For all-around fishing use I would go with an amber lense, although vermillion is also a good choice. From Wordnik.com. [Hey I've got a question about polarized fishing glasses.] Reference
Matisse even tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade his friend Claude Renoir to change from the traditional red paint called vermillion to cadmium red. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Also in antique calf binding, vermillion edges, 10s. 6d. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
It was a long store front painted a garish glossy vermillion. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Elegantly bound in antique calf, with vermillion edges, 2l. 2s. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 219, January 7, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc] Reference
Note the “vermillion rose dinnerware for the ladies” at the top. From Wordnik.com. [The Majestic Theater - Massachusetts] Reference
The cat went limp under Dewey's strength as vermillion smeared his hands. From Wordnik.com. [Green Animals] Reference
And some are bright as the petals of the lotus and some red as vermillion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
The preparation was completed by painting the cheeks and forehead vermillion. From Wordnik.com. [The Knight of the Golden Melice A Historical Romance] Reference
Provided with deep-cut windows, ceiled with cedar and painted with vermillion. '. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of the Prophets (Before the Exile)] Reference
Their smooth cheeks and the center of their glossy hair was touched with vermillion. From Wordnik.com. [Among the Sioux A Story of the Twin Cities and the Two Dakotas] Reference
And some were of the hue of autumnal clouds and the faces of some were red as vermillion. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
If even thus matters do not proceed properly, having mixed vermillion with honey, anoint. From Wordnik.com. [On Fistulae] Reference
They came in all sizes and skin tones, including unlikely shades like blue and vermillion. From Wordnik.com. [Sun of Suns] Reference
Or rampaging in pink and vermillion across the black peaks of the Kolekole Range at sunset. From Wordnik.com. [Pacific Light] Reference
However it was painted all over, and a kind of face had been formed for it with vermillion. From Wordnik.com. [The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot] Reference
Take lard, one pound; suet, one pound; sugar of lead, eight ounces; vermillion, two ounces. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
A fragment of bright colour, vermillion, changing shape with the movement of its frame of leaves. From Wordnik.com. [His Disposition] Reference
I feast on the glorious vermillion of blood and meat and eliminates the obnoxious smell at one stroke. From Wordnik.com. [A Love Letter of a Cannibal] Reference
The pink blossomed into a radiant orange glow, then became a warm vermillion, the shade of dying embers. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Tempest]
To this store the settlers came to buy molasses, quinine, oil and turpentine, vermillion and indigo blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Second William Penn A true account of incidents that happened along the old Santa Fe Trail] Reference
Continuing a visual meme of late, above is a thick vermillion fog re-landscaping the city of Sydney anew. From Wordnik.com. [Strange Weather] Reference
That a powerful lather o 'vermillion thar wearin', fer hunters-an 'I read sign o' fifty ponies last evenin '. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Redskins]
Sir Alexander Mackenzie inscribed in large characters, with vermillion, this brief memorial, on the rocks of the. From Wordnik.com. [A Letter from Major Robert Carmichael-Smyth to His Friend, the Author of 'The Clockmaker'] Reference
Crowds clouded the gates of Kaminarimon, streaking its great two-story vermillion face with their darting shadows. From Wordnik.com. [The Miko]
Their teeth embellish with the whiteness of alabaster, vermillion lips, which perpetually smile with a bewitching air. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Moors of Spain] Reference
Put some vermillion on your palette, and warm up those cheeks; touch in those little brown spots; come, butter it well in. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Grassou] Reference
Dorcas stared up at me, and I can see that piquant face now as well as if it were reflected in the quiet well of vermillion ink. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow of the Torturer]
Colour the mixture by adding a little vermillion, lamp black or prussian blue; be careful not to ignite the compound while dipping. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
Walk the artfully landscaped paths, cross the arched vermillion bridge, meditate with the ducks and egrets by the centuries-old pond. From Wordnik.com. [Traveling Light: Tokyo] Reference
He looked in his desk, produced a pamphlet bound in a vermillion folder, entitled “The Soviet Movement in Britain, by Marcus Barker.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
Rajesh Kumar Singh/Associated Press A worker filtered vermillion for sale at the Pushkar camel fair in Pushkar, Rajasthan, India, Monday. From Wordnik.com. [The Pushkar Camel Fair] Reference
They sat down on a bench facing a slope dotted with the brilliant vermillion of Red Hot Pokers — an impressionist masterpiece in ridged and feathered oils. From Wordnik.com. [You're a Long Time Dead] Reference
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