How To Use Purple In A Sentence
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Choose a white form if you want to add a bit more light to proceedings but, in my humble opinion, speckled purple is the best.
Times, Sunday Times
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The light was fading and the sky had rings of black, purple and navy making their way up to the small point of light in the center part of the sky.
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Jillie leads me through an opening in the brush, a path lined with white knotweed and purple morning glories that opens up, just beyond the briers of blackberry vines that have long been picked clean by quail and finches, into a meadow lighted with goldenrod and sunlight against the rusty tops of tall grasses, striving against the subtle blues of the lobelia and the aggressive reds of jack-in-the-pulpits.
Taxonomies
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Wet meadows between rock outcrops include grasses, sedges, mosses, pitcher plant Saracenia purpurea, sundew Drosera sp. and purple fringed orchid Habenaria psycodes.
Gros Morne National Park, Canada
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The forest all along the mountain curve was spotted with dots of red, yellow, purple and gold, trees just beginning to turn with the season.
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These include sweet cicely, beebalm, yarrow, purple coneflowers and others.
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This person dressed always in blues and purples, softened by silvers.
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She wears a thick flowery hairband, several clashing necklaces and a quite revolting hairy purple cardigan with batwing sleeves.
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As darkness drew near I joyfully and thankfully watched the pinks, purples, blues and golden colors of the sky melt together into a picture-perfect sunset.
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Consider a combination of red, orange yellow and orange for a striking fall layout, or a combination of icy blues and purples for a frosty winter page.
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Morrissey and the Duranies are back in the charts; the 20th anniversary edition of Purple Rain was released last week; and Band Aid are already being tipped as a dead cert for the Christmas number one spot.
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There were brighter pictures, of early Mexican-Californian life, a pastel of twilight eucalyptus with a sunset-tipped mountain beyond, by Reimers, a moonlight by Peters, and a Griffin stubble-field across which gleamed and smoldered California summer hills of tawny brown and purple-misted, wooded canyons.
CHAPTER VIII
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My grandfather's Purple Heart ," Frank replied with hardly a moment's hesitation.
DEVIL'S CLAW
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Shortly after Joe Haldeman received a Bachelor of Science degree in astronomy from the University of Maryland, he was drafted into the army where he served (and received a Purple Heart medal) as a combat engineer in Vietnam.
MIND MELD: The Funniest Writers in the History of SF/F
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Colourful wild flowers sprung up by the roadside, purple violets and white daisies dotted among the grass.
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It is said that Scheiner, on hearing this in a Rome bookshop, turned purple and shook violently.
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In the mean time they pass for the mandatories of the popular sovereign, with full power in all directions, because he has delegated his omnipotence to them, and the sole power, because their investiture is the most recent; under this sanction, they stalk around somewhat like supernumeraries at the Opera, dressed in purple and gold, representing
The French Revolution - Volume 2
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Purple coneflower, a favored plant of summer, finds a second season in the dead of winter.
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Gwyn continued trudging across the sands as the last rays of light slowly faded to purple streaks across the sky.
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Purple and green dinosaur inflatable float with green vinyl seat bucket and yellow inflatable adjustable sunshade.
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Purple Label sportswear is filled with chocolate-colored suede trench coats, gray pinstriped cashmere slacks, cashmere sweaters and cashmere overcoats.
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The last Mariposa lily vanished from the burnt grasses as the California Indian summer dreamed itself out in purple mists on the windless air.
CHAPTER XXXVI
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A partially nude woman, with folded arms and wearing green socks and purple shoes, stands in the middle.
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From the front view was the setting sun giving a blush of pink, peach, orange and some purple.
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Cold extremities with hot head and back; face purple during congestion, high fever.
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A small pinkishpurple flower that sprawls across dry ground is stork's-bill.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is also nationally important for breeding African spoonbills (Platalea alba) and purple swamp-hens (Porphyrio porphyrio).
Inner Niger Delta flooded savanna
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Her gown was made of silk, and the slip was made of crushed velvet in a shade of purple that was darker yet.
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The dominant conifers are Abies faxoniana, Picea asperata, P. wilsoni and purple-coned spruce P. purpurea (which is also being planted) with a sub-canopy of Betula albo-sinensisB. utilis, low Acer spp. and fountain bamboo Fargesia/Sinarundinaria nitida which suffered a major die-off after flowering in the 1970s and early 1980s, Fargesia denudata and F. chinensis.
