How To Use Reddish In A Sentence

In red wines there are usually sufficient adsorbed tannins and pigmented tannins to colour the crystals reddish brown and to ensure that they are small and irregular in shape.
Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of Teneriffe; for a reddish-grey lava, which we found on the slope of Monte Verde, and which contains small microscopic crystals, appears to me to be a close mixture of basalt and analcime. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
However, the name is sometimes used and has recently been applied to the reddish eggs of the chum salmon, Oncorhynchus keta, of the N. Pacific and Arctic.
Large deposits of frothy reddish-brown pyrolignic acid, or “wood vinegar,” as the men called it, had also been found, indicating, as Roebling said, “that a destructive distillation of wood had been going on.” The Great Bridge
Copper produces a reddish tinge, which is by no means unpleasant compared with the dazzling whiteness of the nickel deposit. Scientific American Supplement, No. 586, March 26, 1887

By the heyday of the binder's craft, the early to mid eighteenth century, two types of leather were recognized as the best: skiver, or lambskin, which was strong but so thin that it scarcely required any paring, and Moroccan goatskin, which was highly valued for its skiver-like characteristics combined with its delightful reddish color. Books: Modernity's Abuse of an Art
In the early part of this century there was a young girl examined in New York whose ureters emptied into a reddish carnosity on the mons veneris. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
They are covered with reddish brown hair, and the sides of the face, in adult males, are commonly produced into two crescentic, flexible excrescences, like fatty tumours. Essays
He was mid thirties, with thinning, reddish blond hair which had been razor cut up the back. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
Her hard-set blue eyes were serious and cool, and she wore her reddish blonde hair in tight curls.
The spiny, reddish-brown stems are clad with oval-shaped, glossy green leaves with notched margins. The Sun
The compaction foliation and jointing in the red-gray and reddish ash-flow tuff to the right is roughly parallel to jointing in the granitic rock on the left, and roughly parallel to the contact. Geology on the Road: Highway 50 #1
It has oval leaves and reddish-orange berries on long branches that have until recently been rigidly tied in against the wall.
The urine itself may look milky or cloudy, even reddish if blood is present.
He also wears this spiffy reddish business-guy suit.
The front door opened onto a large hallway which ran all the way through the rest of the house to the back door; its lime-bleached walls enhanced the reddish patina of the ground-floor windows, as well as the studwork and the polished wood of the doorways. Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
We made love in my big bed as the lemon light of winter days passed into reddish nights.
Wearing a blue skirt, microstrip wheat color skin looks so healthy, black hair like a waterfall vertically over the shoulders, with a reddish face.
About the twenty-first, weight generally in the left side, with pain; slight urine thick, muddy, and reddish; when allowed to stand, had no sediment; in other respects felt lighter; fever not gone; fauces painful from the commencement, and red; uvula retracted; defluxion remained acrid, pungent, and saltish throughout. Of The Epidemics
The reddish columnar mucosa is in sharp contrast to the pale-pink mucosa of the esophagus.
Reddish white light flickers from the cupridium, seemingly lengthening the blade, until it is almost a lance. The Magi'i Of Cyador
Affected stalks often have pink to reddish discolored internal tissues.
Reddish-yellow; the head, apical joint of the intermediate tarsi, the apex of the posterior tibiæ, and the third and following segments of the abdomen black; the thorax and legs with a thin, short, pale fulvous pubescence; the head and abdomen smooth and shining; the head produced before the eyes into a kind of beak, rufo-piceous anteriorly. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Alpha-naphthylamine, Bluish claret red; Reddish puce. The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
Black; the head and thorax strongly punctured; the mandibles, clypeus, a line above extending to the anterior ocellus, the emargination of the eyes, a spot at their vertex and a line at their outer orbits, yellow; the antennæ reddish-yellow, with the scape pale yellow in front and a narrow fuscous line above; the yellow marking more or less stained orange. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Its reddish colour comes from iron oxide - rust. Times, Sunday Times
He was mid thirties, with thinning, reddish blond hair which had been razor cut up the back. THE COMPANY OF STRANGERS
The sapwood, frequently 3 to 4 inches thick, is white with a reddish tinge.
a reddish afterburn from waxing
He stained the wood reddish - brown .
