pastiness

Example Sentences

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The scooters have now descended upon Mexico City, where angry locals refer to them as patines del diablo, or “devil’s skates.”

From Slate • Mar. 14, 2019

Sit, Jessica, look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold!

From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Bulfinch, Thomas

Even as she gazes, spellbound, the clouds roll backward, and stars grow and multiply exceedingly, until all "the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold."

From Rossmoyne by Unknown

With its pure sky, and its odour of warm pines, its deep cool shadows, its patines of bright gold where the sun penetrates, and then, plashing through it, this curling, dimpling, artificial torrent?

From The Lady Paramount by Harland, Henry

"Look how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings."

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall