How To Use Crimson In A Sentence

Large numbers of vestal moths and a few crimson speckled moths, both normally resident in the Mediterranean, have been seen on the south-west and south-east coasts and in Gwynedd.
A gob of crimson pouring from his lips, he spat it out, wiping the excess with the back of his hand.
Wielding his blade like a master painter, his palette holds only one colour, and that is crimson.
_Phyllocactus_ in having the branches dilated into the form of fleshy leaves, but differ in haying them divided into short truncate leaf-like portions, which are articulated, that is to say, provided with a joint by which they separate spontaneously; the margins are crenate or dentate, and the flowers, which are large and showy, magenta or crimson, appear at the apex of the terminal joints. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"
Meanwhile the red ribbon was slowly unfurling like a red cloud and then a crimson sea.

He had chasubles, also, of amber-coloured silk, and blue silk and gold brocade, and yellow silk damask and cloth of gold, figured with representations of the Passion and Crucifixion of Christ, and embroidered with lions and peacocks and other emblems; dalmatics of white satin and pink silk damask, decorated with tulips and dolphins and fleurs-de-lis; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
A swarm of princesses totter on stage, got up like topiary on legs in every shade of scarlet, crimson, cerise, cochineal, each foolishly imagining Prince Charming must choose her as his red queen. Cendrillon; Rinaldo – review
A houdah on the animal, besides being unusually large, was of crimson and gold. Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ
The roadsides sparkled with coreopsis, crimson clover, vetch, spring beauties, and other gem-like blooms.
Of the gambling – booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants. Nicholas Nickleby
Last week, a bronze-skinned buckaroo, with a flashing red neckerchief above his blue shirt, with shining leather chaparejos and crimson saddle-blanket, dashed up from a Western skyline on a snorting, piebald cow-pony.
Crimson is her favourite color.
Just as she darted into the shadows, her dark cloak billowing behind her, showing a flash of crimson, a loud ruckus came from the front door.
A chaier of crimson velvet, the seate and backe partlie embrothered, with R.L. in cloth of goulde, the beare and ragged staffe in clothe of silver, garnished with lace and fringe of goulde, silver, and crimson silck. Kenilworth
Also, CNN will be using something called "Crimson Hexagon technology," which is critical, because the hexagon is the most sci-fi of all the polygons. CNN's Election Night Will Be Full Of Mindbending Technological Overkill
And here the conquered men of Ind, swarthy horsemen and sword wielders, fiercely barbaric, blazing in crimson and scarlet, Sikhs, Rajputs, Burmese, province by province, and caste by caste. CORONATION DAY
I went bright crimson and hung up. Times, Sunday Times
He often summons the image of a bridge, as he does here in his perhaps most definitive passage about the Overman: There it was too that I picked up the word "overman" by the way, and that man is something that must be overcome-that man is a bridge and no end: proclaiming himself blessed in view of his noon and evening, as the way to new dawns-Zarathustra's word of the great noon, and whatever else I hung up over man like the last crimson light of evening. Archive 2005-10-01
Behind him hurried a younger, comelier man, carefully clad in motor costume, who bent above the girl with passionate solicitude and gazed into her staring eyes until they narrowed and dropped and her face flushed deeper and deeper crimson. DARKWATER
The amounts of seed required per acre for the different kinds are about as follows: mammoth fifteen to twenty pounds; red (medium) twelve to fifteen pounds; crimson twelve to fifteen pounds; and alsike ten to twelve pounds. Apple Growing
He absent-mindedly twirled a lock of crimson hair around his finger.
All the Rondos are two-toned, the color pairings including orange and crimson, Nile green and bright yellow, aqua and dark blue.
My face was going back to its usual colour - the usual colour of deep crimson whenever I faced Nicole.
Even as it was carried across the room, it was clear that the crimson-red saddle of marinated venison was exceptionally succulent.
His portrait and chair have been garlanded with marigolds and strewn with crimson rose petals.
I looked up through the smoke of my cigarette and my eye lodged for a moment upon the burning coals, and that old fancy of the crimson flag flapping from the castle tower came into my mind, and I thought of the cavalcade of red knights riding up the side of the black rock. Monday or Tuesday
He was in Prince Albert's 11 th Hussars, and cut quite a dash on horseback in his crimson trousers, braided tunic, tassels and plumes.
