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Example sentences for "vermillion"

Lexicographically close words:
vermiform; vermifuge; vermil; vermilion; vermilions; vermin; vermine; verminous; vermouth; vernacular
  1. His brother is shut up in a vermillion tower.

  2. He had never seen a face like that, so perfectly oval; never such vermillion as showed under the dusk of her cheeks and stained the lips, narrow, but full.

  3. And the imam of Oman is going to give the vermillion tower to the brother, when he is released.

  4. How lovely it would sound on a card, 'Wednesdays, Vermillion Towers.

  5. In making this trip we crossed the Vermillion river, and I was then deeply impressed with its beauty and the great fertility of its valley.

  6. Colors green and brown and saffron and orange and pink and vermillion and russet cover every rock until the scene is bewildering.

  7. If the mouth be not small, or extend much beyond the nostrils, and if the lips be not delicately outlined and of vermillion hue.

  8. At this point the islands are about four miles across from the main channel of the river; the islands being formed by Vermillion Slough, which heads at Hastings, reëntering the river about two and a half miles above Red Wing.

  9. Trudell Slough, which heads in the river about four miles below Prescott, joins Vermillion at the point at which was probably located Le Seuer's post.

  10. Underhill (1959) reports that this species is rare in the Vermillion River, a northeastern tributary of the Missouri River, except in autumn when large numbers occur near the mouth of the river.

  11. About Vermillion Creek are some open forests of oak, not extending far on either side.

  12. The Vermillion is a Pottawatomie County stream about twenty miles east of the Big Blue.

  13. In Vermillion County, by long and persistent protection Harvey J.

  14. At an exposition some years ago, indeed, a sample of good French vermillion was brought forward to prove that the problem was nearly solved; but that it is not so completely, may be inferred from the silence on this subject in M.

  15. The vermillion of commerce is often adulterated with red lead, brickdust, dragon's blood, and realgar.

  16. The English vermillion is now most highly prized by the French manufacturers of sealing-wax.

  17. The humid process of Kirchoff has of late years been so much improved, as to furnish a vermillion quite equal in brilliancy to the Chinese.

  18. The subliming pots are then allowed to cool, and broken to pieces in order to collect all the vermillion encrusted within them; and which usually amounts to 400 lbs.

  19. Liebig and Woehler have lately contrived a process for producing a subchromate of lead of a beautiful vermillion hue.

  20. It is said that the rich tone of the Chinese vermillion may be imitated by adding to the materials for subliming one per cent.

  21. This difference depends upon two causes, either upon the proportion of alumina added in the precipitation, or of a certain quantity of vermillion put in to dilute the colour.

  22. Finally, the vermillion is to be elutriated, in order to separate any particles of running mercury.

  23. The Kansa village here visited was near the mouth of Vermillion Creek, in Pottawatomie County (not to be confused with the Black Vermillion, tributary of the Big Blue).

  24. Vermillion Post, established for trading with the lower Sioux tribes, was located on the east bank of the Missouri, ten miles below the mouth of the Vermillion.

  25. Passing through an inconsiderable village on the north side of the Little Vermillion called Georgetown, my route lay through an extended range of hills and barrens.

  26. Somewhere in the vicinity Grace Ferrall had discovered a woman who supported dozens of relatives by painting that sort of thing for the summer residents at Vermillion Point down the coast.

  27. A fresh relay of guests was to replace them on Monday, and so they were making the most of the waning week on lawn and marsh, in covert and blind, or motoring madly over the State, or riding in parties to Vermillion Light.

  28. We broke the canoe rather badly in mounting this rapid, and during the rest of our journey to Vermillion had to bale out frequently.

  29. We reached Vermillion late in September, in the full glory of the autumn; the sharp morning frosts had coloured the poplar leaves with the brightest golden tints, and the blue haze of an Indian summer hung over prairie and wood.

  30. The fourth day out from Vermillion we reached the mouth of Battle River coming in from the north, and found a small trading-post with a French half-breed in charge.

  31. Mackay was away inspecting Fort Vermillion on the Lower Peace River, and would not be back for several days.

  32. Vermillion has a comparatively large population, outside the numerous employes of the country.

  33. Mrs. Temple could not reply; but the delightful sensation that dilated her heart sparkled in her intelligent eyes and heightened the vermillion on her cheeks.

  34. Not even a veil she had, to shade the hue Of the white lily and vermillion rose, Which mingled in her lovely members meet, Proof to December-snow and July-heat.

  35. The quartermaster and Reynolds started off in good season but I was kept back for instructions until they were out of sight, and I did not overtake them until they had reached Vermillion Bayou.

  36. But in some way we missed each other and I kept on, finally reaching Vermillion Bayou.

  37. This species was named the Cinnabar by Wilkes in 1773, such name of course referring to the more or less vermillion colour of the hind wings and the markings on the greyish black fore wings.

  38. It was known and feared from the Des Moines westward to the Vermillion and northward to the Minnesota River on account of its peculiarly ferocious and quarrelsome character.

  39. Distant from the lake about two leagues is the Isle Vermillion [off Little Sturgeon bay].

  40. The roll of cedar level, the heave of craggy ridge, the dip of white-sage valley gave this side a diversity widely differing from the two steps of the Vermillion tableland.

  41. Once more turning to the left Hare ran his eye over the Vermillion Cliffs, and the strip of red sand shining under them, and so calculating his bearings he headed due north for Silver Cup.

  42. The darkening blue sky and the sun-tipped crags of Vermillion Cliffs were signals to start for camp.

  43. For color venetian red lightened up to a pink with white lead is used instead of that described, and in the scarlet variety vermillion toned down with venetian red.

  44. The ground for rosewood should be compounded from venetian red brightened up with vermillion and lightened with white lead, but not too much.

  45. Then vein with color made of vermillion and Prussian blue, being careful not to put in the dark lines through the blotches.


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