10.One could see that he had indeed been a handsome man with clear-cut features sunburned by an African sun, but mottled in patches over this darker surface were curious whitish patches which had bleached his skin.
11.The deeps of the sky are mottled with singing wings of every tone and color; clouds of brilliant chrysididae dancing and swirling in exquisite rhythm, golden-barred vespidae, dragon-flies, butterflies, grating cicadas, and jolly, rattling grasshoppers, fairly enameling the light.
12.It was now a booming river as large as the Tuolumne at ordinary stages, its current brown with mining-mud washed down from many a " claim, " and mottled with sluice-boxes, fence-rails, and logs that had long lain above its reach.