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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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The upper deck rejoined with snide remarks about the purple empire.
  • 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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  • 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
  • Of note is the purple clematis which climbs up the wall.
  • Another good association could bethe white umbel Seseli libanotus with the purple-tinted foliage of theupright Thalictrum 'Elin'. Gardens: Planting in drifts
  • That flower in the garden, you know, the purple one, what is it?
  • Who's that bozo in the purple shirt?
  • The purple hairstreak is a glorious but relatively small butterfly strongly associated with oaks. Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
  • I will mock the marly heavens, lamp the purple prairies, I will flaunt my deathless banners down the far, unhouseled lands.
  • The purple oxalis is not hardy for me either, but will be planted out anyway, maybe a couple of the little bulblets will be brought into the greenhouse in the fall, it is so sweet. An Old Irish Blessing Foliage Day « Fairegarden
  • Related to mint, shiso blends its delicate minty subtleties with citrus and licorice; the flavor of the purple leaves is more fruity and less minty than the green.
  • The purple crested lourie put in an appearence, along with some UFO's. TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • Lateral or terminal on shoots of the preceding season; sterile flowers oblong-cylindrical, 1/4 inch in length; anthers yellow, red-tinged: fertile flowers on the upper side of the twig, erect, cylindrical; cover-scales broad, much larger than the purple ovuliferous scales, terminating in a long, recurved tip. Handbook of the Trees of New England
  • The purple hue spread over the blue, reddening the clouds.
  • I had put the purple tinsel on to make my case instantly recognisable.
  • This showy snailfish lacks the purple stripes displayed by other specimens.
  • AT ONE O'CLOCK they saw a little town in the distance, nestling on a cliff that looked down eastward on the purple Pacific. DESPERADOES
  • The purple flowers have a golden centre and their silky-hairy texture adds an extra dimension to their appeal.
  • I first noticed the purple blotches on my neck on Thursday.
  • Like Hoagy Carmichael, the composer of "Georgia on My Mind," Ray Charles had a natural affinity for the lie of the land: his voice could embrace the purple-mountained uplift of "America the Beautiful" and ramble slyly through back roads and shantytowns, too. The Lord’s Music and the Devil’s Words
  • Did she wear the rose negligee, the pink see-through slip or the purple Empire-waisted gown?
  • Some of the butterflies were seeking nectar from the purple-blue scabious flowers that lined the path. Country diary: Loch Ruthven
  • I think life should have a few musts, and besides, it seems like she's replaced a whole lot of little musts with one big one - everyone MUST do and think what the purple book she loves says.
  • He was dressed in the purple-bordered toga praetexta and preceded by twenty-four lictors shivering in crimson tunics and brass-bossed black leather belts, with the ominous axes inserted in their bundles of rods. Fortune's Favorites
  • It makes the most delicious jam because of the richness of the purple colour and fruity taste.
  • The darkest leaves are represented by Physocarpus opulifolius ‘Summer Wine’ and the purple leaf peach which was the starter planting for the black garden, a passalong rooted cutting from good neighbor Mickey, he even planted it for me. Denizens Of The Dark « Fairegarden
  • Beautifully coloured are the green touraco and the purple plantain-eater, a rascally bird! who eats some of our finest plantains, and has bitten holes in many a one I thought to get entirely to myself. Heads and Tales : or, Anecdotes and Stories of Quadrupeds and Other Beasts, Chiefly Connected with Incidents in the Histories of More or Less Distinguished Men.
  • The purple domino, worn carelessly open, revealed black satin encrusted with silver and diamonds. The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century
  • `From the Purple Pirate, Lieutenant William Evans, to his great-great-grandson, Joshua Evans! THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
  • To the right of St Edward's chair was another chair of state in which the King was to sit during the sermon, and opposite this on the north side of the chancel were the purple thrones of the bishops.
  • The purples are appearing in a soft, subtle vein in all casts from pale lavender to deep aubergine.
  • The purple-flowering weed is recognised as a weed in all States and Territories, because of its invasive nature and its toxic effect on livestock.
