But suddenly the bunch of feathers stopped whirling, and then, to her amazement, the girl saw Billina crouching upon the prostrate form of a
speckled rooster.
But the same wave shall bring them new playthings, and spread before them new
speckled shells!
The sea-vultures all in pious mourning, the air-sharks all punctiliously in black or
speckled. In life but few of them would have helped the whale, I ween, if peradventure he had needed it; but upon the banquet of his funeral they most piously do pounce.
THE Kitten went on washing her white paws; so Lucie asked a
speckled hen--
"I've just composed a tune called 'The
Speckled Alligator.' It's in patch-time, which is much superior to rag-time, and I've composed it in honor of the Patchwork Girl, who has just arrived."
The inexhaustible baby was instantly made to congratulate him, and to say, with appropriate action on the part of a very limp arm and a
speckled fist: 'Three cheers, ladies and gemplemorums.
There was a boy's old
speckled straw hat on the floor; I took that, too.
I say all, my father, except three only--the big black Africander ox, the little red Zulu ox with one horn, and the
speckled ox.
These serpents are not long, but have a body short and thick, and their bellies
speckled with brown, black, and yellow; they have a wide mouth, with which they draw in a great quantity of air, and, having retained it some time, eject it with such force that they kill at four yards' distance.
The green lea was
speckled as thickly with them as a canvas by Van Alsloot or Sallaert with burghers.
Mother Atkinson, as all called their hostess, was the merriest there, and the busiest; for she kept flying up to wait on the children, to bring out some new dish, or to banish the live stock, who were of such a social turn that the colt came into the entry and demanded sugar; the cats sat about in people's laps, winking suggestively at the food; and
speckled hens cleared the kitchen floor of crumbs, as they joined in the chat with a cheerful clucking.
The
speckled band!' There was something else which she would fain have said, and she stabbed with her finger into the air in the direction of the doctor's room, but a fresh convulsion seized her and choked her words.