Empurpled

"Turning 50 is a cause for sombre reflection, not celebration," opined Norris and, as a flurry of firemen attempted to free her empurpled cranium, shame descended once more. ❋ Unknown (2011)

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? ❋ Unknown (2010)

I seem to see the spears of mighty horsemen flash golden in the light; empurpled banners flame afar, and the low thunder of marching hosts thrills with the thunder of the sea. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

Ere I hid my head she was standing in her cavern halls, glowing coldly westward—her feet were blackness: her robes, empurpled, flowed mistily from shoulder down in formless folds of folds; her head, pine-crowned, was set with jeweled stars. ❋ W.E.B. DU BOIS (2004)

Charles pointed at the largest of the humpy islands that had once been empurpled in the sunset. ❋ Stephen O’Connor (2010)

Night fell, though even from our balcony we could see little of the empurpled sky, nothing at all of the stars, Allie and Ta-Den dressing up in glitter, riding the elevator down and running out onto the casino floor with glad cries, cries of _Slots! ❋ Joe Sullivan (2010)

The Minotaur lumbered across a rusty bog empurpled with heather. ❋ Stephen O’Connor (2010)

The big production paintings, like Winter Timber (2008) — actually many separate canvases fitted together in postproduction — are stagy, and you may tire of its empurpled sweetness. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That sound you hear is the sound of all of the blood rushing to Bill Clinton's empurpled face. ❋ Unknown (2009)

I now have a red face to go with my empurpled head prose. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In any case, the empurpled roman is not the only one among the princes of the Church to bear a grudge that the command of the Curia should be entrusted to a salesian theologian. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The left side of my face and neck is empurpled and engorged by "veins gone wild" in the form of a congenital venous malformation. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The child was standing with his back to the sun, which cast threads of gold in his hair and empurpled with its blood-red gleam the savage face of Jean Valjean. ❋ Unknown (2008)

It was outlined on a faint, almost indistinct reddish glow, which vaguely empurpled the flooring vault underfoot, and the vault overhead, and gilded to his right and to his left the two viscous walls of the passage. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The [interior decorator] is [empurpling] [my house]. [Empurpling] stuff is one of my favorite things. ❋ Purple Gurl (2011)