It provided a murky, brownish-purple environment which was inhabited by a flapping, aquatic-looking shape.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Grand Wheel]

The spathes are oblong acute or acuminate, convolute at the base, brownish-purple, striped longitudinally with narrow whitish bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 508, September 26, 1885] Reference

It grows rather large in size, is covered with a smooth brownish-purple skin, and is made up of material that is close and firm in texture and creamy white in color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Woman's Institute Library of Cookery Volume 2: Milk, Butter and Cheese; Eggs; Vegetables] Reference

According to Gray, the flowers are "large, greenish-brown, brownish-purple, or pale ash grey;" the specimen from which our illustration (Fig. 69) was drawn may be said to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

It all started Saturday while I was working away in the kitchen, when suddenly something that looked like a piece of brownish-purple yarn started floating in front of my face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Please Comment: This Reader Survey is Floating in Front of My Eyes] Reference

Despite my assistant's and my own efforts to turn and move the patient several times a Day, by the day we carried him from the dying Erebus, Hoar was covered with bedsores that had become brownish-purple ulcers that never ceased Suppurating.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Terror]

Lids were filled with a brownish-purple shade called Magic Night.    From Wordnik.com.  [The latest WWD Headlines] Reference

In some eggs small dingy brownish-purple spots and little blotches are intermingled in the zone.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference

My mother and father, brownish-purple in hue, were with me as I waved banners for a President Elect Obama.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Left Wing - Front Page] Reference

The spirit of colour was flying in the distant trees, swathing them with brownish-purple haze; the sky was saffroned by dying sunlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fraternity] Reference

The scroll in green upon a brownish-purple ground; the smaller leafage upon the scroll in brighter green; the flowers and butterflies in blue and pink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference

The night had played sad tricks with Mr. Nicholas Treffry; his hat was grey with dust; his cheeks brownish-purple, there were heavy pouches beneath his eyes, which stared painfully.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villa Rubein, and other stories] Reference

The color of the stalk and pileus varies from a whitish shade to drab, but the color of the gills, a point which should never be overlooked, is at first pinkish and then a brownish-purple.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

They appear to vary their tints according to the nature of the ground over which they pass: when in deep water, their general shade was brownish-purple, but when placed on the land, or in shallow water, this dark tint changed into one of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Book of Natural History Young Folks' Library Volume XIV.] Reference

"brownish-purple," from its great number of brown spots; it is also slightly tinged with green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference

The flowers are composed of a calyx of three brownish-purple sepals, which have only the appearance of two, from the fact of the lower two being joined or grown together, and even so combined they are somewhat less than the upper sepal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference