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  • The red-rusted span of a train bridge arched over the path.

    Rot & Ruin Jonathan Maberry 2010

  • I think of Catherine and Annie, and I remark that the breakwaters are formed of hop-poles, twined together and clasped with red-rusted iron girdles; the wood has been washed by the tides white and clean as bones.

    The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891 Various

  • One might have been a labourer's cottage, with a rough deal table, a red-rusted stove-fireplace, an oleograph in flaming crude colours of the 'Virgin and Child' hanging on the plaster wall, the fragments of a rough cradle overturned in a corner, a few coarse china crocks and ornaments and figures chipped and broken and scattered about the mantel, and the bare board floor.

    Between the Lines Boyd Cable 1910

  • On the desolate path that winds about amidst the shell craters and the fragments and the red-rusted wire, with the silken shiver of passing shells in the air and the blue of the lower sky continually breaking out into eddying white puffs, it is wonderful how tawdry such panoplies of the effigy appear.

    War and the future: Italy, France and Britain at war 1906

  • The irresistible steam-winch caused the huge chain to grind and jerk in its iron pulley, and the enormous globular iron buoy came quietly over the side, black here and brown there, and red-rusted elsewhere; its green beard of sea-weed dripping with brine, and its sides grizzled with a six-months 'growth of barnacles and other shell-fish.

    The Floating Light of the Goodwin Sands 1859

  • Alongside original sections of the barrier, workers erected metal poles of the same height - roughly 4 metres - made from red-rusted steel that is often used in sculptures.

    Thestar.com - Home Page NICHOLAS KULISH 2011

  • YADKIN RIVER -- A time-honored truth in this state is always in need of testing, and so when the yard work was finished earlier this week and the red-rusted waters of the river subsided after the rains, I decided to head out and wet a line.

    Record Article Feed 2010

  • -- By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murders's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi 'his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • -- By which heroic Tam was able To note upon the haly table, A murders's banes in gibbet-airns; Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns; A thief, new-cutted frae a rape, Wi 'his last gasp his gab did gape; Five tomahawks, wi blude red-rusted; Five scymitars, wi' murder crusted; A garter

    WN.com - Photown News 2010

  • YADKIN RIVER -- A time-honored truth in this state is always in need of testing, and so when the yard work was finished earlier this week and the red-rusted waters of the river subsided after the rains, I decided to head out and wet a line.

    Record Article Feed 2010

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