A sudden or rapidly developed attack is generally unfavorable, especially when the symptoms are adynamic and there is a purplish discoloration of the skin.
The rash, which disappears upon pressure to return when the pressure is removed, is of a more or less rosy red, with a tendency in some to deep red, and has occasionally a purplish hue.
Vibices and extensive ecchymoses of the surface are of much more grave import, and in cases where fatal sinking is threatened they may appear accompanying a purplish lividity of the countenance.
In addition to being enlarged, if death has taken place before the end of the second week the glands are hyperæmic and of a purplish color.
It consists of numerous spots of irregular form with ill-defined margins and of a dark red or purplish color, occurring singly or in groups, and varying in size from that of a pin's point to two or three lines in diameter.
In the Geneva epidemic of 1805 a considerable number of cases at the point of death presented purplish spots, some earlier than this, and some after death only.
A preternaturally slow and compressible pulse implies danger, and so does coolness of the skin, especially if it grows purplish from a diffusion of blood beneath it or even from venous stasis.
The color is of a pale rosy red, quite difficult to describe, but less purplishthan in measles, and not so livid a red as in scarlatina.
In some examples there is purplishbrown scrawling, which suggests the Redwing type.
The eggs of this species, four to six in number, are usually of a pale smoky gray color, and upon this ground appear curious and intricate scrawlings of purplish black, as tho made by a fine pen, held unsteadily while the egg was twirled.
With the buboes and carbuncles, small red purplish spots (petechiae), frequently appear on the body.
It has either a scarlet or purplish cast, according to the heat to which it has been exposed.
Purplish green on the back, with blue perpendicular stripes fading into the silvery sides; fins, dark purple.
Her hair, of purplish blackness, gives effect to the creamy tints of her complexion, and heightens the damask tinge of the beautifully-rounded cheeks.
The bark being smooth and of a purplish hue, the tree has an agreeable effect among others in all kinds of plantations of the watery tribe.
The branches are well clad with leaves, and are covered when young with a purplish bark, with white spots.
The stems of the Mountain-Ash are covered with a smooth gray bark, and the branches, while young, have a smooth purplish bark.
The purplish color which, however, characterizes the chlorides, is more inclined to greenish with the bromides.
The assay will soon be enveloped by a blue or purplish flame.
Next I heard many men in violent fits of coughing; I heard some groan and fall; but who or how many died by the purplish poison intended for me, I never knew.
The eggs have a light clay-colored ground, marked with obscure blotches of lavender and darker lines, dots, and blotches of purplish brown.
Far behind me I saw a dull, purplish smudge growing swiftly smaller and merging into the blue sky behind it.
Floating downwards from a great height there came a purplish patch of vapour, small as I saw it first, but rapidly enlarging as it approached me, until it appeared to be hundreds of square feet in size.
The eggs of this species are white with a roseate tinge in unblown specimens, and are marked with spots of reddish and purplish brown, varying in size and number, but chiefly collected about the larger end.
The male is readily identified, and may be known by the intense warmth of his bronzy, purplish or violet dress.
Beyond these swelling domes and gables, and ridges of green and gray, were lifted the noble pyramids of the Spanish Peaks, their angles well defined in varying tints of purplish blue, and their grand old heads sustained in generous rivalry.
In a closely guarding circle of purplish peaks, stand two isolated mountains of entirely different character and most striking appearance.
Capillitium none, or very imperfectly developed; spores of some shade of brown, rarely purplish III.
Specimens before us from the same latitude are dusky indeed; no clear brown at all, but purplish withal.
Sporangia clear brown or with only a purplish tinge, the stipe tapering upward, and in extreme cases perfectly white at the twisted apex.
At the time it is laid, the egg is pale olive green, but it changes to shining reddish, and just before hatching to purplish black.
I have one example of this form from the Isle of Hoy, and another specimen from the same locality is somewhat similar, but the spots are not so well separated, and are purplish in colour.
In another ochreous form the cross bands are of a purplish tint (ab.
The ground colour of the fore wings is purplish brown, sometimes becoming greyish on the outer area; the space between the dark brown or blackish cross bands is sometimes filled up with the darker colour.
The caterpillar is purplish grey, marked with paler and darker; two warts on the back of rings 7-10, the middle pair the largest and most prominent.
Esper, the purplishcolour of the bands spreads over the orange central area, and in ab.
The caterpillar is variable, but generally some shade of green, occasionally purplish red; lines on the sides yellowish, and sometimes there are dusky purplish marks on the back.
The latter is brownish, mottled with purplish above, and inclining to greenish below; head, rather paler brown.
The long caterpillar is green, with three purplish lines along the back, the central one wider and more distinct than the others; the head is purple.
The fore wings are darker in some specimens than in others, and very rarely, in connection with a change in the hind wings from red to brownish, there has been a purplish tinge over all the wings.
All the wings are of a rusty ochreous colour, sometimes, chiefly in the male, inclining to a purplish tint on the fore wings; the brownish cross lines are usually most distinct in the female, which sex Hubner figured as pinetaria.
The ground colour is paler in some specimens than in others, and there is variation in the amount of purplish speckling, in the purplish clouding following the second line, and in the submarginal series of purplish marks of the fore wings.
In colour the original Ralph Wood examples are lightpurplish throbbing brown in the pulpit and desk, and carved cherubs, green in the canopy behind the vicar, and who has a white cassock, and the coat of Moses is a slatey blue.
Earlier specimens have a purplish or dull yellow lead glaze at back of dish.
The breast and lower parts are white, the wings purplish brown, and the tail partly of the same color, with the two middle tail-feathers of vivid green.
In the same way, the beautiful asters of our woods, with their flowers of yellow or purplish disks, and lovely rays of white or purple, as large as roses, let their little fruits fly away from their heads as soon as ripe and dry.
Her little round grey eyes almost started from their red sockets, and her nose assumed a purplish hue, which was beautifully heightened by the cadaverous tint of her cheeks.
The flower stalk rises through the center developing a drooping spike, the flowers in short rows in the axils of its large purplish bracts.
The bark of the young branches has a purplish color; in Java it is considered a good emetic.
She looked paler than formerly, and a purplish shade dimmed the brilliancy of her dazzling eyes.
It brought back so vividly the day when she received it--six or seven years ago, the lazy September day, when the Chicopee hills wore the purplish light of early autumn, and the air was full of golden sunshine.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purplish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: amethystine; lavender; livid; magenta; mauve; purple; violet
