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  • He stood up, downed his glass of claret at a gulp, mopped his brow with a great red-spotted hankie and exited, swift and silent.

    The day I was bowled over by John Arlott's soupy-thick vowels | Frank Keating 2011

  • Then he stopped outside the station, put down his bag, took out a red-spotted handkerchief and blew his nose very loudly.

    Separate Douglas Light 2010

  • The actor wore a navy blue suit, crisp white shirt and red-spotted blue tie, and he addressed the court through an interpreter.

    George Clooney Testifies At Italian Fraud Trial 2010

  • No Fred, my God is tending his Gertrude Jekyll-style cottage garden, his snowy white locks disguised under a Panama hat, occasionally mopping his brow with a big red-spotted hankerchief.

    Atheists & Dolphins Peter Ashley 2008

  • The researchers found evidence for leech-borne transmission of a little-known fungus-like organism of the genus Ichthyophonus, which infects the muscles of red-spotted newts and other amphibians in North America.

    Archive 2007-01-01 2007

  • The red-spotted white animal sees more than any of them, but they ignore her.

    Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

  • The red-spotted hound reluctantly abandoned the station near the fire from which she'd been watching Earl Kestrel's man unpack the delicacies kept for the earl's own consumption.

    Through Wolfs Eyes 2001

  • “No coincidence that they arrived when they did, on the day before my red-spotted silver tancho was to arrive,” the Colonel said.

    To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

  • “Terence and I could run you home tomorrow on the train, just to check on things at home, and then you could come back to see the red-spotted silver tancho.”

    To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

  • Emptying the opened seedpod, he cupped five small red-spotted beans in his hand.

    BLACK FIRE SONNI COOPER 1990

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