With your propaganda, I can tell you think this world isn't just a speck of dust.

At first I thought that she had not recognized me, but as I bent over her she suddenly shrieked out in a voice which I shall never forget, 'Oh, my God! Helen! It was the band! The speckled band!'

Using cutting-edge machines that can detect the chemical composition in grains of soil as small as a speck of dust, the two Goddard labs will study how the building blocks of life evolved in our solar system and how the Moon’s surface chemistry was shaped over eons by radiation from space and from the Sun.

Every time he ate, he left little specks of couscous in his plate.

The room is empty apart from the speck of dust floating in the air.

The hands trying to untie the knots / the ribbons speckled on the forehead / of poisonous spit, horrendous cries / he goes vibrating, making the air pulsate.

He had blue eyes with small golden specks.

Returning, I had to cross before the looking-glass; my fascinated glance involuntarily explored the depth it revealed. All looked colder and darker in that visionary hollow than in reality: and the strange little figure there gazing at me, with a white face and arms specking the gloom, and glittering eyes of fear moving where all else was still, had the effect of a real spirit: I thought it like one of the tiny phantoms, half fairy, half imp, Bessie’s evening stories represented as coming out of lone, ferny dells in moors, and appearing before the eyes of belated travelers.

If at any time he said: The speckled shall be thy wages, all the sheep brought forth speckled; but when he said on the contrary: Thou shalt take all the white one for thy wages, all the flocks brought forth white ones.

There was not a weed left in the yard, nor a speck of dust on the floors, nor a single black grain or wild pea in the wheat.