An intense and beautiful purple-red color is produced in this way. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 1178, June 25, 1898] Reference
In his eyes were purple-red stones that Ziller had brought back from Africa. From Wordnik.com. [Another Roadside Attraction]
Menolly said her fire lizards began to hum and their eyes whirled purple-red. From Wordnik.com. [Dragon Drums]
After a moment, his face turned purple-red and his upper lip began to quiver. From Wordnik.com. [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference
Madeleine watched the deep purple-red stream of wine as she filled her glass. From Wordnik.com. [Mourn Not Your Dead] Reference
Dark, brooding, purple-red in summer, the leaves turn vivid crimson in autumn. From Wordnik.com. [Plant of the week: Acer] Reference
The purple-red of set B is less purple than that of set A, the green more blue. From Wordnik.com. [The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe] Reference
"The Julii Caesares are all over-bred bundles of nerves," said Marius, face purple-red. From Wordnik.com. [The Grass Crown]
Gurney's, a mail-order purveyor, is promoting a purple-red Brussels sprout called Falstaff. From Wordnik.com. [Pushing the Envelope on Vegetables] Reference
Three bore larger spheres, which would fit into the palm of my hand, and these were a dark purple-red. From Wordnik.com. [Dread Companion]
One eye stared roundly out of the lesions; the other was an empty socket discolored to a deep purple-red. From Wordnik.com. [Shock Value]
Here there are no petals, but what we see and admire so much is the bell-shaped corolla, purple-red in colour. From Wordnik.com. [Wildflowers of the Farm] Reference
With her dark purple-red color and her ever-changing shape, dulse is as red and changing as a woman's moon time. From Wordnik.com. [Red Seaweed as HPV/cervical cancer preventative] Reference
Foliage becomes purple or purple-red as plants mature, severe stunting may occur, and few plants produce normal ears. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 10] Reference
The earth split open and the world around Hetty erupted in a roaring inferno of purple-red fire and ear-shattering sound. From Wordnik.com. [Make Mine Homogenized] Reference
The only seedless ones they had were green I'm a purple-red grape person but I weighed flavor vs. convenience and convenience won. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-03-01] Reference
We found the purple-red starry night again outside. From Wordnik.com. [Wandl the Invader] Reference
A purple-red mass of blood, it lay deflated and flabby. From Wordnik.com. [Wandl the Invader] Reference
The heights here had a purple-red sheen from the starlight. From Wordnik.com. [Wandl the Invader] Reference
It floated downward, massed and purple-red with gushing blood. From Wordnik.com. [Wandl the Invader] Reference
Vase of purple-red, and background in lighter yellow-red, grayed. From Wordnik.com. [A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma] Reference
And when the setting sun, flat and purple-red, descended to earth. From Wordnik.com. [Best Russian Short Stories] Reference
It contained four eggs, which are figured as deep dull purple-red. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
Overhead was a cloudless, purple-red sky of blurred, reddish stars. From Wordnik.com. [Wandl the Invader] Reference
The tomatoes gleamed scarlet and purple-red thickly among the plants. From Wordnik.com. [John Gayther's Garden and the Stories Told Therein] Reference
The neighbors of red are a yellow-red on one side and a purple-red on the other. From Wordnik.com. [A Color Notation A measured color system, based on the three qualities Hue, Value and Chroma] Reference
He filled a goblet of ancient Venetian glass with a purple-red liquor, beautiful to see. From Wordnik.com. [The Law and the Lady] Reference
The combination of dark purple-red beets and rose-pink rhubarb looks as good as it tastes. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories]
So she leaned back in her chair again and bent over a branch of great purple-red camelias. From Wordnik.com. [The Northern Light] Reference
Young Sacculina purpurea with its roots; the animal purple-red, the roots dark grass-green. From Wordnik.com. [Facts and Arguments for Darwin] Reference
There were many white blossoms, baroness, but you broke off unconsciously the deep purple-red. From Wordnik.com. [The Northern Light] Reference
The crabs hung on the branches as thick as beads on a string, purple-red, with a thin silvery glaze over them. From Wordnik.com. [My Antonia] Reference
'See what a flower I found you,' she said, wistfully holding a piece of purple-red bell-heather under his face. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
Humboldt squid, deep purple-red and up to six feet long, have propelled themselves into Monterey Bay mid-summer since 2002. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Blogs] Reference
A bit short on the finish let me down from what this could have been. on 3/1/2009 & rated 92 points: Dark, opaque, purple-red color. From Wordnik.com. [CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes)] Reference
A ray of light suddenly falls through this, upon the Chalice, which begins softly to glow, and brightens to a deep luminous purple-red. From Wordnik.com. [The Wagnerian Romances] Reference
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