"Speckless" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the outline of his day: he set off at first with a firm stride, despite his lameness, his gaunt figure erect, the soldierly chest well thrown out from the threadbare but speckless coat. First he took his way towards the purlieus of Leicester Square; several times, to and fro, did he pace the isthmus that leads from Piccadilly into that reservoir of foreigners, and the lanes and courts that ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... heaved a deep sigh of admiration, which though she was not "in love," as the girls thought, with Mr. May, was a passing tribute to his good looks and training. He looked a gentleman every inch of him—an English gentleman, spotless in linen, speckless in broadcloth, though his dress was far from new; the freshness of sound health and a clear conscience on his handsome face, though he was no longer young. His abundant hair, steel-grey, slightly crisped under his hat, not curling exactly, but with a becoming twist ...
— Phoebe, Junior • Mrs [Margaret] Oliphant
... Buy a tuft of royal heath, Buy a bunch of weed White as sand of Muysenberg Spun before the gale— Buy my heath and lilies And I'll tell you whence you hail! Under hot Constantia broad the vineyards lie— Throned and thorned the aching berg props the speckless sky— Slow below the Wynberg firs trails the tilted wain— Take the flower arid turn the hour, and ...
— The Kipling Reader - Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling • Rudyard Kipling
... So far it is Greek;—but then add, O! what wealth, what wild ranging, and yet what compression and condensation of, English fancy! In truth, there is nothing in Anacreon more perfect than these thirty lines, or half so rich and imaginative. They form a speckless diamond. ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge
... around the speckless room, gathered up her paraphernalia of cleaning, passed out, locked the door, and ...
— Judith of the Cumberlands • Alice MacGowan
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