Use crimson in a sentence
Sentences starting with crimson
- Crimson stains were on Virginia's cheeks, and the package she carried under her arm was like lead. [9]
Sentences ending with crimson
- He stared till the white of Bess's cheeks flared into crimson. [13]
- He glanced at the book, and the bit of sky was crimson. [9]
- And then the regiments marched through the streets with bands playing that march to which the words of the Battle Hymn were set, and those bright ensigns snapping at the front; bright now, and new, and crimson. [9]
- His cheeks were no longer pale, far from it, no more than Katharina's were; they were crimson! [10]
- Some one had leaped over the railing which separated the stand from the field and stood before Cynthia,--a tanned and smiling young man in gray and crimson. [9]
- In the white ibis, the cheeks, the inflatable skin of the throat, and the basal portion of the beak then become crimson. [1]
- She sat with her worsted pattern held bravely in sight, and her cheek as bright as its liveliest crimson. [6]
- Her delicate face had lost its pallor and seemed bathed in a glow, now tender and now crimson. [10]
- She was standing full in the light,--her lashes fallen, her face crimson. [9]
- It was a brilliant day at the very end of September, the air sharp, and here and there a creeper had been struck crimson. [9]
Short sentences using crimson
- She grew crimson. [9]
- Honora grew crimson. [9]
More example sentences with the word crimson in them
- How delightful it would be to walk up and down the garden, with her aunt the abbess, with Els, and perhaps--she felt the blood crimson her cheeks--with Heinz Schorlin! [10]
- The questions which, without heeding his companion, she now with crimson cheeks poured upon Don Luis as if fairly frantic, he answered in brief, businesslike words. [10]
- At once the whole horizon line of water became a bright crimson, which deepened as evening advanced, glowing with more intense fire, and holding a broad band of what seemed solid color for more than three quarters of an hour. [4]
- In Spring, truly, white and rose-red, blue and yellow chequer the green turf; but now gold and crimson are bright in the tree tops, and on the service trees. [10]
- The procession ends, where it started, in the patron's church; and there his image is set up under a gorgeous canopy of crimson and gold, to hear high mass, and some of the choicest solos, choruses, and bravuras from the operas. [4]
- To the right, where a river empties in, were scattered groups of queer, rakish craft, each with four slanting pipes and a tiny flag floating from her halyards; a flag--as the binoculars revealed--of crimson bars and stars on a field of blue. [9]
- My cheeks crimson when I think of the liberty----" "Never mind her," said her sister soothingly. [10]
- Then the blinds were flung aside, and a young lady in a dress of white trimmed with crimson stood in the window, smiling. [9]
- Their halberd staves were covered with crimson velvet, fastened with gilt nails, and ornamented with gold tassels. [5]
- Alonzo Fitz Clarence was sitting in his snug and elegant little parlor, in a lovely blue silk dressing-gown, with cuffs and facings of crimson satin, elaborately quilted. [5]
- Her heart seemed to stand still, and then the hot blood flowed into her face in a crimson flood. [4]
- From time to time she shut her eyes as tightly as she could, for she fancied she could see a crimson glare, and she longed for light in that hour as a drowning man longs for the shore. [10]
- Just look at those eyes, those crimson nostrils. [10]
- When she reopened them she saw Sirona's face with crimson cheeks, turned towards her husband; she was unhurt--but Hermas? [10]
- At length came 'The Stone', which brought a telegram of congratulation, and finally 'The Crimson Flag'. [11]
- The housings of the mule were of fine crimson cloth; the borders embroidered with gold; the reins and head-piece were of satin, curiously embossed with needlework of silk, and wrought with golden letters. [4]
- The counting by the micrometer took him a week.--You have, my full-grown friend, of these little couriers in crimson or scarlet livery, running on your vital errands day and night as long as you live, sixty-five billions, five hundred and seventy thousand millions. [6]
- I lie under the imputation which says, 'Come now and let us reason together, saith the Lord: though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. [5]
- For here was the Host itself, flower-decked in white and crimson, its gold-tasselled canopy upheld by four tonsured priests, a sheen of purple under it,--the Bishop of Louisiana in his robes. [9]
- The light of the fire showed across the gorge, touching off the far wall of pines with burnished crimson, and huge flickering shadows looked like elusive spirits, attendant on the lonely obsequies. [11]
- The blood of the contending spirits of light and darkness, which usually dyed the west of Egypt crimson at the departure of the great sun god, to-day vanished from sight. [10]
- The rims of the canyons gleamed crimson and the deep clefts appeared to belch forth blue smoke. [13]
- The Rhine and the canals will grow crimson, for much blood will flow into them and they will mirror an unequalled conflagration. [10]
- The crimson sash, the broad diagonal belt of the mounted marshal of a great procession, so cheap in themselves, yet so entirely satisfactory to the wearer, tickle my heart's root. [6]
- She saw again the bodies of the two gladiators, covered with crimson robes, carried shoulder-high on a soft bed of interlaced branches to the graves beneath the trees. [11]
- A flaring glow that tinged the temple, the wharf and the deep sky itself with a gorgeous crimson glare, showed very plainly what the populace were employed in doing. [10]
