Gradually, it darkened, from copper to copper-red, and from this, at times, to a deep, heavy, purplish tint, with, in it, a strange loom of blood.

He smileda bright, contented happy smileas Rosa knelt, sobbing, by his side, and, opening his jacket, baring the blood-stained shirt, plucked a purplish rose from the bleeding bosom.

" I promised extra caution on the second point, and had just closed the lower doorAaron was already holding the gate open for mewhen the softly purplish bands of hair came again into the wind.

Also, between the inner ring and the planet, with a power of 500, I discerned what appeared to be a dark purplish ring, semi-transparent, so that through it the bright surface of Saturn might be discerned as through a veil.

"Out of several hundred observed by Mr. Bishop, forty-five have small companions of a bluish, or greenish, or purplish color.

Their waters have a peculiar purplish tinge, which passes away after it stands a while, and a delicate aroma like a fragrant toilet water.

"It is a rich, purplish brown sprinkled with silver-tipped hairs, and the skins are very costly.

"He came again, however,not the next day, but the day after,and was rewarded by a glimpse of a white cap with bows which seemed at that distance of a purplish colour.

You must understand that he had no foolish illusions concerning the white cap and purplish ribbonsthe Mademoiselle Henriette, as he discovered she was called.

The Blanc de Fedora had been a brilliant success for the first two hours: after that the warm room began to tell upon it, and there came a greasiness, then a streakiness, and now all that was left of an alabaster skin was a livid patch of purplish paint here and there, upon a crow's-foot ground.

There was another with game: how the light flickered on that pheasant's breast, with the purplish blood dripping over the brown feathers!

"I wanted you so much," she said; "if I had only had you long ago, life would have been changed," she whispered again, as Sophie turned to listen to some pretty nonsense that the grave minister poured into her ears through those windings of softly purplish hair.

Long, luxuriant bands of softly purplish hair lay within, upon the place of sacrifice.

M. Coquenil had reached this point in his musings when he caught sight of a red-faced man, with a large purplish nose and a suspiciously black mustache (for his hair was gray), coming forward from the prefecture to meet him.

Ma Werner straightened painfully and her over-flushed face took on a purplish tinge.

The jungle-moon quite often has that peculiar purplish tint, most travellers know, but few of them indeed ever try to tell what causes it.

Under the doorways disappeared grave Moorish horsemen, trailing long garments fastened at the head in a ball of whiteness, or garbed in purplish mantles, with sharp pointed hoods that gave them the aspect of bearded, crimson-clad monks.

He had long lank legs, long arms, hands, and fingers, and a very long sickly face, with a drooping nose, and a sly, sarcastic leer, and a great purplish stain over-spreading more than half of one cheek.

The lips he had kissed were a purplish white in her thin bloodless face.

Dat side of her face is all blue er purplish en jes the shape of a liver.

"You swear that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so-help-you-God?" Swift, his purplish eyes wide and clear and honest as the gaze of a baby, calmly affirmed that he did.

Around the lake arose little hills of the same beauty and verdure as our Berkshires, with the exception that these hills possessed a certain purplish, bluish haze with a gray mist over them, which gave to their colouring the same softness that a woman imparts to her complexion when she wears white chiffon under a black lace veil.

Pinfeathers are an indication of a young bird; older fowls are apt to have sharp scales, long hairs, long, thin necks, and flesh with a purplish tinge.

A middle-aged man with dropsy in his limbs, and with the bloated face of the drunkard; "dull, thick, silent-looking lips, of purplish red scarce redder than the skin; pale blue eyes tending to a watery greyness, leaden, vague, sad, but with angry streakings of red; something inexpressibly sad, gloomy, helpless, vacant, and debased in the whole face.

The sun went in, and it resumed its purplish appearance, the twigs still yielding to the wind, but not so visibly to us.