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  • Many dictionaries of Neapolitan dialect from the late eighteenth century onward tell us that pizza, at its simplest, was merely a generic word for all kinds of pies, and for what would be called focaccia or schiacciata elsewhere in Italy, that is, a flat piece of dough dappled with fat or oil and cooked quickly in a hot oven. Delizia!
  • The woodland floor is dappled with sunlight, which makes it difficult to tell what is a mushroom and what is just a dead leaf.
  • Can you see high hills dappled in snow from your apartment or damp basement flat?
  • The evening sunlight dappled through the leaves, casting shards of light onto the bridle paths.
  • In Kentucky, the plant is often associated with azaleas, mountain laurels and bellworts under the dappled shade of birch trees.
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  • I grab my bowl, that Mary had added a heap of cilantro, Parmesan and cabbage, and wander over to the table with the window view of the fog-draped, rain dappled, slow-moving Milwaukee River taking its sorry-ass time through the warehouse district on its way to Lake Michigan. March « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground
  • There are other most beautiful horses, particularly a dappled jennet, which is ridden by a figure that has all the body covered with scales after the manner of a fish; which is copied from the Column of Trajan, wherein the figures have armour of that kind; and it is thought that such armour is made from the skins of crocodiles. Lives of the Most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 04 (of 10), Filippino Lippi to Domenico Puligo
  • She was of a burnt sorrel hue, with a little mixture of dapple-grey spots, but above all she had horrible tail; for it was little more or less than every whit as great as the steeple-pillar of St. Mark beside Langes: and squared as that is, with tuffs and ennicroches or hair-plaits wrought within one another, no otherwise than as the beards are upon the ears of corn. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • -- [MS.M. erased.] [440] [For the use of "dapple" as an intransitive verb, compare The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4
  • This section of the highway cuts through the island's rough interior, offering travelers views of stark rocky mountains, shady eucalyptus groves around gurgling streams, and the omnipresent tan-and-green-dappled shrublands Italians refer to as Mediterranean macchia. Enjoy the Ride
  • Stacey chose a dapple gray horse, and a groom saddled the horse up for her.
  • Nestled among shimmering aspens and cottonwoods on 3 secluded, wildflower-dappled acres, this hand-hewn log home serves up a feast for the eyes.
  • Behind layers of trees, women in vivid colours walked through dappled light. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • Conceived as a manmade forest dappled by sunlight, the galleria's laminated timber structure (a material previously prohibited by Ontario's building code) has a distinctly arboreal quality.
  • Along the edge of the forest, still far away and tiny, their horses, a black gelding and a dappled gray mare, picked their way downslope, followed by a string of mules.
  • The dappled sunlight fell across her face as she lay beneath the tree.
  • They'll do well in sun, or light or dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • When my body changed, my dapples faded into the silk white coat of adulthood. Zombies vs. Unicorns
  • Through the arch of dappled leaves, Anna could only just glimpse a turreted house with an imposing stone facade. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
  • The raintrees provided a cover of dappled sunlight for guests as they quaffed jam and scones with a cup of tea served in pannikins by women in pinafores and lace caps, all in aid of the 125th anniversary of the Territory's first homestead.
  • Swinging gently in my hammock, gazing out through the dappled veil of my mosquito net, I watch a magical scene.
  • The raintrees provided a cover of dappled sunlight for guests as they quaffed jam and scones with a cup of tea served in pannikins by women in pinafores and lace caps, all in aid of the 125th anniversary of the Territory's first homestead.
  • A useful bushy deciduous shrub reaching 3m, it grows in sun or dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • A jewfish, six feet long and easily three hundred pounds, his blotchy hide mimicking the sun-dappled rock, pouting lower lip thick as Anna's wrist, lay without moving beneath an overhang of a coral-covered rock less than half his size, his wee fish brain assuring him he was hidden. Excerpt: Flashback by Nevada Barr
  • Multiple strips of horizontal glazing give fascinating dappled light within.
  • Sun dapples a bank from which an adder slips away. Country diary: Tregaron, Ceredigon
  • The dapple-grey fabric has suede cloth inserts, with fibres created from plastic bottles crafted into a soft, non-woven material. Times, Sunday Times
  • The number of black bulls was one-quarter plus one-fifth the dappled bulls plus the brown bulls.
