maculate
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Among the robin's maculate cousins, "the reddish tail is the hermit thrush's mark."
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But his limitations were a virtue because his target was so big -- and so maculate.
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But they had no history to be written; and were too closely maculate to be portrayed;—white ground in most places altogether obscured.
From Ariadne Florentina Six Lectures on Wood and Metal Engraving by John Ruskin
Of this half-hundred a few are used in Shakespeare, but not at present, as verbs; thus, to maculate, to miracle, to mud, to mist, to mischief, to moral—also merchandized and musicked.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. XVI., December, 1880. by Various
And one, that is Duns Scotus the champion of the Im- maculate Conception.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Robert Seymour Bridges
That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.
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It fell upon their faces, touching their whiteness with a ruddy tinge, accentuating the stains with which so many of them were freaked and maculated.
From The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians by Ambrose Bierce
The posters, maculated with filth, garnished like tapestry the sweep of the curbstone.
From The Secret Agent a Simple Tale by Joseph Conrad
For, instead of a siliceous ground, maculated with the rhombic feld-spar, which is the common state of porphyry, the ground is uniformly crystallised, or a homogeneous regular feld-spar, maculated with the transparent siliceous substance.
From Theory of the Earth, Volume 1 (of 4) by James Hutton
A shell had maculated the wall on each side and above the statue, but the little niche and canopy were quite untouched.
From A Volunteer Poilu by Henry Beston
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