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Usage examples of ruddy.

I say our baser ore, that at the virgin touch of our philosophical stone blushed into ruddy gold?

Mursil came up through the entry-port as Lannon and Huy reached the deck, a huge figure, gross and apelike with his big beefy round face ruddy from sun and wine.

Willoughby was of medium height and stockily, almost chubbily, built, though there were unexpected muscles under his ruddy skin.

Now, to venture upon parading a beautiful young Duchess of Dewlap, with an odour of the shepherdess about her notwithstanding her acquired art of stepping conformably in a hoop, and to demand full homage of respect for a lady bearing such a title, who had the intoxicating attractions of the ruddy orchard apple on the tree next the roadside wall, when the owner is absent, was bold in Mr.

Moone to bee of the same kind of nature as a Pumice-stone, and this, say they, is the reason why in the Suns eclipses there appeares within her a duskish ruddy colour, because the Sunne-beames being refracted in passing through the pores of her body, must necessarily be represented under such a colour.

If shee had any light of her owne then that would in it selfe be, either such a ruddy brightnesse as appeares in the eclipses, or else such a leaden duskish light as wee see in the darker parts of her body, when shee is a little past the conjunction.

As the enraptured Ichabod fancied all this, and as he rolled his great green eyes over the fat meadow-lands, the rich fields of wheat, of rye, of buckwheat, and Indian corn, and the orchards burdened with ruddy fruit, which surrounded the warm tenement of Van Tassel, his heart yearned after the damsel who was to inherit these domains, and his imagination expanded with the idea how they might be readily turned into cash and the money invested in immense tracts of wild land and shingle palaces in the wilderness.

The moon was shining down the Cathedral square and street, and Farina saw the stranger standing solid and ruddy before him.

Longarm offered his hand, and the ruddy little preacher, who also happened to be the resident agent in charge of the Upper Belle Fourche Intertribal Agency, took and shook it.

On a single spray of ruddy Gorgonia several of these commensal molluscs may occur in various stages of development--the smaller no bigger than the wing of a fly and almost as frail, the larger three and four inches long, and each whatsoever its proportions securely budded on and growing from a spur, while frequently the valves of the large are bossed with limpets and other encumbrances.

They heard the warning from Jura then and, leaving their speculation pooled with the heuristic net in the ruddy light of the lab-orb, headed for the door.

The Major Domo removed his mask to reveal a heavily joweled, ruddy face topped with graying red curls and shrewd blue eyes that belied his otherwise pleasant expression.

Major Domo removed his mask to reveal a heavily joweled, ruddy face topped with graying red curls and shrewd blue eyes that belied his otherwise pleasant expression.

They sipped their champagne and laughed and chatted and flirted, while a flamboyant Karoo sunset lit the gaunt kopies with a ruddy glow and set the clouds on fire.

Along the walls stood guards, moveless as heathen idols, the ruddy light aglint on their spearheads.