cherry-coloured

Ginger Beer, naturellement, but other favourites were Dandelion & Burdock and Clarade, a cherry-coloured liquid of indeterminate flavour.

Fizzzz Pop! Peter Ashley 2008

His mouth had swollen into a shapeless cherry-coloured mass with a black hole in the middle of it.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

At least, she blushed, and pocketed her little compliment with one hand, while, with the other, she adjusted her cherry-coloured ribbons, a little disordered by the struggle it cost me to attain the honour of a salute.

Redgauntlet 2008

His mouth had swollen into a shapeless cherry-coloured mass with a black hole in the middle of it.

Nineteen Eighty-four 2008

I had a knot of cherry-coloured ribands, which she had given me out of her breast, and which somehow I always wore upon me.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

It always makes me think of cherry-coloured velvet curtains — something that is soft to stroke.

Ghosts 2006

It always makes me think of cherry-coloured velvet curtains — something that is soft to stroke.

Ghosts 2006

So far was the skin on his cheeks from being cherry-coloured, that you could not discern what the natural colour of his cheeks was, they being totally overgrown by a black beard, which ascended to his eyes.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

My aunt, who says every person of fashion should make her appearance in the bath, as well as in the abbey church, contrived a cap with cherry-coloured ribbons to suit her complexion, and obliged Win to attend her yesterday morning in the water.

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

Her husband, who was a millowner, railed at the clumsy fellow, and while she was with her handkerchief wiping up the stains from her handsome cherry-coloured taffeta gown, he angrily muttered about indemnity, costs, reimbursement.

Madame Bovary 2003