Motley

They're a motley crew.

The park is home to a motley group of amphibians, a raft of different tree species, a dozen beehives and—grazing placidly in the distance—a flock of Brittany sheep, practicing ‘ecological management.’

A motley crew of educators and students gathered at the seminar.

At the centre of the council estate was a green surrounded by a motley collection of small, tired and tatty-looking shops, half of which were empty, their windows boarded up.

I met a fool i' th' forest, / A motley' fool.

Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers,[…]. Even such a boat as the Mount Vernon offered a total deck space so cramped as to leave secrecy or privacy well out of the question, even had the motley and democratic assemblage of passengers been disposed to accord either.

"One of them can see you, and one of them can see an empty hallway." Reynders narrowed her bleary eyes — she wasn't wearing her glasses, for some reason — as though momentarily uncertain which sight she was seeing. She apparently decided in favour of their motley group. "I'm the one who can see you. The one who can see you can talk to you. The one who can't talk to you can see you too, sometimes, but she doesn't want to because she knows you're not there. Where she is."

Wil you be married, Motley?

Alas, 'tis true, I have gone here and there, / And made myself a motley to the view, […]