She looked regretfully at the delicate dappled skin of the little animal.

His aim was wild, the point of the screwdriver shot into the cat's flaring nostril, but instead of finding the nasal channel into the brain, it deflected slightly, penetrated the gristle of the nose, and ran along the outside of the cheekbone below the dappled skin.

Beyond the grey mare stood another of dappled skin, and beyond the dappled mare, at a point where the brook changed direction and bore to the right under a wall of evergreens, was a third - a horse whose coat was like black velvet.

Now he wore soft hide breeches, made of some dappled skin, pale fawn and white, and tanned to suppleness of fabric.

Thus that dappled skin, peeled from a mutant, both reminded him of how he had been orphaned and reproached him too.

I had a cord girt around me, and with it I had once thought to take the leopard of the dappled skin.

The dappled gray skin twitched and shivered as though beset by hordes of flies, and the colt shook its head confusedly, as though wondering what was going on.

During a recent visit, my son and I came nose to nose with a gaboon viper, whose dappled skin blends beautifully with its habitat.

His dappled skin jittered and jumped, but he allowed Swan to rub his head and made a low noise in his throat that sounded like a sigh of relief.