Jerking furiously, the animal freed itself from the can, leaving splotches of hair and hide on the ragged edges of tin.

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

she had chosen at last between himself and this young fellow, a workman born of workmen, who went about the world building bridges and canals and tunnels and such, in those far countries which were to Colonel Musgrave just so many gray or pink or fawn-colored splotches on the map.

The beach did look gray and desolate, dun-colored in the dull light of the early day, with the winter-killed grass and the stunted green growth of cedar and holly and pine only making splotches of darkness under a gray sky which was filled with scurrying clouds.

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