The word dyed Julia's cheeks crimson, and for the long hour that they lingered over their tea she seemed to Jim more charming than he had ever found her before. The Story of Julia Page
Accidentally knocking over the bottle, I watched as the crimson coloured liquid soaked into the white papers.
The flower-boxes were bright crimson, and the balcony balustrades were ultramarine and white.
To be sure the back-seats were free for the poor; but the emblazoned crimson of the windows, the carving of the arches, the very purity of the preacher's style, said plainly that it was easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a man in a red wamus to enter the kingdom of heaven through that gate. Margret Howth, a Story of To-day
Helena studies a deeply crimsoned rose, almost unnaturally so, and takes a long, wary look at the protruding thorns. The Iron Maiden « A Fly in Amber
Blacker than a moonless night and edged with crimson, the blue and purple undersides smelled of wing musk and of Dante—burning leaves and November frost and deep, dark earth. Etched in Bone
My hands burned with the warm, viscid crimson of my father's blood and I found myself morbidly wondering if I would feel such erotic satisfaction each time I took a life.
Other species lured by the Indian summer include the distinctive crimson speckled, the dainty vestal moth and Spoladea recurvalis, an extremely rare tropical species. Indian summer sees exotic moths fly in
At anchoring, we saluted the king with nine guns, and the general sent Mr Femell ashore handsomely attended in the pinnace, with a fine crimson awning, to present the king a fair gilt cup of ten ounces weight, a sword-blade, and three yards of _stammel_ [red] broad-cloth. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08
The ploughed fields are crimson; the mud underfoot is crimson; the little torrent hurrying down the ravine by the roadside is crimson; the very puddles are crimson also. Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys
His dark hair was sleeked back and he wore a robe of crimson red.
Her father's face was a crimson colour with his hands held in fists at his sides, and her mother was walking purposeful strides towards her.
His face was scratched and his robe was stained with crimson.
His face was crimsoned and he was breathing heavily.
More symbols were scrawled into the stone of the arch, crimson slashes carved in the rock as though they were weeping wounds in the gateway.
The officers of the amphitheatre were still employed in the task of fixing the vast awning (or _velaria_) which covered the whole, and which luxurious invention the Campanians arrogated to themselves: it was woven of the whitest Apulian wool, and variegated with broad stripes of crimson. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6
His cheeks were smeared with blood from his palms, two crimson marks like war paint. MINUTES TO BURN
The chair, with its handsome gilding, is covered in a crimson silk damask that is similar to the original.
I moved briskly toward the Emperor's tower, striding through the corridor toward his private lift, the entrance to which was flanked by two Imperial Guards in crimson robes. This Is Tense
The cherries were staining her lips an enticing crimson colour, and Cary longed to lean across the table to kiss the juice away.
These include the gold swash, the typeface and its deep crimson color which I still need to finetune the letterspacing for. Summer 2003 | the blog of author, illustrator and designer Kris Waldherr
Her face crimsoning with fury, Isabella suddenly turned away from her friend and quickened her pace down the road.
The wool soon turned crimson red. The Sun
crossbill" with its deep crimson colour; and many others, equally bright and beautiful, enlivened the woods, either with their voice or their gaudy plumage. Popular Adventure Tales
Adrienne blushed furiously, but Janet's crimson cheeks outdid hers. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
His dress comported with his character, for he had almost as much brass and copper without, as nature had stored away within — His coat was crossed and slashed, and carbonadoed, with stripes of copper lace, and swathed round the body with a crimson sash, of the size and texture of a fishing net, doubtless to keep his valiant heart from bursting through his ribs. A History of New York
I much enjoyed this rich, crimson-purple wine with plenty of inky, earthy, charcuterie-suitable fruit.
Her face crimsoned immediately.
The shark was threshing wildly now as it was brought alongside, crimson blood gushing from its mouth and the open gills slits.
Keleus thrust his spear into the earth and looked upon the dying sky, flushed in crimson, and he whispered unto the winds.
