purpling

• His face purpling, Carstairs pushed the door vigorously inward. —  June, 1943
• I could no longer feel those hands, or the purpling fingers that hung from them. —  Robin Hobb
• He kept his gaze fixed on the purpling, furious face. —  The Dreaming Jewels
• His face purpling, Gray could still commend Ward's strategy. —  A World is Born
• Nowhere else has Browning presented this conception of the man of vast disorderly genius, who sees and approves the better way and splendidly follows the worse Such domineering deity Hephaistos might have carved to cut the brine For his gay brother's prow, imbrue that path Which, purpling, recognised the conqueror It is as if male force, with the lust of the eye, the lust of the flesh, and the pride of life behind it, were met and held in check by the finer feminine force resting for its support upon the divine laws. —  Robert Browning

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