streaking
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Similar to No. 360, but slightly larger and appreciably paler; ♀ with black bars above narrower; streakings of underparts finer and more rusty.
From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.
Through the arched broad window at the back is seen the sky, just beginning to be suffused with the rosy streakings of dawn.
From King Arthur's Socks and Other Village Plays by Dell, Floyd
He gained a few hours sleep before morning, but was awake at the earliest streakings of light and started on his return.
From Footprints in the Forest by Ellis, Edward Sylvester
The troops had breakfast while the stars were fading, and found themselves in column on the pike under the first pink streakings of the dawn.
From The Long Roll by Johnston, Mary
A mirage trembled to the south, a glassy vision, crystal clear amid the chalky streakings and the rings of parched and blanching sinks.
From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine
