Word: vermilions
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...darkest exhibit was Mol-lienisia slenops from Louisiana, a two-inch blob of midnight. The brighest was Platypoecilus rubra from the West Indies, deep-burning vermilion and red gold...
...Attorney General of Illinois in 1867. His oratorical prowess became nationally known when he arose to nominate James G. Blaine at the Republican presidential convention of 1876. Thereafter his career became a succession of orations on politics and Tom Paine's brand of godlessness-a succession of vermilion episodes, epigrams, epistles...
...west through Avoyelles Parish, about 90 miles north of the Gulf of Mexico. Having broken through this line on a front of some 25 miles (in a straight east-west line) the water was expected to continue almost unhindered to the Gulf. It should empty into the Bays of Vermilion and the Cote Blanche, some 100 miles west of New Orleans...
...smallish, modest man, with shaven head, oval, slightly pock-marked face, long, pointed, waxed mustaches, promenaded from his Lhasa villa to the Potala, most magnificent of palaces. This was the Grand Lama himself, famed politico-religious absolute primate of Buddha. Above him, to the topmost of its gold-vermilion finials, now caught by the last reflected glow of the sunken sun, soared 436 feet in air his ancient palace, crowning a green-clad mountain. The Grand Lama passed within...
...orchestra was playing "Tell Me, Pretty Maiden" from Florodora when Harry K. Thaw shot Stanford White. The architect, who had started to rise when he saw Mr. Thaw coming toward him, sank back into his chair with an expression of sudden weariness while a tide of slow vermilion spread like spilled wine across the bosom of his evening shirt. That was in June, 1906. Now Harry Thaw has written a book...