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  • I prepared myself for a fresh start, a short existence savouring the warm, sun-speckled water and the swaying sea-dwelling plants.

    DEATH IS A WEIRD SHADE OF PINK • by M.Sherlock 2008

  • The little man's hands tightened on the rail, knuckles knifing through the sun-speckled skin.

    Sick Cycle Carousel 2010

  • Kurson immerses neophyte divers into the perils and dangers of wreck-diving particularly east coast wreck-diving, where the treacherous Atlantic Ocean can change from seemingly docile, sun-speckled swells to dive-boat-wrecking gales within a few hours.

    Buzzine » Shadow Divers 2009

  • "Those drawn-out, sun-speckled afternoons, in sight of a curtain-row of poplars reflected in the river, or under some opulent chestnut tree, afternoons heavy with dreamy boredom now seem graced by a special glow," he writes.

    Oasis Of Normalcy 2007

  • This proved that Professor Bill really was a good man and had no ulterior interest in Robert whatsoever; for Bobby, the slender kid with skin like a sun-speckled apricot, was long gone.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • Anthony, who had been lolling in the hammock on the sun-speckled south porch, strolled around to the front of the house.

    The Beautiful and Damned 2003

  • Everything about this woman — her beauty, her graceful movements, her courage and cunning, her words, even her thoughts — called out to his heart, made him feel young and vibrant, made him want to race a horse across a sun-speckled field or sail his ship around the known world.

    Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

  • Everything about this woman — her beauty, her graceful movements, her courage and cunning, her words, even her thoughts — called out to his heart, made him feel young and vibrant, made him want to race a horse across a sun-speckled field or sail his ship around the known world.

    Ascendance Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 2001

  • The company pressed deeper into the woods, climbing from the bay's coastline into the surrounding hills, burrowing deeper into the sun-speckled shadows and thickening woods.

    Ilse Witch Brooks, Terry 2000

  • All the world seemed a patchwork quilt of green and gray to Gary as he looked out over the sun-speckled landscape.

    The Woods Out Back Salvatore, R. A., 1959- 1993

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