Fifteen years after it had seen a guest so strange as the Emperor of the East, it saw Henry V. return from Agincourt, and the Mayor of London with the aldermen and four hundred citizens, "all in scarlet with hoods of red and white," greet the hero king. ...

" "Oh motherdon't!" pleaded Johnnie, scarlet of face, and not daring to raise her eyes.

His large red face went a deeper scarlet in colour as he looked at her.

Leonore blushed a deep scarlet at these words, as if Lippo had pronounced a thought she did not dare to foster in her own heart.

Hereupon he turned his horse's head, and they all wended their way to the woodlands, Robin walking on one side of the Knight and Will Scarlet on the other, while the rest of the band trudged behind.

There were reds of all shades, from a veritable scarlet to a red umber; greens, from sea-green to emerald; several kinds of blue, and an indeterminate purple-mauve.

After a while they all four came forth, and a right fair sight they made, for Robin was clad in blue from head to foot, and Little John and Will Scarlet in good Lincoln green, and as for Allan a Dale, he was dressed in scarlet from the crown of his head to the toes of his pointed shoes.

Then she flung herself into his easy-chair, took a cigarette, and, holding it between her lips, almost scarlet against the pallor of her cheeks, stretched upwards towards the match which he was holding.

And my sins were as scarlet as yours, every bit.

The war-paint glistened on each breast and forehead, and in the oiled hair stood the crested feathers, dyed scarlet for battle.

And that bloodblue though it was instead of scarlet like the O'Connells'boiled in her veins and burned through the delicate tissue of her cheeks.

and the bringer, who had carried the tree so that no little puff of snow or delicate crystal should fall off, having made a successful entrance and dazzled the child, gave way to the strong excitement that shot light out of his eyes and brought scarlet into his cheeks.

Will Scarlet after a time came back to his own home, whence he had been driven by his unlucky killing of his father's steward.

Black beings flitted about like ants round a disturbed nest; Rosamond hoped she detected some scarlet among them, and Cecil lamented over not having brought her opera-glass.

Upon this Percival was so angry that the sky all became like scarlet before his eyes.

On they came, on, on, horses' heads tossing, the ground shaking with the mellow sound of four thousand separate hoofs,and passed, troop on troop, a lengthening, tossing wave of scarlet across the verdure.

Mr. Denton glanced at her sharply, but she did not quail, although her cheeks were scarlet over the unpleasant remembrance.

When the Major turned round, his guest was standing by the stove, his face scarlet through its grime.

Then he visioned her, lying on the white snow, scarlet under her breast, redder than her mackinaw, redder than her woollen mittens, redder than the cardinal-flower of her mouthcardinal no more!

The women in general dress in sacs, flat hoops of five yards wide, nosegays of artificial flowers on one shoulder, and faces dyed in scarlet up to the eyes.