And for ground cover, tough, bouncy perennials such as persicaria - heart-shaped leaves with reddish flowers. Times, Sunday Times
She put on black eyeliner, reddish eyeshadow, and black lipstick.
The form of body peculiarly subject to phthisical complaints was the smooth, the whitish, that resembling the lentil; the reddish, the blue-eyed, the leucophlegmatic, and that with the scapulae having the appearance of wings: and women in like manner, with regard to the melancholic and subsanguineous, phrenitic and dysenteric affections principally attacked them. Of The Epidemics
Feeding by the chigger creates scabby, reddish lesions that require two to three weeks to heal after the engorged mites leave the bird.
I was wearing a festive but not overbearing reddish shirt and Keith was decked out in some sleek black duds.
Â I believe it had a basecoat of reddish brown, followed by gesso and sage green, but it was so long ago that that might be wrong. Kater’s Art » 2009 » May
Its curiously and irregularly pinnate fronds are borne on slender stalks, terete toward the base, and covered with reddish brown, downy scales, instead of being produced loosely, as in most other Nephrolepises; these are densily crowded, and the outcome of closely clustered crowns. Scientific American Supplement, No. 447, July 26, 1884
It is probably identical with the lighure of (Exodus 28: 19) The Jacinth or hyacinth is a red variety of zircon, which is found in square prisms of a white, gray, red, reddish-brown, yellow or pale-green color. Smith's Bible Dictionary
The sputa are concocted when they resemble pus, and the urine when it has reddish sediments like tares. On Regimen In Acute Diseases
The other was a mare the color of narra, a wood that her Pappy used throughout his house in Maui, a reddish brown richer than mahogany.
In the distance a broadish, reddish river flowed east. The Berrybender Narratives
The amphibolite is mostly medium grained, rather schistose and has a characteristic reddish hue on weathered surfaces.
He was barely controlling a long leash attached to a reddish-gold puppy that was all long legs and loud skitter on the slippery wood floors. FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
Look for its reddish light in line with Castor and Pollux on the 16th, above-left of the waning Moon on the 23rd and with binoculars only 0.7° above-right of the Praesepe star cluster on the 30th. Starwatch: the September night sky
Their skin is tough and covered by sparse, bristlelike hairs: the color above is reddish brown to gray; beneath, it is yellowish brown. 15 Agouti
Rubidium and cesium flames are reddish violet or magenta.
The feet were constantly caught and entangled in the long grass, that was parched in the scorching sun; the eyes were dazzled on all sides by the glaring metallic glitter on the young reddish leaves of the trees; on all sides were the variegated blue clusters of vetch, the golden cups of bloodwort, and the half-lilac, half-yellow blossoms of the heart's-ease. A Sportsman's Sketches Works of Ivan Turgenev, Volume I
For some tribes, pipestone -- a reddish, claylike stone from which ceremonial pipes were carved -- is sacred; when they objected to its use for the floor of a performance space, the architects found a substitute. RETURN OF THE NATIVE
Its branches contain alternating, elliptical, bright green leaves, and its flowers, which appear from April to June, are reddish or pink, and bell-shaped.
Evoking images of viridescent dragon scales, the pointed, blue-green leaves create a compact, deer-proof assemblage that's infused with reddish purple tinges.
Cuprous carbide or acetylide is the reddish brown amorphous precipitate which is the ultimate product obtained when acetylene is led into an ammoniacal solution of cuprous chloride. Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use
The books themselves were dirty and well worn; their bindings held together by moth-eaten reddish cloth.
The solid products of Pichincha since the Conquest have been chiefly pumice, coarse-grained and granular trachyte, and reddish porphyroid trachyte. The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America
It certainly seems to have misled people into thinking that - like the animal photographed on Borneo - Hose's civet is reddish. That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
Still, by relating those colours he has seen to each other he might be able to develop an understanding of the colourspace inside his head, an understanding that the reddishness of certain browns is a constituent feature as is the yellowishness of other browns, the bluishness of certain greys. Archive 2009-02-01
P. latifolia (red bartsia, common bartsia) grows to 20 cm and is often reddish, with deeply toothed leaves.
His clothes were cheap and homely, "his countenance swollen and reddish, his voice sharp and untuneable," nevertheless his fervid eloquence and energy soon made him "very much hearkened unto. A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1.
