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"Mottle" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a singular preference is evinced for elephants that exhibit those flesh-coloured blotches which occasionally mottle the skin of an elephant, chiefly about the head and extremities. The front of the trunk, the tips of the ears, the forehead, and occasionally the legs, are thus diversified with stains of a yellowish tint, inclining to pink. These are not natural; nor are they hereditary, for they are seldom exhibited ...
— Sketches of the Natural History of Ceylon • J. Emerson Tennent
... all sweets to bitterness!—Then I will mottle my face and wear a hump and be spurned outright. 'Twill ill serve me. 'Twill ...
— Mistress Penwick • Dutton Payne |
Words linked to "Mottle" : blotch, colour in, mottling, colourize, stipple, dapple, colorize, color in, colorise, streak, colouring, colour, cloud, spot, harlequin, colourise, coloring, color, speckle |
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