"Purple-blue" Quotes from Famous Books
... hand he gingerly held a quaint little Indian basket, gaily stained, and inwoven with sweet-scented grass. It was heaped with great yellow peaches, each with a crimson cheek, while, flung carelessly among them, were clusters of grapes in their perfection, purple-blue and whitish-green, promising ... — Joyce's Investments - A Story for Girls • Fannie E. Newberry
... orderly array. Stretching away from the shore is the bay, lying calm and unruffled under the summer sky, except when its glassy surface is rippled by the dip of an oar or churned into froth by the restless pulsations of a passing steamer. Across the bay the hills rise beautiful and purple-blue through the evening glow, throwing out encircling arms around the villages dotted thick and white along their base, as the arms of a mother are open wide to ... — Two Little Travellers - A Story for Girls • Frances Browne Arthur
... streaks the little lake, Sharp purple-blue; the birches, thin And silvery, crowd the edge, yet break To let ... — Rose and Roof-Tree - Poems • George Parsons Lathrop |