ruddle
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The distorted gibbous disk lifted itself above the edge—red as ruddle and enlarged by the refraction: a giant coppery moon, weird and magical.
From Greene Ferne Farm by Richard Jefferies
For my share of disguising, I now rubbed together some ruddle and dry soil, and the mixture gave a necessary touch of coarseness to her hands.
From The Yeoman Adventurer by George W. Gough
Page 22, line 20. rubrica fabrili: in English ruddle or reddle.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
He rubbed the edge with ruddle, and, placing the millstaff on the stone, turned it about on its shorter axis: where the ruddle left its red mark more pecking would be required.
From Round About a Great Estate by Richard Jefferies
Lemnian earth, ruddle, and very many minerals do this, and yet they are fatuously said to attract.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert
She sat now with bowed back by the empty fireplace, and looked across at Nigel with all the harsh lines of her old ruddled face softening into love and pride.
From Sir Nigel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
I am apt to believe, that they took the first hint of their dress from a fair sheep newly ruddled.
From Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M—y W—y M—e Written during Her Travels in Europe, Asia and Africa to Persons of Distinction, Men of Letters, &c. in Different Parts of Europe by Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
"I know you're a ruddled old hunks," said Mount, carelessly.
From Cardigan by Robert W. (Robert William) Chambers
A faint tartness, the somewhat musty odour of old country houses, ascended from the tiled and ruddled floor that glistened like a mirror.
From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola
His appearance much resembled that of the inhabitants of New South Wales; he had also marks raised upon the skin, and his face was blackened and hair ruddled as is sometimes practised by them.
From A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 by Matthew Flinders
Three hundred pistoles!" he echoed; "for ruddling the blades and risking the lives of nine of the finest swordsmen in Europe?
From The Duke's Motto A Melodrama by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy
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