The large crimson flowers of this rose are shallow cups, exuding a strong old rose fragrance. Times, Sunday Times
After cooking, the flesh retains the crimson colour. The Sun
_fleurs de lys_; altar frontals of crimson velvet and blue linen; and many corporals, chalice-veils, and sudaria. The Picture of Dorian Gray
One tent was a beautiful crimson with swirls of golden spirals.
He wore a belaced purple coat; a crimson sash crossed his embroidered vest; a diamond flashed upon his finger. In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India
Ethan, Mary, and Emy sat on one side of the carriage upon plush seats covered in crimson velvet.
The crane has light to dark blue-gray plumage and a crimson cap at the back of its crown.
With bright crimson skin and orange flesh, they have lots of texture, but small flavour. Food Watch
The intense blue of its flowers works equally well with bright golden yellow, orange or crimson. Times, Sunday Times
You can see how the white has mixed and blended with the crimson. Crawshaw's Watercolour Studio
Feel your body, feel that crimson muscle inside your chest, and those frothy pink bellows of yours, pumping away.
Lee closed his mouth, his cheeks tinged a light shade of crimson.
A beautiful brilliant crimson colour, with a complexity of aromas on the nose including blackberry and Morello cherry, hints of oak and spice. Well-balanced, yet mellow tannins.
Kahlil had crimsoned and was gesturing frantically with his hands. September 17 , 2004
German silk-tail, from the five peculiar crimson tags or points which it carries at the ends of five of the short remiges. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Crimson comes ultimately from the name of a small insect from which a red dyestuff is obtained.
Violet's face is crimsoned to its utmost capacity, and her eyes have that awful beseechingness that cuts him to the soul. Floyd Grandon's Honor
It boasts thermal springs, uncrowded beaches and, in early summer, a riot of crimson-blossomed pohutukawa trees.
Watt bought some red roses for herself and began to make a series of images - folds of material painted in deep crimson, the colour of roses, or of blood.
Her brow crimsoned, and that of Sir Halbert Glendinning was slightly overcast. The Abbot
Her lips were layered with glistering, crimson lipstick, her eyes covered with sparkling pink eye shadow.
Old gallica rose with velvety deep-crimson flowers and yellow centres. Times, Sunday Times
As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians, crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.
The sunset fires, refracted from the cloud-driftage of the autumn sky, bathed the canyon with crimson, in which ruddy-limbed mandronos and wine-wooded manzanitas burned and smoldered. CHAPTER XVII
He was dressed in the purple-bordered toga praetexta and preceded by twenty-four lictors shivering in crimson tunics and brass-bossed black leather belts, with the ominous axes inserted in their bundles of rods. Fortune's Favorites
He was hard at work on his magnum opus: a painting, six feet tall, of the Savior's slaughter on the cross, a feral Pollockian image simultaneously repelling and exhilarating; the colors clamored in crimsons and yellows, blacks and speckled, blue blots.
A few dwarf birches unfold their leaves amid the rocks; a few sub-arctic willows hang out their catkins beside the swampy runnels; the golden potentilla opens its bright flowers on slopes where the evergreen _Empetrum nigrum_ slowly ripens its glossy crow-berries; and from where the sea-spray dashes at full tide along the beach, to where the snow gleams at midsummer on the mountain-summits, the thin short sward is dotted by the minute cruciform stars of the scurvy-grass, and the crimson blossoms of the sea-pink. The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
The whiteness of her face was intensified by crimson lipstick and heavy eyeliner. Times, Sunday Times
Will the erstwhile crimson-lipped peroxide devil-doll, the very anti-Madonna, be raging with paranoia and brutal honesty on her next record?
It was a kind of blueish grey, its great mouth a gash of crimson in its head whilst wicked eyes gleamed from their sockets making it look like some supernatural demon from the Zylorian "Halls of the Dead Elric At The End of Time
This tree was deciduous, the leaves being palmate, and grew on stiff soil: its large crimson flowers attracted universal admiration. Narrative of an expedition undertaken for the exploration of the country lying between Rockingham Bay and Cape York
However, the most picturesque of all bee-eaters in the world is the crimson plumaged carmine bee-eater, which I had seen once - in a bare, dark thorny tree in Masai Mara, Kenya.
Put on the red light This utilitarian lamp is the brightest crimson. Times, Sunday Times
He shook his head; and I, recalling the crimson chamber in his castle, speculated upon his living arrangements in thalassic caverns I could scarcely conceive. The Urth of the New Sun
Page 408 here! the pompous Magnolia, reigns sovereign of the forests; how sweet the aromatic Illisium groves? how gaily flutters the radiated wings of the Magnolia auriculata? each branch supporting an expanded umbrella, superbly crested with a silver plume, fragrant blossom, or crimson studded strobile and fruits! Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
They quickly pass from pink to crimson to the rust colour we know well.
After cooking, the flesh retains the crimson colour. The Sun
Deciduous trees and shrubs are the best way to achieve this, but in a truly tiny garden, the answer might be a nice clump of zingy-yellow rudbeckia, or crimson sedum.
His mount was caparisoned in flowing crimson silks emblazoned with the golden lion of House Lannister, and the white cloak of a Kingsguard knight flowed from his shoulders. Trial of Seven
On the ivory shelves you see some soft orchid linen galligaskins, some buttercup yellow doeskin galligaskins, some pale celadon silk galligaskins, some deep crimson satin galligaskins, some olive green wool galligaskins, some onyx black velvet galligaskins, some dark umber leather galligaskins and some bright cyan twill galligaskins.
Allfree's bold use of colour - citron, turquoise, acid green, crimson - breathes new life into the building.
A square stoole and a foote stoole, of crimson velvet, fringed and garnished suteable. Kenilworth
A pearl-gray dress with crimson trimmings, made with a long waist, modestly outlined the bust and covered the shoulders, still rather thin, with a chemisette which left nothing to view but the first curves of the throat where it joined the shoulders. Modeste Mignon
They were a crimson blur of pompoms, sneaker squeaks and smiles.
He squats beside the machine, threading a screw the size of a flea, his eyes watering, face crimson and swollen.
We'll fight and sail and blaze our trail in crimson through the stars. Archive 2010-05-01
British cavalry standards and guidons are made of crimson silk embroidered with the appropriate regimental badges and insignia and battle honours.
The walls were a dark jade color here, the tile a light tan covered with crimson matting.
An inexorable patience he seemed to find it: he flushed crimson with rage and the sense of his unhandsomeness, and flung her away. A passionate pilgrim
The Talbe is distinguished by the length of his beard, a piece of woollen cloth, half white and half crimson, which he leaves loose and flowing about his body, and under which appears a figure, exhausted by fasting, (the consequence of excessive laziness), and a kind of chaplet of an enormous size. Perils and Captivity Comprising The sufferings of the Picard family after the shipwreck of the Medusa, in the year 1816; Narrative of the captivity of M. de Brisson, in the year 1785; Voyage of Madame Godin along the river of the Amazons, in the year 1770
Rather than a footman or a steward, there was another Hamorian armsman, but this one wore a uniform of black and crimson. Ordermaster
He turned around, his eyes searching hers in that way he had, their crimson depths revealing nothing but a deathly shimmer and a redolence of something lost.
Carefully, she cut several holly leaves out of a strip of green paper and three berries out a piece of vivid crimson.
The crimson or brick-red parrot-like cocks may sing and chatter all moving like mice through branch and foliage.
Sierra crimsoned and picked up a bigger box on the next shelf.
These works combined several shades of white paint in built-up layers of greasy petal-like strokes that were punctuated with dots of ultramarine or alizarin crimson.
I look down and realize that my once white t-shirt is now in dripping crimson shreds. Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Thablue’s Review Forum
Kings and Gods both wear their hair in beehive topknots and sit cross-legged gazing down from their gaddis under crimson parasols, as the courtiers feast, and dancing girls celebrate their victories over the enemy.
I could see Gareth's head turning crimson, a sure sign of confusion and/or stress.
Other litters were freighted with purple robes of the finest linen and of all possible shades from the incarnadine hue of the rose to the deep crimson of the blood of the grape; _calasires_ of the linen of Canopus, which is thrown all white into the vat of the dyer, and comes forth again, owing to the various astringents in which it had been steeped, diapered with the most brilliant colours; tunics brought from the fabulous land of Seres, made from the spun slime of a worm which feeds upon leaves, and so fine that they might be drawn through a finger-ring. King Candaules
The crimson ribbon had unraveled and his silver-blonde hair was spilling out over his shoulders, frizzing slightly.
