...But never a speck upon the horizon that might be sail or smoke rewardedthe tired eyes that in their endless, hopeless vigil strained daily outacross the vast expanse of ocean...
Edgar Rice Burroughs 「The Beasts of Tarzan」
... And Waldo waited till the moving speck had disappeared on the horizon; then he stooped and kissed passionately a hoof-mark in the sand...
(AKA Ralph Iron) Olive Schreiner 「The Story of an African Farm」
...In this country of wide expanses and clear air we could thus often make out a very far-off herd simply as a speck of rich colour against the boundless rolling plains...
Stewart Edward White 「African Camp Fires」
...From her window she could see Cresswell's straight shoulders, as he rode toward town, and beyond him a black speck in the road...
W. E. B. Du Bois 「The Quest of the Silver Fleece」
...Yeah, how you speck me to haul in a brand new wife when he can’tlead a wagon-broke wife eighteen miles? Me, I’m going git onesoon’s Cody show me his’n...
Zora Hurston and Langston Hughes 「The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts」
...I bet if judgment day was to happentomorrow he’d speck I orter fix him a bucket to carry long...
Zora Hurston and Langston Hughes 「The Mule-Bone: A Comedy of Negro Life in Three Acts」
...She sat composedly alone in the sand,watching the glinting speck drawinglandward...
Various 「Ainslee's magazine, Volume 16, No. 3, October, 1905」
...This song doesnot sound loud when near, yet it can be distinctly heard when the birdappears but a speck in the distance...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...There is also a small white spot onthe flank, scarcely visible, and excepting for this speck the bird at restappears entirely black...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...In the course of half an hour the last of the Camanchees was seen to hover for a second on the horizon, like a speck of black against the sky, and then to disappear...
R.M. Ballantyne 「The Dog Crusoe and his Master」
...When it looked but a speck she shaded her eyes with her hand and stillwatched...
Lenore Elizabeth Mulets 「Stories of Birds」
...Like a fallingstar the bright speck flashed through the air, drawing ever nearer andnearer to the cool waters of Birdland and the safety which awaited himthere...
Abbie Farwell Brown 「The Curious Book of Birds」
...Itis still very small; a mere speck of food is a feast; but the contentsof one pea will not suffice the whole number to the end...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
...Onthe first segment of the thorax is a brown sash, interrupted in themiddle; lastly, there is a small black speck on each side, behind thethird segment...
Jean Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Glow-Worm and Other Beetles」
... The Chalicodoma's nests abound, but I cannot see a single Anthrax make a black speck upon their surface...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
...When a red speck, a few millimetres wide, appears on this pale background, it is a sure sign that a Stelis has been that way...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Mason-bees」
...As soon as he had fed, andshaken every speck of loose loam from hisfur, and washed himself clean with his tinyred tongue, he once more sought his cosycorner and fell asleep...
Alfred W. Rees 「Creatures of the Night」
...He had wonderfully acute vision, andwould let me know directly a hawk was in sight,though it might be but the merest speck in the sky...
Elizabeth Brightwen 「Wild Nature Won By Kindness」
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