| 1. | Your chants, O year all mottled with evil and good--year of foreboding. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Of you, my Land--your rivers, prairies, States--you, mottled Flag I love. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 3. | He had glittering eyes,--small, keen, and black,--and thin wide mottled lips. - from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens |
| 4. | I was on some sort of a heathy common mottled over with dark clumps of furze-bushes. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | "A child would know Silver Blaze, with his white forehead and his mottled off-foreleg.. - from Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 6. | Round one of his hands he had a handkerchief wrapped, which was mottled all over with bloodstains. - from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 7. | "Sir," said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor, "that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. - from Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson |
| 8. | "He has not eaten," said Baloo, with a grunt of relief, as soon as he saw the beautifully mottled brown and yellow jacket. - from The Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling |
| 9. | As its name imports, it is of an exceedingly rich, mottled tint, with a bestreaked snowy and golden ground, dotted with spots of the deepest crimson and purple. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |