empurpled

Inward the stars faded in an empurpled sky.

He looked at the pastel plain, dotted with trees and rich with life; he saw the empurpled, distant mountains.

The boys held fast at attention, shields at high port, with the blood beginning to cake dry on their empurpled cheekbones and shattered noses.

That was a burly man in a butcher's apron, red-faced and indignant, sporting a swollen and empurpled eye.

From them poured an empurpled mass of flame, so that the dawn sky was laced with a kaleidoscope of hellish colors.

Athelstan pointed to the three dangling figures, trying to ignore their empurpled faces, black protruding tongues, popping eyes and stained breeches.

Like the sky behind it, the structure is painted with large brushstrokes, sumptuously appointed with an orange sky, pink clouds and an empurpled mountain range.

William Holman Hunt's biblical rendering of "The Scapegoat," cast out upon the desert against a backdrop of empurpled mountains, has a taxidermic look.

The air was spiced with incense, and the strip of empurpled sky above was so regularly patterned with stars that it looked like a banner draped between the roofs.

His novels - however denigrated by critics as empurpled froths of "virgins, villains and varmints" - were only part of the allure that fixed his name in the hearts of millions of Americans.

O rosy star Within thy sky of ebony shot through With hints of blue More golden and more far Than earthly stars and flowers That beam lasciviously through night's empurpled hours!

Gazing, entranced, adown the gorgeous vista, And thrilling as I see, upon the right, Upon the left, and all the way along, Amid empurpled vapors, far away To where the prospect terminates- thee only.

But John Bruckman did not hear, for, with a convulsion that spattered foam from his empurpled lips and tore one of the bloody spikes out of the wood, the life went out of him in one great cry.

The empurpled vines dear memories of Thee bring: A bird at evening flying to its nest, Tells me of One who had no place of rest: I think it is of Thee the sparrows sing.

Beyond the enclosure of the city the great verdant plains stretched out, bordering the Loire, and appeared to run towards the empurpled horizon, which was cut by the azure of the waters and the dark green of the marshes.

The gathering shadows whispered subtle lyrics in our cars ; the scents of spring conveyed superb imaginations to our senses ; the sunset squandered its last scarlet on the sea, and the empurpled night began to burst into blossom of starlight.

His empurpled jowls quivered for a moment, then he abandoned the attempt, turned on his heel, and made off, swerving narrowly to avoid an incoming footman with a tray of drinks, and caroming off the doorjamb as he passed into the corridor.

Trains of pochteca had for some time been coming into Te-nochtftlan from Uaxyacac, bearing flasks of purple dye and skeins of empurpled yam which they had purchased legitimately from the collected stock of the Bishosu Kosi Yuela.

So saying from the court we paced, and gained The terrace ranged along the Northern front, And leaning there on those balusters, high Above the empurpled champaign, drank the gale That blown about the foliage underneath, And sated with the innumerable rose, Beat balm upon our eyelids.

It was clear to Fafhrd that while he and the Gray Mouser had idly boozed in the Eel, Vlana had been giving Ivrian a doubtless empurpled account of her grievances against the Guild and playing mercilessly on the naive girl's bookish, romantic sympathies and high concept of knightly honor.

By moving my aching head to the left I could look down into the oily water; by moving it to the right I could catch a glimpse of the empurpled face of Inspector Weymouth, who, similarly bound and gagged, lay beside me, but only of the feet and legs of Nayland Smith.

Ross himself both praised and criticised Kendall's work, stating: "Although the author admits that at times he goes beyond the facts and 'reconstructs'..., and in spite of an empurpled prose style which tends to enhance his partisanship, the book is soundly based on a wide range of primary sources, for which it shows a proper respect."