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Updated: June 5, 2025
So, when he showed a bill of sale for the land he wanted, signed by the six braves 'their marks, in six blood-red arrows, there was none to contradict him." "How was his villainy found out?"
There stood white lilies with blood-red stamina, skyblue tulips, which shone as they waved in the winds, and apple-trees, the apples of which looked exactly like large soapbubbles: so only think how the trees must have sparkled in the sunshine!
A squad of lumbermen were our new fellow-citizens. These soldiers of the outermost outpost were in the regulation-uniform, red-flannel shirts, impurpled by wetting, big boots, and old felt-hats. Blood-red is the true soldierly color. All the residents of Damville dwelt in a great log-barrack, the Hotel-de-Ville.
Not so handsome as the moonal, being small and greyish in colour on the back, is the blood-pheasant, remarkable for its blood-red streaks on the breast and its blood-red under-tail-coverts. Bulbuls are largely represented and may be seen in large flocks among the scrub delightful, homely little birds with bright and cheery ways which specially attract us.
A little later he wrote to the Commander-in-Chief at Washington, "The valley of the Mississippi is America." Vicksburg taken, this vast Confederacy would be chopped in two. Night fell to the music of the paddles, to the scent of the officers' cigars, to the blood-red vomit of the tall stacks and the smoky flame of the torches.
What he saw, as in a mirror in his darkened memory, was the black figure with the black gloves against the blood-red sunset, as he had seen it when he came out of the wood, and which had always haunted him, he knew not why. "Of course, I see what you mean," he said, "and it's very painful for me, for I knew and respected the man. But surely, also, it's very far from explaining everything.
"What way?" "That you and she " She paused, then drooped her eyelids. "I think I catch your meaning," he said stickily. "What an extraordinary mistake!" "Then you didn't the least " she stammered, getting blood-red in the face, and wishing she had never been born. "Scarcely, as I am already engaged to another lady."
She rose to her feet suddenly, feeling unaccountably hurt by the thought, and her eyes roved half unconsciously, and fixed themselves upon the spot where the scarlet petals of the Kaffir boom showed blood-red against the ancient northern wall.
Still he did not despair of reaching it. But as his longing eyes drew nearer and nearer the stately little beauty turned suddenly a deep blood-red, and then he saw that the crimson drops falling from his own wounds had worked this transformation. He hid her in his bosom, and held her there.
His nose was broad and long, thick at the end, the nose of a lion; his ears were large, his hair sandy, his lips blood-red, like those of all consumptives, the upper lip thin and sarcastic, the lower one firm, and full enough to give an impression of the noblest qualities of the heart.
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