purply

They can be red, or a darker purply colour.

In the purply warm twilight the tiny traces of time didn't show, he looked exactly as always.

But this year, the purply new wines from Beaujolais arrived very quietly.

The color blue, a deep purply blue rimmed with lavender, in fact.

Gradually it seemed to climb higher in the horizon of the uncertain purply sky as we advanced.

They drove during the days, and went out every evening, in purply dusks that lasted until just before midnight.

I could grow tomatoes and basil in full sun, or watch purply clouds move in for a summer storm.

The big 'Dini lowered its upper section 50 that the liquid, purply poll eye was level with her face.

Built in 1890, when there was very little to this town at all, it was a grand structure of purply quartzite, quarried from the site.

Father Cowley blushed to his brilliant purply lobes.

And he hurried away, cutting across the corner of the alfalfa field in his hurry, his cassock whispering through the purply blue flowers.

As the dry wind from the uplands blew over his naked body, the purply tint of the dye faded into a matt chocolate.

A huge bouquet of peonies, the purply black of squid ink, sits among a ring of glowing votives.

The liquid in which he sat was the colour and viscosity of strong Turkish coffee and already his face and body were a dark purply chocolate colour.

But by the time dinner was over, conversation being the Halseys' long suit, the sky over the Big Block orchard was a deep purply red, and the talk turned to bees.

And I'll have to come back to see the purply blue flowers of Clematis durandii, which doesn't climb so much as ramble through the purple smoke bush, whose leaves are actually a rich burgundy.

"The way it started was he came home from Long Island and he had these baskets of cobalt-blue purply flowers," recalled Magda Capurso-Constantinescu, one of Mr. Kortsolakis's two grown daughters.

The clouds massed into dark purply tornadoes that stormed through the fuzzy peach light of the sky, or sometimes they remained expressionless for days, hanging down to the narrow band of light on one side of the horizon.

At present, for instance, they were passing over a mass of soft purply green with a broad, winding strip of pale grey in the middle of it But now that she knew it was on the bottom she saw it much better.

The admiral woman was short and brown and young, with a big purply blotch on her cheek; I couldn't tell what the blotch was, and didn't know if I was supposed to compliment it or pretend it didn't exist.

These were young women with lovely skin, but they had covered their faces in make-up, tan foundation, laden lashes and great bruises of purply blusher dusted across each cheekbone as if both women had been punched on the sides of their faces.

The wind had died and in the pale evening light Poole Bay, as the sea at Bournemouth is called, was entrancing: a long, majestic curve of crumbly cliffs and wide golden beaches stretching from below the Isle of Wight tor the purply Purbeck Hills.

Dorothy writes of damson cheese, a solid deep purply jam, and suggests popping the fruit in an earthenware dish in the oven until the juice runs, then rubbing them through a sieve, cracking a few stones and adding their kernels to give the cheese a strong almond flavour.

As someone who grew up two canals over from - and left high school two years after - the Buttafuocos, I have long had a strangely personal interest in the case and a fascination with the purply haired protagonist, the girl described, as was I in about 1976, as "totally uncontrollable."

Eventually our turn came and suddenly we were floating inside this simply beautiful grotto, dark almost to black, but beneath us, as if lit by underwater lanterns, was a startling eerie blue light, a dreamy mysterious purply blue which was formed by sunlight peeping through the cracks in the base of this giant vault.