444 examples of flecking in sentences

Spoon in hand and bib across their kneeslest they fleck their careful frontsthey waited for the anchovy to come.

" "Sorry to hear it," said Mr. Kirby, flecking an inch of cigar-ash to the table-top.

The fleck of crimson that came to his lips with the cough Joan did not see.

To see eight or ten vats full of yelling howling blue creatures, the water splashing high in mid air, the foam flecking the walls, and the measured beat of the furrovahs rising weird-like into the morning air, is almost enough to shake the nerve of a stranger, but it is music in the planter's ear, and he can scarce refrain from yelling out in sympathy with his coolies, and sharing in their frantic excitement.

Dust arose from the long-disused room, flecking the yellow candle flame.

He arose, flecking the wood dust from his hands.

Here and there a darker spot suggested a break for a mountain peak; rarely a fleck of white marked a mountain road.

Sheltered by a great rock and the underbrush about it, Jane, with Fleck and Thomas Dean, peered eagerly out at a dingy, weather-beaten frame structure which neighborhood gossip had told them was the sheltering place of the "Friends of the Air."

"Wouldn't it be terrible?" Fleck smiled grimly.

" There was something magnificent in his manner as he spoke, something almost regal, and Fleck regarded him with a puzzled air.

Despite the assurance with which he had spoken Fleck had observed in Frederic an uneasiness, a watchfulness, that none of the others seemed to exhibit.

"Come on, men," cried Fleck, advancing boldly into the room.

Somehow in the melee the old man had again got hold of a revolver, and just as Fleck seized him he fired again.

Slowly and carefully, Fleck, with his lights on full, had steered the automobile down the narrow roadway through the woods.

"Chief Fleck," he announced, by way of identification.

" "Colonel Brook-White," cried Fleck in amazement, recognizing the voice as that of one of the officers in charge of the British Government's Intelligence Service in America.

" The distant murmur was fast growing into a roar, and rockets were flecking the clouds with their green, red, and blue lights.

It lay utterly motionless before him, not a fleck of cloud in the pure blue above, even where the mist rose from the river; it only had glorified the clear blue into clearer violet.

Fleck Company catalog number 58.

Flowers innumerable are now, like illuminated capitals of Nature's alphabet, flecking, with their sheen-dots, prairie, steppe, mountain and meadow, the ear

Although there were between one and two thousand deer flecking the park, it was utilised to the pasture of humbler and more useful animals.

It was pleasant to see them like walking mites, flecking the dark brows of the mountains.

" She slept like a child on her father's floor In the flecking of woodbine-shade, When the house-dog sprawls by the open door, And the mother's wheel is staid.

He meditated long before this work which, with its dashes of paint flecking the thick crayon, spread a brilliance of sea-green and of pale gold among the protracted darkness of the charcoal prints.

She stood thus for a moment motionless and silent, with the rising wind whispering without and flecking her white morning dress with gusty shadows from the arbor.

444 examples of  flecking  in sentences