Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot?
Everything was always in its place, and no where could you see a speck of dust.
After some miles of country lanes he reached the high road, and as he turned into it and glanced along its white length, he saw approaching him a speck that turned into a dot and then into a blob, and then into something very familiar; and a double note of warning, only too well known, fell on his delighted ear.
" The voice died away and ceased as an insect's tiny trumpet dwindles swiftly into silence; and the Water Rat, paralysed and staring, saw at last but a distant speck on the white surface of the road.
The "Poop-poop" rang with a brazen shout in their ears, they had a moment's glimpse of an interior of glittering plate-glass and rich morocco, and the magnificent motor-car, immense, breath-snatching, passionate, with its pilot tense and hugging his wheel, possessed all earth and air for the fraction of a second, flung an enveloping cloud of dust that blinded and enwrapped them utterly, and then dwindled to a speck in the far distance, changed back into a droning bee once more.
Allen, whose vacancy of mind and incapacity for thinking were such, that as she never talked a great deal, so she could never be entirely silent; and, therefore, while she sat at her work, if she lost her needle or broke her thread, if she heard a carriage in the street, or saw a speck upon her gown, she must observe it aloud, whether there were anyone at leisure to answer her or not.
You needn't worry a speck more about it, Matthew.
" The clerk rubbed a speck off one of his finger nails and glanced sidewise at a tall man in a white hat sitting in the lobby.
Tom lay upon a sofa with an eager auditory about him and told the history of the wonderful adventure, putting in many striking additions to adorn it withal; and closed with a description of how he left Becky and went on an exploring expedition; how he followed two avenues as far as his kite-line would reach; how he followed a third to the fullest stretch of the kite-line, and was about to turn back when he glimpsed a far-off speck that looked like daylight; dropped the line and groped toward it,
Some said that now and then, in the cave, a far-away speck of light would glimmer, and then a glorious shout would burst forth and a score of men go trooping down the echoing aisle—and then a sickening disappointment always followed; the children were not there; it was only a searcher's light.
(3) A speck of mouse dung will spoil a whole pot of porridge.
……In this mundane world, I am one lonely speck; in this universe I am a powerless particle of dust.
" The clerk rubbed a speck off one of his finger nails and glanced sidewise at a tall man in a white hat sitting in the lobby.
For example, "not soiled by a speck of dust","not be the least negligent",etc.
Now, farmers are adapting the age-old elixirs — a dash of ginseng here, a speck of licorice there — for use on livestock.
No speck of dust, fingerprint, or scuff mark is safe from the discerning eye of Virgo.
A speck of mouse dung will spoil a whole pot of porridge.
You are a mere speck in an infinite universe.
You were on a tiny speck of land sticking up out of the vast oceans of a blue planet.
Far ahead on the road Elisa saw a dark speck.
