ruddy

The very furniture of the room seemed to mellow and deepen in its tone; the ceiling and walls looked blacker and more highly polished, the curtains of a ruddier red; the fire burnt clear and high, and the crickets in the hearthstone chirped with a more than wonted satisfaction.

But to the chamber which lies most westwardly of the seven, there are now none of the maskers who venture; for the night is waning away; and there flows a ruddier light through the blood-coloured panes; and the blackness of the sable drapery appals; and to him whose foot falls upon the sable carpet, there comes from the near clock of ebony a muffled peal more solemnly emphatic than any which reaches their ears who indulged in the more remote gaieties of the other apartments.

Woodcourt, "his being so much younger or older, or thinner or fatter, or paler or ruddier, as there being upon his face such a singular expression.

'I want to see a ruddier touch here, Neville,' he said, indicating his own healthy cheek by way of pattern.

"The house above was said to be on the identical site of a suburban retreat of the admirable Tiberius; there was the old sinner's private theatre with the tiers cut clean to this day, the well where he used to fatten his lampreys on his slaves, and a ruined temple of those ripping old Roman bricks, shallow as dominoes and ruddier than the cherry.

The bass Neal Davies as Polyphemus gets the best known tune, O ruddier than the cherry, and sings firmly but I'd have liked a bit more rustic characterization The excellent chorus and period band, under Christian Curnyn, add to the set's many pleasures.

Nona, Nora Nelder saw Reid Durward, guns snug, draw; ruddier was "Red Len" Aron, anon ...