Anyway, very few flowers in my yard flaunt the single colours - bright yellow, soft pink, browny maroon, crimson - black - of my original sowing.
The walls are crimson, the woodwork is a creamy ivory. Changing space
Look at the coppersmith, or the crimson breasted barbet.
Some of the joints were 'lapped' and some were butted, and two or three weeks after the owner of the house moved in, as the paper became more dry, the joints began to open and to show the white plaster of the wall, and then Owen had to go there with a small pot of crimson paint and a little brush, and touch out the white line. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists
A profusion of wild flowers grew by the wayside -- the crimson poppies standing out. THE GOLDEN LION
Soon enough the attackers emerged, their blurred forms now visible under the crimson light.
Sangre de toro is a tanager with a breast and throat carpeted, it seemed, with crimson velvet. Strange Paradise
Newcomb had used the same term to describe the habitat of the Canada violets that I had found massed in a moist shady spot, as well as for the beautiful crimson wake-robins, or red trilliums, that bloomed here and there on the forest floor.
The most common animal dye was cochineal, a crimson colour which came from cactus eating insects, of which 17,000 were needed to produce one single ounce of dye.
They watched as the colours of the dunes changed from yellow, to deep crimson, to pink and purple, then finally to the dark black of night.
The crimson or dusky green toile pattern is printed on Celeste 406 thread count percale sheeting with hand drawn hems.
To the poetic vision of early seers the crimson West seemed ensanguined by some great massacre that had been perpetrated there. The light that draws the flower
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. The Happy Prince and Other Tales
I needed to pick up an extra pair of binoculars from him, and he also showed me pictures from his recent trip to the Valley… Elegant Trogon, Crimson-collared Grosbeak, ani, jays, etc.
He grew terribly bright, as if ghostly images of himself had focused on him, and a crackling nimbus of pure force that glowed a deep gold-crimson surrounded him.
Classic crimson is one Christmas hue that never goes out of style.
Anyone who thought that an Alabama win tonight might call into question who deserves the national title couldn't possibly have any doubt after seeing LSU drown in the Crimson Tide. Alabama 21 LSU 0 - as it happened! | Michael Solomon
The same playful mind that can be sensed in Mahendra's plays can be seen in the dynastic sculptures commissioned a little inland from Mamallapuram, at the Pallava capital of Kanchipuram: here we see the ladies of the court riding on elephants under crimson parasols; messengers arrive breathless at halls packed with courtiers; ambassadors from China sue for peace. India: The Place of Sex
Currently tied at the top with Penn, the Crimson's hopes for a title depend on a victory this weekend. The Harvard Crimson :: News
The full skirt of her red gown fell about her feet like a crimson pool.
Either way, it's best to make it a day or so in advance to allow the juices to soak completely into the bread and turn it deep crimson.
professors robed in crimson
“Did you know that when you talk about vampires, your words are the same color as”—I reached for the tube of paint on the table—“alizarin crimson?” The Season of Risks
David nods, crimsoning at his mistake and finishes washing the infant.
His decision didn't come until signing day, and even then he hadn't cleared the final roadblock to play in crimson and cream. USATODAY.com
And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Astonished and indignant at so sudden and violent an assault, Camilla stood suspended, whether to deign any vindication, or to walk silently away: yet its implications involuntarily filled her with a thousand other, and less offending emotions than those of anger, and a general confusion crimsoned her cheeks. Camilla
Therefore, Wiggs kept the word beet to himself, fine and private, despite his sensitivity to Priscilla's burning curiosity about the comettailed vegetable that had extended its crimson orbit into her atmosphere. La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth
I must've blushed crimson, because Chevy laughed a deep booming laugh.
Laughter began to loom in my stomach when my friend blushed to the color of deep crimson.
There were padded, deep crimson chairs all around, and the tables were a patterned shade of light blue.
Realizing she still had the silk robe on, her cheeks crimsoned again and she stripped it off.
Marius, girt round by a company of centurions, with the crimson tunic hoisted on a spear, and followed by the alalagmos of the Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
The blustrous Bounderby crimsoned and swelled to such an extent on hearing these words, that he seemed to be, and probably was, on the brink of a fit. Hard Times
As usual I'd picked out one of the veggie meals, a bowl of salad, a cube-shaped green jello, and a crimson glossy apple.
