"Purple-blue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... orderly array. Stretching away from the shore is the bay, lying calm and unruffled under the summer sky, except when its glassy surface is rippled by the dip of an oar or churned into froth by the restless pulsations of a passing steamer. Across the bay the hills rise beautiful and purple-blue through the evening glow, throwing out encircling arms around the villages dotted thick and white along their base, as the arms of a mother are open wide to ...
— Two Little Travellers - A Story for Girls • Frances Browne Arthur
... hand he gingerly held a quaint little Indian basket, gaily stained, and inwoven with sweet-scented grass. It was heaped with great yellow peaches, each with a crimson cheek, while, flung carelessly among them, were clusters of grapes in their perfection, purple-blue and whitish-green, promising ...
— Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... scentless, wild wood-violet,—she had been cultured to something larger. The violet nature was there, colored and shaped more richly, and gifted with rare fragrance—for those whose delicate sense could perceive it. The very face was a pansy face; with its deep, large, purple-blue eyes, and golden brows and lashes, the color of her hair,—pale gold, so pale that careless people who had perception only for such beauty as can flash upon you from a crowd, or across a drawing-room, said hastily that she had no brows ...
— A Summer in Leslie Goldthwaite's Life. • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... for he punctuated his cropping of the grass with glances towards the mountains. The Eagles were growing out of the night, turning from purple-grey to purple-blue, to daintiest lavender mist in the hollows and rosy light on the peaks, and last the full morning came over the sky at a step and the day wind rose ...
— Alcatraz • Max Brand
... streaks the little lake, Sharp purple-blue; the birches, thin And silvery, crowd the edge, yet break To let ...
— Rose and Roof-Tree - Poems • George Parsons Lathrop |
