The surface now looks partly coated and streaked, and I have been unable to remove this with a new application of polish, even after considerable rubbing with a clean cloth.

The walls, too, were seamless, the rough surface artificially streaked with what would have been mortared blocks.

She felt drunk, too, her bones gone soft and malleable, everything around her faintly out of focus, save for certain things that caught her eye: a brilliant patch of pink lady's slipper, a stone fallen from the cliff face, its surface streaked red with iron.

Indeed, the land was bleak, the surface sometimes streaked with salt.

The ocean stretched away, a vast, flat blue surface streaked with the foaming crests of waves that rolled endlessly toward distant shores.

The surface boiled in a welter of cascading water, shimmering scales and ragged far, the whole scene streaked with blood.

Below him, its surface streaked with light, stretched a long table flanked by chairs.

The helicopter came in low over the small loch, the water's blue surface streaked with long orange lozenges, stray canoes, scattered and unmanned, bobbing on the waves.

Bdow it lay the still, deep waters i the church pool, e surface streaked with fronds of green To the west of the castle flowed the Login Brook, the heat of the sun.

Beyond the near-shore clutter, the bay lay wide and nearly empty under the hot afternoon sun, its surface streaked with blues and greens she had never seen before.