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The early-summer foliage of the red maple is of a beautiful yellow green, and the young leaves are very delicate and airy-looking; but the graceful tree is in such a hurry to display her gay autumn colors that she will often put on a scarlet or crimson streamer in July or August.
Crimson petals, like drops of blood, were upon it; and the redness was crushed between his clutching fingers. Muriel did not see; for the friend such as few men may ever hope to have and, having, may pray to keep, had thrust the child behind him.
The body with its strong, supple beauty, its unforced harmony of line and movement, with its golden glow of flesh, set off in the true Giorgionesque fashion by the warm white of the slender, diaphanous drapery, by the splendid crimson mantle with the changing hues and high lights, is, however, the most perfect poem of the human body that Titian ever achieved.
Gradually, but with convincing proof, it dawned upon the unhappy Indians that a great leader had arisen among them, and was ready to deal the decisive blow that should set them free. To tribe after tribe and to village after village came messengers bearing broad belts of wampum and the crimson hatchet of war.
And then, all shall be forgiven and forgotten; "though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be white as snow: though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Surely, my friends, these things are worth taking to heart; for this is the sin which most destroys all men and nations high religious profession with an ungodly, covetous, and selfish life.
"I am determined to end this farce once and for all," he vowed. "Before you joined us, I told the Princess " The door was flung open. The young man who had followed Joan and Alec into the Louvre that morning rushed in. His pink and white face was crimson now, and his manner that of unmeasured, almost uncontrollable excitement.
Cayhill, who for some time had considered Ephie fondly, said: "I can't understand you thinking she isn't well, Joan. I never saw her look better." Ephie went crimson. "Now what has Joan been saying about me?" she asked angrily. Johanna had left the table, and was reading on the sofa. "I only said what I repeated to yourself, Ephie. That I didn't think you were looking well."
"'Watch that spot, said Hubel, 'and if you see the stars of this Roman candle, launch your boat, and come to the shore at once. Vasa there, pointing to a huge Danish hound, 'will find me for you, if need be. "An hour or two later, Perry saw the stars of green and crimson shooting through the lurid cloud into the midnight sky.
Why has any human being a right to say to another, whether young or old, 'You shall live here and not there'? Oh, it is tyrannical it is tyranny of the worst kind, and what haven't I had to suffer from it all! It is like Hell on earth!" Her breath caught in great sobs that shook her; her eyes flashed through blinding tears; her cheeks were crimson; she continued to clasp and unclasp her hands.
It was a very large room, so spacious that it would have been waste and desolate, had it not been well filled with handsome, but heavy old-fashioned furniture, covered with crimson damask, and one side of the room fitted up with a bookcase, so high that there was a spiral flight of library steps to give access to the upper shelves.
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