Utiliser "speck" dans une phrase

1. Her eyes drawn lazily to her forearms, she spots some specks of apricot paint and concentrates on picking them off, checking her hands and giving them the same treatment

2. Glowering at the falling shapes, he craned his neck to the sky and when the heavens glowed beneath a series of bursts, he noted with anger and disgust that the number of specks floating above had greatly diminished since the last time he looked

3. Occasionally he thought he saw specks of movement as they picked up speed over the remote valleys of the mountains

4. It’s just a speck amongst all the other specks

5. Two specks of tears stood on his cheeks and he fixed on

6. “Fuck!” said the sergeant, while the constable was quicker on her feet and only had a couple of specks; which she brushed at disgustedly with a quickly-produced snot-rag

7. Seemingly pinned atop, the constellations stood out as brilliant specks

8. Hilderich was looking with amazement around the walls and the ceiling, the black matte stone having turned into a semi-transparent glass, the light casting hues and specks reminiscent of an artisan’s glass-work, or a gemstone

9. I say plain to see, but it was the addition of tiny specks on the plate which added whole new dimensions to the dish

10. Frequent patches of dirt and specks of blood tangoed with the whitewashed walls, offering the only bit of decoration that existed in the horribly pale room

11. A couple of specks moving

12. And so it happened that when the black and the bronze appeared as distant specks high above, it was to observe their quarry lounging on a huge white silk tablecloth that was scattered with glinting silver dishes and pitchers and centered by a twelve-flame candelabra, leisurely enjoying a fine repast

13. He could see small specks moving along the towering walls of

14. few specks in the landscape that I hadn’t noticed before

15. It was a line of moving black specks that undulated as they made their way toward the mounted men

16. The line of moving black specks wavered as it increased in size, and now he could see that the individuals also had a kind of squiggly quality about them

17. Leadbeater and Besant, two leading metaphysicists of the twentieth century, explained in 1919 that, based on metaphysical evidence, instead of thinking of the ultimate constituents of matter as solid specks floating in a vacuum, we realise that it is the apparent void which is solid and that the specks are but bubbles (of nothing) in it

18. “That would be self evident,” said the Captain, dusting lingering specks of soil from his sleeve

19. He wore jeans and a rumpled shirt with specks of

20. In an instant later all the specks fly out of all the suns setting on all the horizons and sprout a viciously bizarre air force to finish you off

21. Light from the dimly lit sconces splashed through frosted glass and onto the shiny black granite countertop, where tiny specks of gold glinted from different angles

22. Matthew noticed that a few tiny specks of Joe’s blood behind the radiator in the bathroom, where he had fatally fallen were still visible and had to grit his teeth to stop him crying

23. Suddenly, to the west, the blue sky was dotted with white specks

24. specks of pollen floating past the upstairs window at

25. Specks of green exists between the mighty buildings and Grailem recalls from the history records he had read on the starship computer that it was not always like this

26. Underneath the operating table I do see a few specks that look like drips of blood

27. It was less cheerful than she appeared to be, as it was infused with specks of sadness

28. The lower part of the sky-blue walls had been thronged with thick specks of dust caused by heavy rains in the past few days

29. The entire fraternity house was littered with cups, plates, specks of food and the stench of booze and dope

30. Most of the tiny specks on the map were

31. tiny specks on the

32. He could see specks of black soaring through the sky that he knew had to be birds

33. “What say you?” Fishmael shouted, throwing foam specks in Stan's direction like a wave crest in a storm

34. Outside, Reno's hair lifted off the nape of his neck, a few sparkling specks of energy the color of raw mako rising up around him and winding around the slender frame as he continued to hum

35. specks from trees and munchies

36. droves, dots, and specks, and they were shiny and twinkling

37. specks of forested areas

38. 79 million square miles of United States territory to pick from, I am but the smallest of specks on the map and try as anyone might, they will not find me

39. As she watched she noticed specks of light traversing the plethora of avenues

40. This was a fishing village, and the boats were lined up all across the shore, the waters were dotted with the many boats coming or going, and some so far out they were but specks

41. Four tiny specks appeared

42. Flashes of light and swirls of sparkling specks of dust where extraneous bits of information being discarded or woven into the fabric of the new manifestation kept the eyes entertained

43. Here we are, hundreds of miles above Undil, mere specks in the sky

44. Specks of glitter sparkle on the station pilot’s license, whereas the Recruit ID is just plain

45. A few specks of liquid settled on her cheek

46. souls disappeared into specks as Rhone and his companion

47. Suddenly, Ailia noticed a small, moving specks of light off the shore

48. There were a few specks of light that abruptly sprang up in the sky

49. “And our common promise?” Vere peered through the clear specks of the mirrored eye she was existing in

