The stain was rusty-red and shaped like a crescent moon. From Wordnik.com. [Warning Signs]
They wore rusty-red tunics henna-dyed, under black cloaks, and carried swords. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
Champney sat down on the thick rusty-red matting of pine needles and turned to him, a question in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Flamsted quarries] Reference
It still retained its original paint, a rusty-red color achieved at that period by mixing cow's blood with whitewash. From Wordnik.com. [Incubus]
When solutions of ferric salts are treated with ammonium hydroxide, ferric hydroxide is formed as a rusty-red precipitate, insoluble in water. From Wordnik.com. [An Elementary Study of Chemistry] Reference
Her flimsy sleeping-gown was thrown down from her shoulders to hang loosely about her waist, and her hair cascaded in a rusty-red plume down her shapely back. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Warlord]
Lordly liner, dingy freighter rusty-red from all the seas. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-11-17] Reference
He was a small, active-looking man, of a lightish rusty-red colour. From Wordnik.com. [Manco, the Peruvian Chief An Englishman's Adventures in the Country of the Incas] Reference
Dickon stood rubbing his rusty-red head with a rather puzzled look. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Garden] Reference
Goodwin glared down indignantly at the old rusty-red face beside him. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
I folded her in my arms, there, on the rusty-red South African desert. From Wordnik.com. [Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose] Reference
We haven't seen many mushrooms when Trakat finds a little rusty-red one. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
We haven't seen many mushrooms - then Trakat finds a little rusty-red one. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News] Reference
The upper part of the body is of a rich bronzed green; and the lower, a rusty-red. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Why am I, without season or reason, sometimes rusty-red and sometimes mottled gray?. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
Frisky dodged just in time; and a big body, grayish-brown, with a rusty-red tail, went tearing past him. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Frisky Squirrel] Reference
The sedum will flower in July and begin to turn pink in August, finishing as a deep rusty-red in the fall. From Wordnik.com. [News for Culpeper Star-Exponent] Reference
The trees are in full spring leaf, only the oaks and walnuts a little belated, unfurling their rusty-red fronds. From Wordnik.com. [At Large] Reference
This colours everything in and around the mine, including men's clothes, hands, and faces, with a light rusty-red. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference
One Owl was mottled gray and black; the other was rusty-red; and the toes of both peeped out of holes in their thin stockings. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
All along a high wall hang old fire-backs, bas-reliefs of cracked, rusty-red iron, once licked by the flames, now washed by the rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Choice of Life] Reference
He could see through a fringe of green timber to a place where the leaves and foliage were all rusty-red from the scorching of the fire. From Wordnik.com. [The Hidden Places] Reference
He says: -- "I obtained its nest once at Darjeeling, made of roots and grasses, with three greenish-white eggs, having a few rusty-red spots.". From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
He grew crimson over the white unsunburned line upon his forehead, and his moustache straightened like a bar of rusty-red iron across his thin, tanned face. From Wordnik.com. [The Dop Doctor] Reference
"To which the socks and things give evidence," said Field promptly, pointing toward the huge stove which sat like a rusty-red cheese in the center of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Wayside Courtships] Reference
Her famous poster was produced by a company here in Ohio called Pro Arts, which sold 6 million copies of that single shot of Fawcett in the rusty-red swimsuit. From Wordnik.com. Reference
"To which the socks and things give evidence," said Field, promptly, pointing toward the huge stove which sat like a rusty-red cheese in the centre of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Other Main-Travelled Roads] Reference
Temperature differences between polar ice and darker regions to the south, which are heated by the springtime sun, stir up winds and streamers of rusty-red dust. From Wordnik.com. [Latest Articles] Reference
Slender, with grey, black and white plumage and a rusty-red tail, the protected bird had a small stronghold in the steel city during the mid - to late-20th century. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Her tail is short, the central feathers being of a golden green; the exterior ones rusty-red at their base, and black for the greater part of their length, with white tips. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
Radish, in a long rusty-red overcoat and a scarf muffled round his neck, already stood leaning with his head against the wall, gazing with a devout expression at the stage. From Wordnik.com. [The Chorus Girl and Other Stories] Reference
The nearer boughs were beaded with the mist to the greyness of aged men, and the rusty-red leaves of the beeches were hung with similar drops, like diamonds on auburn hair. From Wordnik.com. [Far from the Madding Crowd] Reference
Very different was their appearance on that occasion from the rusty-red fellows who were wont to toil in the dark chambers far down in the depths below the spot where they stood. From Wordnik.com. [Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines] Reference
A wash of rusty-red; while there is a patch of a deeper tint of the same colour upon the middle of the under part of the body. From Wordnik.com. [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference
A bloodstone, are horizontal beds, perpendicular spines, and detached blocks of felsitic porphyry and of rusty-red syenite, altered, broken, and burnt by plutonic heat. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
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