lake-red

Its cylindrical racemes of berries of various hues, from green to dark purple, six or seven inches long, are gracefully drooping on all sides, offering repasts to the birds; and even the sepals from which the birds have picked the berries are a brilliant lake-red, with crimson, flame-like reflections, equal to anything of the kind, -- all on fire with ripeness.

Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

Within a hundred yards of where Emmeline was sitting, the pools contained corals of all colours, from lake-red to pure white, and the lagoon behind her -- corals of the quaintest and strangest forms.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

The eggs are pale pinkish, with spots of darker lake-red, most crowded at the thick end.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The eggs, usually two but sometimes three in number, are of a pinkish-white colour, covered all over with spots and blotches and streaks of purplish or lake-red, forming a dense confluent cap at the large end.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The ground is reddish white, and this is profusely speckled and blotched (the blotches being chiefly confined, however, to a broad irregular zone round the broader end) with a deep but certainly, I should say, _not_ lake-red, but much nearer what one would get by mixing brown with vermilion.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

Head beautifully crested and banded with white and the shining dark colors of the back; bill prettily tinted with pink, lake-red, and black; eyes red; feet orange.

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

Its cylindrical racemes of berries of various hues, from green to dark purple, six or seven inches long, are gracefully drooping on all sides, offering repasts to the birds; and even the sepals from which the birds have picked the berries are a brilliant lake-red, with crimson flame-like reflections, equal to anything of the kind, -- all on fire with ripeness.

Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839

Their colour was a full lake-red, and their brilliancy greater than that of any other part of the ring. "[

A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

It was rather loosely made with roots, grass, and hair, placed in a hedge, and the eggs, four in number, were reddish white, with darker lake-red spots, exceedingly like those of the Common Bulbul. "

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

The eggs are barely distinguishable from those of the next bird (_M. bengalensis_), being reddish white with spots of purplish or lake-red all over, larger at the thick end. "

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870