cardinal-red

In that sea of cardinal-red shirts, hats and signs, I saw my mom, Lois Dempsey Robbins.

Chicken Soup for The Soul : Moms & Sons Jack Canfield 2008

Once he reclined on an ottoman with his pant legs pulled up, showing cardinal-red silk stockings.

Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

In that sea of cardinal-red shirts, hats and signs, I saw my mom, Lois Dempsey Robbins.

Chicken Soup for The Soul : Moms & Sons Jack Canfield 2008

Miss Custer went up stairs and made her afternoon toilette, then got out her embroidery and came down to her accustomed rustic arm-chair, smilingly conscious of the perfection of all that pertained to herself, from the soft ringlets on her broad forehead, so different from the stiff, frowsy crimps of the country-girls, to the small Newport ties with their cardinal-red bows, the only bright color about her.

Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science Various

Flowers intense cardinal-red, of unrivaled brilliancy.

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

He was not more than half-a-dozen steps from the top, when, to his unspeakable horror, he saw a small form in a white frock and cardinal-red sash come running out of the nursery, and begin to descend slowly and cautiously, clinging to the banisters with one chubby little hand.

Vice Versa or A Lesson to Fathers F. Anstey 1895

Male: splendid cardinal-red, with a black throat and band about the coral-red bill, and a fine long crest, like a Cedar Waxwing's.

Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

Mrs. Anglesea, efflorescent in a cardinal-red damasse silk, and heavy gold jewelry, seized upon the clerical pair instantly as her own especial prey, because they were new acquaintances, who had not heard the story of her marriage, her robbery and her desertion by her husband, from her own lips.

Her Mother's Secret Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth 1859

Every Saturday and Sunday, Hardiman suits up in his jodhpurs, boots, riding helmet and cardinal-red huntsman's jacket.

SFGate: Top News Stories datebookletters@sfchronicle.com (Edward Guthmann 2010

Now these clothes (along with those ever-present beards and mustaches) look like downtown defaults compared with fall runway looks like cardinal-red tailcoats at Ralph Lauren, capes and bowlers at Alexander McQueen and knee breeches at Robert Geller.

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