dull-red

Too dull-red to evoke the beast it once propelled through birch forests, yet too visceral to suggest the bread-stuffed meal it would provide down at the Native Elder center.

Casualty Cortney McLellan 2010

He imagined a bright twinkle on the aft end of the Westinghouse craft, and its drive guttering down from white to orange to dull-red, cooling.

Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 15.1 of 31.1 2009

When trekkers arrived in the vicinity of Berlin, they would see at night, on the horizon, a huge dull-red light, punctuated by blinding flashes: the Anglo-American bombing of their capital, which in the end reduced much of the place to a lunar landscape.

The Nazis' Last Stand 2002

The next house was a more modest structure of dull-red brick with black door and window frames.

This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

When trekkers arrived in the vicinity of Berlin, they would see at night, on the horizon, a huge dull-red light, punctuated by blinding flashes: the Anglo-American bombing of their capital, which in the end reduced much of the place to a lunar landscape.

The Nazis' Last Stand 2002

(ORNITHOPTERA CASSANDRA) is the nectar of the hard, dull-red flowers of the umbrella-tree, and this fact assisted in an observation which seems to prove that plants play tricks on insects.

The Confessions of a Beachcomber 2003

The reef gleams dull-red through the blue water, and white and pale green patches show where sand has occupation of the unallotted places.

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

Anthills dotted the plain like dull-red stumps; groves stood scattered, murky except where tossing leaves caught the light.

Starfarers Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1998

I remember my father's telling me one day as we sat in the plaza facing this dull-red structure, 'When our first settlers landed at Jamestown, this building was so old it needed new flooring.

Mexico Michener, James 1992

To my senses, the blades shimmered like dull-red embers.

The Magic of Recluce Modesitt, L. E. 1991