A blush of light crimson I guess you all spotted the dreadful howler in this column last week. Times, Sunday Times
The muffler was a deep crimson and the mittens a warm shade of gray with three rows of crimson in the wrist end; Mary Jane had picked colors she was sure Tom would like. Mary Jane's City Home
Judging by the rowan berries out in crimson abundance, autumn is once more upon us.
The twenty-five or so remaining Crimson Knights donned their plate mail and readied their weapons.
She smouldered in a floor length gem-encrusted crimson gown and Tango-coloured mohair evening wrap, while the model modelled the flimsiest of fur halter tops.
And thou, Nature! surround him with mountains, cliffs, and seas; lull him with golden dawns and crimson eves; inweave him in thy magic circle of azure days and starry nights; O mother Nature -- closely embrace the The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
Over a chimere of figured crimson velvet he wore a fine linen rochet. The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09
The purple and crimson gem is the only known diamond of these colours.
As the youngest member of the cast, Peacocke-who is a Crimson arts comper-definitely holds her own, as she effortlessly conveys Lulu's complexity by highlighting the character's youthful innocence and desire to be mature. The Harvard Crimson :: News
This beautiful clematis has velvety crimson flowers and can be grown through large shrubs or as a partner for a rambling rose. Times, Sunday Times
Ipomea quamoclet; from about one half its length upwards, it sends out on all sides, ascendent branches which divide again and again; these terminate with large tubular or funnel formed flowers; their limbs equally divided into five segments; these beautiful flowers are of a perfect rose colour, elegantly besprinkled on the inside of their petals with crimson specks; the flowers are in great abundance and together with the branches and delicately fine cut leaves, compose a conical spike or compound pannicle. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
Its vanward cohorts heralding, in crimson, green, and gold. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844
Buckwheat, mustard, rape, or fast-growing legumes, such as vetches or crimson clover, can be used.
The e-mail led to much criticism of the sender, coverage in Above The Law, the Boston Globe, an AP wire story, and the Harvard Crimson, a condemnatory statement from the Dean of Harvard Law School, an apology from the sender, andmore. The Volokh Conspiracy » 2010 » April
The red martagon grows abundantly on our plains; the dog's tooth violet, _Erythronium_, with its spotted leaves and bending yellow blossom, delicately dashed with crimson spots within, and marked with fine purple lines on the outer part of the petal, proves a great attraction in our woods, where these plants increase: they form a beautiful bed; the leaves come up singly, one from each separate tuber. The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America
In the past week, the fall in temperature has turned the leaves and stems of the dogwood a glorious crimson, making it a marvellous foil for mauve Michaelmas daisies.
The women's costumes were long and full-skirted, of gray tulle with tight gray satin bodices, but the underskirts had warm tones of crimson, cherry, flame and wine red.
Ephie, who had rapidly recovered her assurance, invariably began in her archest manner, and it became his special pleasure to reduce her, little by little, to a crimson silence. Maurice Guest
The Crimson Hand expressed the ineludible gripe, in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their Mosses from an Old Manse
The crimson hand expressed the ineludible gripe in which mortality clutches the highest and purest of earthly mould, degrading them into kindred with the lowest, and even with the very brutes, like whom their visible frames return to dust. The Short-story
Hoofbeats sounded the entry of stallions, astride which young men in crimson costumes performed daredevil stunts. Sultan of the Steppes
I discovered in the maritime parts of Georgia, particularly on the banks of the Alatamaha, another new species of Magnolia, whose leaves were nearly of the figure of those of this tree, but they were much less in size, not more than six or seven inches in length, and the strobile very small, oblong, sharp pointed and of a sine deep crimson colour, but I never saw the flower. Travels Through North & South Carolina, Georgia, East & West Florida, the Cherokee Country, the Extensive Territories of the Muscogulges, or Creek Confederacy, and the Country of the Chactaws; Containing An Account of the Soil and Natural Producti
Both sides fought with abandon, crimson water swirling round their knees.
