily and irregularly blotched with yellow in the centre.

These are white, blotched with yellow at the base of the upper petals; and being produced when the leaves are almost fully developed, have a very pleasing effect, particularly as they are borne in great quantity, and show well above the foliage.

In her nervous pacings she paused before the blotched looking-glass that hung in a corner of the office under a steel engraving of Daniel Webster.

Why, how can you set up to heal others when you cannot even cure your own lame legs and blotched and wrinkled skin?" Physician, heal thyself.

"Many of its forms become disfigured and present a rather blotched and coarse appearance."

The room is what you might expect to find in a village boarding-house: the floor of liliuptian extent; the ceiling low, uneven, cracked and yellow; the originally coarse and ugly wall-paper now blotched with age; the carpet thin, threadbare, patched and stained; the furniture of various woods and colors, and in various stages of decrepitude.

" A great rotten trunk, all green with mould and blotched with pink and purple fungi, lay to one side of where they stood.

He was followed by an elder man, stout, and blotched with scurvy, and whose features, fixed as a corpse's, were stamped with dreadful force with a character of sensuality and villany.

The gross, sensual mouth with its loose-hanging lips; the blotched and clammy skin; the pale, watery eyes with their inflamed rims and flabby pouches; the sunken chest, skinny neck and limbs; and the thin rasping voiceall cried aloud the shame of a misspent life.

Her hair fell in a mass on her snow-blotched shoulders.

" But, instead, something quite different came out of the past: something very soft and feminine fell over the blotched old papersthe treasured silk brocade in which Evelyn Byrd was presented at the Court of George I. Like a shadowy passing of that famous colonial belle, was the sweep of the faint-flowered gown.

The colour is pale, irregularly blotched, spotted, and streaked with brown, the markings varying considerably in different individuals; it is also dotted irregularly with white.

On the ground, blotched fungi and a red-brown incrustation became frequent.

They were blotched yellow and green, you know, not brown nor dirty, so that they must have been new fallen.

We got in barely in time, and on the way we passed my wall and doorlivid in the moonlight, blotched with hot yellow as the glare of our lamps lit it, but unmistakable. '

Hardy evergreen shrubs, some having blotched leaves.

Bill blotched with black and orange.

His face is blotched, and he kisses little girls.

The world is not his; he is the world's, and all his petty doings have its gaudy stencil blotched upon them.

164 examples of  blotched  in sentences