"Orange-red" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... orange-red globes now floated above the plant. They were circling slowly, in widening arcs, toward the limits of ...
— The Whispering Spheres • Russell Robert Winterbotham
... last year's skeleton leaves, blown out from the alder copse below, came on with grasshopper motion—lifted and laid down by the wind, lifted and laid down—I sat on the sward of the sheltered slope, and instantly recognised the orange-red claws of the flower beside me. That was the first; and this very morning, I dread to consider how many years afterwards, I found a plant on a wall which I do not know. I shall have to trace out its genealogy and emblazon its ...
— The Open Air • Richard Jefferies
... Mars are shown on very early drawings of the planet; but, up to the year 1877, little was known of the general surface details beyond the fact that the general colour was orange-red, diversified by dark patches of blue-green in some parts, and some narrow, serpentine markings here and there. All these markings are now much more accurately drawn, as the result of more careful and continuous observation. Sir William Herschel suggested ...
— To Mars via The Moon - An Astronomical Story • Mark Wicks |
