The viper, when in a state of repose, is of an olive-brown color; but, if trodden upon, turns rusty.

The master held in his hand a rusty old gin, the iron jaws of which were tightly closed upon the body of an enormous rat.

It was a rusty, rattle-bag concerna relic of the dark ages of cyclingand .looked

"I'm saying what I've said beforethat I've scratched my name on my plate, and I won't eat off this rusty, battered kettle-lid." He held it up as if to shy it at the Boy.

He said he was a modest man and didn't like it, and Mac, turning a little rusty under the gibe, answered: "Haven't you got the sense to see we've cut all the good timber just round here?"

Her own hands dropped straight at her sides, and the rusty shawl hung free.

A rusty stove was almost buried by the heap of earth and gravel thrown up from a pit several feet deep.

They made up a fire, melted snow, and half filled a rusty pan with gravel and soil from the bottom of the pit.

Then he turned to a rusty old iron box that stood against a wall.

The one wore the blue coat with silver facings of the king's guard; the second had the dark coat and clean-shaven face of a man of peace; but each carried a short rusty iron bar in his hand.

Phineas Fletcher says "this dam of sin" is a hag of loathsome shape, arrayed in steel, polished externally, but rusty within.

There were some old ones about the house, but they were crooked, and broken, and rusty.

Precisely at six there was an announcement: the door opened, and a little outside, in the shadow, I saw an old woman, in a threadbare dress of rusty black.

Opening the door with a rusty key, she led me into a bare room, a few feet square, opening into another, equally bare, with the exception of a rough bed.

The dust made the chaps look rusty.

* Orville was not at home when his mother arrived in her rusty best dress and shawl.

Her hair was still rusty, the stain being deeper than he remembered, and the freckles were but piquant memories.

She was crowned with a nurse's cap, rusty hair showing beneath, and below this her wan, wistful, eager face, the eyes half shutting in vain attempts to reason.

Something glistening, warm in colour, like ripe fruit; and a rusty braid bound her head.

He pulled her through the hedge by both hands, and released her skirt from an amorous bramble, and so they came into a little black shed in which a rusty harrow of gigantic proportions sheltered.

It is but the breaking of a rusty scabbard to loose a flashing blade!

On my desk now at home there are a few long, rusty nails, an old lock of fifteenth-century workmanship, and a little broken window with leaded panes, which serve as mementoes of this destruction.

After dinner, the rusty, dusty, old carriage appeared at the door, with the farm-horses harnessed thereto, jingling, and creaking, and snapping, as if oil and use were strange to its dry joints and stiff straps.

Conspicuous among them was the Pileated Woodpecker, (Picus pilcaius,) a bird with rusty-black plumage, a red crest and moustaches, and a white stripe on each side of the neck,one of the largest of the tribe.

See here [a puffed-out, black, rusty, not quite round place, where no hair grew].