Examples from literature

• The maples along its banks had turned—blood red and splendid as the banners of lost youth. 
• The moon, drifting into the west, became blood red. 
• The trees on our side of the river were still green, on the other bank they were bright orange, blood red and all the tints of a Serbian autumn. 
• The water in the basin gleamed, in the lantern light, blood red. 
• The yellow changed to amber and later to a blood red.