Sometimes a flame-coloured, scentless rose would hold her arrested.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Prussian Officer and Other Stories] Reference

Yarmouth, conspicuous with vermilion cheeks, and a robe of flame-coloured taffeta.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virginians] Reference

The hair was soft, silky, and heavy, like a flame-coloured wave swishing through my fingers.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Family and Other Animals]

The Presidents of the Parliament wear flame-coloured robes trimmed with ermine at the neck and sleeves.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency]

‘By no means, reverend Lady; They are of a delicate pea-green with flame-coloured hair and whiskers.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Monk] Reference

It was a brilliant flame-coloured hang-glider, hurtling down toward her ridge from one of the peaks behind her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush Doctor's Bride]

On the left was a high Gothic chimney-piece of grey stone, the fireplace banked with azaleas, flame-coloured and rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Juggernaut] Reference

Soon he rustled in flame-coloured taffeta at fêtes and receptions, for wealth and all the rewards of office came to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heroes of Modern Europe] Reference

She was dressed up in a crinoline, a mantle and a straw hat with a flame-coloured feather in it, all very old and shabby.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crime and Punishment] Reference

His conical skirt looked like a giant extinguisher and Camilla in her flame-coloured coat like a small candle flame beside him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Fool]

With a characteristic movement of her hips she had emerged from the house in skintight velvet trousers and a flame-coloured top.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scales of Justice]

His wife was in her hammock dangling a tightly encased black-velvet leg, a flame-coloured sleeve and a pair of enormous ear-rings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scales of Justice]

At that boarding school I met one Frederick Delane Milroy, a chubby flame-coloured brat who had no claims to genius, excepting as a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 21, 1917] Reference

A fair sight was she in a robe of flame-coloured silk, with a collar of ruddy gold about her neck, bright with emeralds and rubies.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lilac Fairy Book] Reference

When he went in, they were in the bar, Priscilla among them in a flame-coloured silk dress, laughing and talking with two of the men.    From Wordnik.com.  [Death of a Charming Man]

In the early months of the year these trees have no leaves, they are a mass of flame-coloured flowers, each "shafted like a scimitar.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference

The court and the higher orders wore black velvet, with flame-coloured waistcoats and sleeves trimmed with gold; the citizens left their shops, and spent the day in the streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348] Reference

He had draped pieces of flame-coloured silk over the windows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference

Madame de Medici, clad in a single garment of flame-coloured silk, beckoned to him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Chinatown] Reference

A few bald gentlemen were mopping their heads with flame-coloured silk handkerchiefs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant] Reference

Zahara entered the room, enveloped from shoulders to ankles in a flame-coloured cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of Chinatown] Reference

Pale Franciscan faces were looking uneasily over the boarding at that flame-coloured cope.    From Wordnik.com.  [Romola] Reference

The 37-year-old also hit out at her flame-coloured hair in the interview with Clint Boon on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Music News - GIGWISE.com] Reference

Eleazar was sitting in a loose flame-coloured bed-gown before a small furnace with a still.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Old Man of the Mountain, The Lovecharm and Pietro of Abano Tales from the German of Tieck] Reference

The girl in question wore a costume of flame-coloured woolen material that was indeed striking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Patty Blossom] Reference

I then chose two dresses, one flame-coloured and the other purple, and a third dress in shot silk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Lot one of the funniest of the party is wearing a gigantic cardboard nose and flame-coloured whiskers.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nether World] Reference

Q---- with her flame-coloured dress, her splendid hair, and her fine shape, drew all eyes towards her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference

Choking down a sob, she looked seaward over the curling flame-coloured waves, while he held her hand close and tenderly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Elsmere] Reference

As it sang on, careless of his presence, John watched the music bubbling and trembling within its flame-coloured throat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Amity] Reference

From the window frames, stifling the light, depend flame-coloured brocaded curtains embroidered in Egyptian enamelled beads.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference

Was she, perhaps, some straying angel -- some fervid, bright spirit, flame-coloured and intangible, a being of the elfin race?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange] Reference

Olwen came, clothed in a robe of flame-coloured silk, and with a collar of ruddy gold, in which were emeralds and rubies, about her neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celtic Fairy Tales] Reference