Jiuzhaigou Valley Scenic and Historic Interest Area, China
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I thought the first one looked like a distorted and VERY pale purple pieman from strawberry shortcake ...complete with the bakers hat! humm wonder if they would do it in purple for me LOL....
Ghosts with the Most, Continued
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The blood ran away and empurpled her thigh.
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The Brunfelsia tree I saw was covered with flowers in different shades of purple and white.
Projo.com Projo Local News
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She begins by wearing a hat that looks like a small wheatfield, and ends resembling a giant purple grape.
Times, Sunday Times
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In warm light colours also warm body colours make themselves felt in a pleasant way, whereas the low proportion of short-wave radiation of these light sources more or less kills cold colours such as bluish green, blue and purple.
2. Elements
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In addition, the floor was paved with a nice mosaic "carpet" in black, white, purple, and orange, representing central guilloche motifs, bordered by bead-and-reels that were lined by chevrons.
Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Urban Mansion Report 5
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She had a dark and straight hair, with bangs falling over her purple eyes.
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Her heart beats a purple tattoo in her throat and there's a stitch in her side.
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They sometimes take over a whole neglected meadow, which looks as if it is covered with tall purple heather.
Times, Sunday Times
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Allium aflatunense (native to Iran) has dense spherical umbels of starry lilac-purple flowers (the puffball effect) on stems two to three feet tall.
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Skirt a purple artichoke with a ruff of silvery artemisia, or mix some ruby-stemmed, fat-leafed rhubarb into a garden bed and you're creating combinations as artful as any in the most ornamental of borders.
Valerie Easton: Are Your Vegetables Multi-Tasking??
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The amethyst is a brilliant transparent stone of a purple colour resembling that of diluted wine and varying in shade from the violet purple to rose.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon
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The most important differential characteristics of the section Trionychon are branched stems, bracteolate flowers, an entire and campanulated calyx, a blue or purple corolla, white anthers, and the stigma usually white.
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It had criss-cross straps about half way down the front, but underneath was deep purple material, put there to keep her modesty.
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The purple-ringed Anguillaria dioica, first seen on Pyramid Hill, again appeared here; and in many places the ground was quite yellow with the flowers of the cichoraceous plant tao whose root, small as it is, constitutes the food of the native women and children.
Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2
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All three are quite similar with a pastel range of pink and purple flowers as well as white and cream.
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She's had red hair, brown, black, bubblegum pink, blue, purple… Just about every color that you find in a crayon box that's stuffed with 50 different colors.
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Dark plums marry with purple sedum and rich pink hemerocallis along one border.
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Through the dense trees I could see purple bougainvillea shivering against the stucco of the hacienda-style buildings.
SILENT JOE
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When I awoke, I was covered in strange purple hairs that poked out through my clothes and made a sound only dogs could hear.
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Her hair was weird, though - bright purple and green with blonde streaks.
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The colossal arms disappearing into her coat's dolman sleeves, tweed flecked with purple and gold.
THE SHIPPING NEWS
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However, it's not explicit that the purple people eater is extra-terrestrial in origin, based on the lyrical evidence, only that it can fly ...
Boing Boing
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THIS eye colour will suit purples, berry hues and nudes.
The Sun
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Erythronium dens-canis is the true dog's tooth violet, the name comes from the shape of the corm, and has rose coloured flowers on 10 cm stems and purple marked leaves.
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The species grows as a partially herbaceous deciduous vine, with fairly pale green, somewhat cut foliage and campanulate light rose-purple flowers.
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Purple Heart medals are awarded to nine soldiers who suffered wounds in Iraq.
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His face turned purple with rage.
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Nikki held up black - rather than purple - school blazers.
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For 20 long days these workers will pick the saffron crocus from early morning until the entire crop of regal purple is gone.
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But every day we see more pastel patches of red, purple, yellow, and pale green of swelling buds.
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There were plenty of turtles, huge infestations of purple spotted stingrays and some large manta rays.
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The broccoli now has a tiny purple flower head, so hopefully that will grow nicely and I can have some home grown!
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The arbutus, all aglow and fragrant beneath its leaves, the purple fringed polygala were past, but they found the pale gold lily of the bellwort, the rust-red bloom of the ginger.
Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Winston Churchill
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Castor oil plants are easy to recognise from the palmate like leaves with pointy ‘fingers’ and an often purple coloured stem.
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Her husband, on the other hand, wears sombre tones of deep purple and black.
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In the intervals between them endless open carriages moved along, lined with white, filled with white dominos, drawn by horses all protected and covered with white cotton robes, against the whiter 'confetti' -- everyone fighting mock battles with everyone else, till it seemed impossible that anything could be left to throw, and the long perspective of the narrow street grew dim between the high palaces, and misty and purple in the evening light.
Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 1 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome
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deep purple
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There were wild flowers here and there: pink campion, purple nightshade, white deadnettle, yellow aconite.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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Their color was blue to purple, with some crystals having gemmy areas.
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The sun was now slowly fading, the sky filled with blues purples and light pinks.
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This season's purple make-up hues are equally exhilarating: intense amethyst, fig and crushed mulberry, to name a few.
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A varied subgroup of purple stripe, this type also has characteristics of both rocambole and porcelain types and is possibly the garlic from which rocambole evolved.
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The featured style is Elyot and comes in purple, green, caramel, black and white!
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The handsome, large purple-fringed orchis is also found here.
Rural Hours
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Ascending along this road, you open a valley broad and shallow, a wide green trough of pastures and hedges merging inland into a vista of purple tints and flowing lines closing the view.
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On his right, the alley ended against a brick wall covered in purple graffiti.
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This year we have a white fritillary as well as the more usual purple ones.
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Toss in a few bowling trophies, dudes in bathrobes and women wearing Valkyrie horns, red pageboy cuts, and tight-fitting purple jumpsuits and hairnets, and you might have a sense of this homage to the 1998 Coen brothers' cult comedy, "The Big Lebowski.
Paying Homage to the Dude
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Buy a dark purple suede bag or a plum velvet blazer for a luxe look.
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The St. Paul, Minn., company has churned out hundreds of Post-it variations, including recycled paper versions, heart shapes and more than 60 colors, including purple and neon pink.
Reminder! Make Post-it for Digital Era
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Turning 50 is a cause for sombre reflection, not celebration," opined Norris and, as a flurry of firemen attempted to free her empurpled cranium, shame descended once more.
World Of Lather
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WITH giant purple ears and a freaky thin tongue this cane toad looks like a science experiment gone wrong.
The Sun
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Gardeners also use crotons, hardy bushes with a million variegations in purple, yellow and green, heliconias, for their slender stems and banana-like leaves, and also flowering trees (which often bloom later in the year).
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Its spores are vinaceous pink to purple brown or chocolate in the mass; they are fusiform-amygdaloid and show a certain amount of compression.
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Flashbangs produced an incredibly bright light—approximately two million candela, which even with eyes closed would cause a bleaching of the rhodopsin, the visual purple in the eye, creating the spots and temporary blindness most people have experienced and referred to as the flashbulb effect.
State of the Union
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The plant has a brilliant purple flower.
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For example, purple sprouting broccoli needs to be cut fresh and sold straight away.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tiny pockets of purple lavender sprouted hopefully from cracks in the baked earth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pat was wearing an outrageous backless purple dress, so, not to be outdone, I put on my new gold and black trouser suit.
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Typically cited are triangular shapes on the tortoises 'shells, the occasional purple coloring of nopal coyotillo (Opuntia violacea), and the large size of human individuals in the Zone.
The Zone Of Silence of nothern Mexico - scientific marvel or just fiction?
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The clouds were scudding along the tops of the peaks, and the sky was bruised a deep purple.
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Then in ruby crown and royal purple she served them all.
The Princess and the Curdie
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Skarlis, for example, colors his jig purple where the forage is sheepshead or bluegill, green for sunfish, orange and yellow for perch, and black or brown for bullhead or eelpout.
A Walleye Pro's Tricks for Customizing Soft-Plastic Grubs
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This perpetual postadolescent watches movies on a mini-VCR as he slouches around midtown Manhattan in a knitted hat and a purple funk.
'Alice': Half a Wonderland
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Q WHY has my white lilac got purple flowers this year?
The Sun
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It also contains a number of grains, soaked overnight: linseed, rolled oats, polenta, sunflower seeds, purple kibbled wheat and sesame seeds.