She’s adopted a strategy all too common among Dems in reddish districts: don’t worry about the views of the voters, just build up a financial advantage by attending to the needs of corporate donors. Matthew Yglesias » Halter’s Long Odds
Everything was relatively dark and these hulking machines were taking in reddish white hot molten glass down these chutes and sending out glowing red beer bottles about 3 dozen at a time. LEGO Brick’s — Meandering Passage
Women, as well as males, are generally tattooed of a reddish or blue colour, round the mouth, moustachio-wise. The Story of Ida Pfeiffer and Her Travels in Many Lands
Shallots grow similarly to garlic in bulbs with pods covered in reddish brown skin.
This spiraea is common and sometimes derided because of this, but it is an easy-to-grow deciduous shrub with attractive reddish young leaves that mature to dark green and lovely deep carmine pink flowers from mid to late summer.
In 1664 Hooke observed a reddish spot on the surface of the planet.
The two micas used as a commodity are: brown mica or phlogopite which contains iron and magnesium; and the "reddish, green, or white (or clear) mica" or muscovite which contains potassium and aluminum. Mica
The reddish purple open chain tetrapyrrole pigment phycoerythrobilin max 550 nm) is an essential chromophore of the light-harvesting phycobiliproteins of most cyanobacteria, red algae, and cryptomonads. Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
Affected stalks often have pink to reddish discolored internal tissues.
As I glanced up, my eyes caught the reflection of a domelike shape that radiated out with a reddish orange glow. Good Fortune
Dark green foliage turns reddish in autumn. Times, Sunday Times
We're beginning to see roseate spoonbills, reddish egrets, tricolored herons, more edge-dwellers who reach their northernmost ranges along the Gulf coast.
European butterfly having reddish - brown wings each marked with a purple eyespot.
Wearing a blue skirt, microstrip wheat color skin looks so healthy, black hair like a waterfall vertically over the shoulders, with a reddish face.
Heather described how the cremation took place nine days after his death earlier this year in Reddish and said the undertakers were instructed to collect the urn and store it.
Alternatively, the native subspecies americanus is typically shorter, has a smooth, often reddish stalk, lighter yellow-green foliage, a sparser flower panicle and often grows in association with other plants. Phragmites australis - cryptic invasion of the Common Reed in North America
Dirty olive green on the back, from the neck to the tail; scuta 147, dirty reddish orange; head black from the nose to neck; sides of the head white; tongue forked. Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
So, next time you go birding and spot the reddish-brown flanks of a towhee, call it like you see it.
It deepened in intensity, ringing the changes of reddish-yellow, purple, and saffron. In a Far Country
A grain or so is oxidized into reddish alloxan and alloxantin by carefuly evaporating with a few drops of strong nitric acid on a piece of porcelain. Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887
Round her neck hung a pendant of reddish gold, ornamented with roses in bas-relief. A TIME OF WAR
Above, illuminated by a bizarre reddish glow, changing surface tensions draw themselves as involutions in the flesh of the sky. Trajectory
Her hair was more reddish than yellow, curled in appearance naturally '. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
The labellum, which is articulated at the base of the column, is trilobed, reddish-brown spotted and papillose with acute lateral lobes.
We're now into debate about what the various woods are: jarrah (a reddish West Australian hardwood) is easy, but opinions vary about the others. Journal for 22 November
Behind the angle of bifurcation of the common carotid artery is a reddish-brown oval body, known as the glomus caroticum (carotid body). VI. The Arteries. 3. The Arteries of the Head and Neck. a. The Common Carotid Artery
The flesh is dark and reddish, tending to be like a leather hide. Food Watch
The whole plant often takes on a reddish glow. Times, Sunday Times
Though reddish-brown and hardened by petrifaction, the original character of the wood was still evident.
He still had the same reddish-bronze hair and sapphire blue eyes, but his looks had changed dramatically.
Many dark-eye phenotypes are not clear cut and often appear to represent a continuum of shades and hues of reddish brown.
