12969 examples of spotting in sentences

The garden Jerusalem cowslip (Pulmonaria offinalis) owes its English name, lungwort, to the spotting of the leaves, which were said to indicate that they would be efficacious in healing diseases of the lungs.

Going over on cloudy days when the heavy black clouds hang down to within fifty meters of the ground, spotting a group of trucks, a line of cars, or a battery of troops, then bombing them, shooting them up with your machine guns and shooting back up into the clouds midst a rain of luminous machine gun bullets from the ground is interesting work.

From thickly-glittering spires the matin bell Calling the woodman from his desert cell, A summons to the sound of oars, that pass, Spotting the steaming deeps, to early mass; Slow swells the service o'er the water born, While fill each pause the ringing woods of morn.

Spotting the steaming deeps, to early mass; 145 Slow swells the service o'er the water born, While fill each pause the ringing woods of morn.

" "So you didn't think we'd be long spotting you in the good little old town?"

Of vultures there are too few in this land, probably because the blind bush robs them of the chance of spotting their prey.

A fleet without aircraft will be a fleet without eyes, and aircraft will, moreover, be necessary, not only for reconnaissance work, but for gun-spotting, as well as, possibly, for submarine hunting.

There is a satisfaction which some people feel in spotting their man,Burns drank; Coleridge took opium; Byron was a rake; Goethe was cold: by these marks we know them.

In the vale below, soft white flakes of mist still hung over the water meadows, and barred the dark trunks of the huge elms and poplars, whose fast-yellowing leaves came showering down at the very rustle of the western breeze, spotting the grass below.

It is rare that the summer lets an apple go without streaking or spotting it on some part of its sphere.

That brute is spotting for his gun.

"THERE'S THEM PRISMATIC SPOTTING GLASSES, SIR.

They were right out in mid-straits, they were still fully nine miles from the southern entrance, and even if a British warship should come up to see what had happened to the trawlers, the odds were enormous against her people spotting them.

The high and low potential apparatus of the balloon thermograph Spotting arrangement and difference, see ante.

Wilbur enjoyed this work, running the long roller across the forms after each impression, spotting himself and his clothes with ink.

Spotting, lesson 1-22.

Hubbard's advanced drycleaning and redyeing course, textile course in spotting.

Hubbard's advanced dry cleaning and redyeing course, textile course in spotting.

At another wire-end someone was spotting the bursts.

"Gunnery is navigation, dead reckoning, with the spotting observer the sun by which you correct your figures," said one of the artillery officers.

Yet another thing to seean aeroplane assisting a battery by spotting the fall of its shells, which is engrossing enough, too, and amazingly simple.

I am told that many virtuous Matrons, who formerly have been taught to believe that this artificial Spotting of the Face was unlawful, are now reconciled by a Zeal for their Cause, to what they could not be prompted by a Concern for their Beauty.

Ned was not only considered as a thriving trader, but as a man of elegance and politeness, for he was remarkably neat in his dress, and would wear his coat threadbare without spotting it; his hat was always brushed, his shoes glossy, his wig nicely curled, and his stockings without a wrinkle.

The leaves were not out; their buds only looked like green eggs spotting the trees, excepting that here and there a horse-chestnut, forwarder than its brethren, was pushing its crumpled foliage out of the pale-pink sheath.

It crept to the surface from time to time, preferably attacking the ill-nourished and the poverty stricken, spotting faces with gold pieces, ironically decorating the faces of poor wretches, stamping the mark of money on their skins to aggravate their unhappiness.

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