50. turning his head, Roger saw two small white specks coming toward him that

51. As the two white specks drew

52. The earth is not flat, neither is it stationary; the sky is not a dome; the sun does not move; the stars are not small specks of light; and matter which was once supposed to be fixed has been found to be in a state of perpetual flux

53. Pastor Jack squinted as he peered down the road at the two specks on

54. She admired the little specks of crushed shells sprinkled sparsely through the thick, hand cut slab

55. Those blessed books! If only I could have gone on paying them over and over again, paying them all day! But when I had done them, and conversed about the hens and bees and cow with Antoine, and it was getting near lunch-time, and at any moment through the window I might see the three specks that had dwindled appearing as three specks that were swelling, I thought I noticed I had a headache

56. I remembered how I was only a speck after all in uncomfortably limitless space, of no account whatever in the general scheme of things, but with a horrid private capacity for being often and easily hurt; and how specks have a trick of dying, which I in my turn would presently do, and a fresh speck, not nearly so nice, as I hoped and believed, would immediately start up and fill my vacancy, perhaps so exactly my vacancy that it would even wear my gloves and stockings

57. Soon, all we can see is two specks moving in the air; when they are almost out of our sight, the Taker starts to descend

58. Torpah’s eyes showed specks of light

59. We are but specks in the great universe and it is the night which reminds of this

60. pink of her health and vitality in the millions of specks of her heavily moist breath

61. specks of light in a dark night sky with heavenly bodies

62. He'd gotten far enough now for them to see the specks of gold

63. Black specks of blackened and whitened carbon

64. When was the first craze for pepper? When did the first craze to sprinkle hot black specks onto food appear? In Europe when the first modern European stoves replaced open-hearth cooking

65. When rich, elite Europeans found themselves eating food without black and white specks of soot on it

66. They missed their dearly beloved specks of cancer-causing carbon

67. Then Europeans discovered spices; black and white pepper: it instantly became an elite luxury fad… sprinkling black and white specks pepper on their food replaced the white and black specks of soot they were used to

68. then looked at the finger turned black by the dust, specks of the

69. more and more specks followed it, uniting into a stream waving

70. And their scientific abstract reality will come crashing to the ground… And our new-fangled science will join all of the other superstitious realities of the old alchemy sorcerers… along with the superstitious realities of the old witch doctors, the superstitious realities of the old medicine men, the old prophets, the old wizards, the old gurus, the old sages… With a few specks of truth in it just enough to make it mildly interesting

71. The Captain looked down with a frown at the sand specks sticking to his otherwise immaculate looking boots

72. He was so close she could see the silver specks in his eyes

73. My kind was here long before your ancestors were mere specks on the ground

74. Eric was falling at great speed; first he went through a mist, then he saw the ground and four specks holding hands before he crashed into one of them

75. In the vast steppe, bathed in sunshine, he could just see, like black specks, the nomads' tents

76. And greater sets follow, making specks of the greatest inside them

77. shadows in specks on the opposite wall where the shine is;

78. Whether that which appears so is so, or is it all flashes and specks?

79. and specks what are they?

80. A few moments later the two heroes were just specks under a cloud of dust, heading down towards the charcoal city

81. My blood would curdle as I watched some enormous antenna bar my path, or saw some frightful pincer snap shut in the shadow of some cavity! A thousand specks of light glittered in the midst of the gloom

82. Born all in the dark wormy earth, cold specks of fire, evil, lights shining in the darkness

83. At first they appeared like black specks, and now they looked like birds skimming the surface of the waves

84. ” Or maybe I’ll put a smaller coffin in my coffin and a smaller one in there and it’ll keep going like Russian nesting dolls and in the smallest coffin would be a sealed envelope covered in tiny specks and a slip of paper that says, “Congratulations

85. Not only this, but on the table I found a small ball of black dough, or clay, with specks of something which looks like sawdust in it

86. He wanted to paint the gray specks, the distinguished green

87. The tiny specks of black poised against it may be the first birds of morning or the last ones of night … or the ashes of a thousand incinerators, or incipient blindness, he doesn’t know which yet, but surely there’s a message here, if he can just look hard enough

88. The bull was leaking blood like oil, dark and thick—glug, glug, and then all of a sudden it twitched, the vein shifted or something, and blood sprayed out, an angry mist, coating them in specks of red, their faces, their clothes, their hair

89. Suddenly he was aware that two black specks

90. He rubbed them, but the black specks remained

91. Senator Morgan was so angry that specks of saliva were speckling the lapels of the general manager’s morning coat

92. His beard is long and white, but as I stare at the thing, I see specks of color in it