How To Use Vermilion In A Sentence
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Blood may be seen running down the crucifix, while tiny specks of vermilion represent drops of blood on Christ's foot and loincloth.
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The trees in Central Gardens were resplendent with autumn foliage, their colours ranging from vermilion to palest gold.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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The surface of the water was dyed with vermilion.
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The flames were as expected - carmine, saffron, vermilion.
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All of the colors swirled together, scarlet, crimson, vermilion, gold, violet, and rose converging on a darkened figure in the center.
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Down the middle of the scene ran that wonderful river, which is always rippling with the same regular waves; and always bearing onward the same capsizable galleys, with the same vermilion and blue revelers striking lyres on the deck.
Hide and Seek
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The great expanse of the Terris Nebula dominated the western horizon, with its many hues of vermilion, purple and fuchsia against the dark sapphire of the evening sky.
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Their flanks were blotched with a livid nitrous efflorescence, with flaring sulphur, unhealthy verdure of pitchstone, streaks of arsenical vermilion; their beds -- a frantic maze of boulders.
South Wind
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This is -- Erath is a town of about 2,500 people or so and is in Vermilion Parish, the heart of what they call Cajun country.
CNN Transcript Sep 26, 2005
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Her great wiry nimbus of vermilion hair stood out like a flaming crown above her long slender neck.
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The artist will contrast vermilion, fuchsia and a yellow, and the painting will feel strangely crepuscular.
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Beretta's new Deluxe Shooting Glasses feature replacement nosepieces, nylon case and three interchangeable lenses in smoke, vermilion and yellow.
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Forensic tests on the red stuff have identified it as red ocher and vermilion tempera paint.
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Beet soup with duck is a hearty take on borscht, and while a brilliantly vermilion gazpacho could have been our favorite soup, it was, uncharacteristically, too salty.
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141 From the street, visitors first entered through a two-story pagoda with green roofs edged with vermilion, and next they walked beneath a grand sign written in gilded Chinese characters that read, “Ten Thousand Chinese Things.”
The Romance of China: Excursions to China in U.S. Culture: 1776-1876
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It contains immense courtyards, terraces and stairways, and buildings decorated with golden roofs, vermilion columns and green, red and yellow facings.
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Keune and supervisor Jaap Boon investigated the red pigment vermilion from the Rubens painting.
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Another sharp-toothed, horned demon - this one vermilion - appears in Area 213.
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She was wearing a jacket of bright vermilion.
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The peachy tones at its top deepen to a comforting, enveloping vermilion.
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Maybe I should consider indigo lashes, plucked sienna brows, vermilion cheeks, ruby lips.
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS
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She was wearing a jacket of bright vermilion.
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Houses may be done with red lead; the tiles with vermilion or bice to represent blue slate.
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Rich hues of madder red, vermilion, saffron, and black are used in myriad combinations of stripes and checks.
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The previous user had also daubed the ducts along the roof of Biff's control bubble with vermilion slogans.
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Fauvist dashes of vermilion, viridian, brown and black against a white ground form a skeletal stick figure with a ram's head.
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Chinamen poured down on him, a hideous bedizenment of vermilion war-devils painted on their blue tunics and banners and shields.
The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
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Suddenly we come across a huge expanse of startlingly blue water mirroring vermilion rocks and towering pinnacles.
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The two paint boxes were found to contain Prussian blue, chrome yellow, vermilion (a red mercury sulfide pigment), and red earth.
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I am amused by the attack on the book's statement about the use of vermilion in the hair partings of female terracottas in very early contexts in Baluchistan.
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Statues of the deities in Rome were nearly all coloured; and they received a fresh coat of vermilion -- which, although it was the hue of divinity, was extremely fugacious -- on anniversary occasions or in times of great national rejoicing.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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Yarmouth, conspicuous with vermilion cheeks, and a robe of flame-coloured taffeta.
The Virginians
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It then rises to show an identical backdrop, now stained with the colors of archaic art: coppers and golds, turquoises and deep blues, flashes of vermilion.
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Thereafter she applies 'kumkum' (vermilion) on the stem of the ship, folds her hands in a silent prayer, and then breaks the coconut on the bows of the ship.
India eNews
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It was McCrone that determined that stains on the Shroud of Turin were actually made of red ocher and vermilion tempera paint, and that a manuscript of the Gospel of Mark believed to be from the 14th century contained Prussian blue paint, as well as the chemical lithopone, which dated the manuscript to the 18th century at the earliest.
The Frida Fighters
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The trees in Central Gardens were resplendent with autumn foliage, their colours ranging from vermilion to palest gold.
THE GOSPEL MAKERS
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This "joss" was a thick stake of wood, six or eight feet high, with the upper part roughly carved into the shape of a very ugly human face, and crudely coloured in vermilion and green.