  • The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
  • To get the Purple Heart license tag in Shawnee County, the recipient must present his or her discharge records that show receipt of the Purple Tim Debusk aka Timothy Allen DeBusk
  • It swims about amongst the purple barnacles and pink nautili, seeking on the shores of these shining islands its prey, the curious formation of its mouth being admirably adapted to enable it, whilst swimming under these painted floating islands, to crop off what it lists. Journals of Two Expeditions of Discovery in North-West and Western Australia, Volume 2
  • The purple varieties can be quite beautiful, but they are far less vigorous growers and there has been a noticeable falloff in the purpleness of both the above varieties since their introduction.
  • It was only when I undressed him at 8am and saw the purple rash that I knew how serious things were.
  • A perennial in the lily family, the purple amole grows from a bulb and produces bluish-purple flowers.
  • There are more serious threats to the ecosystem, but the purple swamphen is an important one that we shouldn't let go," said Jerry Jackson, a biology professor at Florida Gulf Coast University. South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes
  • At about the same time, the Purple train, which was inbound to the TTC station, was instructed to stop at the station to detrain passengers. NTSB releases preliminary statement on Monorail Accident | The Disney Blog
  • Other buds on the same tree reverted to the purple parent, with its solitary small flowers, its dense shrublike branches and very small leaves. Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation
  • Wampum was American Indian bead money, and the purple interior of the quahog shell was used for high-denomination wampum.
  • THE purple emperor butterfly is early. The Sun
  • He broke a spray of ironwort beside him and used the purple bloom to beat the dust from his shoulders and limbs. Freckles
  • At last, as the clouds parted, the moon burst forth in the purple opening of heaven.
  • I bleached the purple stripes out of my bangs and became a garden-variety L' Oreal girl.
  • The purple, glittery top sparkled under my light and I giggled as I slipped it over my head.
  • Some rivals of the purple lilac included the buttercup, goldenrod, Mayflower, wood lily, purple aster, apple blossom, and the evening primrose.
  • It was something after the order of the purple martin's melodious sputter, only the tones were richer and fuller and the music better defined, as became a genuine oscine. Birds of the Rockies
  • While I'm obsessed with the purple color, Scar Jo blew it when picking a print and design that makes her decolletage look downright droopy. Lunch Room Chatter: Oscar-feasting edition
  • The purple on his surcoat made his striking cobalt eyes seem deep violet.
  • Over east the yellow sun brimmed while along the western horizon the purple lip of night still clung.
  • he was born to the purple
  • The purple and crimson gem is the only known diamond of these colours.
  • As she made good her escape - on foot we hasten to add - the purple dye pack cunningly hidden with the cash blew up and she disappeared in a puff of smoke, albeit minus the wonga and her hat.
  • They replaced the purple awning with a black one and hung new lighting above the new, lime-green countertops.
  • Last but not least, it was in 1971 when New Jersey finally adopted the purple violet, Viola sororia, as their official state flower.
  • He and Violet sing duets as the purple film displaces the glories of azure and gold, and the twilight shadows the dusky bits of wood, the frowning rocks, and the indentations of shore that might be nereid haunts. Floyd Grandon's Honor
  • Best to Corcyra go for cuttle-fish, for the acarne and the fat sea-skull the purple-fish, the little murex too, mice of the sea and the sea-urchin sweet. The Defense
  • The purple flames subsided, and Suka reseated herself, wiping invisible specks of dust from her apron.
  • Even the flavour of the purple carrots departs from the norm.
  • From the colours, I'd say it's a multi-waveband composite, with the purple x-ray or, perhaps, Fermi gamma. This Week's WITU Challenge | Universe Today
  • The purple flowers, even when they're nominally pink and growing in the sun, such as wild thyme, restharrow, wild marjoram and pyramidal orchid, bring with them a kind of shadow. Country diary: Wenlock Edge
  • `I must show you a picture of the purple gallinule, then. THE RECYCLED CITIZEN
  • Those born to the purple are destined to live in the public eye.
