Purpureal

With glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned; 150 ❋ Unknown (1917)

On the contrary, he was just one of those purpureal, imposing, nugatory personages who, because of his easygoing nullity, his commonplace, worldly shrewdness, and his total absence of zeal and genius, suited the corrupt luke-warmness of a semi-Christian city. ❋ 1831-1903 (1895)

Arsacius, pompous and purpureal as his luxurious brother had been, was only too glad to give every facility for removing ‘all that rubbish,’ as he called it. ❋ 1831-1903 (1895)

Her refusal to wink at the Princess's goings-on, her austere, if provincial, regard for the convenances, had cost her the place, and from these purpureal heights she had fallen lower and lower, till she struck the attic of the Hôtel des Tourterelles. ❋ Israel Zangwill (1895)

Some of the maps are marked with red lines showing, in the words of another illustrious Johnian, "fields invested with purpureal gleams." ❋ Henry Festing Jones (1889)

I, too, might have observed something as I went sailing over the purpureal ocean. ❋ Edmund Gosse (1888)

And Lucy wondered why the long ascent to Nemi was so delightful; why the scirocco seemed to have gone from the air, leaving so purpureal and divine a light on mountain and lake and distance. ❋ Humphry Ward (1885)

Samphire sprouts between the blocks of marble, and in sheltered nooks the caper hangs her beautiful purpureal snowy bloom. ❋ John Addington Symonds (1866)

In what Virgil has call'd, "Youth's purpureal light" ❋ Owen Meredith (1861)

"enwound with glooming robes purpureal, cypress-crowned." ❋ John Kelman (1896)