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This species, is also worthy of culture, whether for the ornamental flowers or fruit. It is a shrub 6 feet high, bearing an abundance of spotted, oval red berries on long footstalks. Quite hardy. E. MACROPHYLLA. Japan. This is of robust growth, with handsome, dark green leaves, and purplish branch tips.
The tourist is recommended to see the sunrise here, either from within the temple where it falls on a certain altar erected by Rameses in his own honour, or from without where another Power takes charge. The stars had paled when we began our watch; the river birds were just whispering over their toilettes in the uncertain purplish light.
Standing here, he could discern beyond the buildings to the right the faint purplish outlines of great rounded hills. Some workmen, one of them bearing a torch, were crouching along under the side of the train, pounding upon the resonant wheels with small hammers. He recalled having heard the same sound in the watches of the night, during a prolonged halt. Some one had said it was Albany.
And as he thus dressed an imaginary manikin, hanging ropes of heavy stones, purplish or milky crystals, cloudy uncut gems, over the slashed corsage, a woman slipped in, filled the robe, swelled the bodice, and thrust her head under the two-horned steeple-headdress. From behind the pendent lace smiled the composite features of the unknown and of Mme. Chantelouve.
The climb before him he knew in part, for this was the path the wolverines had followed on their two other escapes. A few moments of tricky scrambling and he was out in a cuplike depression choked with brush covered with the purplish foliage of Warlock.
Besides, the leaves were lanceolate, velvety on the surface, and of purplish colour; and the flowers were of an exceedingly sweet scent as is the case with all the daphnads. I did not think of examining them at the time; but, now that I recall these characteristics, I feel almost certain that the shrubs were of this genus." "Do you think you can find the thicket again?" "Oh! yes, easily enough.
She could not take her eyes from the haggard, heavily-lined face, so unlike the blithe, youthful one she had loved, or the bloated, bestial one she had feared and despised. The coarseness, the flabbiness, the purplish hues were no longer there. The bulging, bleary eyes, on which the glaze of continuous dissipation had once settled as if to stay, were not as she remembered them.
Several died after a few days' sickness, and it was said purplish spots appeared after death, making ghostly contrast with its livid pallor. The alarm and terror of the community rendered it difficult to obtain nurses for the sick; but, thanks to the benevolent exertions of Dr. Harlowe, we were never left alone.
"By the 1st of June," he writes, "the fur is entirely changed in both sexes. The female, or 'Jill, changes her entire coat directly she has young; at the end of April or the beginning of May. The male, or 'Hob, changes his more leisurely throughout the month of May. He is then known locally as the black ferret, and has a beautiful purplish black coat.
Irene looked at her an instant, and held her breath; she had seen only one other head which resembled that she knew the purplish waving hair, and gliding up to her she exclaimed "Electra! Electra Grey!" The orphan turned, and they were locked in a tight embrace. "Oh, Irie! I am so glad to see you. I have been here so long, and looked for you so often, that I had almost despaired.
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