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1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 28 Had Jacobs flock but seen you sit, the dams Had brought forth speckled and ringstreaked lambs.

1691 E. Taylor J. Böhme's Theosophick Philos. 408 The ring streaked, speckled and grizled denotes the half Earthy, and again the new-born heavenly Nature.

1730 S. Shuckford Sacred & Profane Hist. World Connected II. vii. 169 How came Jacob to make Use of the Pilled Rods, if he did not think this an artful Way to cause the Cattle to bring forth Ring-streaked, Speckled and Spotted Young ones?

1730 D. Turner Force Mother's Imagination upon Fœtus 32 Moses makes it out as plain as α. β. γ. δ. that the pilled Rods, laid before the Cattle whilst Rutting, were no cause at all of their young being ring streaked, speckled or spotted.

1855 Amer. Vet. Jrnl. 1 8 As various colored willows will produce ring-streaked, and striped cattle, so the continued contemplation of these worthies might soon produce a fine crop of infantine humbugs.

1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd Ser. i. i. 15 A spotteder, ringstreakeder child the' warn't in Uncle Sam's Holl farm.

1868 Proc. Constit. Convent. South Carolina I. 638 ‘Mr. Dill what are you doing in this ring-streaked-and-striped Convention? I am surprised at you, I would not stay in that damn nigger Convention?’.. I asked who made this Convention ring-streaked-and-striped, and who consorted with their families?

1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn xxiii. 227 He rolled up the curtain, and the next minute the king come a-prancing out on all fours, naked; and he was painted all over, ring-streaked-and-striped, all sorts of colours, as splendid as a rainbow.

1900 A. Quiller-Couch Old Fires & Profitable Ghosts 261 Here lay his hoe, matted with bindweed and ring-streaked with the silvery tracks of snails.

1941 J. W. Thomason Lone Star Preacher ii. 64 The provincials from the Trinity bottom..had to content themselves with promising to cover the earth with the ring-streaked and striped bodies of the Fire Zouaves, did they ever get a chance at them.

1984 J. Williamson Crucible of Race i. iii. 80 Racially mixed Republican assemblies were called ‘ring-streaked and striped’, like some mongrel and unlovely cat.

2007 R. M. Horner When Wages Cry Out iii. 25 They strike a deal whereby Jacob would obtain all the spotted, speckled and ring-streaked sheep and goats as his property, while all the others would be Laban's.