red-blazoned

Updated: May 1, 2025

Last night I dreamed of hell, and of souls toasted on burning forks and fed with sops of bale-fire, and you were there, Anastasia, where the flames leaped and curled like red-blazoned snakes about the poor damned. And I, too, was there.

James Branch Cabell - Gallantry: Dizain des Fetes Galantes