What is "vermillion"

Usage examples of "vermillion".

Hymnal and Collectary will he illuminate with gold and vermillion, except the great letters of double feasts, which shall be as the large gilt letters are in the Psalter.

In the bay where the great river empties, the sun rose vermillion over the Calusa Keys and hung there fixed like some holy ornament, ember-bright in a lavender rim of haze.

The fire glinted off her vermillion hair as it rolled about her neck and shoulders where she slept on the opposite side of the clearing.

Behind the main display, a towering, vermillion, insectile form sorted through charts and rapped furiously on a touchpad.

It stretched across space without boundaries or limits, a blazing vermillion abyss without beginning or end.

Newmarch university, is assigned to duty as the Newling attache at Point Vermillion, an isolated observatory maintained on the northward fringes of the solar halo, to watch for the approaching Black Companion.

Sisters, too, of Goldengene, who had chosen to serve out on the halo fringe at Point Vermillion, watching for the Black Companion.

Point Vermillion, Venerable Sire had been on his way to relieve his fellow Andromedan, Sagacious Sage, as research chief.

You will act at once to replace the equipment we lost at Point Vermillion and proceed without delay to establish a new observatory out on the halo fringe to watch for the returning Black Companion.

On duty at the new outpost that has replaced Point Vermillion, he reports a radiation flash that pinpoints the approaching Black Companion.

Not the very basic and important Vermillion, with its careful instructions for scrying, setting Wards, constructing Portals.

I recognised in its texture and its stains of ultra-marine, and lake, and vermillion, the ravished margin of the portrait-cover.

Sometimes we saw the ball rise past dying suns, vermillion with the blood of their eternal going.

After he was dressed, they splattered him with red sandalwood and vermillion, and then they put marigold garlands around his neck.

In the morning when they arose, the sister always combed their long black silken scalp locks and painted the circle around the scalp lock a bright vermillion.