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  • At night, he could hear the mewling of a tribe of orange-spotted tabbies whose numbers seemed to be increasing by the day.

    The New York Times's Lonely War Mnookin, Seth 2008

  • She's since realized that Finn poses far more danger to fallen tree limbs and runaway squirrels than she does to her little orange-spotted self.

    weeme Diary Entry weeme 2002

  • A fish of some sort, with orange fins and a brownish and orange-spotted body, glided up to the top of the water and took an insect-a water spider perhaps-with only the slightest of ripples.

    The Chaos Balance Modesitt, L. E. 1997

  • He began, patiently, with her cylinder-shaped yellow-brown, orange-spotted caterpillar, on the purple passion flowers in our garden; he watched it change into a dark-brown chrysalis marked with a few pale spots; he saw emerge from this the red-robed lady herself, with her long fulvous forewings, and her shorter hind wings smocked with black velvet, and her under-frock flushed with pinkish orange and spangled with silver.

    Slippy McGee, Sometimes Known as the Butterfly Man Marie Conway Oemler 1905

  • The smaller orange-spotted wasp just alluded to indicated to me the location of her den by pausing suggestively in front of a tiny cairn.

    My Studio Neighbors William Hamilton Gibson 1873

  • The Tokay Gecko, which has distinct orange-spotted, blue-grey skin, can grow up to 15.7 inches 40 centimeters in length.

    NYDN Rss THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 2011

  • The Tokay Gecko, which has distinct orange-spotted, blue-grey skin, can grow up to 15.7 inches 40 centimeters in length.

    SFGate: Don Asmussen: Bad Reporter 2011

  • The Tokay Gecko, which has distinct orange-spotted, blue-grey skin, can grow up to 15.7 inches 40 centimeters in length.

    Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

  • Locally, if coral reefs disappear, the numbers of commercially important fish such as the orange-spotted grouper, popularly known as hammour, will probably dwindle.

    UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World 2010

  • Locally, if coral reefs disappear, the numbers of commercially important fish such as the orange-spotted grouper, popularly known as hammour, will probably dwindle.

    UnderwaterTimes.com News of the Underwater World 2010

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