Papular eczema (_eczema papulosum_) is characterized by the appearance, usually in numbers, of discrete, aggregated or closely-crowded, reddish, pin-head-sized acuminated or rounded papules. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
This species is at once known from Chelodina longicollis by the form of its high, flat sternum, which is strongly keeled on the sides, and by this part being of a uniform reddish colour, without any dark margin to the plates; the hinder part of the sternum is only slightly concavely truncated, and not deeply notched. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
The intensity of burning in this event is visible in both rooms, where patches of reddish gray clay form a matrix with pieces of carbon or black ashy soil.
Ferruginous; the posterior tarsi and the fourth and following segments of the abdomen black; the head is reddish yellow, the eyes brown; the scape and two or three of the basal joints of the flagellum ferruginous, the rest fuscous; the basal half of the wings flavo-hyaline, the apical half fuscous; the stigma yellow, with a subhyaline macula beneath, and two other similar irregular-shaped spots. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
They smear their bodies with ochre, a reddish pigment extracted from iron ore.
We perceive what are termed auroral plates of a purple or reddish-violet color, more or less extended, according as this species of veil, formed by icy particles, extends to a greater or less distance from the poles. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859
The former, called by the Chilenos "el Turco," is as large as a fieldfare, to which bird it has some alliance; but its legs are much longer, tail shorter, and beak stronger: its colour is a reddish brown. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
The leaf veins and leafstalks of those near the base of the plant are reddish and contain woolly hair.
Running upward and slightly forward from the umbo is a reddish-yellow streak produced by the manubrium of the malleus. XII. Surface Anatomy and Surface Markings. 2. Surface Markings of Special Regions of the Head and Neck
The audiobook begins and ends with the a chorus of chirruping birds, as the reader imagines the reddish brown thick trunks reaching from the fertile earth to the cloudy heavens. “Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring” by Richard Preston (Random House, 2007) « The BookBanter Blog
Physically, the pure Aymara is short and thick-set, with a great chest development, and with the same reddish complexion, broad face, black eyes and rounded forehead which distinguish the Quichuas. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"
I like the wildness of the two plants that look charming together, with the small white fragrant flowers of the jasmine contrasting beautifully with the reddish purple ones of the clematis.
He had little hair on the cheeks but a long mustachio with reddish ends. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
Rodgersia podophylla: a fabulous foliage plant, this clump-forming perennial produces large, textured leaves, tinged with reddish bronze when young. Times, Sunday Times
They are medium-sized brown waders with a long, reddish beak and orange legs. Times, Sunday Times
These communities contain such species as ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), reddish egret (Egretta rufescens), the Texas indigo snake (Drymarchon corais erebennus), and over 400 species of birds. Tamaulipan mezquital
+Cap+ reddish-brown, 3 to 6 inches broad, fleshy; when young egg-shaped, and then campanulate, and flattening out with a broad, obtuse umbo. Among the Mushrooms A Guide For Beginners
The house is built of reddish granite in what is called the baronial style, with a sprinkling of peaked gables and pepper-box turrets, and Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 2
It's run by two brothers with similar close-cut reddish beards and close-fitting caps.
He had thick reddish-yellow eyebrows at the base of a slightly receding forehead – wanting in benevolence, phrenologists would have said, and with the bump of self-esteem considerably developed. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land
Head white, face brilliant silvery; mystax with four bristles; mouth black, short, slender; eyes flat in front; antennæ black, almost as long as the breadth of the head; third joint long, slender, lanceolate; thorax deep black; scutellum reddish tawny; hind tibiæ black, with tawny tips; wings greyish, veins black; discal veinlet and third externo-medial vein forming one straight line, as in the genus Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
We scrambled up the mountain and worked all day on the snow-covered slopes exploring the wide, flat terraces of dark shale and reddish-brown mudstone.
Wearing a blue skirt, microstrip wheat color skin looks so healthy, black hair like a waterfall vertically over the shoulders, with a reddish face.
It is a reddish brown sandstone formed by detrital quartz, plagioclase, feldspar and muscovite, with subordinate apatite, zircon and opaque minerals.
She wore her reddish hair in two long plaits, bound with golden cord.
He didn't know anything about her. But he imagined himself to be deeply in love with her, just because of her reddish-brown fur and her fluffy white tail and her big wide bright eyes.
