Meanings of variegated by in English

His everyday existence is only diversified and variegated by little anecdotes not worth repetition.

Cape Colony followed on similar lines, variegated by the presence of a rival European race, the Dutch.

The sublime colouring of their mountains, variegated by snows and meadows, reveals to them the rugged spell which ornament possesses in itself.

The country was perfectly flat, but variegated by patches of greasewood, of sagebrush, of Egyptian-corn fields, and occasionally by a long, narrow fringe of trees.