| The blue, blue sea, specked with whitecaps, the dramatic, green-clad peaks, and the colorful beachside villages look like a dream come true. |
| The four or five eggs, laid in June, are white, specked with reddish brown. |
| The ham was, by this stage, specked with fungus and small white things that might have been maggots. |
| But the Caribbean Sea — with islands that are flat, mountainous, tiny and vast — is specked with beaches that defy tropical conventions. |
| It will make him cross, and all we shall get will be the specked and worm-eaten ones. |
| The bank was specked with wood anemones in a band of spaced-out scrub. |