Then had come brilliant spots and splashes of color on the summer slopes -- purple butterwort, golden ragweed, aconite, buttercup, deep crimson mossy patches of saxifrage, rosy heather, catchfly, wild geranium, cinnamon rose. Days of the Discoverers
Tucked down in boho Stockbridge, this crimson-walled diner twinkles with candlelight and feels as cosy as a New Orleans bar in a cyclone.
A lifeless man, lying outstretched on a certain hearthstone, might be found once in a house and awaken no special comment; but when this same discovery has been made twice, if not thrice, during the history of a single dwelling, one might surely be pardoned a distrust of its seemingly home-like appointments, and discern in its slowly darkening walls the presence of an evil which if left to itself might perish in the natural decay of the place, but which, if met and challenged, might strike again and make another blot on its thrice-crimsoned hearthstone. The Filigree Ball
The shady lava lamp in the corner of the room supplied a dismal crimson light, the bubbly pink shimmers on the wall fell onto his flaccid, ageless, sweaty body.
In the weeks that followed, the Queen sat hour after hour at the window. In her lap was the crimson velvet and she sewed it in silks as bloody as the dawn.
But when I looked lower down, there was a sweeter message still, for the mezereon was awake, with its tiny porcelain crimson flowers and its minute leaves of bright green, budding as I think Aaron's rod must have budded, the very crust of the sprig bursting into little flames of green and red. Escape, and Other Essays
Many selections exist with somewhat different habits and fruits from crimson and red to orange and yellow. Winter Garden Glory
The saucy slap changes from clear to deep crimson as the wearer feels frisky. The Sun
A beautiful brilliant crimson colour, with a complexity of aromas on the nose including blackberry and Morello cherry, hints of oak and spice. Well-balanced, yet mellow tannins.
To accomplish this, the first thing was to obtain a good red ink from the cochineal, which is crimson. Foul Play
The combination of excess sugar sap and sunny days create an abundance of the pigment anthocyanin and the brilliant fall colors of crimson and purple.
Her face was bruised, and crimson welts marred her bare arms.
He had seen Tom Ricketts, of the fourth form, who used to wear a jacket and trousers so ludicrously tight, that the elder boys could not forbear using him in the quality of a butt or 'cockshy' -- he had seen this very Ricketts arrayed in crimson and gold, with an immense bear-skin cap on his head, staggering under the colours of the regiment. The History of Pendennis
There was an unfacetted crimson gem (he vaguely remembered having heard a similar gem called a bloodstone) in the grip, just behind one of the smooth, tapering arms of the guard. Nightside The Long Sun
She noticed wildly his hair was messed up; the crimson ribbon had unraveled and his silver-blonde hair was spilling out over his shoulders, frizzing slightly.
The hard crimson shell retains the moisture for long periods. Food Watch
The intense blue of its flowers works equally well with bright golden yellow, orange or crimson. Times, Sunday Times
France be so kind as to order me one half a dozen tombour worked Muslin hankerchiefs, 4 Ells Book Muslin, one pound of white threads, 12 Ells of light crimson caliminco with a peice of coarse cambrick and any light wollen stuff that will answer for winter gowns, half a dozen coulourd plumes and a small Box of flowers for Miss Nabby at her request to her pappa. Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 23 April 1781
The sky draped as a backdrop for the crimson harvest sun like a painting in a majestic golden frame embellished by great brush strokes from a master's hand.
There's a prim prioress, a pardoner in shabby green velvet, an enigmatic woman in fur-trimmed crimson.
Many selections exist with somewhat different habits and fruits from crimson and red to orange and yellow. Winter Garden Glory
In fact, the Shasta daisy is a creation of Luther Burbank, the California plant breeder who was also responsible for the Burbank potato, the plumcot, the Burbank Crimson California poppy, and hundreds of other botanical introductions. Jane S. Smith: Daisies, Weddings, and Making the Ideal Real
Key species are the dwarf honeyguide Indicator pumilio, African green broadbill Pseudocalyptomena graueri, Lagden's bushshrike Malaconotus lagdeni, Kivu ground thrush Zoothera tanganjicae, Oberlander's ground thrush Z. oberlaenderi, Grauer's rush warbler Bradypterus graueri, Chaplin's flycatcher Muscicapa lendu and dusky crimsonwing Cryptospiza shelleyi. Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Uganda
At the man's right was another woman with raven locks and a crimson stare.

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