From no point of view could the West look so lovely as from that lattice with the garland of jessamine round it, whose white stars and green leaves seemed now but grey pencil outlines - graceful in form, but colourless in tint - against the gold incarnadined of a summer evening - against the fire-tinged blue of an August sky, at eight o'clock p.m. ❋ Unknown (2004)
A romantic obscurity would have hung over the expedition to Egypt, and he would have escaped the perpetration of those crimes which have incarnadined his soul with a deeper dye than that of the purple for which he committed them -- those acts of perfidy, midnight murder, usurpation, and remorseless tyranny, which have consigned his name to universal execration, now and for ever. ❋ Southey, Robert, 1774-1843 (1993)
The clouds were incarnadined by the sunset to the colour of blood. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)
Unable to reach them, the hippopotamus slashed at his own flanks, inflicting terrible gaping wounds in his sides so that for fifty paces around the galley the waters were incarnadined, and both Lostris and Tanus were painted entirely crimson from the tops of their heads to the soles of their feet by the spurting blood. ❋ Smith, Wilbur, 1933- (1993)
They were soon locked muzzle to muzzle in deadly embrace, belching shot and grape through each other's sides, while the streaming gore incarnadined the waves. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
A curious serenity of evening, for a life so turbulent and incarnadined in its beginning! ❋ Various (N/A)
The icy cliffs echoed the crashing volley, as both barrels poured forth their deadly hail almost in unison, and the huge animal settled down amid incarnadined waters and ice crimsoned with his life-blood, shot to death through the brain so skilfully that scarce a struggle or a tremor bore witness that the principle of life had departed. ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
Thousands sink upon the ground overpowered, to be trodden under foot of the flying steed, or their bones to be left whitening the incarnadined field. ❋ Alf Burnett (N/A)
Too often commerce and conquest moved hand in hand, and the colony was incarnadined with blood. ❋ Various (N/A)
Nawin looked directly into the man's incarnadined, sun burnt face and his furrows of coarse wrinkling skin, and the old man, though abashed, grinned and nodded once as if grateful that the younger man not only acknowledged his existence but saw his worth in it. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
What more natural than to imagine that the violets and the hyacinths, the roses and the anemones, sprang from their dust, were empurpled or incarnadined by their blood, and contained some portion of their spirit? ❋ Unknown (1922)
In such multitudes do they come that the streets and squares of the city are encumbered with their swarms, and incarnadined with their red cloaks. ❋ Unknown (1922)
Out of the green, I shot at once into a glory of rosy, almost of sanguine light -- the multitudinous seas incarnadined, the heaven above a vault of crimson. ❋ Percy Lubbock (1922)
Both ladies, but Mrs. Cosham (Aunt Millicent) in particular, had that look of heightened, smoothed, incarnadined existence which is proper to elderly ladies paying calls in London about five o'clock in the afternoon. ❋ Unknown (1920)
Had they met, though Bonaparte had done his utmost by organization and drill to prepare for such an emergency, a French disaster would have been almost inevitable, and Napoleon, in the amusingly partisan words of Nelson's biographer Southey, "would have escaped those later crimes that have incarnadined his soul." ❋ William Oliver Stevens (1916)
Beyond her, it smote upon and incarnadined the shining, white, grassless faces of the sand dunes. ❋ Unknown (1915)
But at such times Day would put the tips of her fingers mysteriously to her incarnadined dumb lips and appear to hearken on the seaward side. ❋ Various (1915)
"Oh, white man!" she gasped, as the matting fell between them and the room incarnadined by their struggle. ❋ Arthur Stringer (1912)
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather
The [multitudinous] seas [incarnadine],
Making [the green one] red”. ❋ Dwergi (2006)
