"Flame-orange" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... morning chill was yet in the air, so it was a little early for the flies which formed his food to be stirring. But he was hungry, and on the alert for the first of them to appear. Only the tense feathers of his crest, raised to show the flame-orange spot which was his kingly crown, betrayed his eagerness; for he was a self-contained bird. The sun was just beginning to show the red topmost edge of his rim through the jagged line of firs across ...
— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts |
