maculate
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But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.
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Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."
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The room was long, dark, narrow, slovenly, spaced with tables on which were maculate cloths and lamps with faded shades.
From The Paliser case by Edgar Saltus
And I was shown in that Vision the Calvaries of maternity common to all, whether the conception be immaculate, so-called if within the law, or maculate, so-called if without the law.
From A Cry in the Wilderness by Mary E. (Mary Ella) Waller
Because the matter been so vile, It may nocht have ane ornate style; Wherefore I pray your Excellence To hear me with great patience: Of stinking weedis maculate No man nay mak ane rose-chaplet.
From English Satires by William Henry Oliphant Smeaton
That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.
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Ten priests, in white vestments, maculated with red, stepped out to the centre of the altar.
From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
A few drops of lukewarm water maculated the sidewalks with spots as big as dollars.
From Joan Thursday by Louis Joseph Vance
This was a particularly repulsive specimen of its breed; grimy with hardened dust and gummed oil, maculated with yellow-surface-rust, the brasswork green with corrosion.
From Murder in the Gunroom by H. Beam Piper
Our specimen of the Sharp-shinned Hawk is referred to velox on the basis of the reddish, maculated breast, sides, and thighs.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Emil K. Urban
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