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The transaction itself, lurid and fuliginous, is secondary to the manner of its handling and presentment.
Still by their glare could be seen the victorious flag of England waving proudly in the breeze. Now, fore and aft, the old Terrible was one mass of flame, a huge pyramid of fire, which shed a lurid glare on the clouds above, on the surrounding water, and on the white sails and dark hulls of the ships.
The extent of space covered by those strange, fierce fires must have amounted to many acres, in fact, did so, as we afterwards ascertained, and the effect produced by them may be partially imagined when it is remembered that these flames were of all hues, from rich ruby-red, to the pale lurid light of burning sulphur.
The scattered houses stood farther and farther apart in a broken string along the seashore; the afternoon was closing with a premature and partly lurid twilight; the sea was of an inky purple and murmuring ominously.
Knocking about the salt parts of the globe, with a few feet square on a rolling frigate for his only home, the pretty, flower-decked sitting-room of the quiet American sisters became, more than anything he had hitherto known, his interior. He had dreamed once of having an interior, but the dream had vanished in lurid smoke, and no such vision had come to him again.
Of course, when they do come he'll bring them into the drawing-room and read them aloud to everybody who happens to be here and the Bishop is sure to happen to be here!" Mrs. Clinch repressed her amusement. "The picture you draw is a lurid one," she conceded, "but your modesty strikes me as abnormal, especially in an author.
It was not yet forty-eight hours since Coburn had been interrupted in the act of starting his car up in Ardea. Greek newspapers had splashed lurid headlines of a rumored invasion by Bulgarians, and their rumored defeat. The story was not widely copied. It sounded too unlikely. In a few hours it would be time for a new set of newspapers to begin to appear.
He had scarcely drawn himself quite within the shadow of the recess, when Swankie succeeded in kindling a torch, which filled the cavern with a lurid light, and revealed its various forms, rendering it, if possible, more mysterious and unearthly than ever. "Here, Spink," cried Swankie, who was gradually getting into better humour, "haud the light, and gie me the spade."
But not all at once; the things immediately about me impressed me first, then the general aspect of the new place. First of all the light, which was lurid, as if a thunder-storm were coming on.
The colour of Brenhilda was somewhat heightened, but she did not deem the observation worthy of notice. "Never had so innocent an action," continued the philosopher, "an effect more horrible. The delightful light of a summer evening was instantly changed into a strange lurid hue, which, infected with sulphur, seemed to breathe suffocation through the apartment.
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