Potential Titles: Lurid

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With lurid lights of intermittent hope - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

With your lurid revenges - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

The lurid skies are hot with his fiery breath - "Enceladus" [Atlantic Monthly v.8 no.22, Aug. 1859]

Pyramids of fire in lurid splendour - Felicia Hemans "The Wife of Asdrubal"

The stormy light of his fierce lurid eyes - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [I hear a voice low in the sunset woods]"

War's red and lurid planet - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"

This lurid cage of lust and grief - Angela Liu "The Witches Are Without Work"

The red, lurid wreckage of the sunset - John Masefield "On Eastnor Knoll"

The lurid flame of mobs gone out - Alexander Posey "Ye Men of Dawes"

Drowned within the lurid dregs - Iris Tree "[How often, when the thought of suicide]"

The sulphurous clouds of war dyed red in lurid light - E. A. Warriner "Battle of the Wilderness" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.2, August 1864]


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