Korea's Fight for Freedom
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Orpiment made a brilliant yellow pigment, but it turned an unattractive dark shade when mixed with or placed close to copper - or lead-based colors such as verdigris or vermilion.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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The furniture on it is glossy vermilion.
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A wild head of henna-dyed hair, in shades of vermilion, fell over her shoulders like an outlandish wig.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Nelson Collingwood; pretty Mrs. Sackville; Mrs. Captain Chuff (Mrs. Commodore Chuff we call her), were all there; the latter, of course, in the vermilion tabinet, which, splendid as it is, is nothing in comparison to the splendour of the ‘Sarcophagus.’
The Book of Snobs
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The misshapen toes visible in the open vinyl sandals were tipped with vermilion to match her fingernails.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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In Vermilion Parish, there is a little town called Abbeville, a picturesque little town that really got slammed by Hurricane Rita.
CNN Transcript Sep 25, 2005
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In a brief but dazzling flash of sumptuous vermilion and aquamarine, the kingfisher was gone, darting out of sight beneath the willows which brush the cool, clear waters of the Little Stour.
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green regent (1969--79) Formed in Surrey by ex-members of Blues Railroad and Clarissa's Vermilion Pigge.
MUSIC FOR BOYS
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But this afternoon I climbed by a long road where were many berberry bushes vermilion with their berries, up to the pass over the hills, and there all at once by surprise, without the least expecting it, at a turn of the road I had a revelation of the whole sea.
A Tramp's Sketches
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Vast numbers of rockfish at various life stages, especially widows, yellowtails, and blues, which tend to school in midwater, and some deeper-water species such as yelloweyes, canaries, vermilions, and bocaccios, which are not typically seen near shore.
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The small, brilliantly colored vermilion darter, a fish found only in a single tributary in Alabama, is nearing extinction because of habitat destruction and a decline in water quality.
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He mixes and grinds his own pigments, preferring rich, heavy metal colours such as cobalt blue and the cadmiums - red, violet, vermilion and yellow.
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The spectacular vermilion orange span of the Golden Gate Bridge.
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The figure is propped up by a ‘curtain’ in deep vermilion, decorated and vitalised by clusters of white leaves economically painted.
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His face and the exposed body limbs are also painted with vermilion.
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Raman spectroscopy is used to identify certain pigments, such as vermilion and red lead, that are not detectable with FTIR.
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The previous user had also daubed the ducts along the roof of Biff's control bubble with vermilion slogans.
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A high brow like unto the bright heavens, coeli pulcherrima plaga, Frons ubi vivit honor, frons ubi ludit amor, white and smooth like the polished alabaster, a pair of cheeks of vermilion colour, in which love lodgeth; [4914] Amor qui mollibus genis puellae pernoctas: a coral lip, suaviorum delubrum, in which
Anatomy of Melancholy
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Their guests returned with 492 blackfin tuna, 465 vermilion snapper, 15 triggerfish, 11 silk snapper and a variety of other fish, including scamp grouper, rockhinds, yellow mouths, pompano, barracuda and a squirrelfish.
The Daily News - News
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2. Your place on Richard Sachs' waiting list 3. One day of Dick Cheney's heart medication 4. A pair of plastic axle caps in "forza" red, but not vermilion.
Green With Envy: Destroy the Enemy, Save the World
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You notice the thin vermilion perimeter of the crypt image, the slight shadow at the edges of each piece of paper, the delicacy of the perforations, the gently authoritative physicality of each of the forms.
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The artist will contrast vermilion, fuchsia and a yellow, and the painting will feel strangely crepuscular.
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Who is the elegant maiden dressed in silk with a vermilion inner-robe patterned with golden butterflies?
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Vermilion paint, made from mercuric sulphide, was then splashed onto the image's wrists, feet and body to represent blood.
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Beadle and Ephrussi designed at Caltech a set of experiments, involving transplantation of larval imaginal eye discs, to study the vermilion-plus hormone, as they called the diffusible substance.
Thomas Hunt Morgan and His Legacy
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Repeated coats of lime have entirely covered all "gold, vermilion, and blue bice".
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The girl was wearing a 'mangalsutra' and a vermilion mark on her forehead, traditional symbols sported by married Hindu women, when the bodies were found this morning.
The Times of India
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In these rooms there should be panels above the dadoes, worked in black, and polished, with yellow ochre or vermilion blocks interposed between them.
The Ten Books on Architecture
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If you are near the dye vermilion, you will be stained red, if you are close to black ink, you will be stained black.
