red-litten

VIAnd travelers now within that valley, Through the red-litten windows, seeVast forms that move fantasticallyTo a discordant melody; While, like a rapid ghastly river, Through the pale door, A hideous throng rush out forever, And laugh—but smile no more.

The Fall of the House of Usher 1921

Alit is due, no doubt, to mere inadvertence or ignorance: the form litten ( 'red-litten windows', &c.), for which the Oxford Dictionary quotes Poe, Lytton, W. Morris, and Crockett, but no old writer, is sham archaism. [back]

Formations. 1908

The two sentries came to the front of the house and stared at the red-litten blinds.

Clementina 1906

It might have been a medley, but, as things happened, it was an overture; and by the eyes, the red-litten windows of the mind of Mahommed Ibrahim, who squatted beside the Yorkshire engineer at the wheel, playing mankalah, he knew it was an overture.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

It might have been a medley, but, as things happened, it was an overture; and by the eyes, the red-litten windows of the mind of Mahommed Ibrahim, who squatted beside the Yorkshire engineer at the wheel, playing mankalah, he knew it was an overture.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Volume 2 Gilbert Parker 1897

It might have been a medley, but, as things happened, it was an overture; and by the eyes, the red-litten windows of the mind of Mahommed Ibrahim, who squatted beside the Yorkshire engineer at the wheel, playing mankalah, he knew it was an overture.

Donovan Pasha, and Some People of Egypt — Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

As he stood in the gold red-litten with the Wrath's thin edges bared.

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

_Litten_, lighted up; cf. red-litten, torch-litten.

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung William Morris 1865

As he stood in the gold red-litten with the Wrath's thin edges bared.

The Story of Sigurd the Volsung and the Fall of the Niblungs William Morris 1865