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The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! Off--'

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 Meanings and Examples of CRIMSON
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crimson
 a.  of a rich deep red color inclining to purple; bloody
Classic Sentence: (110 in 8 pages)
1  She wore her usual dress of darkish stuff, and there was no bow at her neck; but through her hair she had run a streak of crimson ribbon.
Ethan Frome By Edith Wharton
Context  Highlight   In IV
2  Now that the sun was setting in a welter of crimson behind the hills across the Flint River, the warmth of the April day was ebbing into a faint but balmy chill.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER I
3  She looked up at him imploringly, her face crimson with the shame of their last meeting, and met two of the blackest eyes she had ever seen, dancing in merciless merriment.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER IX
4  But now, as she said good night, she saw that Melanie's cheeks were suddenly crimson and she was trembling.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XV
5  "If you are going to talk vilely I shall go into the house," she cried, grateful that the shadows hid her crimson face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XIX
6  Peachtree Creek was crimson, so they said, after the Yankees crossed it.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XX
7  She saw to her surprise that it was late afternoon and the sun, a ball of crimson, was far down the sky.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXII
8  In the unholy crimson glow that bathed them, his dark profile stood out as clearly as the head on an ancient coin, beautiful, cruel and decadent.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXIII
9  Her face was crimson with sunburn and her blistered palms raw.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXV
10  Melanie's white face went crimson.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVI
11  Scarlett tucked the baby more securely under her arm so that he hung face downward, crimson and screaming, and removed the garnet earrings which had been Gerald's wedding present to Ellen.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXVII
12  The memory of her humiliation at his hands made her go crimson with shame.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
13  She went crimson at the memory and her blush was not lost on Rhett.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVI
14  She said "Oh" in a stunned voice and tightened her fingers over her crimson face.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER XXXVIII
15  She went crimson at the memory and, pulling the bed covers up about her neck, lay bathed in sunlight, trying to sort out the jumbled impressions in her mind.
Gone With The Wind By Margaret Mitche
Context  Highlight   In CHAPTER LIV
Example Sentence:
1  Three hours she gave to stitch, with gold thread, the border of a square crimson cloth, almost large enough for a carpet.
2  The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, screamed 'Off with her head! Off--'
3  The leaves turn crimson in autumn.
4  I stare in horror at its bloody mouth, that vertical stitch of red wool now dribbling crimson.