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Mineralogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ nature _nature_, or _choor_ oleomargarine _g_ is hard, as in _get_ orchid _orkid_ oust _owst_, not _oost_ peculiar _peculyar_ pecuniary _pekun'yari_ perspiration not _prespiratian_ prestige _pres'tij_ or _prestezh'_ pronunciation _pronunzeashun_ or _pronunsheashun_ saucy not _sassy_ schedule _skedyul_ semi not _semi_ theater _the'ater_ not _thea'ter_ turgid _turjid_ usage _uzage_ usurp _uzurp_ vermilion _vermilyun_ wife's not _wives_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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The town, which is home to the charity's regional office, donned scarlet, cherry, vermilion and ruby yesterday to help raise funds as part of Heart Week 2003.
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Her great wiry nimbus of vermilion hair stood out like a flaming crown above her long slender neck.
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The sun was tediously ebbing into the horizon, staining the otherwise violet sky with brilliant streaks of orange and vermilion.
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The misshapen toes visible in the open vinyl sandals were tipped with vermilion to match her fingernails.
THE SERPENT'S MARK
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Chiefly, the Cupid's bow was reconstructed with full-thickness skin excision, and the vermilion deficiency repaired with the mucosal flap from the lower lip.
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The Countesse hearinge those wordes began to recoloure her bleake and pale face with a vermilion teinte and roseal rudde, and accomplished with incredible delight and ioye, falling downe at his feete, said vnto him “My Lord, for asmuch as I neuer loked to be aduaunced to so honourable state as fortune nowe doth offer, for merite of a benefit so high and great which you present vnto me, vouchsauing to abase your selfe to the espousal of so poore a Lady, your maiesties pleasure being such, behold me ready at your commaundement.”
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
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They were fleshy, with veins that rose to the surface under the heat, and when we bit into them, they shot thick vermilion juice onto the tabletop.
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Who is the elegant maiden dressed in silk with a vermilion inner-robe patterned with golden butterflies?
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A wild head of henna-dyed hair, in shades of vermilion, fell over her shoulders like an outlandish wig.
THREE KINDS OF KISSING - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES
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Vermilion-finned and with eyes of bossy gold, the tunnies went by in shoals, but he heeded them not.
The Fisherman and His Soul
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The areca, or pinang-nut, and the betel, are used almost universally, chewed with lime, the lime, -- being dyed with turmeric, which imparts to it a rich vermilion tint; the areca-nut is also used in dying cotton thread.
The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok
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Suddenly we come across a huge expanse of startlingly blue water mirroring vermilion rocks and towering pinnacles.
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In the 68-by - 45-inch oil on canvas Final Dance, fauvist dashes of vermilion, viridian, brown and black against a white ground form a skeletal stick figure with a ram's head.
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A bright, vermilion ground has been almost obliterated by some 17 rectangles meeting on broken lines.
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Orange-coloured grounds may be formed by mixing vermilion or red lead with King's yellow, or orange lake or red orpiment (? realgar) will make a brighter orange ground than can be produced by any mixture.
Handbook on Japanning: 2nd Edition For Ironware, Tinware, Wood, Etc. With Sections on Tinplating and Galvanizing
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Mineralogy _-alogy_, not _-ology_ nature _nature_, or _choor_ oleomargarine _g_ is hard, as in _get_ orchid _orkid_ oust _owst_, not _oost_ peculiar _peculyar_ pecuniary _pekun'yari_ perspiration not _prespiratian_ prestige _pres'tij_ or _prestezh'_ pronunciation _pronunzeashun_ or _pronunsheashun_ saucy not _sassy_ schedule _skedyul_ semi not _semi_ theater _the'ater_ not _thea'ter_ turgid _turjid_ usage _uzage_ usurp _uzurp_ vermilion _vermilyun_ wife's not _wives_
Practical Grammar and Composition
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The vermilion gates and windows better highlight the wealth and rank of her family.
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The leading feature is a couple of girls of the period, the foremost garbed in a blazing red jumper over a white dress and wearing a white bandeau across her vermilion hair.
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(Physcomitrium), immense splashes of what seemed to be the scarlet-crested Cladonia, traceries of huge moss veils, crushings of teeth (peristome) gigantic; spore cases brown and white, saffron and ivory, hot vermilions and cerulean blues, pressed into an astounding mosaic by some titanic force.
The Moon Pool
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Between and behind them background tones show through - algae green, glowing vermilion.
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The vermilion bloom stands regally, like a blessing cardinal.
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In fact, principle songwriter John Davis leads off the album with the lines, ‘She is one in a billion / With lips of vermilion.’
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But her look was just as impressive—heavy brows; Cleopatra-like, flared eyeliner; and painted-on vermilion lipstick that gave new meaning to the term stage makeup.
The new beauty secrets
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At the center, a glass object drenched in a pool of vermilion and gold recalls Harold Edgerton's famous ‘Milk Drop’ stroboscopic images.
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At museums in India people, every once in a while, will put kumkum vermilion and flowers on the sculptures, treating them as objects of worship.
Vishnu exhibit brings Hindu holy art to US audiences
