Deep Pink

The deep-pink mommy stereotype was blinding them to the facts. ❋ Evelyn F. Murphy (2005)

Ranks of young demons in their guise as Altar Boys came forward, carrying with them in their preternaturally strong hands a magnificent baptismal fount of deep-pink Carrara marble. ❋ Rice, Anne, 1941- (1999)

They wear bodices and overdresses of the very palest pink, flowered with deep-pink roses. ❋ Constance D'Arcy Mackay (N/A)

From Mamaw Tribby I learned to love random variety in a garden—down-home black-eyed Susans next to wispy, deep-pink cosmos, scattered among whatever seeds she had left over or perennials that had already staked their claim. ❋ Nancy Hutchens (1939)

But what largess of arbutus our humblest wayside banks hereabouts can yield, arbutus great-petaled, deep-pink, setting free what prisoned fragrance! ❋ Unknown (1918)

Even better were four fat, properly deep-pink lamb chops, served alone on a plate in the Italian style, and adorned with salmoriglio, a zingy medley of lemon and herbs. ❋ Matthew Norman (2011)

It may look rather dainty, but this flowering cyclamen keeps going in the cold, from late winter through to early spring, with its assortment of white, light and deep-pink flowers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

There's also the East Coast native, D. eximia (fringed bleeding heart), which offers deep-pink flowers with reflexed outer petals. ❋ Erle Nickel (2010)

After all, no '50s diner would make floats with strawberry gelato (from Il Lab, of course) crammed into a glass of celery tonic, or the deep-pink blackberry soda, dense with fruit pulp.

The smoking gun: Tony Blair accused of betrayal over law chief's memo saying war was illegal shell collectors with its unique, spire-shaped shell, but the mollusk also produces lustrous, deep-pink pearls. ❋ Unknown (2009)

a soft-blue summer gown, while Elizabeth was like some flower, in deep-pink muslin. ❋ Margaret Penrose (N/A)