Literary notes about coral (AI summary)
Writers often use the color coral to evoke vivid, warm imagery and symbolize delicate, yet striking beauty. In some works, coral describes human features—a woman’s "coral lips" suggest a softly flushed, alluring shade [1], while a character’s "teeth were red as coral" offers a simile that heightens their dramatic quality [2]. In landscape descriptions, the sky may be "brushed with coral" [3] or the horizon likened to a "coral pink" glow [4], creating an otherworldly, almost tropical atmosphere. Additionally, objects are sometimes compared to coral, as in the image of items fashioned "as if they were made of red coral" [5] or simply noted as "coral red" [6], further demonstrating how this hue enriches literary imagery with vivid, multifaceted symbolism.
- Fly from this wretched house while you still remember your mistress who fed you from her coral lips.
— from Lady into Fox by David Garnett - “One day there appeared before her A knight of goodly seeming, His teeth were red as coral.
— from Legends of Florence: Collected from the People, First Series by Charles Godfrey Leland - Behind the castle the sky spread branched with coral.
— from The Wanderers by Mary Johnston - The coral pink horizon of the mouth, cavernous shores, my tongue laps pier white teeth in servitude like an oar.
— from Whispers by Paul Cameron Brown - The fruit is singularly beautiful; it resembles in form a small acorn, and is jet black; the cup and stem looking as if they were made of red coral.
— from Domestic Manners of the Americans by Frances Milton Trollope - Coral red, 112 .
— from The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics by Franklin Beech
