empurpled

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose?

We don’t need no stinking rules « Write Anything 2010

"Turning 50 is a cause for sombre reflection, not celebration," opined Norris and, as a flurry of firemen attempted to free her empurpled cranium, shame descended once more.

World Of Lather 2011

I seem to see the spears of mighty horsemen flash golden in the light; empurpled banners flame afar, and the low thunder of marching hosts thrills with the thunder of the sea.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars.

DARKWATER W.E.B. DU BOIS 2004

Charles pointed at the largest of the humpy islands that had once been empurpled in the sunset.

Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

Night fell, though even from our balcony we could see little of the empurpled sky, nothing at all of the stars, Allie and Ta-Den dressing up in glitter, riding the elevator down and running out onto the casino floor with glad cries, cries of _Slots!

New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose?

10 Rules for Writers: Top 10s from the Guardian's Top 10s Omnivoracious 2010

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose?

Shelfari: Omnivoracious 2010

The Minotaur lumbered across a rusty bog empurpled with heather.

Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

The big production paintings, like Winter Timber (2008) — actually many separate canvases fitted together in postproduction — are stagy, and you may tire of its empurpled sweetness.

The Unconfounding Delight of David Hockney 2009