Gay with the flowering thorn and vermeil rose: The tuft reflected in the stream which strays Beside it, overshadowing oaks enclose.
XXV Religion cannot for the priest bespeak Mercy, nor innocence avail the child: Nor gently beaming eyes, nor vermeil cheek, Protect the blooming dame or damsel mild.
CXIV With crimson Rodomont his banner stains, And in the vermeil field a lion shows; Who, bitted by a maid, to curb and reins His savage mouth disdains not to unclose.
XIII As if between two vales, which softly curl, The mouth with vermeiltint is seen to glow: Within are strung two rows of orient pearl, Which her delicious lips shut up or show.
At the second visit the hero comes into a magnificent room, ornamented with fine gold and stars of silver, wherein on a vermeil couch the rich King is sitting.
Their eyes seemed to be stars of morning, and their little mouths, of the color of a vermeil rose, became of pleasanter aspect as they moved them to the music of their song.
But bent with his swift chargers, Pyrous first and Eous just disclosed to view, on painting the pale chariot of his daughter with vermeil roses, in most vehement flight pursuing her, made no delay.
Artifice is the strength of the world, and in that same mask of paint and powder, shadowed withvermeil tinct and most trimly pencilled, is woman's strength.
Rather with roses and each vermeil flower, A sight, but little distant, might have sworn, That they were all on fire above their brow.
The members, far As he was bird, were golden; white the rest With vermeil intervein'd.
Michel quotes velvet of vermeil cramoisy, of violet, and of blue cramoisy, and pourpres of a variety of colours, though he says he has never met with pourpre blanche.
Hence came the French vermeilfor any red dye, and hence the modern name vermilion, although the substance it denotes is very different from the kermes, being a compound of mercury and sulphur.
In her cheeks the vermeil red did show Like roses in a bed of lilies shed.
Why dost borrow The natural hue of health, from vermeil lips?
She was richly dressed in a kirtle ofvermeil silk, broidered with gold, and her mantle was worth the spoil of a king's castle.
She went forth from the chapel, and hastened to the wood, from whence she returned quickly, bearing a vermeil flower beneath her teeth.
This knight wore harness of a fair vermeil colour, and bestrode a horse white of body, save for his two ears, which were red as the rider's mail.
He marvelled greatly, for he saw her, vermeil and white, as he had known her in life.
Within the mouth of the maiden, she set a flower that was more vermeil still.
Age cannot Love destroy, But perfidy can rend the shrine 20 In which its vermeil splendours shine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vermeil" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
