How To Use Incarnadine In A Sentence
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He had not been much to look at before the Changement ceremony, which had incarnadined his eyes and turned his brown hair silver.
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From no point of view could the West look so lovely as from that lattice with the garland of jessamine round it, whose white stars and green leaves seemed now but grey pencil outlines - graceful in form, but colourless in tint - against the gold incarnadined of a summer evening - against the fire-tinged blue of an August sky, at eight o'clock p.m.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Is forced to leave native place, latter had the enemy troop, the blood incarnadine snow.
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They were soon locked muzzle to muzzle in deadly embrace, belching shot and grape through each other's sides, while the streaming gore incarnadined the waves.
Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
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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
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A curious serenity of evening, for a life so turbulent and incarnadined in its beginning!
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 16, February, 1859
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Nawin looked directly into the man's incarnadined, sun burnt face and his furrows of coarse wrinkling skin, and the old man, though abashed, grinned and nodded once as if grateful that the younger man not only acknowledged his existence but saw his worth in it.
An Apostate: Nawin of Thais
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Is forced to leave native place, latter had the enemy troop, the blood incarnadine snow.
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Thousands sink upon the ground overpowered, to be trodden under foot of the flying steed, or their bones to be left whitening the incarnadined field.
Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
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The icy cliffs echoed the crashing volley, as both barrels poured forth their deadly hail almost in unison, and the huge animal settled down amid incarnadined waters and ice crimsoned with his life-blood, shot to death through the brain so skilfully that scarce a struggle or a tremor bore witness that the principle of life had departed.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields
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The sheer length of the word "multitudinous" in Shakespeare's line, "the multitudinous seas incarnadine," seems to express something of the vastness and prolixity of the seas; but would it if it were not used as an adjective describing the seas, and if it did not have just the meaning that it has?
The Principles of Aesthetics
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Let the light of the burning building scare the nightingales and incarnadine the willows.
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The clouds were incarnadined by the sunset to the colour of blood.
River God
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Unable to reach them, the hippopotamus slashed at his own flanks, inflicting terrible gaping wounds in his sides so that for fifty paces around the galley the waters were incarnadined, and both Lostris and Tanus were painted entirely crimson from the tops of their heads to the soles of their feet by the spurting blood.
River God
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Too often commerce and conquest moved hand in hand, and the colony was incarnadined with blood.
Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
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A romantic obscurity would have hung over the expedition to Egypt, and he would have escaped the perpetration of those crimes which have incarnadined his soul with a deeper dye than that of the purple for which he committed them -- those acts of perfidy, midnight murder, usurpation, and remorseless tyranny, which have consigned his name to universal execration, now and for ever.
The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson
