marblings

The painter is a great reptile landscapes marblings figures stains

Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

They were now hideously lean; their skin was overlaid with bluish marblings.

Salammbo 2003

Sky and sea merged on the horizon, and the afternoon sun, streaming out over the green water, slashed it boldly with gold, while violet shadows and plumes of surf made marblings between.

The Tiger in the Smoke Allingham, Margery, 1904-1966 1952

The markings are mostly on and near the edges, and take the form of lines and marblings.

Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

The fathomless blue of the midday sea, with the white marblings from the bow wave, never ceased to draw Mac's gaze.

The Tale of a Trooper 1930

Some of the Japanese papers have pretty and very unobtrusive marblings worked upon them, and occasionally, too, a brocade paper looks well; but for a classic, the plainer the better, and very often a monotint end paper, or even a plain white, looks exceedingly well.

The Private Library What We Do Know, What We Don't Know, What We Ought to Know About Our Books Arthur Lee Humphreys 1905

With its yellow hues, its livid marblings, and its sands which make it look somehow as if it lacked consistency, it rises on the whole horizon like

Egypt (La Mort de Philae) Pierre Loti 1886

From that time Idumea decayed, and now has become an utter wilderness, the carved faces of the rocks still witnessing to the truth of prophecy, as they stand forth, lonely and deserted in their grandeur, though glowing freshly with the rosy marblings of the rocks of Seir.

The Chosen People A Compendium of Sacred and Church History for School-Children Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862

It is generally indigo-stained, with marblings or broad-narrow stripes of lighter tint than the groundwork.

To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I Richard Francis Burton 1855