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But, taken as a whole, the play fails, and for three reasons: a faultiness of structure, an obsessiveness of attitude, an empurpling theatricalism.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Greening of America has succeeded in empurpling not a few reviewers and readers with rage.

From Time Magazine Archive

I tied it so tight as I could, fearful also of empurpling the forearm.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson

Twilight was empurpling the hills when they arrived.

From The Pike's Peak Rush Terry in the New Gold Fields by Sabin, Edwin L. (Edwin Legrand)

Binet, his face slowly empurpling, glared at him in speechless stupefaction.

From Scaramouche by Sabatini, Rafael