58 collocations for reddening

"He thinks of nothing but money; he has spent his life fighting, scrambling, struggling for it; and look at yours" "Oh, hold on!" said Stafford, laughing, but reddening a little.

Here it was very dark, the high sides with their gloomy trees showing at the top a thin line of reddening sky.

The Duchess turned away sharply to conceal something that reddened her cheeks through their professional tint, and Mother Shipton requested Piney not to "chatter."

He was older, grayer, and of course the storm had reddened his face, but Fred thought he could not be mistaken.

Now redden, ye roses, in your sorrow, and now wax red, ye wind-flowers; now, thou hyacinth, whisper the letters on thee graven, and add a deeper ai ai to thy petals: he is dead, the beautiful singer....

The man who first saw an acid redden a vegetable-blue, had something to communicate; and the man who first saw (mentally) that all acids redden vegetable-blues, had something to communicate.

Therefore he bade Germania fill all her vales and mountains with the dying agonies of this almost invisible earwig; and let the impure blood of this cockroach redden the Rhine down to the sea.

The rose will redden in the bog, The aster on the hill Her everlasting fashion set, And covenant gentians frill, Till summer folds her miracle As women do their gown, Or priests adjust the symbols When sacrament is done.

But the next revelation reddened his brow:

Now it remains to be seen whether Commodus has not proscribed me!" Sextus and Norbanus stood together, Scylax behind them, Norbanus whispering; plainly enough Norbanus was urging patiencediscretion deliberate thought, whereas Sextus could hardly think at all for anger that reddened his eyes.

With half a dozen men ready to do his work, Aldous knew that Quade would not redden his own hands or place himself in any conspicuous risk.

These I now assumed; and having fixed on my cheek a large cross of sticking-plasterwhich pulled down my eyebrow and pulled up the corner of my mouthbegrimed my face, reddened my nose, and carefully tinted in a not too emphatic black eye, I was sufficiently transmogrified to deceive even my intimate friends.

"Our wardrobe is very old; see how the fire reddens its sad panels!

His next feat was to attack another force, which had confederated against him. With slackened rein he galloped o'er the field; Blood gushed from every stroke of his sharp sword, And reddened all the plain; a hundred warriors Eighty and five, in treasure rich and mail, Sunk underneath him, such his mighty power.

In a little while his heart and liver floated up, reddening the water.

It was only by an inch again, and the wolf came back, as he had done, and laid open Kazan's flank so that the blood ran down his leg and reddened the snow.

He even knew squaws, go through the painful operation of reddening the eyeballs, which he interprets as resulting from a desire to fascinate the men; but it is much more likely that it had some special significance in the language of courtship, probably as a mark of courage in enduring pain, than that the inflamed eye itself was considered beautiful.

But one cold March evening he set out for his home, dreary, as usual, he thought; and he found the fire blazing and reddening the ceiling and curtains, the room all aglow with rich shadows, and

May the blood which reddens the battle-fields of South Africa forever be upon their heads....

If the thought came to him that every one of those tens of thousands whose bodies dammed and reddened the flood was dear to some one weeping in Germany, his eyes gave no sign of it.

Skiff Miller demanded, big brows lowering and an obstinate flush of blood reddening his forehead.

"The festive flowers, the incens'd air, The altar taper's reddening glare; The pausing, slow-advancing pair, Her fainter, his most watchful air; The vaulted pile, the solemn rite, Impress'd, then languish'd on my sight; And all my being was resign'd To that strong ordeal, where the mind, Summon'd before a heavenly throne, Howe'er surrounded, feels alone.

Take your eels, case, clean and skewer them round, put them into a stew-pan with a little good gravy, a little claret to redden the gravy, a blade or two of mace, an anchovy, and a little lemon-peel; when they are enough thicken them with a little flour and butter.

Scattered houses dotted the plain of Aluga, and the children came to stare, and brought us, with the shyness of wild deer, little baskets of strawberries, which in some places in the fir forests almost reddened the ground, and, having pushed the offerings in at the door, ran like wild creatures, as if to escape being noticed.

The thrown weapon missed its mark by a narrow inch, striking the wall behind, and falling clattering to the floor, but the other broke through the big saloon-keeper's guard, and sent him reeling to his knees, a gush of blood reddening his hair.

58 collocations for  reddening