1 Instantly his face turned scarlet and the water ran out of his eyes.
2 It was night, and the white faces and the scarlet banners were luridly floodlit.
3 On the walls were scarlet banners of the Youth League and the Spies, and a full-sized poster of Big Brother.
4 'It's this bloody thing that does it,' she said, ripping off the scarlet sash of the Junior Anti-Sex League and flinging it on to a bough.
5 She became alert and business-like, put her clothes on, knotted the scarlet sash about her waist, and began arranging the details of the journey home.
6 The old man had on a decent dark suit and a black cloth cap pushed back from very white hair: his face was scarlet and his eyes were blue and full of tears.
7 A narrow scarlet sash, emblem of the Junior Anti-Sex League, was wound several times round the waist of her overalls, just tightly enough to bring out the shapeliness of her hips.
8 His first feeling was relief, but as he watched the strong slender body moving in front of him, with the scarlet sash that was just tight enough to bring out the curve of her hips, the sense of his own inferiority was heavy upon him.
9 He hated her because she was young and pretty and sexless, because he wanted to go to bed with her and would never do so, because round her sweet supple waist, which seemed to ask you to encircle it with your arm, there was only the odious scarlet sash, aggressive symbol of chastity.