  • Dappled sun/dappled shade: Similar to partial sun, the term dappled refers to sunlight that is filtered overhead by the leaves and branches of a tree or other tall planting. A valuable tool or a waste of $9.99?? « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • In fact, even Robert looked as if he would ask a question, but then he only smiled before moving to offer the reins of his dapple to her carriage's driver.
  • Enjoy the silvery catkins in full sun or dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • Nam's yard sat soft-lit under a few swinging lanterns amid dappled shade from the trees.
  • Isaac pulled on the leather reins and the dappled horse snorted and came to a halt.
  • Kaden laughed, patting the large dapple-gray warmblood who attempted to do just as Guinivere had suggested, ‘Not old McCartney!’
  • The foliage is quite light so it lets the sun through and gives you that special dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • Dappled by the fluid, playful light reflected from the canal below the vast leaded windows, a uniformed maid deals with sheaves of dead foliage from a small copse of indoor plants.
  • Its variations in height, pitch, and transparency make the roofline a canopy that casts a dappled light on the forest floor.
  • She stepped out into the dappled sunshine, her heels impressively vertiginous. Times, Sunday Times
  • The silvery moonlight dappled Luka's skin like sunlight, bleaching it to a state of porcelain perfection.
  • To the dappled grays used by Mlle. Zaretti, who was a top-liner on the bills, fell the lot of pulling the ticket-wagon, this being the lightest work. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle
  • The path was dappled with sunlight.
  • The mural's figures, which appear in silhouette under rays of dappled sunlight, have faded badly.
  • For instance, how could the silver of the dew-cloud, and golden weft of sunrise, playing through the dapples of a partly wooded glen, do better (in the matter of variety) than frame a pretty moving figure in a pink checked frock, with a skirt of russet murrey, and a bright brown hat? Mary Anerley
  • Plant this hardy shrub in full sun or dappled shade and enjoy the early spring blossom from March to May. Times, Sunday Times
  • The morning light fell upon him, dappled as it was by the trees that overarched us, and revealed the full horror of what he had suffered.
  • When he got up there and found them, each mare had her foal, and by the side of one of them was a big dapple-grey foal as well. which was so sleek that it shone again. The Red Fairy Book
  • Sancho said he did not want anything more than a little barley for Dapple, and half a cheese and half a loaf for himself; for the distance being so short there was no occasion for any better or bulkier provant. Don Quixote
  • Behind us, fair, light-smitten hills in dappled splendor lie, The Watchman and Other Poems
  • Keep plants in a fairly shaded place (full shade for half the day or dappled shade all day).
  • The cool avenues and glades of sun-dappled green were gone, stolen by the seasons, repainted by nature's hand into a landscape of golds and yellows and siennas and reds.
  • It's easier if you have dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • A canopy of high branches covers much of the space in dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • They like living in the dappled shade of taller trees.
  • Behind layers of trees, women in vivid colours walked through dappled light. Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
  • The sound of undulation dappled with the scriptures of the sun. My House In The Middle Of The Ocean
  • As the rough and rocky road went up through the trees, out of the valley, it was dappled by sudden sunlight.
  • They'll do fine in dappled shade but the more sun they get the more the sugars in the leaf will build to trigger an autumn display. Times, Sunday Times
  • That means also that the world round them has again returned to the Greek conviction, that all nature, especially human nature, is not entirely melodious nor luminous; but a barred and broken thing: that saints have their foibles, sinners their forces; that the most luminous virtue is often only a flash, and the blackest-looking fault is sometimes only a stain: and, without confusing in the least black with white, they can forgive, or even take delight in things that are like the [Greek: nebris], dappled. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870
  • The surrounding hills and mountains, rising 350 feet from the Raritan River Valley below, were dappled in reds and yellows and browns, lighted in places by rays of sunlight penetrating tall grey cumulous clouds. The Tower [Fiction]
  • A scrawny dapple-grey mare wearing a battered saddle stood there, reins trailing, lathered with sweat and blowing clouds of vapor. Conqueror's Moon
  • Behind stone walls dripping with clematis, a crabapple's toss away from what he called a "muddle" of windblown daisies, beneath the dappled shade of a weeping beech tree, a ruddy-cheeked Englishman, dressed in a gently rumpled olive suit, sat with a sketch pad spread across his lap. The Seattle Times
  • In a few moments both were sleeping in the dappled shade.
