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Sentences ending with purple

The yachts were whiter, the water bluer, the grass greener; the stern grey rocks themselves flushed with purple. [9]
As the day waned, a heavy cloud hid the sun, and so let down the light that the waters were a dark purple. [4]
Longing for her till it became torture, he swore to himself to make her his, and share his all with her, even to the purple. [10]
It was for this reason that Timotheus, on rejoining his household, had assured them that, as he thought over this interview, he expected something good--yes, perhaps the best--from the young criminal in the purple. [10]
Then he read the letter and a flush swept over his face, making its red almost purple. [11]
They proceeded from the friends of Caesar, and the deep voices of the Germanic bodyguard, who, joining in with the cries they had learned in the Circus, lent such impetuous force to the applause, as even to satisfy this artist in the purple. [10]
The light grew: the boles of the trees came out, one by one, through the purple. [9]
She had not seen the slope since the beginning of the rains, and now it bloomed a rich deep purple. [13]
It is hyacinthine purple. [10]
In the back part of the ship was a roof made of ivy, lotus-blossoms and roses; beneath it stood a milk-white cow with golden horns, covered with a cloth of purple. [10]

Short sentences using purple

Norman H. Purple, the Hon. [7]
It was a purple day. [9]
Grayish skin, with purple areas. [5]

Sentences containing purple two or more times

The grapes were purple, and a purple haze was over there across the river. [9]

