As I looked there suddenly appeared, squarely in the path of the foremost vehicle, a splotch of yellow smoke shot through with red.
"Italy at War and the Allies in the West"
E. Alexander Powell
But at this instant a drop fell upon his head, too, and, looking up, they beheld a great oozing splotch upon the ceiling.
"Penrod and Sam"
Booth Tarkington
And when the Pullman porter's white coat on the rear platform of the last coach melted into the dull, diminishing splotch on the western distance, she felt as if she were shipwrecked in a pathless land, with the little red station house, reefed about by cinders, as the only resting-place for the soles of her feet.
"The Reclaimers"
Margaret Hill McCarter