  • Around them dappled sunlight, birdsong and the whirr of busy wings.
  • Turning his attention to his more immediate surroundings, White found that he was seated on a very soft fur skin of some sort - a dappled pattern of lights and darks.
  • While the shadows dappled their backs they strolled deeper into the forest, voices lost in the chitter of insects. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • My father, yielding to my entreaties, has given me the prettiest turnout in Paris — two dapple-gray horses and a barouche, which is a masterpiece of elegance. Letters of Two Brides
  • On the left wing of the horse Virgil appeared, in shining armour, completely fitted to his body; he was mounted on a dapple-grey steed, the slowness of whose pace was an effect of the highest mettle and vigour. The Battle of the Books
  • What sodden indistinction just an hour ago had all but persuaded us not to regret resumes its first divisions: slate from cinder, ash from smoke, warm dapple-gray from moleskin, dove - from Varenna
  • He sat by the water, staring at his reflecting in the moonlit dappled water.
  • We lie in dappled shade amidst cawing crows, wave sound, a sprinkler playing on the short grass.
  • They do better if they spend the summer outdoors growing in a cool spot with dappled shade. The Sun
  • Rather, the worn organic colors of the ancient earth and stone of which the city is composed, the colors of limestone, the ruddy gray of tufa, the warm discoloration of once-white marble and the speckled, rich surface of the marble known as pavonazzo, dappled with white spots and inclusions like the fat in a slice of mortadella. The Forever City
  • Sunlight coming through the trees dappled her skin with golden spots as the wind rustled the leaves.
  • The statue was dappled with light from a stained-glass window.
  • They relax until it's time for lunch, after which they find some dappled shade and go back to sleep again. Times, Sunday Times
  • A light, feathery plant for dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • As a warm October sun dapples the trees with light, they guide two television crews and a newspaper reporter among the oaks, while sending e-mails, giving interviews and arranging news conferences on their phones. Trying to save a forest, and change Russia
  • The floor was dappled with pale moonlight.
  • An early morning jogger whizzes past under the dappled sunlight as the street dog barks somewhere round the corner.
  • The grounds were dappled with crepe myrtles, palmettos, azaleas, here and there a tall loblolly pine. THE HUNDREDTH MAN
  • We are left by and large with randomness, the "pied beauty" that Gerard Manley Hopkins refers to in his poem of that name, which praises "dappledness": "swift, slow; adazzle, dim. The Marvel of Marfa
  • We spot my grandmother's purple dress, outlined in pale, dappled moonlight, moving about.
  • Now, she considered, looking around the sun? dappled den, where would I hide if I were a tin of special to-bacco? The Metrognome and Other Stories
  • A ripe minty, skunky odor exudes from his velvety dappled coat. Houston Chronicle
  • Plant soft-leaved species, susceptible to sun-scorch, in dappled shade.
  • The sky appeared dappled with many-hued dots.
  • The stamping rhythms still stamp away, but they do so with dappled colours and an unusually light, lithe gait. Times, Sunday Times
  • He dapples and sprays his canvas with sound, and the fact he is self-taught makes his music even more idiosyncratic and unique.
  • The stamping rhythms still stamp away, but they do so with dappled colours and an unusually light, lithe gait. Times, Sunday Times
  • It prefers heavy neutral to lime soils and dappled shade. The Sun
  • The number of black cows was one-quarter plus one-fifth the total of the dappled.
  • It's equally enchanting at night when subtle spotlighting at the top of a katsura tree dapples the garden with a pattern of tiny heart-shaped leaves. Homeowners still extending living spaces to the outdoors
  • The amazon Amalia rides in fact a magnificent dapple-grey horse, with glossy hair, which flatters like a parade horse ... Three Guineas
  • A canopy of high branches covers much of the space in dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • In general, gardenias prefer either morning sun and afternoon shade or dappled sunlight all day.
  • A light, feathery plant for dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • Plant this hardy shrub in full sun or dappled shade and enjoy the early spring blossom from March to May. Times, Sunday Times
  • But it does best in the dappled shade you get under shrubs or woodland trees.
  • The road wends its way queasily from valley to valley, dipping and rising through dappled woodland.