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Florida admits defeat in fight to eradicate exotic purple swamphen Records don't support Florida Lt. Gov.
South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes
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The maple that was red and purple is totally bare now, just across the clearing.
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Within five minutes a male purple emperor cruised up and down the forest track at great speed, obviously seeking a newly emerged female.
Times, Sunday Times
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From early summer on, stiff yellow stems are topped with purple spikelets.
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The clothing included a black-and-cream herringbone tweed blazer with purple-and- gold piping, a heritage white batiste lace-trimmed blouse, and a cedar mélange shawl collar button front cardigan, as listed on the line sheet provided for the young'uns in the front row.
Tweens Take the Runway
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Its white surface is marbled with faint purple involutions the edges of which are etched with fine black lines.
Two Degrees
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In a kind of reversal of the paedomorphosis hypothesis, the hallucinated gods disappeared from adult minds first, then were pulled back earlier and earlier into childhood, until today they survive only in the Binker or little purple man phenomenon.
The God Delusion
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Daisies have snowed all over the Campagna, -- periwinkles star the grass, -- crocuses and anemones impurple the spaces between the rows of springing grain along the still brown slopes.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859
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He brought these things, with his own score of his music, in a purple cloth bag which Ortensia had worked for him, and she had embroidered a lyre on it in silver thread, with the word 'Harmonia' in cursive letters for a motto.
Stradella
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Its uniform consisted of huge purple gym shorts and hairy socks made of iron filings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The upper deck rejoined with snide remarks about the purple empire.
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On the water, meanwhile, the last White Lilies are sinking beneath the surface, the last gay Pickerel-Weed is gone, though the rootless plants of the delicate Bladder-Wort, spreading over acres of shallows, still impurple the wide, smooth surface.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 62, December, 1862
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In it was one of Madge's pale purple envelopes with Lily's new name written boldly across it in purple ink.
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Here, my eyes would glaze over as I flash backed to the summer I spent putting little purple microdot tabs of mescaline in my mouth, waiting for that hallucinatory high.
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The thistles, knapweeds and willowherbs are truer purple, but the bluish nettle-leaved bellflowers and field scabious are also tinged with that mysterious shadow which has more to do with night than golden day.
Country diary: Wenlock Edge
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Tiny pockets of purple lavender sprouted hopefully from cracks in the baked earth.
Times, Sunday Times
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The vegetable gardens spread out from the house, laced with marigolds and a purple ground cover that looks like shamrocks: trebol, in Spanish.
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Tanzanite is a blue variety of the gemstone zoisite, which appears purple or yellow from different angles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The upper bed is mostly for perennials, including red-and-white columbines, purple blue campanulas, and tall blue delphiniums fronted by yellow and orange Iceland poppies.
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The blood ran and empurpled her thigh.
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We've been experimenting with yellow wax beans, purple dwarf beans, purple tee pee, golden tee pee and our best stringless runner beans, white lady.
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She was arrayed in purple velvet.
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Pair with a white shirt or purple crewneck jumper.
Times, Sunday Times
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Use grey-blues, taupes, khakis, subtle grey-browns, smokey subtle grey-purples.
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In the other, similarly patterned oils, the lighter colors of Evoe 1 are replaced with an acidic yellow or a lime green and the deep blue with either a purple or a mauve.
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WHile they cause the red and blue peons to fight amongest themselves, our purple leaders keep raking in the money.
Think Progress » ThinkFast: May 11, 2006
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The sky hung low, a cloudy canvas with swirls of dark purple and stormy greys.
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Choose a white form if you want to add a bit more light to proceedings but, in my humble opinion, speckled purple is the best.
Times, Sunday Times
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It bore a crown on a purple cushion and a wreath of white flowers with the message: ‘In Loving Memory, Lilibet’.
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In our yard, we have a small mulberry tree, which typically bears a dark purple and very sweet berry.
Christianity Today
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I plant heirloom vegetables in my garden because I'm partial to the complex flavors of such things as black tomatoes, purple carrots and candy-striped beets.
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I was pretty affable myself, just then, and pretended not to hear one or two of the more jealous remarks that were dropped - about how odd it was that Her Majesty hadn't chosen one of the purple brigade to squire her young cousin, not so much as Guardee even, but a plain Mr - and who the deuce were the Flashmans anyway?
