The colonel paused long enough to take a sip from his glass, holding it for an instant up before him to catch the effect of the bright moonlight upon the ruddy claret.
Far in the rear glowed a ruddy October sunset, making a fit background for the whole living, moving picture.
Mademoiselle van Westrheene, as she sat there beside the clavecin looking very ruddy and fresh in her white satin, trimmed with glossy crimson swans-down.
She laid one cool slim finger on Ray's ruddy cheek.
Hardly had the white scratches on these ruddy surfaces been doctored by the house painter when--whisk!
When we notice his dry and heavy execution, his ruddy flesh-colouring, and his opaque shadows, we are surprised that he should have so far neglected the examples placed before him.
Prospero is described as "tall in person, ruddy in countenance; his eyes were black, his beard reddish, and the locks of his hair of a chestnut character.
This time it was stated to have been seen at some distance south-west of the obscured sun, as a ruddy star with a minute planetary disc; and its simultaneous detection by two observers--the late Professor James C.
Sir Blaise was lying his length on the grass, very still, and there was blood upon his ruddy hair.
The ruddy dame nodded significantly as she closed thus cryptically her tables of praises.
It was coming on dusk; candles had been lit, the fire was ruddy on the hearth.
His mythological character is only the expression of his celestial aspect, as we have seen for the brilliant Jupiter, for the pale Venus, the ruddy Mars, and the agile Mercury.
These are the periods selected for making the best observations upon our neighbor of the ruddy rays.
Mars, in fact, burns like a drop of blood in the depths of the firmament, and it is this ruddy color that inspired its name and attributes, just as the dazzling whiteness of Venus made her the goddess of love and beauty.
The sun glinted on her hair, turning it into a nimbus of ruddy gold, and there was something delicately flower-like in the droop of her small bent head on its slender throat.
When at last they came back and pulled up, the mare's breath was sobbing in her throat, while Brett himself, hatless and deadly pale beneath his crop of ruddy hair, was almost reeling in the saddle.
Through these the footpath ran right up to the grim gateway of the ancient Castle, which now loomed before them, outlined in red lines of fire against the ruddy background of the sunset sky.
The mountain has parted with all its auriferous particles, and the golden reservoir is exhausted, but the sands are still of a ruddy hue, and justify the name of the “Golden Pactolus.
Whenever the clattering of hoofs and the yelping of dogs announce a passing stranger, he will perceive, if he looks up, an eye gleaming on him through the aperture, or the ruddy lips of a mouth hissing on the dogs to attack him.
The burst of flowers from every part of it, in spring, at times actually gives a ruddy tint to the whole aspect of the city.
But his wife and little Billy were there, little Billy with his ruddy hair curling about his merry little face and his eyes dancing at everything and every one.
He stepped back into his shop, turned on all the lights, put the basket ofruddy apples on the counter, straightened the pile of old magazines and pulled out the carom board, the box of chess and checkers.
It was very pleasant to sit by his fire and let the storm and the ruddy flames do the talking.
She looked like somebody's home fire, all fragrant smoke and golden flame and ruddy coals.
The big lamp above Joe's workbench was unlighted so the little shop was in darkness except for the fitful wavering of the ruddy wood fire in the big stove.
Say," said this big ruddy man to our gaping crowd, "I met a nigger ashore with a letter for the captain of this packet.
The sun, that flar'd behind, with ruddy beam Before my form was broken; for in me His rays resistance met.
Hence they placed in it the Isles of the Blest, the ruddy Isle Erythea, on which the bright oxen of Geryon were pastured, and the Isle of the Hesperides.
A ruddy hue tinged the whiteness of her skin, such as a crimson curtain casts on a marble wall.
Barely had she left the resentful porcupine behind, safely out of quill-flinging distance, when she observed a small, ruddy head cleaving the water in mid-channel.
Lamps were lit everywhere, and overhead the altar flamed with a forest of tapers against which stood out as on a gold ground, the ruddyface of a bishop all in white.
A sullen roar; a rattling crash as of a peal of heaviest thunder; and the whole scene was suddenly lit up with a lurid ruddy glow.
A couple of huge heaps of shavings, chips, and ends of timber were speedily collected and ignited, the blaze soaring high in the motionless air and throwing a strong ruddy light for a considerable distance round.
Abreast of her, and sailing two feet to the collier's one, was a river-barge, loaded down to her gunwale with long gaily painted spreet and tanned canvas which gleamed a rich ruddy brown in the rays of the setting sun.
The ruddy tint instantly deserted his cheek, and was succeeded by a deadly paleness; his limbs trembled, and he bent forward with a countenance of the utmost anxiety, as if awaiting a confirmation of his fears.
London Bridge was discernible from the fires burning upon it--and even upon the river braziers were lighted on all the larger craft, which cast a ruddy glow upon the stream.
A torch supplied the place of his brazier, and he held it aloft, and threw itsruddy light upon the scene.
The ruddy glare rounds off all hard corners and softens every inharmonious line, flashing fitfully here and there on a steel revolver barrel.
As we gazed the moon came slowly over the brow of the intervening hill, illuminating the scene with its soft and silvery radiance, blending fantastically with the ruddy flames of the fires.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruddy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