  • I do remember we played for keepsies and I won a nice collection of clearies, cat-eyes (the purple/green combos were my favorites), a few highly prized speckled eggs, aggies (agates), alleys (alabaster/marble), steelies, and even a few boulders.
  • Jan Schreiner sent us an email to present us a new interior design concept named The Purple Cafe. Interior Design Patterns from Hand
  • He said that when the holiday is over the players will be settling down to training with their sights set for further glory in 2005 for the purple and gold.
  • The purpleness is a form of branding,’ Denney says.
  • History reveals that 250,000 doughboys were eligible for the Purple Heart decoration as a result of Gen. MacArthur's decision.
  • The purple ultra violet lighting stops drug abusers injecting because they are unable to see their veins.
  • In the final section the torero (star matador) engages the bull with his elegance and control, then exchanges the purple and yellow capote (large cape) for the red muleta (smaller cape) and curved sword.
  • The purple emperor may have eluded us, but this purple hairstreak is a rewarding compensation. Country diary: Fermyn Wood, Northamptonshire
  • Down both arms Herb can see the purple spiderwork of her veins. Memory Wall
  • Pete saw the purple-masked face with the black moustache, the purple plumed pirate hat, the gold-laced purple coat! THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
  • His attire will be haphazardly thrown together, but he'll still look good, except perhaps when he's wearing the lime-green slacks with the purple blazer.
  • After the Tsar recited the Nicene Creed as a profession of faith, and after an invocation of the Holy Ghost and a litany, the emperor assumed the purple chlamys, and the crown was then presented to him. Imperial Crown of Russia
  • Your exercise in part 4 … is painting with a triad of secondaries (not primaries) resulting in a composition of tertiaries ( The red in the orange intensifies the red in the purple, while the yellow in the orange and the blue in the purple mix into a graying green for the mixture); a beautifully subtle limited pallete and a good painting exercise. The Color Wheel, Part 6
  • Yea, and as for us, beloved pair of pious Emperors, shining forth from the purple, connected with the dearest names of father and son, and not allowing the name to belie the relationship, but striving to set in all other aspects also an example of superhuman love, whose preoccupation is Orthodoxy rather than pride in the imperial diadem,—it is in these things that the deed which is before our eyes instigates us to take pride. The Early Middle Ages 500-1000
  • An apartment of the Byzantine palace was lined with porphyry: it was reserved for the use of the pregnant empresses; and the royal birth of their children was expressed by the appellation of porphyrogenite, or born in the purple. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
  • The purple suedette banquettes are very tight. Times, Sunday Times
  • Take some mates along to Cordoba Nights (where the Purple Onion used to be) and try the pure de papas - potatoes mashed with béchamel and nutmeg.
  • The gray faces lit up, effectively dulling the purpleness of the purple coat.
  • Everywhere she flaunted her yellow banner and trailed the purple of her mantle, that was paler in the thistle-heads, took on strength in the first opening asters, and glowed and burned in the ironwort. Freckles
  • But the purple curtains were raised, and a human head, impassible and bloated, was seen resting on a large pillow; the eyebrows, which were like arches of ebony, met each other at the points; golden dust sparkled in the frizzled hair, and the face was so wan that it looked as if it had been powdered with marble raspings. Salammbo
  • A television set was placed at the end of the purple couch, right at arm level.
  • As quickly as it came, all of the purpleness suddenly went away.
  • The purple on his surcoat made his striking cobalt eyes seem deep violet.
  • As the reverend gentleman tripped daintily down the summer street that lay between the blue river and the purple mountain, he cast his mild eyes hither and thither upon human nature, and the sentence he had just penned recurred to him with pleasurable appositeness. For the term of his natural life
  • Against a back ground of lemon-coloured sky, with the stars shedding their spiritual lustre through the purple twilight, these gorgeous creatures, each ensphered in her beatific bubble, floated tremulously upward on the balmy breeze. The War of the Wenuses
  • On the purple segment at the base of the shield is a silver stag, trotting with one fore hoof raised, within a silver ring.
  • There against the purple horizon above the flat-topped dome rises the gray trickle of steam, barely visible, a thin ribbon unraveling into the night.
