At the mention of the name of Purdy, cinnabar Joe started perceptibly.
Out of the tail of his eye cinnabar Joe saw his wife step from the doorway.
cinnabar removed his hat and ran his fingers through his hair.
cinnabar Joe placed his hands on his hips and stared at the girl in astonishment.
An' if that there gal wasn't safe at cinnabar Joe's, I'd see that he got him tonight.
I've got cinnabar, here, for a witness that upon certain occasions I've be'n sober.
Only one deposit of cinnabar has so far been discovered, that was in 1867.
For I have seen the Roof-ridge red in the sunlight as if it were painted with cinnabar.
Them men as works in cinnabar sooner or later gets salviated.
cinnabar is an object which constrains us to think it as heavy and red.
mid-15c., "red or crystalline form of mercuric sulphide," also applied to other ores of mercury, originally with reference to its use as a pigment; from Old French cinabre (13c.), from Late Latin cinnabaris, from Greek kinnabari, of oriental origin (cf. Persian zanjifrah in the same sense). Also used 14c.-17c. of red resinous juice of a certain Eastern tree, which was believed to be a mixture of dragon's and elephant's blood.