  • Vermeer's paintings come to life in the dappled light of wintry landscapes and the dusty darkness of candlelit interiors.
  • The little party of four stood in its dappled shade by the fallen ruins of a mossy old hut, left long ago by some forgotten cottar. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
  • But you would no sooner use the word "dappled" of this place than you would come here to read a love letter. In search of the real Philip Larkin
  • In one of my gardens, in the dappled shade of oak trees, I have placed a pair of them either side of a wooden picket gate, where they are a delight each spring.
  • Their bodies are slender and dappled with brown or black spots on a gray background.
  • Is it under deciduous trees, so the light is dappled in summer, but the ground dry? Times, Sunday Times
  • I was somewhat adept at art, so with my pencils and notebook in my backpack, I drew a picture of Arthur with Excalibur (I had to settle on this name for I could not remember its true title), and his new horse (a large dapple named Joaquin).
  • Dappled diplodocus near dublin street, originally uploaded by J. Great Guelph Photos and Cool Blog Links by Creative Guelphites
  • Ah, the golden, sun-dappled world of boyhood in our lost Edwardian age!
  • He plunged into the brush, and emerged a few minutes later leading two horses, one a grey gelding and the other a dappled mare.
  • I would I could tell you the moving story of our cart and cart-horses; the latter are dapple-grey, about sixteen hands, and of enormous substance; the former was a kind of red and green shandry-dan with a driving bench; plainly unfit to carry lumber or to face our road. Vailima Letters
  • Careful use of light and shade is vital for the feel of dappled woodland light. Learn to Draw Countryside
  • And then she turned, began to walk away from the priory, under the leafy, rustling clouds of autumn oak and dappled elm. HERE BE DRAGONS
  • Plant this hardy shrub in full sun or dappled shade and enjoy the early spring blossom from March to May. Times, Sunday Times
  • A useful bushy deciduous shrub reaching 3m, it grows in sun or dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everywhere the wide-spreading branches of giant ancient trees create havens of dappled light.
  • Her hair had come loose from its braid and red marks dappled her chest.
  • As the morning passed, and the sun rose higher in the sky, dappled rays of sunlight filtered through the dense canopy of the jungle, creating dancing patterns on the floor.
  • It prefers heavy neutral to lime soils and dappled shade. The Sun
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  • Plant in full sun or light dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • When she opened her eyes, all she could see was shimmering dapples of the moonlight reflecting off the calm waters.
  • The obstacles include boulders and small trees that are not easy to see in the gloomy dappled light beneath the trees. Times, Sunday Times
  • The contemporary uncluttered interiors would not look out of place in our islands despite their lack of dappled sunshine and dense foliage. Times, Sunday Times
  • He fits the description of a Romantic Poet perfectly, wandering dazed by nature and inactivity through sun-dappled fields, his sad eyes melting before the passionate couplets forming in the wellspring of his engorged imagination.
  • O Thebes, nurse of Semele! crown thyself with ivy; burst forth, burst forth with blossoms fair of green convolvulus, and with the boughs of oak and pine join in the Bacchic revelry; dor; - thy coat of dappled fawn-skin, decking it with tufts of silvered hair; with reverent hand the sportive wand now wield. The Bacchantes
  • I woke in dappled shade to the sound of laughter and splashing water. A Time to Every Purpose « A Fly in Amber
  • When the light-dapples on the floor were long and tinged with sickly orange, a servant came in with bread and cheese and water. PodCastle » PodCastle 91: Three Days and Nights In Lord Darkdrake’s Hall
  • The red is gaillardia ‘Burgundy’, the whitish is dappled willow, salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’ , yellow leafed caryopteris ‘Worcester Gold’, and just starting to bloom at the rock edge, veronica ‘Royal Candles’. First Lilium and Other Tidbits « Fairegarden
  • Plant in full sun or light dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everything is untoned, dropped, dappled with stretchmarks and cellulite. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everything is untoned, dropped, dappled with stretchmarks and cellulite. Times, Sunday Times
  • What sodden indistinction just an hour ago had all but persuaded us not to regret resumes its first divisions: slate from cinder, ash from smoke, warm dapple-gray from moleskin, dove - from Varenna
  • They prefer dappled shade and can grow in fairly dry soils. The Sun
  • Keep the pots in dappled shade at all times so that the compost and bulbs do not get too hot or they will fail to produce flowers. The Sun
  • It's easier if you have dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • The child's eye recalls the dappled light on the Solent, the blue water off the southern coast of England in May. ɘloЯ
  • The head groom lent him a large, strong, dappled grey cob named Trojan.