  • You can pick out a range of subtle colours in the vegetation: the russet fronds of bracken, the fresh green stems of bilberry and the purple twigs of birch.
  • A man in the purple robes and small miter of the Order stepped from the obscurity.
  • Oh – the purple blue opalescent is my fav, followed by the blue-red. Kater’s Art » Blog Archive » December 2008 Ornaments
  • Eleanor heard her exclaim; and as she took them from Mr. Stuart's hand, she kissed the purple blossoms with childish delight, and put some in Euphemia's straw hat. Stuart of Dunleath: A Story of Modern Times
  • The purple and green ash flowers, which opened like little tassels on the bare twigs, still linger on some trees. Times, Sunday Times
  • XD I think perhaps it can be my entertainment room, with the large screen, and the crystals will control the volume and channel. * giggles* (Yes, it will be Season 1 Control Room, with the crystals and the purpler walls.) "Three: Look out, it's coming!"
  • The presence of this molecule or closely related analogues induces the production of the purple pigment violacein.
  • _Dydo_, with the Purple flowre for the wounde of _Pius Æneas_: And finding my heart strooken and inwardly pricking, secretly filled and compressiuely stuft; recording and gathering together into it, varyable thoughts and working of Loue, my immedicable wounde grewe greater and greater. Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame
  • When Principal Dillard stopped by the classroom at two-fifteen for his daily check -- he and Ms. Florida had been caught canoodling during the Sadie Hawkins dance earlier in the semester -- the car was in the back row, with one headlight shining on the purple ink of the dittoed exam. News & Politics
  • Rome's victory upon their banners, and upheld the throne of the purple-togaed prince who rode before them. The Last Galley Impressions and Tales
  • I adore the purple block and the quilting is fantastic. Finally!
  • Lilies and the flower-de-luce sprang up in the place of reeds; smilax and poison-oak gave way to the purple-plumed iron-weed and pink spiderwort; the bindweeds ran everywhere blooming as they ran, and on one of the dead cypresses a giant creeper hung its green burden of foliage and lifted its scarlet trumpets. Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
  • The integral membrane protein bacteriorhodopsin acts as a light-driven proton pump in the purple membrane of Halobacterium salinarum.
  • I dare say you have seen upon some dreary moor, or at the foot of some 'scaur' on the hillside, the bleached bones of a sheep, lying white and grim among the purple heather. Expositions of Holy Scripture : St. Matthew Chaps. IX to XXVIII
  • Yes | No | Report from jeff wrote 1 year 18 weeks ago cb, I don't know what the purple haze is or were the buffalo river is located. Exclusive Video: Is This the Walking Record Whitetail?
  • They objected to the purple colour scheme, the spiky typeface and the use of stars, and asked for a prominent disclaimer making it clear the book was not officially endorsed.
  • An apartment of the Byzantine palace was lined with porphyry: it was reserved for the use of the pregnant empresses; and the royal birth of their children was expressed by the appellation of _porphyrogenite_, or born in the purple. History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
  • I bend forward, stretch out my fingers, and bury them deeply in the purple cushion of sphagnum moss.
  • The purple-flowered black swallow-wort prefers open areas and have a foothold in the Hudson Valley, Long Island, southern New York and the New England coast.
  • The purples are appearing in a soft, subtle vein in all casts from pale lavender to deep aubergine.
  • The transmission pole and wires would be hot property for the purple-rumped sunbirds, stunning in their emerald green, purple-maroon and canary yellow outfits.
  • Apart from the low ratio of glass to metal and the extremely tight overhang, the purple colour of the car was also added to make it more appealing to the youth.
  • A woman of no birth may marry into the purple.
  • Another enemy of pines is the fungus, especially the white, thread-like spores of the purpled stemmed boletus, which often penetrates and disrupts the bark of the roots, forming a white network upon the roots. Beachwood-in-the-Pines « Beachwood Historical Alliance
  • Divson lit up a cigarette in his home, letting the purple smoke billow to the ceiling and permeate the drywall exterior.
