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Examples

  • Some frostbite if BLACK or Purplish DO NOT handle it it can self amputate.

    Things I've learned in Cold Weather Training 2010

  • Purplish tears outlined where each of her teeth had cut into my skin.

    Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

  • Some frostbite if BLACK or Purplish DO NOT handle it it can self amputate.

    Things I've learned in Cold Weather Training 2010

  • Purplish tears outlined where each of her teeth had cut into my skin.

    Kings of Colorado David E. Hilton 2011

  • Purplish and sentimental, yes, but to a young man growing up surrounded by the legend of the Revolution, it was stirring, and the sun Forbes wrote of in her fervid way illumined Bloomberg's childhood.

    The Revolutionary 2007

  • On their advice we have instead attempted to seduce our menfolk in Little Grey or Little Sort of Purplish Dresses; aka the New Blacks.

    To Wit, To Woo Ms Robinson 2007

  • Purplish energy pulsed around the oblong shape at the top of the tripod, from which protruded a short crystalline barrel.

    Cadmian's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2006

  • Purplish, high-intensity headlights flank a bulging hood, and Pirelli tires cap larger wheels than one finds on the base STS.

    Forbes.com First Drive: STS-V ©... 2006

  • Purplish pink threads sprang from him, merging into an ugly purple thread that arched away from him toward the northeast.

    Alector's Choice Modesitt, L. E. 2005

  • Purplish circles under her eyes reflected the long hours she kept.

    Terror At Dawn Douglass, Keith 2003

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