1 As the sun rose slowly above the eastern horizon, the caps of the great mountains lit up one after the other, like lamps at a festival, until they were all ruddy and glowing.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 2 He remained strange and bright and cheerful, almost, one might say, chirpy, with his ruddy, healthy-looking face, and his pale-blue, challenging bright eyes.
3 Constance, his wife, was a ruddy, country-looking girl with soft brown hair and sturdy body, and slow movements, full of unusual energy.
4 He had never been one of the modern ladylike young men: rather bucolic even, with his ruddy face and broad shoulders.
5 Connie turned to the child, a ruddy, black-haired thing of nine or ten.
6 He looked so well and ruddy in the face, his shoulders were broad and strong, his chest deep, he had put on flesh.
7 The back was white and fine, the small buttocks beautiful with an exquisite, delicate manliness, the back of the neck ruddy and delicate and yet strong.
8 Her sharp breasts rose and fell, her hair was plastered down with rain, her face was flushed ruddy and her body glistened and trickled.
9 Hilda, like a ruddy, rich-coloured Athena, bowed her head and pondered.
10 The speaker was a woman, gazing down upon the group from an upper window, whose panes blazed in the ruddy glare from the west.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 3 The First Act in a Timeworn Drama 11 Facing her on the bank blazed the fire, which at once sent a ruddy glare into the room where she was, and overpowered the candles.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 5 An Old Move Inadvertently Repeated 12 Its reflection was shot back in ruddy patches by the distant pools which lay amid the great Grimpen Mire.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 11. The Man on the Tor 13 His round, ruddy face was naturally full of cheeriness, but the corners of his mouth seemed to me to be pulled down in a half-comical distress.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In IV. The Adventure of The Stockbroker's Clerk 14 His age may have been nearer forty than thirty, but his cheeks were so ruddy and his eyes so merry that he still conveyed the impression of a plump and mischievous boy.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XI. The Adventure of The Naval Treaty 15 The first who entered was a little Ribston pippin of a man, with ruddy cheeks and fluffy white side-whiskers.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. THE ADVENTURE OF BLACK PETER