  • Blueberries look great in dappled shade, whereas an evergreen grevillea would be ideal in full sun on well-drained soil. Times, Sunday Times
  • It's easier if you have dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • About them lay long launds of green grass dappled with celandine and anemones, white and blue, now folded for sleep; and there were acres populous with the leaves of woodland hyacinths: already their sleek bell-stems were thrusting through the mould. The power of spring flowers
  • I think we're getting vid," Percivale said, and that image went off, replaced with another, in all the flare of strange colors and shapes that drifted where there ought to be stars, in between blackness measled with red spots like dapples that might be stars or just the cameras trying to pick up something that made no sense. Port Eternity
  • And that might have been the start of my career on ice if not for a certain dapple gray Arabian horse-cross Shetland pony named Shadow no relation to my cat. Welcome to My World
  • I was forced to study Hopkins for English A level several years ago and hated it - I need a "dappled" room 'This is the worst.'
  • They like heavy, neutral to alkaline soil in dappled shade sheltered from cold winds.
  • So they carried him to the money-changer, who paid him the money, and returned with him to their master, whom they found mounted on a dapple she-mule worth a thousand dinars, with Mamelukes and pages about him, and by his side another mule like his own, saddled and bridled. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Small dapples of light occasionally broke through and barely illuminated any of the uneven littered ground.
  • While the shadows dappled their backs they strolled deeper into the forest, voices lost in the chitter of insects. RUSHING TO PARADISE
  • For a while, the glassy surface was dappled gold and orange before the dying sun completed its journey, leaving me to the thickening darkness. Times, Sunday Times
  • Everything is untoned, dropped, dappled with stretchmarks and cellulite. Times, Sunday Times
  • Big white patches underneath make it blend in with the dappled surface. Times, Sunday Times
  • A useful bushy deciduous shrub reaching 3m, it grows in sun or dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • This territory is the birthplace of Southworth's latest song cycle, a soulful and finely crafted record that exudes a skewed kind of warmth and charisma, sun-dappled and winsome, era-less and placeless.
  • Dappled shade is formed by deciduous trees, and shade plants such as epimedium, anemone, trillium, and a variety of bulbs thrive in this type of shade.
  • They all sit on the dirt in the dappled shade of a tree.
  • Cannock has a fantastic network of bike trails, to suit everyone from the technical cross-country rider to those who just fancy a relaxed pedal in dappled shade (07951 135506, chasetrails. co.uk; mountain bike hire from £20 for three hours, bikechase. co.uk). Just get physical: active days out in Britain
  • Minter's erotic imagery zooms in on a succulently wet, red lip, a dappled, sequined eye, or a silverized stiletto splashing in the mud. Beauty Snob - Beauty Secrets and Tips
  • The windswept Yorkshire hills, the terraced houses, dappled woods and shadowy interiors, help convey a warm summer languor.
  • The Minnow hath, when he is in perfect season, and not sick, which is only presently after spawning, a kind of dappled or waved colour, like to a panther, on its sides, inclining to a greenish or sky-colour; his belly being milk white; and his back almost black or blackish. The Compleat Angler : or, The Contemplative Man`s Recreation
  • He dapples the piece with shadow, signs his name in a loose-wristed slither and slides the book forward.
  • The dappled night shadows, the inky blue trees sway lightly in the breeze.
  • Deer, now busy with their young, didn't mind the quiet rest in dappled shadow.
  • Keep the pots in dappled shade at all times so that the compost and bulbs do not get too hot or they will fail to produce flowers. The Sun
  • The combination of shade and dappled sunlight encourages people to stop and enjoy a cool, quiet respite from a busy day.
  • The roof was only a meter above his head and was dappled with some kind of webbed moss. The Legacy of Heorot
  • Big white patches underneath make it blend in with the dappled surface. Times, Sunday Times
  • The lady's riding companion smiled good-naturedly and dismounted from his frisky dapple.
