1 The sunrise burned red in a pure sky, the shadows on the rim of the wood-lot were darkly blue, and beyond the white and scintillating fields patches of far-off forest hung like smoke.
2 Slowly the rim of the rainy vapours caught fire and burnt away, and a pure moon swung into the blue.
3 A red sun stood over the grey rim of the fields, behind trees that looked black and brittle.
4 The sun was now below the horizon and the red glow at the rim of the world faded into pink.
5 He was in flexible mail, and under the rim of his planished morion were amorous curls.
6 Yonder, by ever-brimming goblet's rim, the warm waves blush like wine.
7 The sky was dark blue, with crystalline, turquoise rim.
8 Then he clambered up to the rim of the hollow, and crawled about among the ferns and bushes.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. The Adventure of Silver Blaze 9 The flying spear lights where the armour rises high above the shoulder, and, forcing a way through the shield's rim, ceased not till it drew blood from mighty Turnus.
10 Carrying grim death with it, the spear flies in fashion of some dark whirlwind, anopens the rim of the corslet and the utmost circles of the sevenfold shield.
11 It is a mixing bowl by Vulcan's own hand, of pure silver, except the rim, which is inlaid with gold.
12 After the rain it was too wet to go for a walk; besides, the storm clouds still hung about the horizon, and gathered here and there, black and thundery, on the rim of the sky.
13 Ignatius Gallaher in the act of drinking closed one eye expressively over the rim of his glass.
14 Men were supporting him in their arms and offering him a glass of water, but his trembling, swollen lips could not grasp its rim.
15 Her blurred old eyes were bloodshot and red rimmed, and misery cried out in every line of her mountainous figure.