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Dapple  v. t.  (past & past part. dappled; pres. part. dappling)  To variegate with spots; to spot. "The gentle day,... Dapples the drowsy east with spots of gray." "The dappled pink and blushing rose."






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"Dapple" Quotes from Famous Books



... put so much in the bag? Besides you know it is the last feed I shall give her. Poor dear little Gypsy," she added, patting the neck of her dapple grey; "you have found a kind mistress for ...
— Tom Brown at Oxford • Thomas Hughes

... it happened, but after very small cups of very black coffee and a pousse cafe, in the officer's room, of genuine kirschwasser and good curacoa, I was mounted on a bay horse; there was a dapple-gray alongside of me; and running ahead of us, to clear the way, the officer's sais afoot, ready to hold our horses when we halted. We were quickly mounted and off like the wind, past turbans, flowing bournouses, tarbooshes, past grand old mosques, petty cafes, where the faithful ...
— Continental Monthly, Vol. I, No. VI, June, 1862 - Devoted To Literature and National Policy • Various

... off his mantle and laid it on the ground and from the sheriff's portmanteau he counted out three hundred pounds in gold. Then he led him through the forest, set him on his dapple-grey palfrey, and sent him ...
— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)

... lifted her on a milk-white steed, And himself on a dapple grey, With a buglet horn hung down by his side, And slowly ...
— The Balladists - Famous Scots Series • John Geddie

... into the room. He was a plump and pink little man, with very bright eyes. His bristly hair stood up straight all over his head, giving it the appearance of a broad, dapple-grey clothes-brush. He appeared to be of the opinion that Nature had given the world the toothbrush as a model of what a moustache should be; and his own was ...
— Arsene Lupin • Edgar Jepson

... of welcome greeted him as he entered, but was soon succeeded by a spirited snort as he attempted to lead out a most beautiful dapple gray, Hugh's favorite steed, his pet of pets, and the horse most admired and coveted in ...
— Bad Hugh • Mary Jane Holmes

... reasons, that yourself should see you are wide of the matter."—"How can I be mistaken, thou eternal misbeliever!" cried Don Quixote; "dost thou not see that knight that comes riding up directly towards us upon a dapple-gray steed, with a helmet of gold on his head."—"I see what I see," replied Sancho, "and the devil of anything I can spy but a fellow on such another gray ass as mine is, with something that glitters ...
— The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites • Eva March Tappan

... first came near, almost timidly touched her hand, and said, "Cheer up. It is but for a little while, mayhap. She will send for thee. Come, here is thine old palfrey—poor old Dapple. Let me put thee on him, and for this brief time let us feign that all is as it was, and thou art my little ...
— Unknown to History - A Story of the Captivity of Mary of Scotland • Charlotte M. Yonge

... Goulden and I were at work; it had begun to grow dark, and Catherine was lighting the lamp, a gentle rain was falling on the panes, when Theodore Roeber, who had charge of the telegraph, passed under our windows, riding a big dapple-gray horse at the top of his speed, his blouse filled out by the air, he went so fast, and he was holding his great felt hat on with one hand, while he kept striking his horse with a whip which he held in the other, though he was galloping like the wind. Father Goulden wiped the glass and leaned ...
— Waterloo - A sequel to The Conscript of 1813 • Emile Erckmann

... foot," he added, "it is because we wanted to walk a little. The doctor's prescription, my dear. My carriage is yonder, behind those trees. Do you recognize my dapple-grays?" And he extended his cane in that direction, as if he were addressing himself, not to Maxence alone, but to all ...
— Other People's Money • Emile Gaboriau



Words linked to "Dapple" :   macule, maculation, plaque, parhelion, sundog, dapple-grey, facula, stipple, speckle, speck, marking, cloud, sunspot, pinpoint, dapple-gray, splash, worn spot



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