purple

Example Sentences

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AS the vine flourishes, and the grape empurples close up to the very walls and muzzles of cannoned Ehrenbreitstein; so do the sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

Arise, then, Zamperina, Day grows old, The Shepherd pipes his sundered Flocks to Fold, Your Garments quail and ripple in the Chill, Your pagan Nose empurples with the Cold.

From The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr. by Irwin, Wallace

It was not the blue of the hyacinth gleaming in the forest glade, nor the modest violet that empurples the path.

From The White Gauntlet by Reid, Mayne

These blithe musicians accompany the soft air that bares the fields, empurples the buds, and fans the bloom of the first squirrelcups and sets the hyla's shrill chime a-ringing.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)