ashes-of-rose

Money had been spent without stint to produce beauty in its most subtle expression; each window framed a view of sea or sky or of sunlighted trees; the walls, the hangings, the rugs were of that ashes-of-rose tint which give light to an interior without glare.

Glory of Youth Temple Bailey 1912

Wherever those ashes-of-rose balls hung on their milky stalks, the air about them was saturated with their breath.

O Pioneers! Willa Sibert Cather 1910

Mr. Brady promised to acquaint the ashes-of-rose donor, if the prized article should be among the two trunks of goods now on the way from

Behind the scenes, 1907

Proclamation, she sent to Mrs. Lincoln an ashes-of-rose shawl, which was manufactured in

Behind the scenes, 1907

Below her golden forehead hovered a thin cloud-veil, of pale lilac; and we had gone a long way down the mountain before the ineffable colour burned to ashes-of-rose.

The Princess Passes 1901

Before leaving the lady said that, at the time when there was a hesitancy about the President issuing the Emancipation Proclamation, she sent to Mrs. Lincoln an ashes-of-rose shawl, which was manufactured in

Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley 1862

The great white Casino, with the constant _va et vient_ to and from the open doorway; the bubbly domes of the fantastically Moorish café across the way; the velvet grass, unnaturally green in the electric light; the flower beds in the garden a mosaic floor of coloured jewels; the air blue as a gauze veil, with diamonds shining through its meshes; and over all a serene arch of hyacinth sky, pulsing with smouldering ashes-of-rose just above the purple line of mountain-tops.

The Princess Passes 1901

Mr. Brady promised to acquaint the ashes-of-rose donor, if the prized article should be among the two trunks of goods now on the way from Chicago. "

Behind the Scenes or, Thirty years a slave, and Four Years in the White House Elizabeth Keckley 1862