The bluish-purple crescents under his eyes completed the picture.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drawing of the Three]

His right eye was the same bluish-purple as the bruise, and completely shut.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fear is the Key]

The bluish-purple states, those are the states with the lowest unemployment rate.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Feb 9, 2009] Reference

They have round, bluish-purple scales, and the soft color has a very pretty effect on the tree.    From Wordnik.com.  [Among the Trees at Elmridge] Reference

Its skin was a mottled bluish-purple, covered with coarse black hair and warts the size of dinner plates.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Warslayer]

A vibrant bluish-purple that, when lit directly by the morning sun, reflects a hue that calms the senses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Colors and Music and the Weeken Ahead] Reference

He shaved the victim bald and described her head tissues as "Intensely cyanotic and suffused with dark bluish-purple discoloration.".    From Wordnik.com.  [My Dark Places]

Rat was well named; he looked like nothing so much as a small bluish-purple rodent, with wise, beady little eyes and a scaly curling tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starman's Quest] Reference

The light on the ice-crusted snow was particularly bluish-purple, and the snow seemed to go on for ages, a veritable tundra in the local park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-02-01] Reference

Morning glory vines and jasmine had taken over down here, and one long tendril snaked all along the ragged net, bluish-purple trumpet flowers blooming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Legacy] Reference

His whole face was discolored and puffed to twice its size, it seemed, one eye black and completely closed, the other bluish-purple and just able to open a mere slit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tender Rebel]

Hemoglobin itself was a bluish-purple, and in the erratic reflection of the miniaturised light-waves from the ship, each corpuscle glittered in flashes of blue and green with a frequently interspersed purple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fantastic Voyage]

It was the store manager who retrieved the child after witnesses found the washroom in a state of disrepair, and resuscitated him to life, despite the fact the baby looked bluish-purple and appeared to be dead.    From Wordnik.com.  [2009 May 07 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous] Reference

Red, white and bluish-purple spuds make a patriot potato salad.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jaunted - The Pop Culture Travel Guide] Reference

(One of his first words was 'ageratum,' a small bluish-purple flower.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Southern Maryland Community Forums] Reference

His face and arms were covered with the bluish-purple spots of Kaposi's sarcoma.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bilerico Project] Reference

But the stillness remained unbroken, and the bluish-purple hand rested motionless.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Modern Ghost Stories] Reference

As the explosions grew louder, I saw bluish-purple gas rising from behind a building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pacific Free Press - Hard Truths for Hard Times - Progressive opinion, dissident news] Reference

I could feel the bluish-purple twilight mist of the bright morning star dispersing before sunrise.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Chronicle] Reference

At that height they would see the sky as a bluish-purple canopy, perhaps dotted faintly with a few stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference

Here the strong teazle will presently stand high; here the ground-ivy will dot the mound with bluish-purple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Open Air] Reference

Spider veins are a milder variation of varicose veins - snarled, bluish-purple lines that rise above the surface of the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [All MayoClinic.com Topics] Reference

The plumage is a deep slate grey, with a tinge towards bluish-purple, and a tuft of fine delicate feathers gives it its name of crown pigeon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago] Reference

The third, Mastigostyla woodii, which has bluish-purple petals that appear to bulge at the end of white stalks, was found in just two locations.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

HP has come a long way from the days when a small sliver of bluish-purple plastic next to the floppy drive was its bold, new, non-beige statement.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Murray, but he was a tough, he was a biter, and here the sick man feebly uplifted his hand and pointed to the bluish-purple marks at the base of the thumb.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ray's Daughter A Story of Manila] Reference

On the table, as though forgotten by Lazarus, rested his bluish-purple wrist, and to this all eyes turned, as if it were from it that the awaited answer was to come.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Modern Ghost Stories] Reference

The hemoglobin in red blood cells turns red when iron in the molecule binds to oxygen; it turns bluish-purple when the oxygen is unloaded, which is why veins are bluish.    From Wordnik.com.  [American Scientist Online] Reference

There's been some attempts to update lilacs but the type people still like the most is the tried and true bluish-purple lilac that their grandmother's and probably their grandmothers grew.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anime Nano!] Reference

The heart-shaped, saw-edged leaves, folded toward the centre when newly put forth, and the five-petalled, bluish-purple, golden-hearted blossom are too familiar for more detailed description.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Flowers Worth Knowing] Reference

Then his face went bluish-purple.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rise and Fall of Adolf Hitler]

A hardy perennial bearing bluish-purple flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gardening for the Million] Reference