  • In a state already crawling with exotic animals, halting the South Florida spread of a non-native bird called the purple swamphen seemed like a rare opportunity for success. South Florida Sun-Sentinel.com - South Florida Recipes
  • The purple heather, the blustering gales (or wuthering winds if you're an Emily Bronte fan) and the winding paths that encourage all day dalliance - what's not to love?
  • Round the engine and at the starting-place of the trolleys was a busy crowd: lean and bronzed Canadians; women in leather breeches and coats, busily measuring and marking; a team of horses showing silvery white against the purple of the hill; and everywhere the German prisoner lads, mostly quite young and of short stature. Harvest
  • I have spoken to about a million retailers, who only sell them in packs of assorted colours and don't want to have to sit down and pick out all the purple ones.
  • How beautiful the purple flower is!
  • Mark Rice was consistently weaving through the purple jerseys and supplied St. Paul's with plenty of ammunition.
  • The French privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard, and his henchman, William Evans, who returned much later as the Purple Pirate! THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
  • On the live Bishop the silver pectoral cross rose and fell on the purple cassock.
  • The question is, should we get worried about the purple line intersecting the blue line right there in 2014?
  • The quaint pinkish-white flowers of the turtle-head showed in wet places, and instead of the lilac racemes of the purple-fringed orchis, which had disappeared with midsummer, we found now the slender braided spikes of the lady's-tresses, latest and lowliest of the orchids, pale and pure as nuns of the forest, and exhaling a celestial fragrance. Little Rivers; a book of essays in profitable idleness
  • He was however grateful to her for curing him; he had not had to use the purple crystals again.
  • And all the components - backyard carrots, strawberries from a local farm (Whittamores), and the last of the maple syrup from a sugar bush in the Purple Woods Conservation Area - came together at the perfect moment to celebrate Sugar High Friday (Locavore Treats!) hosted this round by Mmm ... Archive 2009-09-01
  • Try the shrimp he said, referring to the purple natural, not the fly.
  • After an hour or two, we went along to the Purple Bar and had cocktails made to order, (just tell the mixologist what you fancy and they will whip it up for you), which just got better and better.
  • Over east the yellow sun brimmed while along the western horizon the purple lip of night still clung.
  • Over east the yellow sun brimmed while along the western horizon the purple lip of night still clung.
  • They make for great advertising copy, and in that category I include the purple prose that we motoring journalists write about them.
  • There could be a horse grazing in the field, but not the purple Chagall donkey.
  • Amid all the purple, there was cardinal and gold, spilling from guts and pouring from hearts.
  • It does indeed have scarlet flowers, or rather two swept-back, brilliant-red petals that reveal the purple inner petals of the bloom.
  • The purple berries of the pokeweed and the red berries of the European bittersweet, or nightshade, are common offenders.
  • At a long, low table stood Mistress Betty Carrington, her slender figure enveloped in an apron of blue dowlas, her sleeves of fine holland rolled above her elbows, and her white and rounded arms plunged deep into a great bowl filled with the purple globes of the wild grape. Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia
  • The silhouettes melt into the sky; the shadows are lights where certain tones, the blue, the purple, the green and the orange, predominate, and it is the proportional quantity of the spots that differentiates in our eyes the shadows from what we call the lights, just as it actually happens in optic science. The French Impressionists (1860-1900)
  • Long streams of dust billowed off the purple and maroon sands, creating huge spreading lines of dust clouds which gradually attenuated until they became invisible.
  • He pointed to the purple-fringed sedans rounding the last curve before the broken face of Caelus Nin. Song of Time
  • The purple dress of velvet material had fitted her perfectly.
  • On the live Bishop the silver pectoral cross rose and fell on the purple cassock.
  • The purple-brown spots and smears, called heliotrope, on her eyelids. Cynical Dad
  • In the same case are several amethysts (the purple variety of quartz) of an amazingly rich violet color.
  • The golden beam flew to the constellation Omicron, the red went to Lambda, the blue to Kappa, the black to Upsilon, the white light went to Epsilon, and the purple to Tau.
