Gemma exclaimed, dabbing purplish-red paint onto her canvas.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beauty] Reference

The deeper cuts wouldn't lose their purplish-red color for months.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bitter Gold Hearts]

My hair turns a strange purplish-red color, like a badly mixed dye.    From Wordnik.com.  [She Ugly « A Fly in Amber] Reference

A half early variety, remarkable for its intense purplish-red color.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Stalk purplish-red, four and a half or five feet high, and surmounted by.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

This is a variety of the White Rice, with deep purplish-red or blood-red kernels.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

A purplish-red mist began to form between the wagon and the leader of the hounds.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference

Inside the panels the color was a soft shell-pink, outside them a deep purplish-red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

The most common practice is to call all garnets of a purplish-red color "almandines.".    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

Leaves rather numerous, of medium size, erect, deep purplish-red; the leaf-stems blood-red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

Leaf-stalks bright purplish-red; leaves green, blistered on the surface; nerves purplish-red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

About the size of a halfpenny piece, it was the dark, purplish-red color of a freshly healed burn.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragonfly in Amber]

A purplish-red bruise could be seen on the victim's neck where the scarf had tightened against the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Darkness More Than Night]

For example, nitrogen is often responsible for the purplish-red lower borders and rippled edges of the aurora.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Borealis] Reference

Leaves numerous, spreading, bright green, slightly stained with red; the leaf-stems and nerves bright purplish-red.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

By now the fingers of the Saracen's right hand were swollen a deep purplish-red and an angry graze blazed on his brow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Falcons of Montabard]

Friday night's buffet line featured styrofoam cups of hot purplish-red stuff with a dollop of something white and creamy.    From Wordnik.com.  [BatesLine: March 2005 Archives] Reference

Nitrogen in an ionized state will produce blue light, while neutral nitrogen molecules create purplish-red auroral colors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aurora Borealis] Reference

These flowers are a little like those of the Red Clover; each blossom has many small upright florets, purplish-red in colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wildflowers of the Farm] Reference

Under short-wave ultraviolet light, 98 percent of the surface gave off a purplish-red glow, which is characteristic of true emeralds.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emerald Man] Reference

Their petals are covered with streaks of gold and purplish-red.    From Wordnik.com.  [BellaOnline - The Voice of Women] Reference

Here an enormous purplish-red column draws and holds your astonished eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the National Parks] Reference

The purplish-red spice gives the crispy pita salad its signature sour flavor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Serious Eats] Reference

Clamps off, Williams 'kidney rapidly plumps up and turns a healthy purplish-red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fort Mill Times | FortMillTime.com - HOMEPAGE] Reference

His forehead was low, his nose very flat and his lower lip swollen and purplish-red.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tono Bungay] Reference

Other trees appeared as if covered with veils of little purplish-red flowers hung over them.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Indian Mexico (1908)] Reference

Bloomberg News further explains that carmine is a crimson or purplish-red, while cochineal is red.    From Wordnik.com.  [NewsInferno] Reference

And now Sotheby's Australia is all set to put a 0. 82-carat purplish-red Argyle diamond under the hammer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Luxurylaunches.com] Reference

The former is black, while the latter is a pretty insect, greenish, with purplish-red wing-covers, and black legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference

Their other feathers are black, edged with white; and the lower part of the breast and abdomen are purplish-red and white.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Six-limbed creatures they were, of a purplish-red color, with huge, tricornigerous heads and with staring, green, phosphorescent eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spacehounds of IPC] Reference

Hemoglobin, as the coloring-matter of the blood is called, is dark purplish-red in color; combined with oxygen it is bright "scarlet red.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Alcohol: A Dangerous and Unnecessary Medicine, How and Why What Medical Writers Say] Reference