" He led the way behind a little shack, a troop of children following, and there were two wolf-dogs, not in the best condition, one reddish, with a white face and white forelegs, the other grey with a black splotch on his chest and a white one on his back.

And verily Roger stepped forth of the underwood that clothed the steep, dragging a thing of rags and tatters, a wretched creature, bent and wrinkled, that mopped and mowed with toothless chaps and clutched a misshapen bundle in yellow, talon-like fingers, and these yellow fingers were splotched horribly with dark stains even as were the rags that covered her.

The shock was so great that I had just strength enough to totter to a chair and drop into it, and sit there staring vaguely at that dark splotch on the carpet.

The trouser perhaps has been ripped open and clumsy attempts been made to dress the wound, while a great splotch of red shows where the fading strength was exhausted before the flow of life's stream could be checked.

There was a great splotch of ink forever to be visible to all who entered that living-room!

At one spot lay a huddle of white-walled houses, a mere splotch in the distance; while four tiny cock-boats, which lay beyond, marked the position of three of Her Majesty's 10,000-ton troopers and the admiral's flagship.

There was a great steaming red splotch on the snow, and a strange odor in the air that made him dizzy; but only for a moment.

Their glances focussed thereon the tiny round hole at the base of the brain, on the pillow where the head had rested and which they saw now was stained with an ugly and irregular splotch of blood.

They stared at the red hole, near the base of the brain, at a fresh crimson splotch, straying beyond the edges of the darker one they had seen that afternoon.

Scattered around the table, brilliant splotches of color, are the uniformed envoys of the Orientthe smaller the country the more brilliant the splotch.

Mr. Grimm still sat with his elbows on his knees, staring, staring at the vague white splotch which was Miss Thorne's face and bare neck.

" "Thank you," I replied, and took the letter, which was quite bulky and sealed with a splotch of black wax imprinted with a coat of arms or a crest, or some such insignia.

But now if you see on an artist's canvas a splotch of red and blue and yellow, part of a work only begun, it gives you no adequate idea.

Then the splotch of colour would take its place as part of a harmonious whole; and would give you an adequate idea just as it does to the artist.

Beneath, Spike discerned a gray tweedand on the breast of the gray tweed was a splotch, a dark, ugly thing which appeared black and was not black.

Your black face is splotched with brown and yellow patches, and your hair shines as though you had fallen head-foremost into a firkin of butter.

The floor, the walls, the ceiling, were splotched withwell, it's enough to say that that woman's remains could only have been collected with a shovel.

She was still clinging convulsively to a toy lamb which had once been white but whose fleece was now splotched with red.

Here and there from behind the trees came little blue puffs of smoke, and one of the fugitives who wore white calico breeches began suddenly to hop instead of running and a red splotch showed upon the white cloth.

Smoke poured from the stacks of the double-header, and the freshening sun, a short time later, glinted upon the white-splotched equipment, as the great auger followed by its lesser allies, bored into the mass of snow at Bander Cut.

I showed him a great splotch of blood on a flat stone.

" The B after Jones was erased, leaving a dark splotch.

The Confederate was on his back; his jacket was open; his shirt showed a great red splotch right on his breast.

(Already The Spirit of Man was disfigured by a long grey streak, and the green back of Galleon's Roads was splotched with stains.)

It seemed to him after awhile that he saw a small splotch of dead white.