Dragon Flies, &c. hollow, or empty; in others fill'd with some kind of substance; in blue Flies, with a reddish musculous substance, with _fibres_ tending from the center or bottom outwards; and divers other, with various and differing kinds of substances. Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon
Love the scabiosa, it’s flowering in my garden too in a lovely deep reddish black. July Bloom Day 2008-A Wide Variety « Fairegarden
And consuming too much alcohol also can dilate the blood vessels in the skin, giving it a reddish hue.
He half walked, half carried the asura back up the hill, where he dug through his pack filled with waxed-paper wrappings, finally producing a reddish philter. Guild Wars: Ghosts of Ascalon
He stained the wood reddish - brown .
My father's short reddish brown hair was poking out from beneath his hat, and my mother's dark hair wasn't far from being out of order as well.
We have perennial wallflower, fuchsias, lobelia, dahlia and sedum still blooming - the sedum looking particularly good with deep reddish brown flowers and yellowing foliage.
A reddish-blue percoid marine food fish (Lopholatilus chamaeleonticeps) of deep Atlantic waters, having a fleshy flap on the nape and small yellow spots on the upper sides and fins.
The plants are stout, robust and shrub-like, with reddish stems and greenish-white or reddish-brown flowers produced in narrow, upright clusters.
A small reddish bat, Myotis goudoti, was scattered across the cave walls, while in the farthest corner, hundreds and hundreds of Otomops madagascarensis were crammed together.
Euery house almost had a cisteme or well in a garden on the backe side: in which gardens grew vines (with ripe clusters of grapes) making pleasant shadowes, and Tabacco nowe commonly knowen and vsed in England, wherewith their women there dye their faces reddish, to make them seeme fresh and young: Pepper Indian and common; figge-trees bearing both white and red figges: Peach trees not growing very tall: Orenges, Limons, Quinces, Potato-roots, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
On the east side are two shafts of reddish gray granite, in one piece, and one fine gray porphyry column with slabs of white feldspath. Travels in Arabia
Experts found diseased biopsy tissue turned reddish brown when a certain chemical was applied. The Sun
Dulse is a seaweed native to the British Isles that has a reddish-brown color and coarse texture.
The city centre is a beautiful mixture of old and new, all of it tinted in a reddish pink.
THE planet's reddish appearance is due to iron oxide. The Sun
Colorless or pale reddish or yellowish-brown specimens with an earthy to moderately vitreous luster are most commonly observed.
The surface of a lava flow weathers, particularly in wet climates, to form a rich, reddish volcanic soil, called a bole.
Thorax thickly clothed with fawn-coloured hairs; body above, shining ochrey inclined to orange; short tuft at the end of the body; underside lateritious; upper surface of first pair of wings fawn, with a reddish hue, densely covered with hair-like scales, with shorter and somewhat square scales beneath, the scales over the nervures, being reddish; an indistinct line of seven obscure spots still more indistinctly connected by a zigzag reddish line, runs across the wing nearly parallel to its apical margin, and nearer the tip of the wing than the middle. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
-- Fur very soft; above deep yellowish, olive brown or reddish-brown, with a mixture of fawn; under fur lead colour; chin and under parts whitish; head short; muzzle sharp; ears long and hairy; tail shorter than body, scaly, but scales covered with short black adpressed hairs; feet pale. Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
While they are growing and developing their coats will be coarsish and reddish in colour.
Face and pectus silvery; antennæ black, arista longer than the thorax; thorax with three broad reddish cupreous stripes; abdomen with broad cupreous purple bands; femora lutescent, tibiæ piceous, fore femora blackish towards the tips, tarsi black; wings black, tips snow-white, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein much curved outward; halteres tawny, with black tips. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Blue suit and reddish - brown socks! He had fouled up again.
He dressed carefully in the reddish-brown suit he had been married in.
The substance of the lungs often presents a reddish-gray hepatization throughout almost its whole extent. Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure
The camera panned down to earth, and several large, reddish blotches appeared on the surface as the missiles struck.
The lignified secondary walls could be recognized by a bluish glare (unlignified birefrigent walls, e.g. collenchyma, showed a reddish glare).
The fish are a Cyprinus and a Barbus, or Oreinus with small scales, thick leathery mouth, and cirrhi; a Loach of largish size, flat head, reddish, with conspicuous brownish mottlings, and a Silurus. Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
He dressed carefully in the reddish-brown suit he had been married in.