  • They relax until it's time for lunch, after which they find some dappled shade and go back to sleep again. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ever north, through a fat and flourishing rejuvenated land, stopping at the towns of Willows, Red Bluff and Redding, crossing the counties of Colusa, Glenn, Tehama, and Shasta, went the spruce wagon drawn by the dappled chestnuts with cream-colored manes and tails. CHAPTER XV
  • Through the windows, the college is dappled by the warm early-November sunlight.
  • His short beard was dappled with pale grey and his hair too, was the colour of granite in snow.
  • The path was dappled with sunlight.
  • From a high dune vantage point one can only look in awe at the purple dappled carpet spread out below.
  • The foliage is quite light so it lets the sun through and gives you that special dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • Which is apparently why, on a chilly autumnal afternoon, I am mincing through a dappled forest clearing with no shoes or socks on.
  • They know him so well that at times they find it hard to distinguish where they end and Kenny begins, and will often simply lie around with Kenny in their shared Parisian loft apartment making enigmatic remarks and watching the sunlight dapple their skin as they bask in the intoxicating flush of intimacy. Has Kenny Dalglish taken Liverpool as far as he can?| Barney Ronay
  • One at last, a dapple-grey beast of Voyakov breed, took my fancy. A Sportsman's Sketches
  • He looked up to see a richly garbed carriage rumbling slowly and carefully toward him drawn by two dappled horses.
  • Now instead of the dappled shade of an old oak outside their front door, the Beagles have a weathered brick patio on which 24 neatly trimmed boxwood globes seem to swirl in a beautifully choreographed shrubbery ballet.
  • A pleasant dapple of sunlight peers through the blinds. Paul Dailing: Disney Gives Mothers an Offer They Can't Refuse: A Passion Play
  • There were groves of trees and the fresh green shade dappled with the strong sun outside raised her spirits.
  • In my mind's eye, I amble gently through a dappled forest.
  • For the waterfall fan there was a six-foot dribble, and a good walk finished in dappled sunlight and the hum of large hoverflies.
  • About a mile away from the road and surrounded by fields it's very quiet and the tall trees create a dome letting through a mere dapple of sunlight.
  • Kipling's idea was that the leopard was given his spots so he could lurk unnoticed in the dappled shade of the forests. Times, Sunday Times
  • A patchwork of hedgerowed fields grazed by Friesian cows swept down from the house to a marshy buttercup-dappled plateau below, where the river ran beside the railway track.
  • They prefer dappled shade and can grow in fairly dry soils. The Sun
  • They'll do well in sun, or light or dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • The worry that you should be strolling hand-in-hand through dappled light with a near-stranger you met in the park, enjoying a screamingly new relationship, complete with love bites. End of an era
  • By and large, roses are for open situations and full sun, not dappled sunlight or shade.
  • Lighting in these environments presents a twofold problem: The canopy of treetops makes it dim, and it is almost always dappled and contrasty.
  • Partial or dappled shade and soil enriched with plenty of leaf mould suits them best.
  • They'll do well in sun, or light or dappled shade. Times, Sunday Times
  • An external shell composed of nine gracefully torqued wings of translucent stone shields an internal filigree basket which dapples the walls with dancing patterns of light and shadows. A Temple Of Light
  • I've seen one painted in stripes of palest pastel rainbow colours, which looked wonderful under the dappled shade of a tree at the bottom of the garden.
  • He dapples in the intangible with an ease and playfulness. Charles Russell: The Wickedest Man in LA
  • In their native habitat they grow in dappled light.
  • Use shade-tolerant varieties in areas with dappled shade or part sun.
  • On Nunnwood -- the sole remnant of antique British forest in a region whose lowlands were once all sylvan chase, as its highlands were breast-deep heather -- slept the shadow of a cloud; the distant hills were dappled, the horizon was shaded and tinted like mother-of-pearl; silvery blues, soft purples, evanescent greens and rose-shades, all melting into fleeces of white cloud, pure as azury snow, allured the eye with a remote glimpse of heaven's foundations. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
  • Broadly speaking, the sound is acoustic guitar folk dappled with strings and effects. The Sun
  • Barnyards dropped by in the elderly and well preserved Land-Rover which is the modern farmers' equivalent of the solid dapple horse, and made us an astoundingly generous offer.

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