scarlet-clad

Trapeze artists fly between poles on board a storm-tossed ship, acrobats go whirling past in giant wheels, and a scarlet-clad corps de ballet performs a hat-dance of fiendish complexity, culminating in a tongue-in-cheek series of fouettés.

Swan Lake – review 2011

All alone under the lights – no tan, no smile, no scarlet-clad husband – the slender dress is almost ghostly.

Duchess of Cambridge wedding dress steals the show at Buckingham Palace 2011

Treyvan narrowed his eyes, and regarded a scarlet-clad Sun-priestess with what he hoped was a predatory expression.

Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

Shots were kicking up the dust all about us, a horse screamed and went down, thrashing-by George, that had been a regular volley, at least thirty rifles together, which you don't expect from savages; across the river a perfect mob of them was closing on their ford, halting to bring up their pieces and bows for another fusilade, a scarlet-clad figure ahead of them, arms raised, to give the word.

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

They came over the battery like a wave, and the scarlet-clad Pathan horsemen were breaking before them.

Fiancée 2010

At the funeral, the contribution of this scarlet-clad man of God was to tell mourners that "we have forgotten the need to hate."

The Stink of Burning Rubber 2008

Every year in July, scarlet-clad men known as the Queen's Swan Marker and Swan Uppers spend five days in flag-bedecked rowing skiffs on the Thames river, measuring and counting swans.

Royals, Like the Rest of Us, Count Pennies 2008

Birdalone to some four paces of the great lady, and then stood away from her, and left her standing there alone, the scarlet-clad woman before her; on the right and the left the tall pillars going up gleaming toward the roof, and about her feet the dark polished pavement, with the wallowing of strange beasts and great serpents and dragons all done on the coal-blue ground.

The Water of the Wondrous Isles 2007

A small man, with a clipboard under his arm, had halted in front of the scarlet-clad Vampirella.

Archive 2006-11-05 2006

A small man, with a clipboard under his arm, had halted in front of the scarlet-clad Vampirella.

Vampirella - the novels 2006