It was now near the hour of sunset and the sun, having kept invisible all day, half broke through the clouds, turning them first red

(This last point is rather the reverse of a phrase in Bion's Elegy, p. 64, 'The flowers flush red for anguish.')

At this there was bustling at the Sheriff's castle, and men ran hither and thither upon this business and upon that, while the forge fires of Nottingham glowed red far into the night like twinkling stars, for all the smiths of the town were busy making or mending armor for the Sheriff's troop of escort.

He swung the tree where the squirrel lay Too late in its winter bed, And he seemed to say in his jolly way, "Wake up, little sleepy head!" He dried the yard so that Rob and Ted Could play at marbles there, And he painted their cheeks a carmine red With the greatest skill and care.

He blushed a ripe tomato red.

Now the hips burned red in the tangled thickets and the hews waxed black in the hedgerows, the stubble lay all crisp and naked to the sky, and the green leaves were fast turning russet and brown.

One or two wore a vivid red or blue handkerchief knotted about sinewy necks, this means of adornment only adding to their generally sinister look.

A little coal fire in a low grate made things still brighter, and brought out the soft faded reds of the rug, and purples and yellows of the worn chintz covers of lounge and chairs.

May I smoke my cigar under the famous crimson rambler?" The sun set flaming red, behind the Beulah hills.

" This man, Elderberry, who for twelve long years had writhed under the biting lash of his employer's tongue, hating him with a hatred known only to those in subordinate positions who are bribed to suffer the "whips and scorns of time, the oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely," quivered and saw red.

" Stafford's face grew red, a brick-dust red.

But never has applause sounded so sweet to me as it did along those dusty roads in France, with the poppies gleaming red and the cornflowers blue through the yellow fields of grain beside the roads!

Brave Earl, had Skink known thou hadst been the noble Gloster (whose mad tricks have made me love thee), I would have dyed Blackheath red with the blood of millions, ere we would have been taken; but what remedy?

Two-thirds of the hull, usually hidden in the water, were now in evidence, showing the bright red of their curved shell.

You are actually putting red on orange leaves.

Miss Peckham, her face a dull red, moved off in the direction of the tent.

The regulus of cobalt, dissolved in spirit of nitre, gives a red.

After a brief hesitation a delicate young fellowalmost a boyfollowed this man, his face flaming red with shame.

He did soon forget the vileness there behind, going down the streets; they were so cozy and friendly-hearted, the parlor-windows opening out red and cheerfully, as is the custom in Southern and Western towns; they said "Happy Christmas" to every passer-by.

And what month brings the shy forget-me-not; Forgotten is the special, startling season Of some beloved tree's flowering and fruiting, What time of year the ground doves brown the fields And fill the noonday with their curious fluting: I have forgotten much, but still remember The poinsettia's red, blood-red in warm December.

Silhouetted against the streak of dying red was the upper half of Jack Harpe's torso.

It may have been some story of the Middle Ages which had come back to my mind, or it may have been that my eye had caught some red which was not that of rust upon the upper part of the lock, but to him and to me it will always seem an inspiration, so prompt and sudden was my action.

Angy started, looked up, going first red

He watched a full moon rise blood-red and awful and turn gradually to a whiteness of still more appalling purity.

Sally saw him, how he swung himself down a rock where he had espied on the lowest end a spot that shone bright red in the sun, as if covered with rubies.