A tide of scarlet, patched and mottled, washed up to the roots of his hair and disappeared, taking horror and disbelief with it, and leaving the face swollen with rage.

The telltale scarlet tide was rising up Martin's neck.

Power flowed into him, sweeping through his body and limbs like a great healing flood, washing the pain away in a scarlet tide.

His big gray eyes blinked several times, then a scarlet tide flowed into his face, and he looked down at his boots.

Furious that she had no control over the scarlet tide that flooded her face at his insinuation, Polly clasped her hands tightly under the table.

Just outside the door he was bowled over by a scarlet tide of fleeing priests.

Gillian was glad of the darkness, for it hid the scarlet tide of color in her cheeks.

I could feel it, like a dull scarlet tide rolling toward the building.

It lay in a scarlet tide around his head and shoulders.

He felt his temper rising, a scarlet tide lapping against the defences of civility.