  • ‘Alright, alright,’ she murmured compliantly, not looking towards the purple-haired boy.
  • Red beets, another highly colored vegetable, get their scarlet color from a combination of the purple pigment cyanin and the yellow pigment xanthin.
  • The newly-planted park, with a lake fringed by a vivid growth of allemanda and hybiscus, stands below the purple heights of a long mountain chain, but Taiping offers few inducements to Through the Malay Archipelago
  • The purple osier is already set with green points from which are to emerge fluffy catkins, and the sallow is preparing its gold and silver blossoms which are to be the early palm, dripping with honey and humming with insects. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
  • How beautiful the purple flower is!
  • I resolve to begin using my multicolored weights for reps rather than doorstops, even though the purple 10-pound ones look great in the guest bedroom.
  • the purple patches," and unattracted, perhaps demagnetized, by a personality once fascinating and always "puissant," to appreciate the actual worth and magnitude of the poem. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
  • OK, the purple shadow, peach tip gloss, bronze foundation and 50 coats of mascara are a tittle glam, but I don't look right.
  • Using a mortar and pestle, mix the berries with the muscovado sugar and lime juice, crush roughly and leave to marinade with the purple basil leaves.
  • Each of the boys was awarded the Purple Heart for gallantry and their parents were fêted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the White House.
  • The fields here were fringed with rowan trees, their bright red berries clashing horribly with the purple heather of late summer.
  • The purple girl, now in black, stood by the fence smoking greedily.
  • There were the hostess and her daughter; three young noblemen, the purple stripes on each angusticlave telling of knightly rank; a Jewish prince in purple and gold; an old philosopher, and a poet who had been reading love lines. Vergilius A Tale of the Coming of Christ
  • In fact, the purple coneflower that is featured at the top of this blog is one of his images. Tips from Henry Domke for shooting better garden photos « Sugar Creek Gardens’ Blog
  • During the daytime this ballon was a silvery gleam against the blue of the sky and at night it was caught in the purple glow of a searchlight. Human Relations and You
  • Kevin slung the duffel bag over his shoulder and jammed the purple chips into his pockets.
  • In dress, for instance, he sternly banished the purple and gold embroideries, the jewelled arms, and the floating draperies so little in accordance with the-severe character of "_war in procinct_" [Footnote: "_War in procinct_" -- a phrase of The Caesars
  • A geographic race of the common grackle ranging from New England and the western Appalachians to the Rocky Mountains, distinguished from the purple grackle by its deep bronze back.
  • This is the purple polygon, which is a part of the county near Driscoll, which is affected by this. CNN Transcript Jul 23, 2008
  • Nor could be omitted from the purple record the later ancestress, Moya Doolen. CHAPTER VII
  • As for the other colours of the floor locally quarried chert was used for the purple, yellow and coral red tesserae. Stone Studies « Interactive Dig Sagalassos – City in the Clouds
  • Using a mortar and pestle, mix the berries with the muscovado sugar and lime juice, crush roughly and leave to marinade with the purple basil leaves.
  • Bacteriochlorophyll Any of several types of chlorophyll found in photosynthetic bacteria, such as the purple bacteria.
  • They'd stoked and banked the fire for the night, drawn the purple drapes, and put a hot bedpan in between her sheets to warm it ready for her.
  • I thought I needed a break from all the purpleness.
  • From a high dune vantage point one can only look in awe at the purple dappled carpet spread out below.
  • The French privateer Hippolyte de Bouchard, and his henchman, William Evans, who returned much later as the Purple Pirate! THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
  • Reitmeier H, Oesterhelt D (1976) Biosynthesis of the purple membrane of halobacteria. PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles
  • [49]: The purple die is called in I Maccab.iv. 23, _purple of the sea, _ or _sea purple_; it being the blood or juice of a turbinated shell-fish, which the Jews call [Hebrew] _Chalson_; this they speak of as a shell-fish. Female Scripture Biographies, Volume II
  • The purple-striped ‘melumber’ – officially known as the pepino – tastes like a cross between a melon and a cucumber. Fruit That Tastes Like a Cross Between Melon and Cucumber | Impact Lab
  • The sun went all the way down and I was standing in the purple darkness.
