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having a variety of colors- The color displayed a slight variegation, like the mottled light at the bottom of a clear forest pond.Christopher Paolini -- Brisingr
(editor's note: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.)
- A pack of wolves, running low to the ground, their brindled fur shining in the variegated light.Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
- Its empty holds are ingurgitating a vast, continuous rush of murky brown seawater, sucking in that variegated sewage like a drowning man sucks air.Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
- The sentinels glanced at him with disbelief, their upturned faces tinted the color of tarnished brass by the variegated light.Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
- Get some boughs of laurustinus, and variegated box, and yew, and boy's-love; ay, and some bunches of chrysanthemum.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd
- This part of the Rhine, indeed, presents a singularly variegated landscape.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- _Nora_ (_takes out of the box a tambourine and a long variegated shawl.Henrik Ibsen -- A Doll's House
- The variegated fields are all one color now; the pastures, the stubble, the roads, the sky are the same leaden gray.Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
- The butcher leaped heavily sideways to avoid being mowed down into the variegated debris.Henry Roth -- Call It Sleep
- But the crotons were lusher than ever and the variegated bougainvilleas she hadn't thought would take were heavy with pink blossoms.Julia Alvarez -- In the Time of the Butterflies
- Its teeth were smooth, variegated.Dave Eggers -- A Hologram for the King
- Like the colours in a variegated cord those contrasts could be seen intertwisted, yet not mingling.Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
- An immense crowd was passing to and fro in the Neffsky Avenue; a variegated stream of ladies flowed along the pavement.Nikolai Gogol -- The Nose
- I will not submit to this aimless passing of billycock hats and Homburg hats and all the plumed and variegated head-dresses of women.Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
- His shirt collars were higher; his face was redder; his shirt-frill flaunted gorgeously out of his variegated waistcoat.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- They grew scattered, as if wild, among the variegated shrubs, but, as I say, I did not examine them closely at this time.H.G. Wells -- The Time Machine
- 50 3 skeins of variegated yarn (cap, scarf) = 1.Anne Frank -- The Diary of a Young Girl
- Always a good party man, Lincoln feared the Republican Party would disintegrate if it sacrificed the one principle its variegated supporters held in common.Richard Hofstadter -- Abraham Lincoln and the Self-Made Myth
- The Kendal green, though its date is more ancient, ought surely to be as dear to our feelings, as the variegated tartans of the north.Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
- I had surprised her with it one night, a lovely large dieffenbachia with emerald-and-cream variegated leaves.John Grogan -- Marley & Me
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