As the weeks go on the flowers multiply and the deep blues and purples of the hills, turning to azure and violet, creep higher toward the narrowing snow-line of the Sabines.
The sky was tremendously blue, and the little stunted bushes on the snow- streaked slopes were all dyed with autumnal purples and crimsons.
The deep green shading into purples and blues of the distant woodlands!
And Serafino, seeing these things done, disappeared, leaving Isabel and me to dine together under this clear sky with the green of the lovely plain spread out before us to the purples of the hills.
On a ground-work of burning red were piled, height upon height, deep ridges of purples and of crimsons.
The sun sank swiftly, the celestial fires paled, the purples grew faint and died, and, where they had been, night trailed her sombre plumes across the sea and sky.
On the far western walls, rich purples and reds appeared.
If the rains are just over, the rough rocks will be entirely covered and hidden by a gorgeous growth of sunflowers and lupines, the yellows and purples making a carpet that, in the brilliant sunlight, fairly dazzles the eye.
But the mind is prone to unite them in order to produce the red-purples which we see in clouds at sunset, in flowers and grapes and the amethyst.
Then let us say that all the reds we have ever seen are gathered in one of the sections, all yellows in another, all greens in the third, blues in the fourth, and purples in the fifth.
Special care should be taken with such colors as purples and browns, that too much oil is not used in mixing.
Gold and tin are used as the basis for pinks, roses, carmines, blues, purples and violets.
The morning purples all the sky, The air with praises rings; Defeated hell stands sullen by, The world exulting sings.
The snow was gone from the hills now; the colors were again radiant, the blues and purples and greens and reds vying, it seemed, with one another, in a constantly recurring contest of beauty.
The stained glass-- especially that which surmounted the altar--contained those rich satisfying purples and deep deep crimsons which only go with age.
In front of them a great rose-window of stained glass, splendid with rich purplesand crimsons, shone through a subdued and reverent gloom.
From one may come purples, reds, and whites; from another only purples and reds; from another purples and whites alone; whilst a fourth will breed true to purple.
A touch of gold from the setting sun still lingered on the painted windows, touching to a deeper tone the blues and purples in the classic folds of Clio's drapery.
The dull gold on the massive ornaments and in the frescoes shone out here and there, thrown into relief by the more sombre purples and blues of their surroundings.
Round thee blow, self-pleached deep, Bramble Roses, faint and pale, And Long Purples of the dale.
The name of Dead Men's Fingers still lingers in a few places, but Long Purples has been transferred to a very different plant.
Under the grey glare of the sky the soft purples of the bare trees and hedges became a rough darkness without quality.
The purples are mixtures of red and violet or of red and blue.
Illustration] The purples as glazes are no less rich in variations, and in these tints the Chinese have never been rivalled.
Greens of many hues, blues in various shades, all kinds of reds and yellows, purples and browns gave to this class great variety and brilliancy.
The reds and purples of ecclesiastical stained glass stimulate the passion of adoration, the blues deepen it, and the yellows seem to offer a glimpse of heavenly bliss.
Such are certain purples and reds, certain greens and blues.
This cavern was of the richest emerald green, light and clear at the edges, but toning away into the deepest purples and blues at the back.
The stuff was thick and leathery, but it was magnificently tinted in purples and yellows.
Yellows and reds and purples reared toward the zenith.
Cool clear purples of the typical ponticum class, both dark and light, grouped with lilac-whites, such as Album elegans and Album grandiflorum.
Purples and lilacs I can put together, but not these with blues; and the pure blues always seem to demand peculiar and very careful treatment.
But the purples that are most effective are merely ponticum seedlings, chosen when in bloom in the nursery for their depth and richness of cool purple colour.
There are purples and greens in those windows at which you might gaze through a dozen sermons; but there is one robe of burning, translucent orange that would light a cathedral.
In July and August the glades of the Abinger woods, like the woods about Byfleet and Woking, gleam with the pinks and purples of rosebay.
Pine trees stand round the open space of the hill; bluebells in May spread a film under them; beyond the grasses, heather and ling die from August purples to the bronze of autumn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purples" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
