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We are left by and large with randomness, the "pied beauty" that Gerard Manley Hopkins refers to in his poem of that name, which praises "dappledness": "swift, slow; adazzle, dim."
The Marvel of Marfa 2008
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The area was adazzle with all of the floodlights working and the generator throbbed away out of sight somewhere.
Hard Frost Wingfield, R. D. 1995
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Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim;
Pied Beauty 1918
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Such eyes adazzle dancing with mine, such nimble and discreet ankles, such gimp English middles, and such a gay delight in the mere grace of the lilting and tripping beneath rafters ringing loud with thunder, that Pan himself might skip across a hundred furrows for sheer envy to witness.
Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance Walter De la Mare 1914
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