"Glory be to God for dappled things." — Gerard Manley Hopkins

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• Walking on willow tree roads by a river dappled with peach blossoms, I look for spring light, but am everywhere… — Wang Wei
• Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small… — Lucretius
• We pretend to be a middle class, democratic nation, but in reality we love our blue bloods. ... We love… — David Brooks
• It was a morning of ground mist, yellow sunshine, and high rifts of blue, white-cloud-dappled sky. The leaves were still… — Flora Thompson
• Dappled sunlight and looked at the silver vapor swirling inside. "Mist gathered at first light on the first day of… — Mary Pope Osborne
• Look at the pattern this seashell makes. The dappled whorl, curving inward to infinity. That's the shape of the universe… — Kim Stanley Robinson
• To hear the lark begin his flight, And singing startle the dull Night, From his watch-tower in the skies, Till… — John Milton
• Oft on the dappled turf at ease I sit, and play with similes, Loose type of things through all degrees. — William Wordsworth
• Though I am old with wandering Through hollow lands and hilly lands, I will find out where she has gone,… — William Butler Yeats
• He drew forth a phrase from his treasure and spoke it softly to himself: A day of dappled seaborne clouds. — James Joyce
• ...and again she wished for Sherwood, and the dappled roof of leaves that never weighed upon her. She pulled her… — Robin McKinley
• In the sort of screen dappled with different states of mind which my consciousness would simultaneously unfold while I read,… — Marcel Proust

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