The soil of all stands was a readily erodible silty or sandy loam underlain by a reddish sand and clay.
In other colourful news, I've just had some reddish/copper lowlights put in my hair.
Near the opening of the mountain, where the water is found, at some distance below the highest summit, I found the rock to be porphyry of a light reddish colour, close grained, with small veins of feldspath, much resembling the porphyry I saw last year, in Wady Lamoule, beyond the Second Travels in Nubia
A more dramatic decomposer is a fat, reddish earthworm called the lob worm. Times, Sunday Times
A light caramel is a gold, honey colour; a dark caramel is a reddish amber.
Despite her size and girth, however, she was well proportioned and attractive with blue or green eyes and light colored hair that was sometimes described as reddish.
Projected Color scheme: a medium reddish brown sienna for the hulls with a brown wash. Uncharted Seas Project: A New Fleet « Third Point of Singularity
Blue suit and reddish - brown socks! He had fouled up again.
They vary in color from light tan to reddish and tend to blend in well with the soil and vegetation in their chosen habitat.
Jamaican cooks have rediscovered their native tangy fruits, including ackee (the reddish-yellow fruit of an evergreen tree), carambola, and ortanique (a cross between an orange and a tangerine).
Moist reddish hydrolytic latosols cover much of the low eastern subtropical forest region. Sangay National Park, Ecuador
Material from some localities fluoresces reddish-yellow under ultraviolet radiation.
He looked back to Jessie, who regarded him warily from beneath a cascade of reddish curls.
It is characterized by small and large, slightly furfuraceous, reddish-yellow or reddish-brown patches, occurring usually on warm and moist parts, such as the axillary, inguinal, anal and genitocrural regions. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
Red bartsia has a hairy spike with small, reddish flowers all up one side. Times, Sunday Times
A ripe kaki is reddish orange, mellow, very tasty and sweet, I like it very much.
The cheapest dishes, at one soldo, consisted of a slice of pizza, or four or five fritters made from bits of cabbage stalk and fragments of anchovy, or nine boiled chestnuts swimming in a reddish juice. Delizia!
Each female catkin has a separate peduncle, charged with reddish, scarious, lanceolate scales, and is surrounded at its base with a double row of the same scales, which served to envelop it before it expanded; its form is perfectly oval, and its total length about half an inch. Scientific American Supplement, No. 488, May 9, 1885
The larva of the mottled umber moth is a reddish brown caterpillar that eats the leaves of oak trees and shrubs.
With hook and line we caught chiefly a blackish fish of the size of a haddock, called cole-fish by the seamen, but differing much from that known by the same name in Europe; and another of the same size, of a reddish colour, with a little beard, which we called night-walkers, from the greatest number being caught in the night. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 15 Forming A Complete History Of The Origin And Progress Of Navigation, Discovery, And Commerce, By Sea And Land, From The Earliest Ages To The Present Time
Up close he could see she was quite pretty with flaming red hair and reddish brown eyes.
The whole plant often takes on a reddish glow. Times, Sunday Times
He has mismatched eyes - his right eye is reddish-purple from cataracts and his left eye is milky white.
He was barely controlling a long leash attached to a reddish-gold puppy that was all long legs and loud skitter on the slippery wood floors. FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
The reddish colour of the depistillated flower and its peduncle is a response to high light intensities during anthesis and should not be interpreted to indicate senescence.
Billowing clouds of steam and smoke drifted and eddied, obscuring then revealing the tormented reddish rock of the opposite wall.
Colors range from a dirty tan to yellow and occasionally reddish-orange.
The potash ore in the Sallent mine is a reddish mineral known as sylvinite, a form of potassium chloride.
Wearing a blue skirt, microstrip wheat color skin looks so healthy, black hair like a waterfall vertically over the shoulders, with a reddish face.
