lurid

• How unlike the lurid fire of the Chimaera! —  My First Cruise and Other stories
• High in the reddish-saffron sky overhead there blazed a lurid orb of blood-red hue, the intense heat of its ruddy radiance giving the still dry air a nearly tropical temperature. —  Devil Crystals of Arret
• The appearance of the landscape was very lurid, but by no means very dark. —  Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville
• And he recognized only one kind of eloquence--the lurid, the tempestuous, the volcanic. —  The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories
• Before a quarter of the kernel was accounted for, the western sky had turned to lurid orange; before the half was gone, the chill struck him. —  "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character

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