The turrets glowed vermilion with the fire within it, the walls appeared to be of iron, and moats were round about them.
A whirlwind issued from the lamenting ground, attended by vermilion flashes; and he lost his senses, and fell like a man stupefied.
I have known little Japanese painters to ponder for hours, and sometimes weeks, over the placing of this little vermilion stamp so that it shall form perfect balance, and in all probability the picture itself has only taken a few minutes.
Yes, she is like some wonderful fantastical tropical blossom, that vermilion geisha-girl, or like some hitherto unknown and gorgeous dragon-fly.
They were very beautiful, and were made of gold on silk varnished over and lacquered, with apple-green and vermilion silk borders made from the linings of old dancing dresses.
Her kimono is vermilion embroidered in great dragons; her obi is cloth of gold; her long hanging sleeves are lined with orange.
Something suggests to her that you, an artist, may have found the vermilion lip not quite in harmony with the plan, and she changes it to bronze.
The white is simple vegetable white; the red is pure vermilion toning with her kimono.
There is a colour which is much used called Taisha, which is like burnt sienna; then there is Tan, a sort of orange, and Shi, a vermilion red.
The lips are put in withvermilion and shaded off with another brush.
She shook her finger at the fat, bright blue pitcher with flaming vermilion roses on either side, as it stood on the mantelpiece in blissful unconsciousness of its total depravity.
It is allvermilion and orange colour, while this .
There were also cushions of cloth of gold, twenty-four pieces of vermilion leather of Aragon, and four carpets of Aragon leather, 'to be placed on the floor of rooms in summer.
Two firm lines put on with a pencil imparted increased length and softness to them; a bluish powder tinted the eye-lids the colour of lead; two touches of bright vermilion accentuated the tear-corners.
Slowly, with bended head, moving with infinite grace and majesty, she mounted the outer staircase which wound around the high vermilion tower like a spiral.
Other colours, again, such as vermilion and yellow, owing to their weight and texture, will always require a fair percentage of varnish in their composition.
These will restore the bright vermilion hue, and likewise give a greater amount of density or covering power to the colour.
In half an hour you'll see sago-lilies and Indian paint-brush and vermilion cactus.
A gray sage-bush with beautiful purple blossoms she called purple sage; another bush with yellow flowers she named buck-brush, and there were vermilion cacti and low, flat mounds of lavender daisies which she said had no name.
To make a fine red take cinnabar or red chalk or burnt ochre for the dark shadows and for the lighter ones red chalk and vermilion and for the lights pure vermilion and then glaze with fine lake.
Use black in the shadow, and in the lights white, yellow, green, vermilion and lake.
I-149] The American ruins in some places bear inscriptions written in vermilion paint; the Tyrians were celebrated for a purple dye.
Sea figs in tan and orange and vermilion made splashes of color among the wet piles of shiny brown kelp brought up by the last tide, and small dead starfish turned pale stomachs to the sun.
For a time they sat silent, with arm-clasped knees, looking into the vermilion heart of the fire.
Her fresh face outvies the white and vermilion of the flowers.
Alienor's pointed shoes are ofvermilion leather from Cordova, with still more of gold-thread embroidery.
If I may have your name I will see what can be done," she offered, extending a small vermilion tray.
A lift carried them to the top floor, and left them facing a black door with "Felicity Berber" painted on it in vermilion letters.
On these silk cushions in black and vermilion were piled.
On black paper and in vermilion ink arrived two lines of what Mary at first took to be Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The cock grouse takes his stand on some grey rock, and erects or depresses at pleasure his vermilion eye-streak.
The sun warms up his rufus plumage, and the crescent-shaped patch of vermilionover the eye glows in the strong light.
In the middle of this meadow was a fountain, and fast by it lay Morgana asleep; a lady of a lovely aspect, dressed in white and vermilion garments, her forehead well furnished with hair, while she had scarcely any behind.
Finding it useless to resist, he resumed his chase of the fairy, gained upon her, and made frequent snatches at her white and vermilion garments, which still eluded his grasp.
On the underneath part of the wrapping--linen of the left foot was painted, in the same vermilion colour as that used in the Stele, the hieroglyphic symbol for much water, and underneath the right foot the symbol of the earth.
We took with us the Stele of lapis lazuli, whose graven record was coloured with vermilion pigment.
And the great Pompey bore the azure field and silver eagle, and Julius Caesar bore the vermilion field and golden eagle, as Lucan makes mention in verse, saying, Signa pares aquilas, et pila minantia pilis.
Thar wrasn't enough scarlet cloth, nor beads, nor vermilion in Sublette's packs for her.
Veronique's lips were faultlessly curved and painted in the clear vermilion of her pure warm blood.
His fresh mouth with its dazzling teeth was charming, but the vermilion of the lips was of the red-lead tint which indicates repressed ferocity, and, in many human beings, a free abandonment to pleasure.
And the whole city was full of exultation, and the vermilion colours that covered it throughout, seemed like its red glow of affection overflowing in external form.
The sky was red with blood, as if with vermilion shed abroad.
May Ganesa protect you, the ornamental streaks of vermilion on whose cheeks fly up in the dance, and look like the fiery might of obstacles swallowed and disgorged by him.
Its trunk was painted with vermilion and turmeric, and over its ears it had a net of crimson silk cord.
It was made of gilded bamboo, and the poles were of vermilion lacquer studded with brass peacocks.
