Jolly, round, red Mr. Sun sank down in the west to his bed behind the Purple Hills.
The Purple Hills were more softly purple than at any other season of the year.
Jolly, round, red Mr. Sun had gone to bed behind the Purple Hills, and the Black Shadows had crept out across the Big River.
And never shone As now her eyes her jewels braided on Her gowns of gold and purple and brocade.
His sweet wings are turn by turn The colour of purple and roses, And the crimson sea where uncloses The kiss of the sun.
Under the diadem of rustling pearls And sapphires in their grasp of gold, In yellow hair that undulatingly unfurls Over her shoulders slow and cold, And purple cloak exulting with brocade, The Princess of the Manor's Games and Joys.
And in the jubilant noise Rivers of lightning flame unrolled, And the rich purple torch sheds its delight, And twists its rustling tresses in the night.
Ye floods of purple pour in state, Ripen the morn, and roll men's blood along!
For a canopy above him Rustling twigs a green arch throw, And he wears a royal purple In the evening's mantling glow.
Foul conspirators discrowned him, Tore the radiant purple off, Placing in his hands, for sceptre, Yonder wormy pilgrim-staff.
But when he laid aside his helmet, and in his purple robes bestrode his white horse with its gay caparisons, and reined in its foaming mouth, the daughter of Nisus was hardly mistress of herself; she was almost frantic with admiration.
While the daring youth gazed in admiration, the early Dawn threw open the purple doors of the east, and showed the pathway strewn with roses.
Phoebus, arrayed in a purple vesture, sat on a throne which glittered as with diamonds.
The siege had now lasted six months, and the city still held out, for it was decreed by fate that it should not be taken so long as a certain purple lock, which glittered among the hair of King Nisus, remained on his head.
Full fifty female menials served in household offices, some employed to grind the corn, others to wind off the purple wool or ply the loom.
All thy heavenly bosom beating For the far footsteps of thy mortal lover; The purple midnight veiled that mystic meeting With her most starry canopy.
Near the water grew a lotus plant, full of purple flowers.
The purple blood flowed out from under the rock, but by degrees grew paler and looked like the stream of a river rendered turbid by rains, and in time it became clear.
They breathed a freer air, and saw all objects clothed in a purple light.
Apollo rose, his brow wreathed with Parnassian laurel, while his robe of Tyrian purple swept the ground.
SLEEP HOUSE Tlingit Once a Huna man and his wife were paddling along in a canoe, about midnight, in search of seals.
Tsetsaut A long time ago fire was seen coming through the air from the north.
The purple of twilight was stealing over the land when he and his two companions reached Belle Plain.
Under the leafy arch which canopied them there was already the deeppurple of twilight.
But at last the tops of the tall trees obscured it; it sank quickly then and blazed a ball of fire beyond the Arkansas coast, while its dying glory spread aslant the heavens, turning the flanks of the gray clouds to violet and purple and gold.
The purple flush on the judge's face, where the dignity that belonged to age had gone down in wreck, deepened.
They were now at the top of a long hill, from the summit of which the country fell away till it rose again far off in dark purple ridges of low mountains.
And there I shall find Miss Felicity, looking like the goddess Flora, wandering in those beautiful lily-fields that command a wide sweep of the purple sea.
He threw himself down at her feet, and having selected a cluster of the purple fruit, he held it up admiringly to the light.
They emerged the same evening from the stage-door to view a cloudless sky of pulsing amber, shading into purple at the zenith, melting into rose along the western rim of the world.
He supplied this need; held a match; delayed holding it when it had served its purpose, enraptured with the refulgent wonder of that cameo of sweet flesh and blood set against the melting shadows, silver and purple and blue.
The sunlight, falling down the shaft between the hemlocks, flooded it with a softened light and made the forest round about look like deep purple velvet.
Sometimes, at the coming of a storm, a whip-lash of purple cloud, full of electric agility, snapped along the western horizon.
The young people stretched out in long wicker chairs in the shade of a tree covered with purple flowers.
He who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.
I heard one say ‘his eyes grow dim With all the ancient sorrow of men’; And wrapped in dreams rode out again With hoofs of the pale findrinny Over the glimmering purple sea: Under the golden evening light.
