purple-green

• “The muted purple-green color of the sage was interspersed with patches of wild-flowers, the brilliant crimsons and scarlets of Indian paintbrush, firecracker penstemon, and scarlet gilia.”

  Simon & Schuster: Western Man

• “Around small pastures the leaves on hazel bushes are already turning yellow and, on untrimmed hawthorn and blackthorn, there are reddening haws and purple-green sloes.”

  The Guardian: Country diary: St Stephens-by-Saltash

• “Outside, in the weird purple-green light, a raggedy man swept across the promenade, arms and legs flailing like the limbs of a boneless doll.”

  Fictionaut: New Race

• “Almost one entire length of wall was taken up by a series of mullioned windows that offered the most spectacular views across the water to the purple-green archipelago of the Inner Hebrides, to Jura and Islay and Mull.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Edge of Madness

• “There's nothing more exciting than a purple-green sky sporting a rotating wall cloud.”

  Archive 2008-04-01

• “As the sky lightened from purple-green to green-tinged silver, he looked to the north and the waiting pteridons, and then at the sky.”

  Cadmian's Choice

• “The winter sun had already set, and the silver-green sky had rapidly begun to fade into a deep purple-green.”

  Darkness

• “Certainly, the purple-green jungles of Bajor slid by at a more leisurely rate.”

  Simon & Schuster: Captain’s Peril

• “From her roost the water hen stretched out her purple-green sleek neck, the kingfisher's quick glance shook droplets from his crown, and I thought love would always be that brilliant on the wing and wild.”

  From the Greek

• “These feathers were black and red and purple-green, not just black.”

  The Ringworld Throne

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