They are all shapes and sizes and their colours speak of history: silvery-white interruptions of tanned skin or the purpled darkness of ageing or the pale, rosy, healthy pink of healing or dead-red dotted lines, perforated borders not letting John come apart.— Wraithbait
Well done standing committee of Albany for representing the little, non-purpled people.— Stand Firm
There have not been many more moments this season when Ferguson has been more em-purpled, and he was still bickering with the fourth official, Alan Wiley, long after the game had moved on.— The Guardian World News

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