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  • The red-ribbed ledges drip with a silent horror of blood ...

    The Tragic Bride Francis Brett Young 1919

  • The red-ribbed wall of the great chasm, shattered and broken as by some inconceivable disaster, some cosmic cataclysm, fell away and away, downward, dimmer and more dim, until it faded gradually into a blue haze, then vanished utterly.

    Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906

  • The red-ribbed stems and the giant-leaves of the sovereign spikenard stand.

    Alcyone Archibald Lampman 1880

  • The alternation of bare rocky islets, red-ribbed cliffs, fir-woods, grey-green birchen groves, tracts of farm land, and red-frame cottages, rendered this part of the voyage delightful, although, as the morning advanced, we saw everything through

    Northern Travel Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland Bayard Taylor 1851

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