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  • In the distance, a building made of inflated PVC and glass rose like an flame-hued organism breathing life into the dramatic skies of the final days of 2010.

    Chauncey Zalkin: The Only American in the Race Chauncey Zalkin 2011

  • In the distance, a building made of inflated PVC and glass rose like an flame-hued organism breathing life into the dramatic skies of the final days of 2010.

    Chauncey Zalkin: The Only American in the Race Chauncey Zalkin 2011

  • One fish obtained on the main reef was about eight inches long and, though belonging to the gaily decorated parrot species, struck quite a superior note, its colours being alternate bands of vivid vermillion and the boldest blue, the eyes flame-hued with sapphire-blue pupils, and the prominent teeth like flawless turquoise.

    Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

  • Held up by the excitement — for by this time other birds have darted to the feast — the starlings alight among the plumes of the laburnum, interrogating in acidulous tones, their black, burnished, iridescent feathers and flame-hued eyes making a picture of rare vividness and beauty.

    Tropic Days 2003

  • The headring leaped free of Illyana's flame-hued hair.

    Conan the Valiant Green, Roland 1988

  • It squatted on the table, rather pretty with its folded flame-hued wings and insulated legs.

    The Source of Magic Anthony, Piers 1979

  • It was full of beautiful things, among them another red silk dress -- not the bright, flame-hued tint of her old one, but a rich, dark crimson, with the most distracting flounces and bows and ruffles; and with it were little red satin slippers with gold buckles, and heels that made

    The Golden Road 1908

  • But all these are little or naught in the whole, faint adornments sewed upon a shaggy garment, green in summer, flame-hued in autumn, brown in winter, green and flower-colored in the spring.

    Pioneers of the Old South: a chronicle of English colonial beginnings Mary Johnston 1903

  • Are the roses at home still in their flame-hued pride?

    Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888

  • Held up by the excitement -- for by this time other birds have darted to the feast -- the starlings alight among the plumes of the laburnum, interrogating in acidulous tones, their black, burnished, iridescent feathers and flame-hued eyes making a picture of rare vividness and beauty.

    Tropic Days 1887

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