In the same plate of set B, it is the orange-brown and orange, and the brown-purple and purple-brown that appear indistinguishable.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference

About women's fashions. . . well, I've admired several pairs of shoes, and the totally awesome brown-purple haircolor that one woman was rocking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-06-01] Reference

Brown-yellow iron oxide, green copper oxide, and brown-purple manganese oxide were applied to the engraved decorations with thick strokes and can be combined on the same vase.    From Wordnik.com.  [Interactive Dig Black Sea: Catalog of Artifacts] Reference

He started back with a hoarse exclamation, and I saw the brown-purple blood gather in a swift bead, and run trickling.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories] Reference

And then at regular intervals out of that distant brown-purple jumble of thickets against the snow came two more shots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Literary World Seventh Reader] Reference

The skin was roughened and swollen and had that brown-purple tinge which comes from being constantly in the open air, and from habitual drinking.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case of the Lamp That Went Out] Reference

Then in the east the peaks and ridges glowed with living rose, incandescent like immortal flowers against a brown-purple sky, a miracle, whilst down below the world was.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

There is in that brown-purple zone, and along the flanks of every valley that divides it, another Lombardy of cultivable land; and every drift of rain that swells the mountain torrents if it were caught where it falls is literally rain of gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature] Reference

When it was all over your soul would still drive about London in a hansom for ever and ever, through blue and gold rain-sprinkled days, through poignant white evenings, through the streaming, steep, brown-purple darkness and the streaming flat, thin gold of the wet nights.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Olivier: a Life] Reference

But Dan stared round and round the spacious brown-purple floor they were standing on, and after a far-off flight of wild fowl, and up at the sky, where the clouds travel without let or hindrance, before he answered hesitatingly: "The two of us couldn't ever both go, sir.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strangers at Lisconnel] Reference