My grandma's final days (which lasted about two years) were mottled with difficult questions: "When are you taking me away from here?" "Can I live with you?" "Do you have any money to get me better care?" It should be said that her carers were great, but they were overstretched.
The jungle and heat more or less did me in, however, my basically Irish skin growing mottled and scaled with sweat-related embarrassments in places impossible to keep dry.
A great verdant scene, mottled with the blackened gray of the temples below, unfurled itself before me.
Scale insects, whitefly and the dreaded red spider mite have all caused me headaches, sapping the life out of my indoor jungle and causing yellowing, mottled leaves and sticky resinous secretions.
He is particularly fond of the Boo Sisters, a singing trio whose hit song is a bluesy-country rendition of "Please Don't Blow Me Out". Of all the fruit he grows, cooks and carves — hulking pumpkins and petite squash, with textures mottled, smooth and scalloped — which does he like best?
Brown, mottled sheepskin.
The female is mottled brown.
Back mottled, red and blue.
Ringger's lighting here was dim, mottled.