One gathers up his purple gown; One leans and mutters by the wall— He dreads the weight of mortal hours.
The doctor carried with him a bunch of purple grapes, which he laid before her.
As usual, however, the mercury began to climb with the sun and when at mid-morning, they entered a huge purple depression in the desert, coats were peeled and gloves discarded.
To the east, vivid against the blue sky, rose a solitary mountain peak, a true purple in color, capped with snow.
It was purple dusk now, by the river, with the castellated tops of butte and mountain molten gold in the evening sun.
Here a stratum of dull purple projected horizontally from the black face of the butte.
The purple stratum continued its way to a depression wide enough to give Enoch sitting room.
The trail rose, very gradually, wound around a number of multi-colored peaks and paused at last at the foot of a smooth-faced, purple butte.
But to the left, the south canyon wall terraced back at perhaps a thousand feet in a series of magnificent strata, yellow, purple and crimson.
On all sides the Blue Ridge lifts the modest heights of its purple hills.
He wore a purple or pale blue hunting-shirt, and trousers of the same material fringed with white.
She was dressed as a Phœnician, in a purplerobe embroidered with silver, and wore a necklace composed of three rows of gold beads and gold ornaments of elaborate design.
They were accompanied by two men, each leading a superb bullock covered with purple housings, and with their horns decorated by fillets of embroidery, to which were attached little bells, which tinkled as they moved.
An attendant, gorgeously attired, held over the King's head a purple canopy embroidered with gold and richly jewelled; behind him could be seen the glittering helmets and cuirasses of his body-guard.
From whom does the Assyrian seek his purple and glass, his ivory and embroidery?
I shall only be too pleased to build myself a mansion upon the sea-shore where I can enjoy my pleasure-boat as it glides along with its purple sails, and so to pass my days in ease and luxury.
The red face of the trapper flamed into purple and his lips opened for an oath.
Purple dusk was thick upon the underworld of lesser growth beneath the towering woods.
The purple violet and the marigold should as a carpet hang upon her grave, while summer days did last.
Titania, opening her eyes, and the juice of the little purple flower beginning to take effect: "are you as wise as you are beautiful?
He had passed through acres of yellowing gorse, of purple heather and mossy turf, fragrant with the aromatic perfume of sun-baked herbiage.
The clouds were brilliant in purple and gold, and through the pale, rose-tinged air the evening star shone clear and bright.
His coarse mouth was open, his purple nose, thrown thus into prominence, was grotesque, his filthy waistcoat rose and stretched and fell as his flabby paunch inflated with his breathing.
Long after Marriott had gone, Elizabeth sat by her window and looked out into the night; above the trees the stars glowed in a purple sky.
The dull yellow folds were full of it; his gray hat, pulled low over his purple ears, was heaped with it.
The sun was piling gorgeous masses of purple and crimson clouds high about him, cuddling his fat cheeks against their soft folds till, a Midas, he turned them to gold at the touch.
Those farther away gloomed jealously at the favoritism of their lord, and huddled closer together--the purple for rage, perhaps; and the crimson for shame!
When you enter its portals all discriminations vanish, and Hodge and his master, the prince and the pauper, are alike clothed in the royal purple and inherit the same golden realm.
But the kings in their heavy gold and the proud in their robes of purple will all of their nature sink downwards, for pride cannot rise to levity or levitation.
The optimist could pour out all the praise he liked on the gay music of the march, the golden trumpets, and the purple banners going into battle.
The surface of this main land-sea is black in the gloom, and green in the glimmer, and purple in the light, and crimson in the sunshine.
There, all was purple except what was green--and we were happy to be a heather-legged body, occasionally skipping like a grasshopper on turf.
Ay, well-nigh quarter of a century has elapsed since we pitched this self-same snow-white Tent amid thepurple heather, by the Linn of Dee.
About as much so as an ant-hill, prettily grass-grown and leaf-strewn, is a mountain purple with heather and golden with woods.
But the dark heather with its purple bloom sleeps in sombre shadow over wide regions of dusk, and there is an austere character in the cliffs.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purple" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