  • He tried it on the Purple Crackles that flew in the fields by the blackberry bushes; the little Gold Finches that swayed on the grasses; and the topknotted Kingbirds on the telegraph wires overhead. Half-Past Seven Stories
  • The waysides were bright with the glory of goldenrod, and royal with the purple of asters and ironwort. The Song of the Cardinal
  • The ornamental verbena, sometimes also known as vervain, refers to (among others) Verbena bonariensis, the purple topped tallish plant that has colonised roadways and pasture throughout Australia.
  • In the final section the torero (star matador) engages the bull with his elegance and control, then exchanges the purple and yellow capote (large cape) for the red muleta (smaller cape) and curved sword.
  • Only one or two strayed sometimes to the early arabis, desultory and sad, driven home again by the frosty air to await the purple times of honey. Gone to Earth
  • But a Pentagon-supported service group, the Military Order of the Purple Heart, has strongly opposed expanding the definition to include psychological symptoms, saying it would "debase" the honor. Delaware Watch
  • According to official Defense Department documents, Gen. Pendleton's decorations included four awards of the Silver Star, three awards of the Legion of Merit, three awards of the Distinguished Flying Cross, nine awards of the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart and 44 awards of the Air Medal. Elmer D. Pendleton Jr., Army major general
  • A fine-colored amethyst, the purple variety of quartz, is also mined here.
  • The purple grass-roots, Aescin a flower, Houttuynia, Peucedanum made of extracts, dried and crushed, by adding artificial bezoar and absorbed.
  • 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. The Dwelling Place of Light — Volume 3
  • Cuthbert Gordon credits the development of cudbear in this way; he claimed to find a plentiful source for a certain lichen and, knowing that the purple colors it made are easily destroyed by light, set himself to find a stabilization method. reference Similarly, Jean-Baptiste Pont's descriptions of his inspiration for finding a more efficient dye extraction process was, he claimed, based on knowledge of the high cost of cochineal. reference Other petitions — Johann Carl Barth's for a privilege in Saxony to produce a blue dye from lacmus, for instance — do not mention the discovery process at all but concentrate instead on the economic advantage of the production method and the deliberation that its reworking demanded. 2 The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • I went to the window, and, looking through the purple spikes of the tall old lilacs, which came up in a bower around the open window, I saw Tina alighting from a carriage. Oldtown Folks
  • We can argue the finer points of two vs. three awards of the Purple Heart being deserved or not but there is no doubt that he served in the Navy's riverine forces in one of the most dangerous places on earth at the time – Viet Nam's rivers – and that he repeatedly faced intense close quarters combat. Kerry endorses in PA despite spectre of 'swift boat' tactics
  • We made our way down along a little road, the big worn flints standing up out of the gravel, by brakes of bramble, turf-walls where the ferns grew thick, by bits of wild upland covered with gorse and rusty bracken, and down at last to the tiny hamlet -- four or five low white houses, in little gardens where the escallonia grew thick and glossy, the purple veronica bloomed richly, and the green fleshy mesembryanthemum tumbled and dripped over the fences. Escape, and Other Essays
  • Bring the pan of water back to the boil and cook the linguini for three minutes - it will take on the purple colour.
  • In the final section the torero (star matador) engages the bull with his elegance and control, then exchanges the purple and yellow capote (large cape) for the red muleta (smaller cape) and curved sword.
  • The purple and green ash flowers, which opened like little tassels on the bare twigs, still linger on some trees. Times, Sunday Times
  • Those wearing the Purple Heart are in a unique group that have achieved a kind of sainted status in all U.S. military services. Some Military Perspective On The Walter Reed Hospital Situation
  • Wanderer cast down the bow and turned with a cry to spring on him who had cut the cord, for his eye had caught the sheen of the outstretched spear, Kurri lifted the covering of the purple web which lay upon the bed and deftly cast it over the hero's head so that he was inmeshed. The World's Desire

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