Lexicographical Neighbors of Splatches
Literary usage of Splatches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1840)
"It is like hair-powder and pomatum, not over-well mixed ; here a little more of
one than of the other, with occasional splatches of reds, blues, ..."
2. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1862)
"... and often artistically contrasted in delicately inlaid patterns, are coming
into vogue in place of tawdry splatches of gilding or die dull uniformity of ..."
3. Camera (1907)
"... of minute air bubbles, which resisted the solvent action of the hypo and so
caused opaque splatches of undissolved silver bromide where they prevailed. ..."
4. Proceedings by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1893)
"The more typical colour is dark slaty-grey, with splatches of yellowish or whitish
scattered over it in a somewhat regular biserial manner—the yellowish or ..."
5. A History of Epidemics in Britain by Charles Creighton (1894)
"The symptoms were difficult breathing, an amazingly rapid pulse, white or brown
tongue, and " some red eruptions which run in irregular groups and splatches ..."
6. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1872)
"... of the tall hedges and the wooded country on both sides by sending across
alternate splatches of gloom and bursts of sunlight. More than once, too, ..."
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