Specks

In the blue vault of the heaven there had appeared three little specks which increased in size every moment, so rapidly did they approach. They speedily resolved themselves into three large brown birds, which circled over the heads of the two wanderers, and then settled upon some rocks which overlooked them. They were buzzards, the vultures of the west, whose coming is the forerunner of death.

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

He had blue eyes with small golden specks.

Esperanto, for the most part, has a Latinate grammar. It does have specks of Germanic and Slavic. To me, it has a Japanesque ambiance.