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There are also creams available at make up counters that reduce the look of red or purplish marks.
And luxuriant foliage is no longer just apple green but ranges from purplish blue to green splashed with white.
In this specimen, limonite contributes to the bright central arc, while fine spherules of hematite suffuse the quartz with a purplish hue.
She waved her hand yet again and opened a purplish rift in the air that glowed with uncertainty.
The lifts had closed, the punters had gone, the domain was ours and a lambent, purplish light settled on the silent mountain.
Ploughman's Spikenard is a tall, but rather plain plant with purplish stems and dull yellow flowers.
When her gaze skated past mine, I noticed purplish half-moons under her eyes.
I could tell because there were a couple of wisps of purplish smoke wafting around the light fixtures a minute after I said it.
The opium poppy is an annual herb with an erect stem, having a solitary flower that is white, red, or purplish, depending on the cultivar.
It is an evergreen or semi-evergreen multi-stemmed shrub with lance shaped leaves that are purplish when young and flushed with colour in autumn.
Indeed the roses made of purplish painted aluminium foil have a sick irradiated glow.
Across one large wall, a purplish strand of smoke pulsated and contracted, cohering into a monstrous head.
At his nether lip begins a dark purplish bruise that spreads to a little lower down almost reaching his chin.
This is a really attractive plant with dark purplish, green, crinkled leaves and sweet smelling lilac purple flowers, it is well worth growing.
Orchids there use their purplish pink flowers and strong scent to dupe queen bumblebees into thinking the plants harbor nectar.
A purplish, long, vaguely cylindrical ship shot up into the air, and rammed him full broadside.
Varieties with bluish or purplish leaves are hardier than those with greener leaves.
Pretty clouds are being bruised purplish over mountains by the gathering rush of night.
You may have been in an Italian restaurant where chefs use the purplish fruit in the popular dish eggplant parmesan.
More than one minute in the toner causes the prints to turn an unpleasant purplish color.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The so-called almandine garnets of the jeweler are frequently of the almandite class and tend to purplish red.
With the buboes and carbuncles, small red purplish spots, frequently appear on the body.
While its stipes are purplish, its leaves are bluish-green, and its scales light-brown or yellow.
The purplish pink of the redbud trees was thick in clumps on the hillsides.
Exposure to ammoniacal fumes, or even handling it much with the fingers, changes its red to a crimson or purplish hue.
In autumn the yellow, channelled midribs turn red, and all the blades to purplish crimson, and this color stays a long time.
The mucous membrane of the pharynx will be diffusely red or purplish and shiny.
A heavy purplish vapor in the crucible condensed on the walls into black, flakey crystals.
White or palest rose of sepal and petal, the latter marked with purplish lines at the base.
The ovary makes a purplish dot in the center, surrounded by curling, yellow anthers, with threadlike filaments united at base.
The purplish white summer flowers are followed by fleshy blue-black berries.
It was a bright fire, but it made no difference to the chill-looking purplish tint of Mrs.
The man's purplish red face, his heavy eyelids, the nervous twitchings, all spoke of his addiction to drink.
Their essential constituents are olivine and purplish augite.
Fitzgerald's face was purplish, from many memories of wrongs.
And the dark purplish brown of the ploughed earth and of the bare branches is beautiful too.
The greenish margin and purplish center will mark the plant.
Was it his imagination, or had the purplish ink begun to fade?
He clenched the pistol so tight that his nails turned of a purplish blue.
There are three stamens and the anthers are pale or purplish.
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