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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And one, that is Duns Scotus the champion of the Im- maculate Conception.
From Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Now First Published by Bridges, Robert Seymour
To-morrow's papers would provide them with full accounts, the name of Susan Brundon among the maculate details....
From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Hergesheimer, Joseph
Most maculate thoughts, master, are masked under such colours.
From Love's Labour's Lost by Shakespeare, William
That done, he returned, happily unrecognized, rumpled & maculated, to the Morrow dinner.
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Back in the ages, dusty, maculated, Across the slate-hued fogs of time, Behold them!—oblongs of sliding water And cubed banks, Bridges and barges, blatantly, wonderfully, inconceivably angular, Calling, clamouring—canal, canal, canal!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914 by Various
Ten priests, in white vestments, maculated with red, stepped out to the centre of the altar.
From Sulamith: A Romance of Antiquity by Kuprin, A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich)
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 Bierce, Ambrose
Our specimen of the Sharp-shinned Hawk is referred to velox on the basis of the reddish, maculated breast, sides, and thighs.
From Birds from Coahuila, Mexico by Urban, Emil K.
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Love's Labour's Lost
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