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  • In the spring it sprouts enormous flat flower heads called cymes that start out with pink buds, open to white blooms and finally create dark-purple berries.

    Tough Love, Garden Style 2010

  • I was wearing a long black brocade dress with a corset over it, and a tightly-buttoned, high-necked jacket over that ... topped with slicked-down hair and tiny, dark-purple sunglasses.

    Norwescon in a nutshell lithera 2007

  • The swelling had gone down, but a dark-purple bruise ran from under his right arm to below his waist.

    Missionaries 2007

  • The swelling had gone down, but a dark-purple bruise ran from under his right arm to below his waist.

    Missionaries 2007

  • The sword was light and well balanced, but what was most intriguing was the faint trace of crackling dark-purple energy that could be seen flickering along its striking edge.

    The Overload Protocol Mark Walden 2009

  • The swelling had gone down, but a dark-purple bruise ran from under his right arm to below his waist.

    Missionaries 2007

  • The sword was light and well balanced, but what was most intriguing was the faint trace of crackling dark-purple energy that could be seen flickering along its striking edge.

    The Overload Protocol Mark Walden 2009

  • The bed was a large one, with a dark-purple, velvety cover smoothed over it.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • The bed was a large one, with a dark-purple, velvety cover smoothed over it.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • The bed was a large one, with a dark-purple, velvety cover smoothed over it.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

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