Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Specked or soiled with fly-dung.
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Examples
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A view of swelling green fields is obscured by a fly-specked screen.
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A fly-specked shaft of sunlight crossed the room, slipping through the shutters to splash onto the red tiles of the floor.
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She saw men and women, a solaros in a yellow robe stiff with dried blood and soft with putrefaction, a fly-specked gray horse with its front legs shattered and splintered wood plunged into its chest.
THE RIVER KINGS’ ROAD Liane Merciel 2010
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I have never fly-specked your campaign posts, which I enjoy; and I believe there a pretty vigilant chorus here of folks to correct errors that cut against Obama.
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Vines crawled up the sides and arched over the top, studded with yellow flowers and white fungal colonies and fly-specked spiderwebs.
Norse Code Preview (Chapter 2) - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games 2009
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There, under a stack of romance novels and westerns, right on the bottom row, was a fly-specked and shop-worn copy of "Goddess of Ganymede"--- I plunked down my 35 cents, and dashed home, hiding from my mother as best I could the lurid cover.
Ghost of Nebulas past michael 2008
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Born in New Zealand, of English and Maori ancestry, Arnett worked his way through a series of fly-specked Asian newsrooms before he finally ascended to the AP bureau in Saigon and found his calling in the front lines.
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There, under a stack of romance novels and westerns, right on the bottom row, was a fly-specked and shop-worn copy of "Goddess of Ganymede"--- I plunked down my 35 cents, and dashed home, hiding from my mother as best I could the lurid cover.
Archive 2008-04-01 michael 2008
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Isolated crackpots will continue to stumble on fly-specked books and obscure web sites and believe that they have found “suppressed ancient knowledge”.
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Isolated crackpots will continue to stumble on fly-specked books and obscure web sites and believe that they have found “suppressed ancient knowledge”.
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