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The latest ten stories from the dean are the same bally old mixtures as before and will be ruddily gulped down by Wodehouse fans.

From Time Magazine Archive

The director, never beaming more ruddily and certainly looking younger than the program's name indicated, was 78-year-old Maestro Walter Damrosch himself.

From Time Magazine Archive

He was five feet high, ruddily Pickwickian in appearance, utterly efficient, unoriginal and orthodox.

From Time Magazine Archive

Billows of smoke roll up from the tall stacks and by night are lit ruddily by the smelter fires all going at a roaring blast.

From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Austin, Mary Hunter

Meantime there was rioting and noise and coming and going of strangers in the town at the foot of Pine Mountain, and the furnace blast went on ruddily and smokily.

From The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children by Austin, Mary Hunter