As the sun rises, lilac-pink clouds filter light over choppy water and white sand, flooding the fake-marble, faux-Vegas lobbies of Cancun's brash hotels. From Wordnik.com. [Nathaniel Loewentheil: The Long Arc of the UN: Overlooked Beaches, International Conflict and a Dash of Hope at the Cancun Climate Talks] Reference
In the early summer there is a special soft greenness, and the hot air quivers above and about the rocks; later the hill-sides are coloured by the lilac-pink of the ling and the richer tones of bell-heather; and when the autumn leaves are fading and falling. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Shrubby forms I have kept for years include the delicate, lilac-pink. From Wordnik.com. [Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph] Reference
Glausidium palmatum displays its large, silky lilac-pink flowers, measuring up to three inches across, above large, veined, and crinkled maplelike leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Science Monitor | All Stories] Reference
I had seen such places scores of times, but they never attracted my attention so before, neither had I given much consideration to the brilliant scarlet passion flowers that dotted the edge of the forest, or the beautiful soft lilac-pink cloud of blossoms, where a bougainvillea draped a low tree. From Wordnik.com. [Gil the Gunner The Youngest Officer in the East] Reference
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