Thus saying he strode merrily forward to the edge of the wood, and paused there a moment, his agile form erect, his brown locks flowing and his brown eyes watching the road; and a goodly sight he made, as the wind blew the
ruddy color into his cheeks.
A little pink-eyed Jew-boy, with a head as
ruddy as the rising morn, let the party into the house, and Rawdon was welcomed to the ground-floor apartments by Mr.
Peter obeyed; the
ruddy firelight streamed over the floor.
She wept for very pleasure when she felt their little arms clasping her; their hard,
ruddy cheeks pressed against her own glowing cheeks.
He had been an artisan of famed excellence, and with plenty to do; owned a house and garden; embraced a youthful, daughter-like, loving wife, and three blithe,
ruddy children; every Sunday went to a cheerful-looking church, planted in a grove.
And always two long black shadows flitted before us or followed after, dark spots on the
ruddy grass.
Coming from the better part of the fair, I noticed a man who looked like a gentleman farmer, with a young boy by his side; he had a broad back and round shoulders, a kind,
ruddy face, and he wore a broad-brimmed hat.
The door was opened by a comely young woman, with
ruddy cheeks and a bright kind eye that promised conversation.
A sort of smiling vexation was visible on his
ruddy face.
And there rose before him the Danube at bright noonday: reeds, the Russian camp, and himself a young general without a wrinkle on his
ruddy face, vigorous and alert, entering Potemkin's gaily colored tent, and a burning sense of jealousy of "the favorite" agitated him now as strongly as it had done then.
His face too was accounted handsome by the generality of women, for it was broad and
ruddy, with tolerably good teeth.
Then I saw, without understanding, the cause of my phantom,-- a
ruddy glow that came and danced and went upon the wall opposite.