These communities contain such species as ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), jaguarundi (Herpailurus yagouaroundi), reddish egret (Egretta rufescens), the Texas indigo snake (Drymarchon corais erebennus), and over 400 species of birds. Tamaulipan mezquital
Some of the water placed in a glass was of a pale reddish tint; and, examined under a microscope, was seen to swarm with minute animalcula darting about, and often exploding. Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
Its reddish colour comes from iron oxide - rust. Times, Sunday Times
And if the plague is greenish or reddish in the garment ... it is a leprous plague and shall be shown to the priest. Chris Kelly: Mel Gibson Is Biblically Correct
The term is used for patterns incised into the whitish slip coating (or engobe) of a pot (before the second firing) exposing the contrasting reddish body underneath. Interactive Dig Black Sea: Catalog of Artifacts
Optically, purple apatite commonly shows slight bluish to reddish pleochroism.
The clergyman was just going to knock when he heard a clinking noise, and turning saw through the open door of a black shed just behind him an elderly woman in a black lace cap stooping among reddish big cans, pouring a very bright liquid into a tundish. The Prussian Officer and Other Stories
It was well wrapped in reddish-brown cloths, and as she revealed the contents of the package, the tension in the room became palpable. 365 tomorrows » 2007 » July : A New Free Flash Fiction SciFi Story Every Day
The reddish-yellow tracts are doubtless continents of an ochrey soil; and not, as some think, of a ruddy vegetation. A Trip to Venus
He had a sort of reddish beard.
The picture also shows a slightish white margin to the leaf, which is supposed to be another identifying characteristic, although the margins of most of the leaves on my sample had aged to a dull reddish color.
Other prominent reddish-orange stars include Antares whose name means "rival of Mars", which shines brightest on July and August evenings, and Betelgeuse, which is found in the constellation Orion and lights up the winter sky, according to StarDate. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
Her hair was more reddish than yellow, curled in appearance naturally '. ELIZABETH AND MARY: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
It flew like an accipiter, and as it went over I saw its gray head and reddish underparts.
There are words to represent these different grades of color, such as 'rufous' for reddish-brown and 'fuscous' for dusky-brown; these you must learn later on, for some of them are pretty hard ones. Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners
In addition to providing a ready means of identifying the diamond, a high degree of dispersion in a stone of pronounced color would lead one to consider sphene, demantoid garnet (if green), and zircon (which might be reddish, yellowish, brown, or of other colors), and if the stone did not agree with these in its other properties one should suspect _glass_. A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
The rocks typically comprise a monotonous sequence of greywackes, reddish-weathering arkosic sandstones, shales and subordinate conglomerates.
He was pale, his freckles stood out in stark relief against the white backdrop of his cheeks and his reddish hair was aflame.
She was rather petite and wore a reddish orange cami with a black jacket.
These valuable skins are always stretched in willow hoops, varying from eighteen inches, to three feet in diameter, according to the size of the skins, and have a reddish appearance on the flesh side, which is exposed to the sun. Life in the Rocky Mountains
Within a few horse length's the track opened, and became wider, and I saw what looked like wheel ruts in the soft reddish soil.
He paused to ignite the cherry on a respectable reddish-brown stogie, flicking away the match with a few expert twists of his thick wrists, exposed ahead of rolled up sleeves.
Soon, the vines will have reddish sprouts and the almond trees will begin to bloom, but now everything is bleached, brown, monochromatic.
The rocks (like all the hills in Konkodoo) are a coarse reddish granite, composed of red feldspar, white quartz, and black shorl; but it differs from any granite I have seen, in having round smooth pebbles, many of them as large as a cannon shot. The Journal of a Mission to the Interior of Africa, in the Year 1805
One would imagine that one was passing through rocks presenting nothing interesting: the rocks are in many places very hard, particularly when they have been long exposed to the atmosphere, in which case they are less red than when sheltered by vegetation, when they are soft and of a reddish colour: the fossils are by no means frequent, the cylindric Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
It is a beautiful deep reddish brown liquid that evaporates easily, giving off strong fumes that irritate the throat and lungs.
Unidentified owls on the Mascarenes, the Andaman and Nicobar islands; a black, long-tailed passerine, notable for its startling rattle-like call, from Goodenough Island in the D’Entrecastaeux Archipelago; mystery African gallinules and touracos; a Kenyan long-tailed passerine with reddish undertail-coverts; an all-black Kenyan swift (Ali & Ripley 1969, Williams & Arlott 1980, Beehler 1991, Shuker 1998). Archive 2006-05-01
The blaze began to die down, the flames diminished until all that was left was the dull reddish after-image.

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