Some said she was crazy; others said she was a witch; but whatever she may have been, this aged dame was picturesque with her bent figure, her long white hair and scarlet hood.
Here are soft beds of rich green moss, studded with scarlet berries of winter-green and partridge-vine.
And here are thickets of black-alder, where every twig is studded with scarlet beads, that cling so close that even winter's bluster cannot shake them off.
But see that gorgeous mass of deep scarlet that floods the farther bank!
Here they have loitered by the way among the scarlet berries.
Airy columbines, too, shall float their scarletpendants on fragile stems, and with their graceful nod tell of the slightest breeze, when all else is still.
Could any art more daringly concentrate a rhapsody of color than nature has here done in bringing up that gorgeous spray of scarlet sumach, whose fern-like pinnate leaves are so richly massed against that background of dark evergreens?
The chickadees are here, and scarlet tanagers gleam like living bits of fire among the tantalizing leaves.
Further on we see a wild-rose branch withscarlet berries, and further st--What's that?
The Hessians land on our shores and join hands with the scarlet ranks of the King of England.
He went home happy over the incident with the memory of her scarlet cheeks and the sweet seriousness of her voice filling his soul.
The soldiers tie her again to the stake, and the red shadow of the flames on the bleak hill fall across the white young face and mingle with the scarlet of the setting sun.
The sun was sinking behind the trees in scarletand purple glory.
The crown-embossed electric lantern above the massive table in the center of the room flooded the gold and scarlet cloth with light.
He saw their flag now for the first time--a huge scarlet field of silk, in its center an imperial crown wrought in threads of gold.
She forgot even her terror of the scarlet spectre, the grim wolf of Rome, in her disgust at Puritan fervour which had torn down altar-rails, usurped church pulpits, destroyed the beauty of ancient cathedrals.
This fact distressed him, and he had tried hard to awaken his mother's interest by praises of the Fareham family and of Angela's exquisite character; but the Scarlet Spectre came between the Puritan lady and the house of Fareham.
I know them--these children of the Scarlet Woman--and I know their works, and the fate of those who trust them.
The trees were in blossom, and a wall of pink and white bloom rose up on either hand above the scarlet and amber tulips.
His loose white locks were crowned with an embroidered smoking-cap; his patrician instep was set off by a dainty scarlet slipper.
Look at that primrose tulle, with dead ivy-leaves and scarlet berries, in the barouche.
The stereotyped bed of flaming yellow calceolaria balanced the conventional bed of flaming crimson verbena; the lavender heliotrope faced the scarlet geranium, like the four corners in a quadrille.
What drew my attention most, was a small islet near the middle of the lake, upon one end of which stood a row of upright forms of a bright scarlet colour.
The sun was hot and dazzling; and as the bright scarlet was magnified by refraction, I fancied for a long time they were flamingoes.
The garden was a wilderness of scarlet rhododendrons from the thickets of which innumerable blackbirds and thrushes preyed upon the peas.
The azure Cherubs heard the bells within their contemplation: the scarlet Seraphs felt them within their love.
At these words, a deep scarlet suffused the cheek of the Missionary; fire flashed from his dark rolling eye, and he cast a look on his insulting oppressor, so blasting in its glance, that he seemed to wither beneath its terrific influence.
Whereat he in a great Tosse, but I willing to smoothe all betwixt him and my Lady do tell him the honourable words she have spoke of him to myself and others, the more especially of his Velvet suit with scarlet ribands.
When Albert and I babble about a scarlet petticoat, it is only as a symbol of our own far-away youth.
If you mashed your hand in a food cutter, or c't something poisonous, or come down with scarlet fever, I'd know what to do for ye.
Jim was instantly smitten scarlet and dumb, but Mrs. Costello hastily explained that it was but a bit of boy's nonsense, and dismissed it by introducing the subject of the new white dresses.
But twenty minutes later when, very trim and dainty in her blue bathing suit and scarlet cap, she came out of the bath-house to join Ann and the doctor on the beach, she reproached herself.
But even less familiar than this finery were the cheeks that blazed with so many remembered compliments, the scarlet lips that had learned to smile so readily, the eyes brilliant with new dreams.
Upon his head he wore a crown That shimmered in the doubtful light; His vestment scarlet reached low down, His waist, a golden girdle dight.
Larry Larkspur, Larry Larkspur, Saw the Poppy blooming fair; Loved her for her scarlet satin, Loved her for her fringèd hair.
The next it was a soldier, And he wore scarlet clothes, So the queen took up the poker, And hit him on the nose.
He must have a little musket, a trumpet, and a kite, A little penny rattle and silver sword so bright, A little cap and feather with scarlet coat so smart, And a pretty little hobby horse to ride about the park.
Gold letters with red in them are to appear on this blue background, and on the scarlet edge Moorish ornaments in gold with blue.
Typhus and scarlet fever were raging in Bucharest.
On Palm Sunday, the 5th of April, she was seized withscarlet fever of very serious symptoms.
Diphtheria and scarlet fever are raging in Bucharest.
I have just painted a background with a scarlet border.
Her scarlet mouth that smiled, Mocked lightly at his woe, And while she would not bid him stay She did not bid him go.
Who could disbelieve the author of "The Scarlet Letter"?
But if such a thought occurred to him, he put it by, knowing that the revelation of the scarletletter was inexorably demanded by the highest moral law.
The Scarlet Letter" would be great because of its material alone, even had its author been a bungler; it would be great because of its art alone, even had he been less humanly endowed with understanding.
But in studying "The Scarlet Letter" we are conscious of yet another element of interest,--an interest derived from the personality of the author.
George Eliot would have built a realistic novel on the theme of "The Scarlet Letter"; and Hawthorne would have made a romance out of the materials of "Silas Marner.
It is interesting to imagine the sort of plot that George Eliot would have built out of the materials of "The Scarlet Letter.
Then from the shadow of the vestibule shot a gleam of scarlet and white, and at once a deep hush fell upon the crowd.
The man, who was gaily dressed in a scarlet coat, an instinct of jealousy told me was Hugh Marston.
There in front 'tis rent asunder, And the cloudy bastion crumbles Underneath the deafening thunder; There I see the scarlet gleaming!
The capitam-mor came forth this day in his scarlet uniform, and sat himself down near to a table.
The pods are of a bright scarlet colour, of about one inch in length, and one quarter in breadth.
Often are to be seen at the same time, and upon the same bush, the blossoms, and the green and the ripe scarlet pods.
With mistletoe round me, and holly, Scarlet and green, at Yule.
Daughter of Omen, prove your birth, The colt will take lots of choking; The hot breath steams at your saddle girth, From his scarlet nostril smoking.
She stood gazing at him, smiling a little with a curve of scarlet lips that revealed white, sharp-looking teeth.
Dworn stared burningly at the slim figure in black with the scarlet hourglass on her bosom.
Early Scarlet Horn is the standard early, being a better yielder than the above.
Scarlet Queen eighteen inches from the preceding variety, and one row of Double Rose at the back.
The dark metallic foliage and dazzling scarlet flowers also have an imposing effect as the back row of a ribbon border.
A charming stove plant, producing large heads of bright scarletflowers suitable for greenhouse decoration.
Jamesonii=, sometimes called the Scarlet Daisy of the Cape, many hybrid flowers having a wide range of delightful colours are also available.
In summer and early autumn the long spikes of brilliant flowers produced by Fireball and Scarlet Queen make an extremely attractive display, and =S.
From the commencement a very rich soil is necessary to insure robust growth and intense colour in the panicles of brilliant scarlet flowers.
