Example Sentences

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His skin was of a flecky brown, like the stained barrel of a fowling-piece, and his hollow eyes burned in his head like blue-lights.

From White Jacket or, the World on a Man-of-War by Melville, Herman

Can she make your real flecky paste, as melts in your mouth, and lies all up like a puff?

From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Stowe, Harriet Beecher