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The Winged Monkeys 'speeches appear in white lettering on irregular black fields; these balloons don't have tapering tails like all the others, just spattery trails of black leading to the speakers.
Archive 2008-05-01 2008
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The sides of the cage quickly went red and spattery.
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 6.2 of 31.1 2009
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Shows what we know – we always the thought that the sound of young America involved guns, hip-hop and spattery poo noises that come from only ever eating cheese that comes out of a can, but we're very clearly wrong.
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What was left of his cock Was all slimy and sloppy and spattery.
Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978
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In answer Ned pointed to a spattery hole in the trench wall behind him.
Ned, Bob and Jerry on the Firing Line The Motor Boys Fighting for Uncle Sam Clarence Young
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There was a plunging and a spattery scuffle, and borne up by a million years of heredity he pursued the floating enemy.
Plum Pudding Of Divers Ingredients, Discreetly Blended & Seasoned Christopher Morley 1923
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This was a splotchy, spattery system of rust marks, like a bird's-eye view of the enemy's trenches after a week of drum fire.
The House of Torchy Sewell Ford 1907
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In my bedroom, I woke up to the top floors of 585, the morning sun rich and warm on the spattery orange brick; it was like fresh orange juice with every breakfast.
NYT > Home Page By CHRISTOPHER GRAY 2011
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And the spattery gale that has knocked over parking signs and everted umbrellas all morning suddenly quits an hour before match time, the sun emerging just as Centre Court's tarp is rolled back and the net posts driven home.
NAACHGAANA 2009
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Kirsten — Nah, I think it’s just that you didn’t see the backed-up view of the whole brown, spattery bowl!
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