These feathers were black and red and purple-green, not just black. From Wordnik.com. [The Ringworld Throne]
There's nothing more exciting than a purple-green sky sporting a rotating wall cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-04-01] Reference
Nothing ... then a rise of mountain, crested with bushes with purple-green, roughly triangular leaves. From Wordnik.com. [Beowulf's Children]
The winter sun had already set, and the silver-green sky had rapidly begun to fade into a deep purple-green. From Wordnik.com. [Darkness]
And at the bottom of it a showing of purple-green foliage where plants and stunted trees fought for living space. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
As the sky lightened from purple-green to green-tinged silver, he looked to the north and the waiting pteridons, and then at the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Cadmian's Choice]
Outside, in the weird purple-green light, a raggedy man swept across the promenade, arms and legs flailing like the limbs of a boneless doll. From Wordnik.com. [New Race] Reference
From her roost the water hen stretched out her purple-green sleek neck, the kingfisher's quick glance shook droplets from his crown, and I thought love would always be that brilliant on the wing and wild. From Wordnik.com. [From the Greek] Reference
That sickly lavender vegetation bordering the spring deepened in color to the normal purple-green, and then he was in a grove of trees, their branches pointed skyward at sharp angles to the rust-red trunks. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
Almost one entire length of wall was taken up by a series of mullioned windows that offered the most spectacular views across the water to the purple-green archipelago of the Inner Hebrides, to Jura and Islay and Mull. From Wordnik.com. [The Edge of Madness] Reference
The sight of beating hearts and breathing lungs atop fleshy purple-green stalks, with rich blood coursing through the arteries that were strung about like vines and the smell of fresh raw meat billowing forth like perfume, thoroughly unsettled him, especially in the ruddy light. From Wordnik.com. [With a Single Spell]
The new buds are but just "exploding" into leaf; here and there the Dryades have laid down a carpet of white anemone flowers to dance on; trailing brambles lie across the track, with October's bronze and purple-green leaves, still hale and hearty, making an exquisite contrast with the young, brilliant, fan-folded shoots just springing at their base. From Wordnik.com. [The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 4, April, 1891] Reference
Roehampton, against the purple-green gloom of which the home signals of. From Wordnik.com. [The Far Horizon] Reference
That vision of her father and mother off against the purple-green distance, how it shook her!. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice in the Wilderness] Reference
For us, Egypt existed no longer as a country, but as a golden brown, purple-green river-bed and. From Wordnik.com. [It Happened in Egypt] Reference
Not until now had the wonderful intelligence in their purple-green depths struck me so forcibly. From Wordnik.com. [The Four Faces A Mystery] Reference
Heavy shadows of purple-green, smoke-like, hovered over earth darker and more intense than the unfathomable blue of the night sky. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice in the Wilderness] Reference
Some autumn-emerging leaves emerge the same purple-green as the summer leaves, but many of mine emerge in shades of pink and peach. From Wordnik.com. [A Study in Contrasts] Reference
But when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Rob Meadows thought about fashion, he imagined a purple-green halter dress and shiny suits of gold lace. From Wordnik.com. [Nashuatelegraph.com local, state, business and sports news] Reference
Chromatic aberration was high at wide-angle and telephoto, although we detected a color shift from purple-green to blue-yellow moving to telephoto. From Wordnik.com. [Imaging Resource News Page] Reference
They had now reached a point twelve thousand feet above the sea, and range beyond range, to the west and south, rose into sight like stupendous waves of a purple-green sea. From Wordnik.com. [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference
Away to the right, beyond the railway line, rose the densely wooded slopes of Roehampton and Sheen; while, against the purple-green gloom of them, the home signals of Barnes. From Wordnik.com. [The Far Horizon] Reference
Our hearts thrilled with pleasure as we looked far over the deep blue and purple-green spread of valley, dim with mist, in which a little silver ribbon of water could be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Goldseekers A Record of Travel in Prose and Verse] Reference
The man, oblivious of her presence, rode contentedly on, a silent shadow on a dark horse wending a silent way between the purple-green clumps of other shadows, until, bewildered, the girl almost lost sight of them. From Wordnik.com. [A Voice in the Wilderness] Reference
The rail, when first I travelled upon it, in April, ran through tulips; in August, when I was there again, the patches of scarlet and orange had given way to acres of massive purple-green cabbages which, in the evening light, were vastly more beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [A Wanderer in Holland] Reference
Many a time have I gone to the woods in the spring, when the willow catkins in the swamp and along the side of the creek turned from silver to gold, and when the clusters of linwort nodded above the purple-green leaves in the April wind, and taken the bark in long strips from the elm trees to reseat the dilapidated chairs. From Wordnik.com. [Country Life in Canada Fifty Years Ago Personal recollections and reminiscences of a sexagenarian] Reference
"A lot of Ireta looks the same, purple-green trees and no sun. From Wordnik.com. [Dinosaur Planet]
"They found a tangle of purple-green bushes and maneuvered to put them between their bodies and the stunflower. From Wordnik.com. [Centaur Aisle]
He departed Clattuc House and wandered down to the lagoon: a series of brimming ponds fed by the River Wan, with trees along the shore both native and imported: black bamboo, weeping willow, poplar, purple-green verges. ". From Wordnik.com. [Araminta Station]
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