Reductions were to be made for elevation above the sea, steepness, exposure to bad winds, patchiness of soil, bad fences, and bad roads.
"Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry"
Thomas Davis Commentator: T. W. Rolleston
It lost its patchiness and settled to a pleasant, warming drift.
"The Heart of Unaga"
Ridgwell Cullum
The eyes were lined and hollow-the brow contracted; the young roundness of the cheek was lost in the general pallor and patchiness of the skin; the lower part of the face seemed to have sharpened and lengthened,-and over the whole had passed a breath of something aging and withering the traces of which sent a shiver through Marcella.
"Marcella"
Mrs. Humphry Ward