bluish-violet

The bluish-violet and yellow flowers of the last dwarf iris were fading but still colorful, and fernleaf peonies were in full bloom.

The Mammoth Hunters Auel, Jean M. 1985

I waited patiently until the laboured stertorous whooping sound dropped to a mere gasping wheeze and his complexion ran through the spectrum from a bluish-violet colour to what would have been a becomingly healthy pink had I not known that his normal complexion more resembled the colour of old newspaper.

Puppet on a Chain MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1969

These products are non-crystalline bodies easily soluble in water, and are coloured bluish-violet by ferric chloride and precipitate gelatine.

Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

Nature has anticipated man's discovery and made the fine bluish-violet

A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public Frank Bertram Wade

The shade obtained in the above recipe is of a bluish-violet hue, if a jet black be wanted, add

The Dyeing of Woollen Fabrics Franklin Beech

On account of the presence of a free phenolic group they give a coloration with ferric chloride; if the phenolic group occupies the _o_-position to carboxyl, the coloration with ferric chloride is red or bluish-violet Excess of dilute alkali resolved all didepsides into their components at ordinary temperatures.

Synthetic Tannins Georg Grasser

Suddenly the shelling ceased and the Skylark was enveloped by a blinding glare from hundreds of great reflectors; an intense, searching, bluish-violet light that burned the flesh and seared through eyelids and eyeballs into the very brain.

The Skylark of Space Lee Hawkins Garby 1922

_Flower-heads_ -- Composite, daisy-like, 1 to 1-1/2 in. across; the outer circle of about 50 pale bluish-violet ray florets; the disk florets greenish yellow.

Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891

(Heb. achlamah) a subspecies of quartz of a bluish-violet color.

Smith's Bible Dictionary 1884

As the _Astronef_ fell towards the surface of Ganymede she crossed his northern pole, and the nearer they got the plainer it became that a light very like the terrestrial Aurora was playing about it, illuminating the thin, yellow clouds with a bluish-violet light, which made magnificent contrasts of colouring amongst them.

A Honeymoon in Space George Chetwynd Griffith 1881