Her face was a deep purplish-blue, like a giant bruise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Deal Breaker]

Big flowers with purplish-blue petals were blossoming on the easel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Maigret at the Crossroads]

It was swollen, and the inner side had gone the deep purplish-blue of a gentian.    From Wordnik.com.  [Drums of Autumn]

The girl's lips were already purplish-blue, and her tongue protruded sideways from them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kiss the Girls]

I attended a kid's birthday with an underwater cake - the majority of it was purplish-blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [You, Too, Can Have Teletubby Poo] Reference

I love that shot of the acorn squash and the lovely scalloped edges, purplish-blue black against orange.    From Wordnik.com.  [roasted acorn squash and gorgonzola pizza | smitten kitchen] Reference

My beautiful sheets/duvet cover are purplish-blue, but I guess we can get new sheets later if we have to.    From Wordnik.com.  [The electability trap.] Reference

She led the way to a small private garden of plants with stalks bearing hood-shaped purplish-blue flowers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pet Peeve]

They remind me of irises, which are these purplish-blue flowers that popped up around our house each spring.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruby’s Slippers] Reference

All three of Boohte's moons were up, strung out in a row like an expedition and turning the ridge a purplish-blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Futures Imperfect]

He was well-dressed, with the purplish-blue complexion of underlying heart disease, and he loved the theater in a big, wrenching way.    From Wordnik.com.  [Surrender, Dorothy] Reference

Macke's fields have a purplish-blue tone akin to a Provençal lavender field; van Gogh used a similar blue to represent strong flowing water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shaped by Sunflowers] Reference

Or they'd eventually cave in and drench themselves in that ghastly purplish-blue rinse - the one that turns the shade of the Rocky Mountains at dusk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Boomer Blog: FH BOOM DAILY DIGEST Archives] Reference

The next time it rings, take a deep breath, close your eyes, and visualize yourself holding the receiver, surrounded by a blanket of purplish-blue light.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life Shift] Reference

P. tuberosa is generally similar but the leaf margins are entire, the racemes slightly longer, and the flowers are blue to purplish-blue; the pods are constricted between the 3-5 seeds, and somewhat shorter.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 21] Reference

You wake to find a wet snow has sneaked in after midnight wrapping the branches with an airy gauze, spangled with diamonds so that every snarly twig and tendril is an epiphany of white etched against the purplish-blue of an undecided sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [alice d’alessio | three poems « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

At 11: 15 I could attend a tanzanite seminar given by the nice man in the jewelry shop who no doubt wants to tempt us to buy a bauble but I had bought myself one of those purplish-blue stones as a special gift to myself in Tanzania, shortly after my husband died eight years ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lea Lane: For a Bargain: A Repositioning Transatlantic Crossing] Reference

Some poppies are white and some are purplish-blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Flower Stories] Reference

The lavender to purplish-blue flowers are clustered in racemes at the end of the stem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoky Mountain News] Reference

Dry gangrene is characterized by dry and shriveled skin ranging in color from brown to purplish-blue to black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Find Me A Cure] Reference

The towers of the big boats, glowing purplish-blue from the interior lights give the entire marina a magical, festive appearance.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

Though in his purplish-blue hue he looks more like a lizard alien, his distinctly phallic shape is hard to ignore (or maybe I'm just seeing this.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Branded in the 80s!] Reference

The Purple Swamphen, with its purplish-blue plumage, red beak and legs, is a rare sight elsewhere, but at Talay Noi, you can see several during a boat ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bangkokpost.com : Breaking News] Reference

He said the best of the little purplish-blue jewels might be picked through by the time of his hike, so he encourages people to get out and hunt this weekend.    From Wordnik.com.  [CITIZEN-TIMES.com - News] Reference

They were not like salmon in color, to be sure; through the dun water their purplish-blue backs showed a dull olive-green; but salmon they undoubtedly were, and of a good size, too.    From Wordnik.com.  [Prince Fortunatus] Reference

While Virginia is a purplish-blue state right now, it is still more of a Blue Dog than a Deep Blue state, and the Dems cannot afford to move too far to the left in a statewide campaign such as this.    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo's Virginia Political Blogroll] Reference

And as he had a habit, when he was flustered or annoyed -- and that was most of the time -- of scratching his head with the point end of it, his forehead under the hair roots was usually streaked with purplish-blue tracings, like a fly-catcher's egg.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights] Reference

These include the purplish-blue S. bellum and S. graminoides; the larger purple flowers of S. 'Devon Skies'; the vivid purples of S. idahoense; the pretty yellows of S. californicum (yellow-eyed grass) and S. elmeri and the pure white of S. idahoense 'Album.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [SFGate: Top News Stories]

It is designed to resemble the hospital birth center’s logo, a flower with three white petals with purplish-blue accents.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photo: Crowning Baby Wreath | Thingamababy] Reference

During the night the skin around the younger woman’s battered eye had gone purplish-blue, and the gouges along her cheek had taken on an angry red tinge around the edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [Highborn] Reference

Now, watching her ashen pallor and the telltale purplish-blue lips, he thought of that day when she’d had the coronary: … we’re doing everything we can, Mr. Perry … it’s touch and go … it might be wise to send for your sons ….    From Wordnik.com.  [A STRANGER IS WATCHING] Reference

Oft on the sea's wide purplish-blue expanse.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

2 to 4 feet tall and the blue to purplish-blue, rounded, hood-shaped flowers are clustered at the end of the stem.    From Wordnik.com.  [Smoky Mountain News] Reference

Their eyes are a similar purplish-blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thestar.com - Home Page] Reference