More example sentences with the word purple in them

And when this wretch in the purple shall close his eyes, he, like the rest of the criminals who have preceded him on the throne, will be proclaimed a god! [10]
Mr. Veneer sent word that the messenger should wait below, and presently appeared in the study, where Abel was making himself at home, as is the wont of the republican citizen, when he hides the purple of empire beneath the apron of domestic service. [6]
Look at this wonderful purple robe with the white stripe and the rich silver embroidery; and then the tiara with the royal diamonds! [10]
The heavens glowed with purple, and the granite peaks, each sheathed in a film of ice, sparkled and shone like dark diamonds that had been dipped in light. [10]
We grounded the wire of a pocket electrical battery in that powder, we placed a whole magazine of Greek fire on each corner of the roof--blue on one corner, green on another, red on another, and purple on the last--and grounded a wire in each. [5]
While the west wind blew its tidings, filling his heart full, teaching him a man's part, the days passed, the purple clouds changed to white, and the storms were over for that summer. [13]
The first man who came to Purple Valley prospecting had often stopped his work and looked at The Stone in a half-fear that it would spring upon him unawares. [11]
You were ill when it left the harbour, garlanded with flowers and adorned with purple sails. [10]
His noble horses were richly caparisoned; purple housings, embroidered with turquoise beads, covered their backs and necks, and a crown-shaped ornament was fixed on their heads, from which fluttered a bunch of white ostrich-feathers. [10]
The magnificent apartments were made as light as day by thousands of wax-candles in silver and bronze candelabra; costly Gobelin tapestry and purple Flanders hangings covered the walls, and the bright hues of the paintings were reflected from the polished floors, flooded with brilliant light. [10]
If the matron were as friendly with her as ever, her heart was perhaps still his; it was not the splendor of the purple that had led her astray, but the coercion of the tyrant. [10]
In the bottom were a few odd garments, above was the hat with the purple feather, now shabby and discarded, on the hooks a skirt and jacket Lise wore to work at the Bagatelle in bad weather. [9]
His warm face went pale, then shot to purple, and finally settled into a grey ruddiness. [11]
I know you well, and that wound across your manly face, which adorns it like a purple badge of honor, was made by the sword now hanging at my side. [10]
Who else can wear the royal purple but my bright bird of Paradise, my beautiful rose Phaedime? [10]
There they silently watched the sunset, golden, purple and splendid--and ominous, as the captain knew. [11]
The purple marvel was shown even to me who could but just walk. [10]
A September stillness was in the air, a September purple clothed the distant hills, but to Hilary the glories of the day were as things non-existent. [9]
His purple face was full of tranquil and malicious happiness. [5]
Its curved portico was capped by a wrought-iron railing, its long windows were touched with purple, and its low garret--set like a deckhouse on the wide roof--suggested hidden secrets of the past. [9]
Cambyses' first glance was bestowed on Nitetis; she sat by him in all the splendor and dignity of a queen, but looking very, very pale in her new purple robes. [10]
To the left was a high rose-coloured hill, solemn and mysterious; to the right--afar off-- a forest of gum-trees, pink and purple against the horizon. [11]
It required keen vision to see any movement whatever in the purple clouds. [13]
His every interest urged him now to believe in the prophecy made to him by Serapion, to-day for the third time, which foretold that he, the prefect, should mount the throne of the Caesars, clad in the purple of Caracalla. [10]
Pretending to reflect upon these things, but in reality watching the blue-jays, who are pecking at the purple berries of the woodbine on the south gable, I approach the house. [4]
Before the bacchanalian train which accompanied him, and behind the musicians who followed, moved two elephants bearing between them, as a light burden, some unrecognizable object covered with a purple cloth. [10]
I owe it to her, and the purple--the purple is ours! [10]
Giving her hand to a Roman senator, distinguished by the purple edge to his toga, she descended the steps, and advanced to meet Melissa. [10]
Natasha had not time to take off the bodice before the door opened and Countess Bezukhova, dressed in a purple velvet gown with a high collar, came into the room beaming with good-humored amiable smiles. [2]
Distant mutterings of thunder aroused her; the evening sky had darkened, and angry-looking clouds of purple were gathering over the hills. [9]
Up they climbed, through narrow ways in the forest--ways hedged with alder and fern and sumach and wild grape, adorned with oxeye daisies and tiger lilies, and the big purple flowers which they knew and loved so well. [9]
The sun was three-fourths of its way down in the west, and already the sky was taking on the deep red and purple of autumn. [11]
It was as though there was a golden fire behind vast hills of mauve and pink, purple and saffron; but the glow was so soft as to suggest a flame which did not burn; which only shed radiance, colour and an ethereal mist. [11]
Ill never leave these purple slopes I love so well. [13]
First the yellow, then the purple, then the red, and then a mighty shield of roses. [11]
To one of them Mr. King was presented, Mrs. Stimpson--a stout woman with a broad red face and fishy eyes, wearing an elaborate head-dress with purple flowers, and attired as if she were expecting to take a prize. [4]
The crests behind them deepened in purple as the saffron faded in the west, and a gossamer cloud of Tyrian dye floated over Holdfast. [9]
It was on their son that in later years the purple devolved. [10]
The city in the valley is purple with shade, as seen from up here at the study. [5]
Thank Heaven that the temples of such spirits are not made with hands, and that they may be even more worthily hung with poor patch-work than with purple and fine linen! [12]
A niche by the side of the bed-head was closed with a curtain of purple stuff. [10]
To whom belong the shining purple pages in the great book of national history? [10]
Any punishment, even the severest, will be pleasing in his sight which you may inflict on those guilty of high-treason, for you wear the purple as his gift and in his name; those who insult you sin also against the god. [10]
Blanched in moonlight, the sage yet seemed to hold its hue of purple and was infinitely more wild and lonely. [13]
Gray slopes, tinging the purple, barren and wild, with the wind waving the sage, swept away to the dim horizon. [13]
And there, beyond the purple hills of Bozrah, and not so far as the stony pastures of Zoah, whither John had helped drive the colts and young stock in the spring, might be, perhaps, Jerusalem itself. [4]
Like angry surf the pale gleams of gray, amid the purple of that scudding front, swept beyond the eastern rampart of the valley. [13]
And for Venters the outlook before him was in some sense similar to a feeling of his future, and with searching eyes he studied the beautiful purple, barren waste of sage. [13]
The course of the Nile was marked by a wide fringe of palms showing blue and purple, friendly and ancient and solitary. [11]
If I, I the Mukaukas, had consented to go over to the Khaliff I might have been a prince in purple, and have governed my own country in his name. [10]
