1 The brush with the maroon velvet back was for Michael Davitt and the brush with the green velvet back was for Parnell.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 2 Fleming had a box of crayons and one night during free study he had coloured the earth green and the clouds maroon.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 3 That was like the two brushes in Dante's press, the brush with the green velvet back for Parnell and the brush with the maroon velvet back for Michael Davitt.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 4 He turned over the flyleaf and looked wearily at the green round earth in the middle of the maroon clouds.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 5 And he saw Dante in a maroon velvet dress and with a green velvet mantle hanging from her shoulders walking proudly and silently past the people who knelt by the water's edge.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 1 6 Jo in maroon, with a stiff, gentlemanly linen collar, and a white chrysanthemum or two for her only ornament.
7 The moist hungry earth, waiting upturned for the cotton seeds, showed pinkish on the sandy tops of furrows, vermilion and scarlet and maroon where shadows lay along the sides of the trenches.
8 You have a maroon dress, have it fetched.