Rusty Red

Modigliani's 1917 depiction of a brunette sitting cross-legged against a rusty-red backdrop, "Nude Sitting on a Sofa (The Beautiful Romanian)," sold to an anonymous telephone bidder who paid well over the work's $40 million asking price. ❋ Kelly Crow (2010)

It turns the fertile soil, and the cob walls of the barns and farmhouses, bright rusty-red with the occasional hint of pink at sunset. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

There was something wet and rusty-red that had trickled into the gravel and splashed on the corner of the Dumpster. ❋ Jennifer Weiner (2009)

They wore rusty-red tunics henna-dyed, under black cloaks, and carried swords. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

Always to starboard remained the narrow sea-wall, a length without breadth which we had seen after the lowlands of Cape Lopez, coloured rosy, rusty-red, or white, and sometimes backed by a second sierra of low blue rises, which suggests the sanatorium. ❋ Unknown (2003)

At noon we met the “heaven-sent, life-sustaining sea-breeze;” and now the broad and well-marked Wady Makná, with its rosy-pink sands, narrowed to a gut, flanked and choked on both sides, north and south, by rocks of the strangest tricolour, green-black, yellow-white, and rusty-red. ❋ Unknown (2003)

The stain was rusty-red and shaped like a crescent moon. ❋ White, Stephen, 1951- (2002)

One thing I really like about our road is that all the houses are a deep rusty-red coloured brick, and they're set unevenly round the end of the cul-de-sac, so the walls are all at different angles. ❋ Sheepdip (2002)

It still retained its original paint, a rusty-red color achieved at that period by mixing cow's blood with whitewash. ❋ Arensberg, Ann, 1937- (1999)

Today's crop in Africa is overwhelmingly the coarse, rusty-red form that is mainly useful for porridge and brewing beer. ❋ Unknown (1996)

Her flimsy sleeping-gown was thrown down from her shoulders to hang loosely about her waist, and her hair cascaded in a rusty-red plume down her shapely back. ❋ Carpenter, Leonard (1988)

All she saw were the rusty-red coats of grazing Hereford cattle. ❋ Janet Dailey (1980)

“The sheep are dirty!” said Meggie dolefully, gazing at the many hundreds of rusty-red bundles with their questing noses down into the grass. ❋ McCullough, Colleen (1977)

Hey [big D] why are you gettin so mad bro? [Inferior] [ginger]: fuck you i have a rusty red! ❋ Theangrylover (2010)