The rose-purple monkey-flower is very common and conspicuous in the lower meadows, along the streams. From Wordnik.com. [The Mountain that was 'God' Being a Little Book About the Great Peak Which the Indians Named 'Tacoma' but Which is Officially Called 'Rainier'] Reference
This bulb produces early in spring, and preceding the foliage, a mass of rose-purple flowers close to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Gardening for the Million] Reference
The moorland country about it is very beautiful, but especially when the heather and furze are in flower together, and far and wide stretches a most royal display of rose-purple and gold. From Wordnik.com. [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference
Clusters of tiny, rose-purple flowers tend to be darker than other redbuds. From Wordnik.com. [Local News | The Bryan College Station Eagle] Reference
She slept till the rocks were purple, and rose-purple mists were in the valleys. From Wordnik.com. [Vittoria — Complete] Reference
The showy corolla (up to 2 cm across) is rose-purple and consists of five to seven petals. From Wordnik.com. [Featured Articles - Encyclopedia of Earth] Reference
Echinacea purpurea 'PowWow Wild Berry' is a deep rose-purple bloomer to add to your coneflower collection. From Wordnik.com. [chron.com Chronicle] Reference
Forgetting what it is, one cannot help pronouncing the thistle beautiful, -- a close bunch of minute rose-purple flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Foot-path Way] Reference
Go out to Hopi Point or O'Neil's Point, and, as you emerge from the woods, you get a glimpse of a blue or rose-purple gulf opening before you. From Wordnik.com. [Time and Change] Reference
Where trees are scattered the flames crawl from tree to tree, the needles of which ignite like flash-powder and make beautiful rose-purple flames. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Life on the Rockies] Reference
Another rhododendron, the Eastern Asian R. dauricum 'Mid-winter' is even earlier, semi-evergreen, with rose-purple flowers tucked into the axils of the leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Independent - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
They saw the sun go down and, shade by shade, deepen and make radiant and then draw away with it the last touches of color -- rose-gold, rose-purple, and rose-gray. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Prince] Reference
They admired the lady in black velvet with rose-purple legs who leapt so neatly on to the galloping horse; they watched the feats of strength and laughed at the clown. From Wordnik.com. [England, My England] Reference
Erisgeir also a cold white; and Staffa pale gray; and then the sea that the gleaming islands rested on was a mirror of pale-green and rose-purple hues reflected from the morning sky. From Wordnik.com. [Macleod of Dare] Reference
And soon they halted on the embankment of a mile-wide sheet of water, shining like a mirror in a setting of soft-bosomed hills, their dun day colour changed to a heavenly rose-purple under the poetic evening sky. From Wordnik.com. [Sisters] Reference
So thinks the farmer, no doubt, but not the goldfinches which daintily feed among the fluffy seeds, nor the bees, nor the "painted lady," which may be seen in all parts of the world where thistles grow, hovering about the beautiful rose-purple flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference
The scene was perfectly enchanting; the mountains were bathed in a delicate rose-purple glow reflected from the past pomp of the sun's rising, -- the water was still as an inland lake, and every mast and spar of the 'Diana' was reflected in it as in a mirror. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
We suddenly spied a couple of the flowers a few steps from the path along which we were walking, and had stooped to admire them, when out sprang the bird from beside them, doubtless thinking she was the subject of observation instead of the rose-purple flowers that swung but a foot or two above her. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Stories from Burroughs Sketches of Bird Life Taken from the Works of John Burroughs] Reference
Then, though the sun does not yet scorch the traveller, the shade is already a heavenly refreshment; and though a man is not parched with thirst, a cold draught from the Fountain of Egeria is more delicious than any wine, and under the ancient trees of the pagan grove the rose-purple cyclamens and the dark wood-violets are still blooming side by side. From Wordnik.com. [Stradella] Reference
Huge mountains, crowned with jagged pinnacles, surrounded us on all sides, -- here and there tufts of heather clinging to large masses of dark stone blazed rose-purple in the declining sunshine, -- the hollow sound of the falling stream made a perpetual crooning music in our ears, and the warm, stirless air seemed breathless, as though hung in suspense above us waiting for the echo of some word or whisper that should betray a life's secret. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Everlasting; a reality of romance] Reference
8000 feet, and forms an immense, but very ugly, black-barked, sparingly branched tree, leafless in winter and also during the flowering season, when it puts forth from the ends of its branches great rose-purple cup-shaped flowers, whose fleshy petals strew the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Himalayan Journals — Complete] Reference
Spread thy rose-purple veil about us here. From Wordnik.com. [Rampolli] Reference
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