"Flame-coloured" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shop and was grinding out a very sentimental song. He was accompanying a girl of fifteen, who stood on the pavement in front of him. She was dressed up in a crinoline, a mantle and a straw hat with a flame-coloured feather in it, all very old and shabby. In a strong and rather agreeable voice, cracked and coarsened by street singing, she sang in hope of getting a copper from the shop. Raskolnikov joined two or three listeners, ...
— Crime and Punishment • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... put on a flame-coloured garment, the emblem of fate, and set out on the march of death, with a heavier heart, than did I put on my pilot-coat that morning to join ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872) |
