Tom set himself to work with a will, and as he bent over one after another of the pupils, and guided the small grubby hands which clutched the inky pens with cramped fingers, and went spluttering and blotching along the lines of the copy-books, felt the yellow scales dropping from his eyes, and more warmth coming back into his heart than he had known there for many a day.
"Tom Brown at Oxford"
Thomas Hughes
It was the first time she had admitted it, and a glow overspread her face, blotching it with red spots.
"The Awakening and Selected Short Stories"
Kate Chopin
The sulphurous fumes of the big smelter blotching the southern sky with saffron and coppery red clouds indicated that we were nearing Trail.
"Down the Columbia"
Lewis R. Freeman