Her small face was smaller; there was a tinge of green in its honey-whiteness, and of mauve in the dull rose of her mouth.

I fear it would not do for the office boy dispatching a parcel to choose his stamps with a view to colour; to prefer the tender mauve of the sixpenny to the crude scarlet of the penny stamp.

"You told me, the night I dined with you at Glastonbury House, that you loved mauve as a color and that violets were your favorite flower.

I shall have cream, and you, Mary, as Elaine, must have white; but Emily had better have that mauve for Enid, as she was married.

Augustus had placed himself next the purple lady, and his face grew a gray mauve with excitement at her gracious glances.