They quite enjoyed looking out of the fly-specked window at their brother at work with the oxen in the fields.

Further, he had bought, and the crowd was then consuming, the two fly-specked bottles of champagne which Hoffmuller had kept back of his bar, one on either side of a stuffed owl, since the day he began business eleven years before.

It seemed, however, that the enemy's skirmishersprobably concealed in the ditches along the River roadhad sharper eyes, as bullets began to whistle around the two generals, and soon a number of black specks were seen moving forward.

"The planets absorb and use nearly all the solar energyall except the very small amount the minor specks of cosmic dust may receive.

They are pale china-blue, marked all over with very dark specks.

They tell me he used sometimes to sit there for the whole day, his great, soft, brown eyes fastened upon the sea, watching the specks of sails that flashed upon the horizon, while the evanescent expressions chased each other over his placid face, as if it reflected the calm and changing sea before him.

For silent it was to us, standing in the silence of a high placesilent with a Sunday stillness that made us listen, without taking thought, for the sound of bells coming up from the spires that rose above the tree-topsthe tree-tops that lay as far beneath us as the light clouds were above us that dropped great shadows upon our heads and faint specks of shade upon the broad sweep of land at the mountain's foot.

He turns a specked one over many times before he leaves it out.

If I were to tell what is passing in my mind, I should say that every one was specked which he had handled; for he rubs off all the bloom, and those fugacious ethereal qualities leave it.

I've seen the sunset flood the earth with streams of rosy light, And every foot of sea-line specked with twinklin' sails of white; I've woke ter find the sky a mess of scud and smoky wreath, A blind wind-devil overhead and hell let loose beneath.

They sat against the dirty rear wall, whose white paint was finger-marked, fly-specked, and food-spotted, and in which a shelf-aperture furnished the connection with the kitchen.

It was a valley shining with the gold of little wheat fields, crimson-specked with poppies.

" And within the hour came Hubert Frayne to Ordish, on a foam-specked horse, as he rode to announce to the King's men the King's barbaric murder overnight, at Berkeley Castle, by Queen Ysabeau's order.

And don't you think we found her knitting with a specked apron on!

Breast and throat deep cream color, finely specked with brown on the upper part.

The specimens of the rocks in its vicinity are, dark grey granite, somewhat approaching to gneiss, with a few specks of garnet; and a calcareous, probably concretional stone, enclosing the remains of shells, with cavities lined with crystals of calcareous spar.

Granite, composed of grey and somewhat bluish felspar, dark brown mica, and a little quartz; containing minute disseminated specks of molybdena, and indistinct crystals of pale red garnet.

When with her we did not feel as though we had a "specked" side.

Lay in the roasting-pan with slices of onions, celery and specks of fat.

Reject all that are specked or misshapen.

Their inland communities, however, are 'mere specks in a vast tract of impenetrable forest.'

That a belief should sweep over all these specks in impenetrable forest, from the coast-tribes in contact with Europeans, and that this belief should, though the most recent, be infinitely the least powerful, cannot be regarded as a plausible hypothesis.

They looked down upon the smoke of a manufactory chimney, upon strange heaps of material and curious engines scattered along the sands, with here and there moving specks of human figures.

Still farther away on the other, lay Père-la-Chaisea dark hill specked with white; cypresses and tombs.

She looked fondly down upon him and after a few minutes murmured gently, "Laws, honey, ain't yo' shamed to be so han'some?" Little dabs of powder, Little specks of paint, Make my lady's freckles Look as if they ain't.