In midsummer, when the purple is on the broom, a strange pageant moves on the dim horizon, a shifting mirage of sea and shore, forest, lake, and islands lying high, with ships and castles and spires of distant churchesthe witchery of the heath that speaks in the tales and superstitions of its simple people.

They vary a good deal in colour, but lilac-purple is the typical shade.

purple being a royal monopoly.

Full royal is his retinue, Full purple is his state!

Stiff as my hands were, and purple as were my arms, I could see that they were plump and well shaped.

He drew from the pocket of his gray-check cutaway, purple and fine linen, the purple being an ornate and indecipherable monogram, wherewith to wipe his troubled brow.

Would the Parthenon, for instance, with its beautiful forms,made still more beautiful under its native sky,seeming almost endued with the breath of life, as if its conscious purple were a living suffusion brought forth in sympathy by the enamoured blushes of a Grecian sunset;would this beautiful object even then elevate the soul above its own roof?

From Megara the Bay of Salamis becomes Saronic Gulf, and after an hour or two of its unspeakable beauty we cross over to Corinth and find, if possible, that the blues of the Gulf of Corinth are even more sapphire, that its purples are even more amethyst, that its greens are more emerald than the blues and purples and greens of Salamis.