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    dappled


    1. The trees go on for ever, the sunlight dappled if it comes through at all


    2. closing the sun dappled skies,


    3. The sun came out from behind the clouds momentarily and shone its dappled light through the old windows and down upon the books


    4. Stan stood looking out across the moon dappled sea


    5. At the junction of a footpath deep within the forest, Truman stopped and in the gloom of dappled moonlight, slogged with his computer through knee-deep mud to the edge of a swamp


    6. Now she could tell as it glistened through the dappled shadows, but was he real? Tears began to course down her cheeks as renewing hope overcame unbelief


    7. It was most unusual seeing one of them in broad daylight or even the dappled light of the woods


    8. Europe; the dappled teem towards Africa, India and Australia


    9. the soft hairs at the base of her neck as she leaned back to rest against him, both watching the dappled clouds drifting lazily across the landscape, before sitting down to eat


    10. In the early morning with the moon now slanting toward the western sky, a dark sinewy shadow snaked across their path, sparkles of reflected moonlight dappled its darkness

    11. dappled in the rain


    12. shadow snaked across their path, sparkles of reflected moonlight dappled its darkness


    13. Titus trundled along the trail behind Athene on the dappled Nordheim pony that he had acquired from the stock left outside the shrine


    14. clumps, not unlike a spider web dappled with water droplets This structure


    15. Leif took the lead on his dappled mare


    16. The Sentinel’s dappled mare was trained to evade such an attack


    17. Deep in the woods and surrounded by evergreens and ferns, dappled by sunlight she stared back at me


    18. into the valley dappled with flaming trees and a meandering brook, they saw what appeared to be dinosaurs


    19. The brown-green grass was dappled with clumps of white snow


    20. Dappled on the surface,

    21. Dappled rays of sunlight filtered through the crack in the curtains, illuminating the sleeping form in the bed


    22. The dappled blue of the water’s surface rippled constantly


    23. trees, making dappled patterns of color on the ground


    24. His eyes opened, and he squinted up at her through the dappled sunlight


    25. Passing through forests of dark greens, dappled with hints of sunshine, I pictured Paris as a sparkling diamond, surrounded by the rest of France


    26. Dappled light filtered through many various trees, giving us shade from the day’s heat


    27. Liz stood in the dappled sunlight, waiting


    28. Looking about her, her blue eyes sparkling in the dappled sunlight, she gasped


    29. Outside on the steps of the chapel, the late morning sun streamed through the shade of a maple tree and cast a dappled sunlight on Anne’s face as she chatted with the friar and the priest


    30. Dappled sunlight pours in through the cracks and scars within the wall and lights the inside of the twisted spire in tones that reminds her of early morning—when, just as the sun has risen in the real world, energy from the new day spills across the confines of plastic-based windows and casts the room in a melody of happiness

    31. Nothing transpires, at least to her knowledge, though with each passing moment the air grows cold and the dappled, golden sunlight dilutes until it is nothing more than grey


    32. and dappled shade that beckoned me beneath the city's trees


    33. clouds, and a light sun shower dappled the surface of the pond


    34. A creamy pale face with dappled skin


    35. Publicly marked with the dappled marks of diseased ostracism


    36. Later that afternoon, however, as they bathed in a spring dappled with flower petals from a nearby knoll of primroses, she let on that she had indeed been listening to their talk


    37. Her answer came about two hours later when Darren pulled his niddy to a stop next to--wonder of wonders--a deep, blue lagoon dappled by the shadows of its concealing trees


    38. When direct sunbeams penetrate through interstices in the shady covert of trees and hedgerows, they carry to the ground a representation, not of the figures of the minute spaces between the leaves through which they streamed, but circular luminous images of the sun himself; so that the ground appears to be dappled with bright circles lying on a field of shadow


    39. "How can I be mistaken in what I say, unbelieving traitor?" returned Don Quixote; "tell me, seest thou not yonder knight coming towards us on a dappled grey steed, who has upon his head a helmet of gold?"


    40. It was a close, sultry day: devoid of sunshine, but with a sky too dappled and hazy to threaten rain; and our place of meeting had been fixed at the guide-stone, by the cross-roads

    41. From up here the sea, a deep blue dappled with cloud-shadows, looked almost inviting


    42. The Dappled Grays


    43. Debray, I need not give a further description, because to you my beautiful pair of dappled grays were well known


    44. "My dappled grays?" demanded the baroness, springing to the window


    45. Two hours afterwards, Madame Danglars received a most flattering epistle from the count, in which he entreated her to receive back her favorite "dappled grays," protesting that he could not endure the idea of making his entry into the Parisian world of fashion with the knowledge that his splendid equipage had been obtained at the price of a lovely woman's regrets


    46. Ere long a carriage will dash past here, drawn by the pair of dappled gray horses you saw me with yesterday; now, at the risk of your own life, you must manage to stop those horses before my door


    47. Then, commencing a loud whistling noise, he rubbed them well all over their bodies for several minutes; then, undisturbed by the noisy crowd collected round the broken carriage, Ali quietly harnessed the pacified animals to the count's chariot, took the reins in his hands, and mounted the box, when to the utter astonishment of those who had witnessed the ungovernable spirit and maddened speed of the same horses, he was actually compelled to apply his whip in no very gentle manner before he could induce them to start; and even then all that could be obtained from the celebrated "dappled grays," now changed into a couple of dull, sluggish, stupid brutes, was a slow, pottering pace, kept up with so much difficulty that Madame de Villefort was more than two hours returning to her residence in the Faubourg St


    48. Several rabbits were already running down the field toward a distant hedge dappled white with great patches of maybloom


    49. She had no room in her mind for screamed in her breast: “I’ve killed Ashley! I’ve killed him!” And in that wild moment she any picture save that of Ashley, lying at the feet of Yankee cavalrymen, his fair hair dappled with blood


    50. How many words would the old Mercer have thrown at this tree, the bones of this tree, the dappled black bones of this wind-whipped tree, and at this sky? And how much farther away would they have carried him from the feeling still gathering inside? Here he was, six months into his new life, and already this creature beside him, white in the streetlight, in whom wild dreams might even now be unfolding, was his









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    Synonyms for "dappled"

    dappled mottled

    "dappled" definitions

    having spots or patches of color