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mottles

vb. (en-third-person singular of: mottle)

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The mottles of age were more visible at night, and his neck, where it disappeared into his turtleneck, was all ropes and tendons.

Scum mottles the lee of snowbanks, and an occasional glow flows around exposed carcasses: the spirits of the dead, classical observers wrote.

The face was covered with age mottles but they were not what gave the impression: It was that he looked like someone who had starved to death: Even the outline of the few remaining teeth could be seen through the skin of the face.

By the mottles on your skin, by the slanting of your eyes, by the taint in your veins, I speak with full knowledge and meaning.

It is habitually hard upon Sir Leicester, whose countenance it greenly mottles in the manner of sage-cheese, and in whose aristocratic system it effects a dismal revolution.