Sentence examples for vermilion from inspiring English sources

She also wore, to the end of her days, a vermilion spot on her forehead and copious red bangles on her arms.

The show couldn't end on a higher note".Snail", another exhibit, has a fat, coiling fibreglass body which opens out into a lusciously vermilion mouth.

The lobby of the Glasgow hotel has walls of gold, sofas in mulberry and burnt sienna, vermilion cushions and citrus-yellow chairs.

Just as the towering vermilion walls and golden roofs of the imperial palace inspire visitors with awe, China wants its golden-roofed terminal to impress those arriving for the Olympic games in August.

The difference is that the Parisienne follows a fashion cycle that turns with the season; the clubman's cycle turns with the decade and woe betide the fellow who tries to speed it up with a vermilion jacket lining.The underlying paradox is that fashion, by definition ephemeral, is always with us.

Holding court at Lord's was a ponderous Tamilian, N. Srinivasan, wearing jam-jar glasses and a smear of vermilion to denote his high Hindu caste.

Sometimes called ruby silver because of its scarlet-vermilion colour, it occurs in the upper portions of most silver veins, where it is less common than pyrargyrite.

Unpainted timbers are most frequently used, but, wherever Buddhistic Shintō was popular, Chinese vermilion-lacquered shrines were also built.

Born in 1953, four years after the declaration of the People's Republic, Xi spent his early years as the son of the Vice-Premier, living in vermilion-walled Zhongnanhai, the Communist leaders' own plush and private Forbidden City.

Where Teche-Vermilion was taking pots, the scene is now set for the court-martial of Billy Mitchell.

The Pontchartrain Levee Board draws three, Teche-Vermilion needs two.