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Updated: May 22, 2025
Mercifully its loveliness was changeable, losing its pansy purples and gaining glints of gold . . . becoming less a pansy . . . more a face flower-like with compassion. "And now?" wondered Brian when the face came again. "It is morning," said Joan.
This color is in some varieties dark and rich in scarlets, crimsons, and purples, in others dainty and delicate in pink, pearly flesh, almost pure white, and softest rose, while the midway sorts are in brilliant carmines, cherry-reds, lilacs, and intermediate tones too numerous to mention. Nearly all varieties show most magnificent combinations of color that baffle description.
The bride and bridegroom were not young, and the stiff movements with which they yet gladly led the dance, and the quiet, tired merriment of their middle-aged friends, gave the occasion a quality of its own; with which the faded purples of the loosestrife and mallows leaning out above the water on the white walls on the island were somehow in harmony.
She liked the rain, she liked the heavy clouds; she wore her dark purples because she felt a fantastic, secret comfort in calling them her mourning her mourning which she would wear forevermore. No one could know so well as herself how desperate from her own point of view the case was.
It barred the west with golden bands, painted lavish purples and mauves in the hollows, and reddened the everlasting snows on the summits. It deepened the greens of the tamaracks, and made iridescent the foams of the streams tearing downward joyously to the wide rivers below.
Arrayed in a kimono which would have evoked the envy of the empress of Japan, supposing such a gorgeous raiment peacocks and pine-trees, brilliant greens and olives and blues and purples fell under the gaze of that lady's slanting eyes, she sat opposite the Slavonic Jove and smoked her cigarette between sips of coffee. Frequently she smiled.
But now he sits in his chair and works at his toys." The workshop of Franz Stölle was entered through the door of the last hothouse; he had thus always a vista of splashing color red and purples and yellows great stretches, and always with the green to rest his eyes; with the door opened between there came to him the fragrance, and the singing of birds, and the sound of the little stream.
But among mountains, in addition to all this, large unbroken spaces of pure violet and purple are introduced in their distances; and even near, by films of cloud passing over the darkness of ravines or forests, blues are produced of the most subtle tenderness; these azures and purples passing into rose-colour of otherwise wholly unattainable delicacy among the upper summits, the blue of the sky being at the same time purer and deeper than in the plains.
With a loud shout the defending troops arose from a recumbent position to wit, the bath and with deadly accuracy launched the contents of a large bucket of hot water upon the still prostrate foe. "What is the meaning of this monstrous intrusion?" The battle cry of the purples rang through the quivering air. "You s'scoundrel! you impudent s'scoundrel!"
Gobs of paint from the tubes melted into pearly-grays and purples in the middle of his palette to be quickly transposed and placed tone beside tone like a pale mosaic enriched and blended by the soft fingers of Time.
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