- His figure and that of his horse, which reared uneasily beneath him, were flooded in a crimson glow--a splendid picture! [10]
- Bob went into that little room where Jethro and Cynthia had spent so many nights together, and his glance flew straight to the picture on the wall,--the portrait of Cynthia Wetherell in crimson and seed pearls, so strangely set amidst such surroundings. [9]
- The smiling pride that calmly scorns Those foolish fingers, crimson dyed In laboring on thy crown of thorns! [6]
- The higher the sun rose the higher rose that cloud of dust, and through the screen of its hot fine particles one could look with naked eye at the sun, which showed like a huge crimson ball in the unclouded sky. [2]
- Between the files stood an unmistakable gipling sergeant with a crimson face and a bristling little chestnut moustache, talking like a machine gun. [9]
- Alison could only stare at her, and the crimson in the bright spots of her cheeks spread over her face. [9]
- There must be some logical connection between the habit and the age, since crimson velvet and gold brocade would have made Eldon Parr merely ridiculous. [9]
- Alas, there was small room for hope--Backus's eyes were heavy and bloodshot, his sweaty face was crimson, his speech maudlin and thick, his body sawed drunkenly about with the weaving motion of the ship. [5]
- A thousand voices shouted to her, and beside her stood a horn of plenty, running over with golden solidi and crimson roses, and it never grew empty, however much she took from it. [10]
- And a parting shot of the delighted colonel brought the crimson to my face. [9]
- A crimson blush sent its rich flood through her cheeks, and she exclaimed: "There, good-by, Mr. Fitz Clarence; I must go now! [5]
- Nevertheless, we must remember that many parrots are ornamented with crimson, blue, and orange tints, which can hardly be protective. [1]
- He did not pass The Crimson Flag. [11]
- They were standing on the pier when the windows were crimson in the early light, and at nine o'clock on that summer's morning the Albania was docked, and the passengers came crowding down the gang-plank. [9]
- The roseate glow on the linden had become a crimson glare, the flickering light on the opposite walls a dazzling illumination. [10]
- A smile was on her lips, her eyes gleamed with health; her furs --of silver fox--were thrown back, the crimson roses pinned on her mauve afternoon gown matched the glow in her cheeks, while her hair mingled with the dusky shadows. [9]
- At eight years old she fell in love with the high-colored picture of Major Gideon Withers in the crimson sash and the red feather of his exalted military office. [6]
- A French noncommissioned officer of hussars, in crimson uniform and a shaggy cap, shouted to the approaching Balashev to halt. [2]
- In the midst of them was Dorothy, in a crimson silk capuchin, for we had had one of our changes of weather. [9]
- The prevailing colour of the room is crimson, to make a warm setting for the cold grey landscape without. [14]
- A splendid piece of sculpture--Eleanor, wife of Edward--given Elizabeth by another royal suitor, who had sought to be her consort through many years, caught the warm bath of gold and crimson from the clerestory and seemed alive and breathing. [11]
- She was unaware of his gaze, but her colour was like a crimson signal that flashed to him and was gone. [9]
- But out of my window, at the back of the second storey, I often saw a sudden, crimson glow in the sky to the southward, as though that part of the city had caught fire. [9]
- Lienhard's deep voice mingled with her furious cries until the roar of the sea, on whose rocky shore the hurricane must have dashed her, drowned every other sound, and rolled over her, sometimes in scorching crimson, sometimes in icy crystal waves. [10]
- A very different matter occupied her thoughts, and as, pressing her hand upon her heart, she gazed at the little city, gleaming with crimson hues in the reflection of the setting sun, a strange, restless stir pervaded the former stillness of Nature. [10]
- She wore a long Talma of crimson cashmere, and her face was in that most seductive of frames, a scoop bonnet of dark green velvet, For a fleeting second her eyes met his, and then her lashes fell. [9]
- Morning-glories nodded over lodge walls where the ivy was turning crimson, and the little gardens were masses of colours--French colours like that in the beds of the Tuileries, brick-red geraniums and dahlias, yellow marigolds and purple asters. [9]
- The glorious sunshine lighted up the smiling marble face; with the charm of bewitching beauty he seemed to gaze at the lurid crimson pools on the ground, and at the armed cohorts which marched in front to shed more blood and rouse more hatred. [10]
- In the strong light every countenance glowed like red-hot iron, every shoulder was suffused with crimson and shaded rearward into dingy, shapeless obscurity! [5]
- Here, the yellow level was broken by a dark patch of fallow land, there, by a covert of trees also tinged with yellow, or deepening to crimson and mauve--the harbinger of autumn. [11]
- He flushed crimson, left her side, and paced up and down the room. [2]
- The stalks of late flowers lay withering, but here and there the leaves were still vivid, and clusters of crimson berries gleamed in the autumn sunshine. [9]
- This was a large room, with a splendidly inlaid and polished floor, the walls covered with crimson satin, the cornices heavily incrusted with gold, and the ceiling beautifully painted in arabesque. [6]
- He wore a jubon or close vest of crimson cloth, with cuisses or short skirts of yellow satin, a loose cassock of brocade, a rich Moorish scimiter, and a hat with plumes. [4]