Beyond the pyramids the mist deepened into a vast deep cloud of blue and purple, which seemed the end to some mystic highway untravelled by the sons of men. [11]
In front sloped the lay of ground with its purple breadth split by the white trail. [13]
For here was the Host itself, flower-decked in white and crimson, its gold-tasselled canopy upheld by four tonsured priests, a sheen of purple under it,--the Bishop of Louisiana in his robes. [9]
The details of the great room fixed themselves indelibly in her brain; the subdued light, the polished table laden with silver and glass, the roses, and the purple hot-house grapes. [9]
Farther on, up the gradual slope, rose a broken wall, a huge monument, looming dark purple and stretching its solitary, mystic way, a wavering line that faded in the north. [13]
White violets were the flowers of death, and the first flowers he had ever given her were purple violets, the flowers of life and love. [11]
At last--at last, the door of the room was opened, and Euergetes came towards her, clad in the purple, with the crown of the two countries on his grand head, radiant with triumph and delight. [10]
Below her yawned the dizzy gulf of space, and the air was filled with a rain of sceptres, crowns, and golden chains of honour falling upon ermine and purple robes on the ground below. [10]
There grows upon the deserts and the cattle ranges of the Rockies a plant of the leguminosae family, with a purple blossom, which is called the 'loco'. [4]
While sorry for the cause, I did not regret that my going was delayed till the season when the moors would be all glorious with the purple bloom of the heather; and thus present a scene about which she had often spoken to me. [14]
Jane Withersteen loved that wild and purple wilderness. [13]
Then they noticed that the Purple Mat on which they knelt was red under their knees, and a goodly light shone through the Tent, not of the day or night. [11]
First the back takes the click of the whip like a damned washboard, and you see the ridges rise and go purple and red, and the man has his breath knocked clean out of him with every blow. [11]
The king's private table, the service on which was of immense worth and beauty, was placed in an apartment opening out of the large hall, and separated from it by purple hangings. [10]
It was Indian summer, the gold and purple season of the year. [9]
But there they stood, Lempriere's face with a great-eyed gravity looming above his rotund figure like a moon above a purple cloud. [11]
At the back stood the Emperor's throne, covered with purple damask, and beside it numerous velvet cushions lay piled one upon another, waiting to be used. [10]
This is royalty, --stately and cold perhaps: even the mouth may be a little cruel, I begin to perceive, as I think of her; but she wears the purple by divine right. [4]
And so they started, Cynthia flitting hither and thither along the roadside, picking the stately purple iris flowers in the marshy places, while Wetherell pondered. [9]
An' then he stared horrible at somethin' thet wasn't Lassiter, nor anyone there, nor the room, nor the branches of purple sage peepin' into the winder. [13]
Then there came stains upon the mist of royal purple, of scarlet, of yellow like a mandarin's robe, peeps of deep blue fading into azure as the mist lifted. [9]
I give a specimen verse: The Assyrian came down like a wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming with purple and gold; And the sheen of his spears was like stars on the sea, When the blue wave rolls nightly on deep Galilee. [5]
The walls and slanting roof of this quickly-built and movable banqueting-hall, consisted of a strong, impenetrable carpet-stuff, woven at Thebes, and afterwards dyed purple at Tanis by the Phoenicians. [10]
A purple mist shrouded the table, the company, and all I beheld. [10]
A man who shows such mettle alike in the field and in the council-chamber and yet can play the part of Eros with such success will also know how to wear the purple without disgracing it. [10]
Patches of red showed clear against the purple of sage, and farther out on the level dotted strings of red led away to the wall of rock. [13]
I missed the sharp outlines, the delicate artistic sky lines, sharply defined in uplifted bare granite peaks and ridges, with the purple and violet color of the northern mountains, and which it seems to me that limestone and granite formations give. [4]
There was instant shading of brightness about him, and he saw a kind of cold purple bloom creep ahead of him to cross the canyon, to mount the opposite slope and chase and darken and bury the last golden flare of sunlight. [13]
The temple of Serapis lay in restful silence, enveloped in darkness, which so far hid its four wings from sight as to give it the aspect of a single rock-like mass wrapped in purple mist. [10]
Venters seemed to see the expanse before him as a vast, sheeted, purple plain sliding under him. [13]
Did you ever see such a glorious mingling of purple and gold in the sky? [10]
At last silken sails, chequered with purple and blue, appeared in sight. [10]
Again the purple sage, magnified in color and size and wave, for long moments irritated her with its monotony. [13]
He rode through sage and clumps of pinon trees and grassy plots where long-petaled purple lilies bloomed. [13]
In its midst rose a golden canopy with a purple covering, beneath which cushions were conveniently arranged. [10]
A light lace robe was thrown over her garment of purple, embroidered with gold; and on her beautiful Grecian head she wore the Urmus serpent, the ornament peculiar to Egyptian queens. [10]
He began by riding thirty miles and back to ask the young clergyman at Purple Hill to come and bury Blanche. [11]
His face became red, then purple, but he could not utter another sound. [5]
The gold, the purple, the ermine, the gems, and all the other splendours which she had seen, as if in a dream, hovering before her at the first tidings that she was invited to sing before the Emperor Charles, had vanished from her imagination. [10]
Little darts of purple, that were running quail, crossed the glades. [13]
Its colour was purple, on three sides were massed drooping lilac feathers, but over the left ear the wide brim was caught up and held by a crescent of brilliant paste stones. [9]
His face was purple, his eyes were rolled back so that only the whites were seen, and on his bare legs and arms which were still red, the veins stood out like cords. [2]
Born to the purple, educated in the palace at Constantinople, accomplished but not handsome, at the age of twenty she was in Rome when Alaric besieged it. [4]
Here, in the purple twilight of history, they offered men the choice of good and evil. [4]
Moving veils of purple twilight crept out of the hollows and, mustering and forming on the levels, soon merged and shaded into night. [13]
Gold and ivory, purple sails, bronze and marble statues at the prow and stern, and in the little shrines on the after-deck, combined in a gorgeous display, made all the more brilliant by the low sun, which added vividness to every hue. [10]
He pulls his purple moustache and looks appreciatingly at Iris, who never sees him, as it should seem. [6]
Far off the purple mist drew into mist, As thought melts into endless thought, and round The rim of the sheer world was heard a sound, Floating through palpitating amethyst. [11]
A long, gold-broidered purple mantle, floating to his ancles, increased his apparent stature. [10]
It was the purple leaves, she said. [6]

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