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The crowd was a motley mix of artists, musicians, and tourists.motley = varied
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She wore a motley outfit of clashing patterns and bright colors.motley = mixed
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The man wore motley. (source)motley = a multicolored woolen fabric woven of mixed threads
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From obscure philatelic journals furnished her by Genghis Cohen, an ambiguous footnote in Motleys Rise of the Dutch Republic, an 80-year-old pamphlet on the roots of modern anarchism, a book of sermons by Blobb's brother Augustine also among Bortz's Wharfingeriana, along with Blobb's original clues, Oedipa was able to fit together this account of how the organization began: In 1577, the northern provinces of the Low Countries, led by the Protestant noble William of Orange, had been struggling nine years for independence from Catholic Spain and a Catholic Holy Roman Emperor.† (source)
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Oh, no, she wouldn't go away, for she's the wife of a man the Motleys have, their coachman.† (source)
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On that wall hung the motliest assortment of things Carley had ever seen—utensils, sheep and cow hides, saddles, harness, leather clothes, ropes, old sombreros, shovels, stove pipe, and many other articles for which she could find no name.† (source)
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Now they'd escaped as a motley flock, clucking far in the trees beyond.† (source)
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"He wouldn't have sold," she said, "the Motleys won't sell a servant."† (source)
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A bright fire was burning in the middle of the floor, at the other end of the barn; and around it, and lit weirdly up by the red glare, lolled and sprawled the motliest company of tattered gutter-scum and ruffians, of both sexes, he had ever read or dreamed of.† (source)
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Sitting so close to the desk, I could see that the covers of the books, a motley red, were badly worn and that the gray edges of the pages had been marred by pencils, crayons, and ink.† (source)
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With that, the motley assembly stumbled into the night, leaving the Count to approach the bar in relative peace and quiet.† (source)
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They were a motley group: river-men with muscles like the trunks of trees, brine-soaked mer-gods with crabs hanging from their beards, stringy old-timers with seal meat in their teeth.† (source)
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The bus was packed with a motley group of men and women who represented the spectrum of ages, neighborhoods, backstories, and motivations.† (source)
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I had thought you were the one made for motley, Tyrion, but it would appear that I was wrong.† (source)
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If I told him something funny that happened at school, he was an attentive and appreciative audience; unlike Mrs. Swanson (who froze and looked startled when I made a joke) or Dave (who chuckled, but awkwardly, and always a beat too late), he liked to laugh, and I loved it when he told me stories of his own life: raucous late-marrying uncles and busybody nuns of his childhood, the third-rate boarding school on the Canadian border where his teachers had all been drunks, the big house upstate that his father kept so cold there was ice on the inside of the windows, gray December afternoons reading Tacitus or Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic.† (source)
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They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.† (source)
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