I touched her cradle mute; She recognized the foot, Put on her carmine suit, And see!

She had evidently been a hard drinker for years, as her face was of a brilliant carmine color.

Can that be colorless waterthat great carmine fire?

She had written it that afternoon with carmine ink, on the nicest of tinted paper.

'Quem tu Melpomene semel Nascentem placido lumine videris, Non illum labor Isthmius Clarabit pugilem, non equus impiger, &c. Sed quæ Tibur aquæ fertile perfluunt, Et Spissæ nemorum comæ Fingent Æolio carmine nobilem.' Hor.

But Mariana, after the plays were over, kept her carmine saucer on the dressing-table, and put on her blushes regularly as the morning.

Two carmine spots had leaped suddenly to her cheeks.

Meanwhile the grandmother and granddaughter were roused from the mute astonishment in which they were gazing after the young cavalier by a tittering behind them; and a pair of bright eyes looked out upon, them from beneath a bundle of long, crimson-headed clover, whose rich carmine tints were touched to brighter life by setting sunbeams.

Perhaps, in carmine cheeks and a snow-white head, I may find a little of my old favor in Roger's eyes.

Si mihi susceptum fuerit decurrere munus, O Paphon, o sedes quae colis Idalias, Troius Aeneas Romana per oppida digno Iam tandem ut tecum carmine vectus eat: Non ego ture modo aut picta tua templa tabella