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  • Its cylindrical racemes of berries of various hues, from green to dark purple, six or seven inches long, are gracefully drooping on all sides, offering repasts to the birds; and even the sepals from which the birds have picked the berries are a brilliant lake-red, with crimson, flame-like reflections, equal to anything of the kind, -- all on fire with ripeness.

    Choice Specimens of American Literature, and Literary Reader Being Selections from the Chief American Writers Benj. N. Martin

  • Within a hundred yards of where Emmeline was sitting, the pools contained corals of all colours, from lake-red to pure white, and the lagoon behind her -- corals of the quaintest and strangest forms.

    The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

  • The eggs are pale pinkish, with spots of darker lake-red, most crowded at the thick end.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • The eggs, usually two but sometimes three in number, are of a pinkish-white colour, covered all over with spots and blotches and streaks of purplish or lake-red, forming a dense confluent cap at the large end.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • The ground is reddish white, and this is profusely speckled and blotched (the blotches being chiefly confined, however, to a broad irregular zone round the broader end) with a deep but certainly, I should say, _not_ lake-red, but much nearer what one would get by mixing brown with vermilion.

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • Head beautifully crested and banded with white and the shining dark colors of the back; bill prettily tinted with pink, lake-red, and black; eyes red; feet orange.

    Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners Elliott Coues 1870

  • Its cylindrical racemes of berries of various hues, from green to dark purple, six or seven inches long, are gracefully drooping on all sides, offering repasts to the birds; and even the sepals from which the birds have picked the berries are a brilliant lake-red, with crimson flame-like reflections, equal to anything of the kind, -- all on fire with ripeness.

    Excursions Henry David Thoreau 1839

  • Their colour was a full lake-red, and their brilliancy greater than that of any other part of the ring. "[

    A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition 1874

  • It was rather loosely made with roots, grass, and hair, placed in a hedge, and the eggs, four in number, were reddish white, with darker lake-red spots, exceedingly like those of the Common Bulbul. "

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

  • The eggs are barely distinguishable from those of the next bird (_M. bengalensis_), being reddish white with spots of purplish or lake-red all over, larger at the thick end. "

    The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

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