"Seeing red" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... all around him, Gulo fed, ravenously and horribly, but not for long. A new light smoldered in his eyes now as he lifted his carmine snout, and one saw that, for the moment, the beast was mad, crazed with the lust of killing, seeing red, ...
— The Way of the Wild • F. St. Mars
... desire to murder—"saw red," as some of our picturesque writers phrase it. Life in general might still be sacred, but life in the particular case of Thomas Mugridge had become very profane indeed. I was frightened when I became conscious that I was seeing red, and the thought flashed through my mind: was I, too, becoming tainted by the brutality of my environment?—I, who even in the most flagrant crimes had denied the justice and righteousness ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London
... Press was seeing Red. What business had the Red Flag in a city like Winnipeg at all? If anywhere in Canada, why not in the industrial, big-interest East—in ...
— The Masques of Ottawa • Domino
... first time in his life Peter had an idea of what seeing red really means. But he mastered it by an effort, saluted without a word, ...
— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable
... in a young gentleman of Lowther's standing, but immorality, in Mrs Devitt's eyes, was a horse of quite another colour; anything of this nature acted upon Mrs Devitt's susceptibilities much in the same way as seeing red afreets ...
— Sparrows - The Story of an Unprotected Girl • Horace W. C. Newte |
