amaranthine
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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2019
No Christian life is broken short off so, but rises in a symmetrical shaft, and its capital is garlanded with amaranthine flowers in heaven.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
Faith, amaranthine flower of, 662. for modes of, 663. has centre everywhere, 661. if, produce no works, 660. saddest thing, to lose, 571.
From Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
Robes by earthly dust unsullied—crowns of amaranthine flowers, Every bright celestial glory—wedded to the gods, enjoy.
From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman
Shall the patriots and soldiers of '76, the "Immortal Band," as history styles them, meet again in the amaranthine bowers of spotless purity, of perfect bliss, of eternal glory?
From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by William Holmes McGuffey
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