The Sky Writer
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The non-radiative resonance energy transfer between purple membrane protein(Bacteruiorhodopsin) PM and ionophore A23187 was observed.
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To one side the River Seven meandered, thick with willow, purple with balsam and white with convolvulus.
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Her hair was grey and her face orange and purple and mauve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Planted near deep blue flowers or purple foliage the effect is absolutely ravishing.
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This reversible deprotonation and reprotonation causes the distinguished visible and fully reversible photochromic shift from purple to yellow.
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At a time when an upmarket townhouse cost 5,000 florins, a single Viceroy, white striped with purple, changed hands for 3,500 florins.
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He can and must use the prelatial dress, as in the Roman Curia, to wit: rochet over the purple soutane with purple mantelletta, in his attendance in the cathedral, where he has precedence over all other canons and dignitaries, as to choir stall and functions.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne
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Purple gentians and orchids, blue scabious and harebells, orange hawkweeds, and cream and pink yarrow provide a kaleidoscope of colour to enjoy at the end of your walk.
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Autumn came and they picked bilberries on the mountain: tiny, purple fruit that stained their teeth and their clothes.
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Susan Deacon is wearing her good suit, which is purple. but it's not for my benefit.
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Terrible creatures had come - monsters made of stone, taller than a Rikath, with shiny black and purple skin and no faces.
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A pink pillar-box hat was perched precariously on her head, and pinned to its side was a large artificial purple flower.
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Beyond them came the beauty of the Hoxworth lane: to the left and north stood an unbroken line of croton bushes imported by Whip from Guadalcanal in the Solomons, and of all that grew on his plantations, these were his favorites, these low sparkling bushes whose iridescent green and red and purple and gold and blue leaves were a constant source of wonder; but to the right ran a long row of hibiscus trees, low shrublike plants that produced a dozen varieties of fragile, crepelike flowers, each with its own dazzling color;
Hawaii
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It has numerous bright blue or purple flowers in clusters at the top of stiff stalks and large leathery leaves at the bottom.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the distance the pine-clad hills were bathed in a pale wash of greenish-purple light.
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It's Lambs Pride Superwash in Mysterious Fuchsia - a beautiful heathery damson purple.
Archive 2009-02-01
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Banners and purple flags waved in the brisk cold breeze.
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In addition to basic white, pink, and yellow, there are now mauve and purple versions and any number of lined, spotted, and bicolored flowers.
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If you have dark skin, purple is glorious.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blacker than a moonless night and edged with crimson, the blue and purple undersides smelled of wing musk and of Dante—burning leaves and November frost and deep, dark earth.
Etched in Bone
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Of note is the purple clematis which climbs up the wall.
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The octagonal shelter, which is coloured purple and silver, has seats and roof.
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They seemed to be made of solid stone, but were inlaid with precious red and purple stones that formed arcane and twisted designs.
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Organisms in the urine that possess indoxyl sulphatase activity metabolise urinary indoxyl sulphate to indigo leading to purple urine bag syndrome.
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Tiny pockets of purple lavender sprouted hopefully from cracks in the baked earth.
Times, Sunday Times
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Even rarer were certain organic dyes, such as indigo or purple, which had to be impregnated in chalk or the like to make them fast.
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She had hot pink sheets, with matching pillowcases, as well as a dark purple comforter, and lavender throw pillow.
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Imagine a wide lanceolated blade of a vinous purple, some twenty inches in length, which is twisted at the base into an ovoid purse about the size of a hen's egg.
Social Life in the Insect World
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It was a beautiful California day, and the jacarandas were in full purple bloom.
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Mauve scabious and darker purple knapweed wave their heads in the aftermath of a summer thunderstorm.
Butterflies: out of the blue
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I recall his beery breath and purple veined nose peering through my car window, then there was my dad pushing him out of the way.
P_n_elrod: Da Winnah and a ** Newer** Drawing!
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Wildlife spotted in East SussexButterflies (13) meadow brown; hedge brown; speckled wood; essex skipper; small skipper; large skipper; comma; small tortoiseshell; large white; small white; green-veined white; purple hairstreak; white admiral
How to get back to nature when camping
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The bank above it was a tangled slope of late-flowering mallow and campion, bright purple-pink in the long grass.
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The entrance to Zito's flat, like his ceilings, is going to be ripped apart in favor of chic black and deep purple.
