He was quite alone with the stately figure that shone white against the purple draperies and seemed to offer him a voiceless welcome from its marble lips.

The chef is award winning and the prices are almost as impressive as the plush purple draperies, the zebra-striped carpeting and the atmosphere of updated 1930's glamour.

Mrs. Oliver gathered up her purple draperies hopefully.

It opened onto a surprisingly large, low-ceilinged room which was painted black and hung with dark purple draperies.

A pair of dull purple draperies that Haramis had failed to notice was flung open.

A purple drapery drew back, a light glowed in the wall.

And then our bore begins his description in detail - for all this is introductory - and strangles his hearers with the folds of the purple drapery.

The chapel was hung with the purple drapery of Lent, the season of suffering and waiting.

The King and Queen sat framed in purple draperies under a silken canopy above their thrones.

He set the other one with its tail against the door they'd come through and sent it off toward the purplest of the purple draperies.