“History could pass for a scarlet text, its jot and title graven red in human blood.”
Eldridge Cleaver
“[To call it red would be doing a disservice to the brightest scarlet, and to call the air blue in his team meeting room would be doing likewise to the deepest turquoise.] Let's just say the door was closed and there were no women present, ... How can you give a bollocking positively? We'll see if I've managed it tomorrow. There's things that were going on that will remain between ourselves.”
Great Britain
“Apes are apes, though clothed in scarlet.”
Ben Jonson
“And he made a vail of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubims made he it of cunning work.”
Bible
“And they made upon the hems of the robe pomegranates of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined linen.”
“And he made an hanging for the tabernacle door of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, of needlework; / And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.”
“And the hanging for the gate of the court was needlework, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: and twenty cubits was the length, and the height in the breadth was five cubits, answerable to the hangings of the court.”
