Sentence examples similar to a fleck of mud from inspiring English sources

Why are we here on this fleck of mud, revolving in darkness?… We want peace, concord and the affection of other peoples, and lo and behold here we are at war, massacring and being massacred.

It persists, a fleck of the late nineteen-twenties.

Next to, say, McDonald's, Pret a Manger amounts to a fleck of relish, if that.

That's how you get to a fleck of a town called Cotto.

These men yearn for some religious or spiritual assurance that they are more than "a fleck of dust condemned to know it is a fleck of dust".

But once she started singing it, there wasn't a fleck of spite in her voice.

There was a fleck of white, which he picked out with the tip of his knife.

I couldn't pick out a fleck of corn.

Given the tremendous speeds of orbiting spacecraft, even a fleck of paint can pose a threat.

Is it a fleck of dirt?

On her stomach was a fleck of a burnt brownish-black substance.