In literature, "fiery red" often serves as an arresting visual cue that infuses characters and settings with passion, intensity, or a sense of danger. Authors employ the hue to describe distinctive physical traits, particularly hair, as seen when characters are introduced with striking red manes that immediately capture the reader’s attention ([1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6], [7]). At the same time, this vivid color is equally at home in nature and inanimate objects—illuminating sunsets that set the sky ablaze ([8], [9], [10], [11], [12]) or decorating interiors and armor with an almost aggressive brilliance ([13], [14]). By utilizing "fiery red" in these varied ways, writers not only define physical appearance but also evoke an atmosphere charged with fervor and immediacy.
- Her hair was fiery red, her face fat and spotty, and she had but one eye.
— from The Fairy Book
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- His hair was once a fiery red, but is now tempered into gray.
— from Six Major Prophets by Edwin E. (Edwin Emery) Slosson
- His hair was a fiery red, cut close, and of a hue yet more violent than his mustaches.
— from The Red Redmaynes by Eden Phillpotts
- His hair was a fiery red, and his bare, hard-featured face two shades darker.
— from The Days of Auld Lang Syne by Ian Maclaren
- Her hair, streaked with gray, had once been a fiery red.
— from The Land of Strong Men by A. M. (Arthur Murray) Chisholm
- Then, again, I have heard it is of no use your applying if your hair is light red, or dark red, or anything but real, bright, blazing, fiery red.
— from The Lock and Key Library: Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Modern English
- Hence, "if in the negro the black pigment had not been developed, the hair of all negroes would be a fiery red."—DR.
— from Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics by Joel Dorman Steele
- The setting sun burned fiery red as it sank behind the hills on the other side of the Hudson.
— from Vignettes of Manhattan; Outlines in Local Color by Brander Matthews
- The golden track of the setting sun streamed across the mountain tops and turned to fiery red a feathery shock of distant clouds.
— from The House of the Misty Star
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- 3 And in the morning, It will be tempestuous to-day, for the sky is gloomy and fiery red.
— from A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek
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- Far away westwards, outside the town, the sunset still gleamed fiery red.
— from The Duel by A. I. (Aleksandr Ivanovich) Kuprin
- When enough had been gathered, the gods made from the whitely glowing ones the moon; from the fiery red and golden ones, the sun.
— from Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4 by Charles Herbert Sylvester
- The wallpaper was a fiery red, with huge gold figures in it, well smirched by time, and it covered all the doors.
— from The Entire Project Gutenberg Works of Mark Twain by Mark Twain
- Gorget fiery red.
— from A History of North American Birds; Land Birds; Vol. 2 of 3 by Robert Ridgway