USATODAY.com - Pitching the Zen of Zito
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He was a stained-glass designer, amateur architect, and occasional versifier (author of ‘I never saw a purple cow’).
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As the cripple sat looking over the solemn, moaning ocean, awed by its brooding gloom, did he catch in the silvery starlight a second glimpse of the rose-colored veils, and snowy vittae, and purple - edged robes of the Parcae, spinning and singing as they followed the ship across the sobbing sea?
St. Elmo
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Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars.
DARKWATER
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Instead of the familiar smooth blue-green, her exoskeleton was a rich, deep purple, the chitin worn rough and pebbly in places.
Dirge
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Take, for instance, the following piece of purple prose, full of sentences just begging to hop into the tumbrel and ride to the guillotine.
Author! Author! » 2010 » July
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Another good association could bethe white umbel Seseli libanotus with the purple-tinted foliage of theupright Thalictrum 'Elin'.
Gardens: Planting in drifts
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The patient had purple blotches under his eyes.
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Beautiful silver earrings hang from the points of her ears, encrusted by black diamonds and deep purple amethysts.
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That flower in the garden, you know, the purple one, what is it?
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The chariot, drawn by four horses, was wreathed in laurel, and the triumphator was attired like the Capitoline Jupiter in robes of purple and gold.
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David is shown as a young, beardless figure with short, dark hair, clad in a purple chlamys, fastened at the shoulder (though no fibula is represented), beneath which a white and golden yellow garment can be seen.
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A basket arrangement of red carnations with added baby's breath and purple flowers. Wonderful!
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When we first see him, his spindly frame is swathed in a purple and red silk dressing gown emblazoned with his name.
Times, Sunday Times
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Will was loved for his vivid colors, the creation colors of the Edenlike islands, including the urinous mango-juice yellow, green from crushed hibiscus leaves, dusty purple from wild plum trees on Java, and a peculiar russet in his _Country Road_, _Kamuela_ was a pigment of red clay he had scraped from the very earth he had depicted.
Beard
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She was wearing black stretch pants and a purple t-shirt.
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the summits of the mountains were mistily purple
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Who's that bozo in the purple shirt?
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Agent Purple consisted of a combination of the herbicides 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T.
John McCain's Agent Orange Issue
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It goes well with purple ajuga or the black grass, Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’.
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Within the transit chamber a faint purple glow danced along the walls, gradually growing brighter.
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Green and purple dotted the water, leaves bobbing like butterfly wings.
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Customising your own look is also an option at Tesco, which is selling underwire and triangle bikini tops as well as deep and narrow pants and overskirts in fuchsia, purple and black.
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Among the varieties, there were 15 white cauliflowers, 3 purple cauliflowers, four broccolis, and a collard.
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But the birds were there -- purple moorhen, jacanas and teals.
Birds of Baikka Beel (Sylhet Division)
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The purple hairstreak is a glorious but relatively small butterfly strongly associated with oaks.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Suddenly she focused on one specimen in particular, a purple-topped tube with the label facing toward her.
Harvest
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The priest wore a purple vestment to conduct the funeral services.
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She certainly changed her apparel and came forth in a ‘rich mantle and surcoat of purple velvet furred with ermines’.
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The plant has a brilliant purple floweret.
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Any of several Eurasian plants of the genus Leonurus, especially L. cardiaca, a weed having clusters of small purple or pink flowers and spine-tipped calyx lobes.
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They were splashed with green, blue, orange, yellow, red, and purple all over, as well as my ceiling.
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It's the elegant balance of its hips, fine autumnal foliage and deep purple stems that do it for me.
Times, Sunday Times
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The fairy-tale confection of John's architecture lit up purple and white.
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There are some 150 types of basil, including anise, lemon, cinnamon, mammoth, and purple varieties.
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My lucky flower is violet, and the permanent precious stone in my life is purple crystal!
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She rolls her purple by colored contacts eyes, pockets her cell phone, says a curt goodbye, and toddles off to her car.
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The upper bed is mostly for perennials, including red-and-white columbines, purple blue campanulas, and tall blue delphiniums fronted by yellow and orange Iceland poppies.
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Big (sometimes a foot across) and obstinately colorful (some are orange, some are purple; no one knows why), the sea star is usually found in a rockfissure sprawled like a discarded toy.
