1 At the far end of the shed near the street a speck of pink light showed in the darkness and as he walked towards it he became aware of a faint aromatic odour.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 2 2 Within, stood a tall old man, clean shaven save for a long white moustache, and clad in black from head to foot, without a single speck of colour about him anywhere.
3 They sat well back and gazed formally at the distant speck of red light which was suspended before the high altar.
4 Father Purdon knelt down, turned towards the red speck of light and, covering his face with his hands, prayed.
5 And outside, the silent wilderness surrounding this cleared speck on the earth struck me as something great and invincible, like evil or truth, waiting patiently for the passing away of this fantastic invasion.
6 Suddenly there had fallen upon his brain that tiny scarlet speck that makes men mad.
7 He had been standing on the moor listening to a skylark and watching him swing higher and higher into the sky until he was only a speck in the heights of blue.
8 Before he was t'other side of the river I was out of the hole; him and his raft was just a speck on the water away off yonder.
9 I looked away down-stream, and seen a black speck on the water.
10 Then I see another speck, and chased that; then another, and this time I was right.
11 When Franz appeared again on the shore, the yacht only seemed like a small white speck on the horizon.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 32. The Waking. 12 Better far that your bones should bleach in this wilderness than that you should prove to be that little speck of decay which in time corrupts the whole fruit.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER I. ON THE GREAT ALKALI PLAIN 13 The reddleman watched his form as it diminished to a speck on the road and became absorbed in the thickening films of night.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 2 Humanity Appears upon the Scene, Hand in Hand with Trouble 14 We stumbled slowly along in the darkness, with the black loom of the craggy hills around us, and the yellow speck of light burning steadily in front.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ... 15 We saw him for a long time in the moonlight until he was only a small speck moving swiftly among the boulders upon the side of a distant hill.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 9. The Light upon the Moor [Second Report of Dr. ...