- For an instant it seemed as if a crimson rose had bloomed in the midst of winter snows. [10]
- The guards were in their places, the rack was there, and by it stood the executioner and his aids in their crimson hose and doublets, meet color for their bloody trade. [5]
- It seemed to Honora, as she sat on the garden bench, that the yellow and crimson tulips could not open wide enough their cups to the sun. [9]
- The king waved his right arm and, evidently nervous, sang something badly and sat down on a crimson throne. [2]
- Nefert looked at him, and interrupted her story when she observed his crimson cheeks. [10]
- Parpon left behind him the village street, and, after a half mile or more of travel, came to a spot where a crimson light showed beyond a little hill. [11]
- Shall we give him the house with the silver dome And the maid with the crimson hair When the King comes home? [11]
- And gradually, under her clear olive skin, he saw the crimson colour mounting higher . [9]
- Later that evening Heldon's wife stood cloaked and veiled in the shadows of the pines, facing the house with The Crimson Flag. [11]
- You should have heard that Atlantic of people moan and howl when that crimson hell joined the blue! [5]
- She clasped her hands over her heaving bosom and her pale face was dyed crimson, while her eyes flashed wrathful lightnings. [10]
- After the court had once more quitted Memphis and the procession was broken up, the sisters returned to their room, Irene with crimson cheeks and a smile on her lips, Klea with a gloomy and almost threatening light in her eyes. [10]
- The crimson that had betrayed her deepened on her cheeks. [9]
- The claret is good; and if our blood reddens a little with its warm crimson, we are none the less kind for it. [6]
- How the crimson glowed, the plumes waved, the heavy velvet attracted the eye by rich hues, the light laces by their delicate fineness! [10]
- The light-giving body from which they emanated disappeared and, in its stead, a crimson mantle, with gold-bordered, crocus-yellow edges, spread itself over the space it had left until the gleaming tints merged into the deeper hues of the violet. [10]
- And there were frequent glimpses of a totally leafless tree upon whose innumerable twigs and branches a cloud of crimson butterflies had lighted--apparently. [5]
- Now came twelve French gentlemen, in splendid habiliments, consisting of pourpoints of white damask barred with gold, short mantles of crimson velvet lined with violet taffeta, and carnation coloured hauts-de-chausses, and took their way down the steps. [5]
- The crimson carpet flushes warm under my feet. [6]
- And those frozen figures stayed there like statues with that other crimson flag: until, one day, a great-bodied wind swept out of the north, and, in pity, carried them down a bottomless fissure. [11]
- The poor woman's face was crimson, and the tears stood in her eyes. [5]
- Kuni opened her eyes as wide as if a miracle had happened, and the crimson spots on her sunken cheeks betrayed how deeply she was agitated. [10]
- He looked handsomer even than he had seemed the day before; his hair was freshly oiled and curled, his scale-armor gleamed as brightly, and his crimson tunic was as new and rich as if he were going at once to guard the Imperial throne. [10]
- The crimson glow drew him, held him, till his brain was afire also. [11]
- To-day her dear, delicate little face was not pale, but glowed crimson after the long walk through the frosty, winter air. [10]
- A beautiful October day was dawning; no cloud dimmed the azure sky, and the sun's disk rose, glowing crimson, behind the narrow strait, that afforded ingress to the Gulf of Corinth. [10]
- Aunt Polly blushed crimson with humiliation, and frowned and shook her head at Tom. [5]
- He wore a crimson mantle and was crowned with roses, while the silver quiver on his shoulder and the bow in his hand clearly symbolized the god he was intended to represent. [10]
- His face was crimson and his lips pale; he went close up to him and as soon as he had found breath to speak he said: "What have you--what are your words intended to convey? [10]
- Pierre suddenly flushed crimson and for a long time tried not to look at Natasha. [2]
- A crimson flush crept into her cheek, but her father was too disturbed to notice it. [9]
- For when his conceit was peeled away, there was left a crimson cuticle of the Wyndham pride. [11]
- They displayed their color in wreaths of scarlet poppies, pomegranate flowers and red roses, with crimson ribbands and dresses; white and green, the colors formerly adopted by the competitors, were abandoned; for all the heathen were unanimous in combining their forces against the common foe. [10]
- Some red Japanese bird-kites were stuck about in the necks of spelter vases, a crimson Jap umbrella hung opened beneath the chandelier, and each globe had a shade of yellow silk. [8]
- When he and Bess rode up out of the hollow the sun was low, a crimson ball, and the valley seemed veiled in purple fire and smoke. [13]
- The throat and belly are of a bright crimson, the back of an ashy-green, and the whole fish appears as though it were somewhat translucent and glowed with an internal incandescence. [1]
- The cool night bathes the world as with a river, and prepares his eyes again for the crimson dawn. [6]
- The blood came back to her face-- she flushed crimson with guilt. [11]
- They were led away drenched with crimson from head to foot. [5]
- Virginia sat expressionless at the head of the table, still in that gown of white and crimson, which she had worn in honor of the defenders of the state. [9]
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