The moorland country about it is very beautiful, but especially when the heather and furze are in flower together, and far and wide stretches a most royal display of rose-purple and gold. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
-- This bulb produces early in spring, and preceding the foliage, a mass of rose-purple flowers close to the ground. ❋ Alfred Pink (N/A)
The pyrenean prunella has large purple heads; the false dragonhead (_Physostegia_), pale rose-purple spikes; centranthuses, cymes of red and white; centaureas, heads of yellow, blue, and purple; pinks, divers shades of red and white; and monkshoods, hoods of blue or white; and all are very hardy, ready growers, and copious bloomers. ❋ Various (N/A)
The rose-purple monkey-flower is very common and conspicuous in the lower meadows, along the streams. ❋ John H. Williams (N/A)
They saw the sun go down and, shade by shade, deepen and make radiant and then draw away with it the last touches of color -- rose-gold, rose-purple, and rose-gray. ❋ Unknown (1914)
On our arrival at the Grand Canon in the morning, after a night of travel and fasting, all the rest of us felt the need of refreshing ourselves and taking breakfast before we would even take a peep at the great rose-purple abyss out there a few steps from the hotel, but the teasing Scot jeered at us for thinking of eating when there was that sublime spectacle to be seen. ❋ Barrus, Clara, 1864-1931 (1914)
They admired the lady in black velvet with rose-purple legs who leapt so neatly on to the galloping horse; they watched the feats of strength and laughed at the clown. ❋ Unknown (1907)
_ (A) Produces a profusion of rose-purple pea-like flowers before the leaves appear; foliage also attractive. ❋ Unknown (1906)
_ Produces rose-purple or white flowers in abundance in earliest spring before the leaves appear. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Where trees are scattered the flames crawl from tree to tree, the needles of which ignite like flash-powder and make beautiful rose-purple flames. ❋ Enos Abijah Mills (1896)
So thinks the farmer, no doubt, but not the goldfinches which daintily feed among the fluffy seeds, nor the bees, nor the "painted lady," which may be seen in all parts of the world where thistles grow, hovering about the beautiful rose-purple flowers. ❋ Neltje Blanchan (1891)
The scene was perfectly enchanting; the mountains were bathed in a delicate rose-purple glow reflected from the past pomp of the sun's rising, -- the water was still as an inland lake, and every mast and spar of the 'Diana' was reflected in it as in a mirror. ❋ Marie Corelli (1889)
And soon they halted on the embankment of a mile-wide sheet of water, shining like a mirror in a setting of soft-bosomed hills, their dun day colour changed to a heavenly rose-purple under the poetic evening sky. ❋ Ada Cambridge (1885)
Then, though the sun does not yet scorch the traveller, the shade is already a heavenly refreshment; and though a man is not parched with thirst, a cold draught from the Fountain of Egeria is more delicious than any wine, and under the ancient trees of the pagan grove the rose-purple cyclamens and the dark wood-violets are still blooming side by side. ❋ Unknown (1881)
Go out to Hopi Point or O'Neil's Point, and, as you emerge from the woods, you get a glimpse of a blue or rose-purple gulf opening before you. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
We suddenly spied a couple of the flowers a few steps from the path along which we were walking, and had stooped to admire them, when out sprang the bird from beside them, doubtless thinking she was the subject of observation instead of the rose-purple flowers that swung but a foot or two above her. ❋ John Burroughs (1879)
Forgetting what it is, one cannot help pronouncing the thistle beautiful, -- a close bunch of minute rose-purple flowers. ❋ Bradford Torrey (1877)
Along the top and extending a good way down, was a rich pearl-gray belt of snow; below it a belt of blue and dark purple, marking the extension of the forests; and stretching along the base of the range a broad belt of rose-purple; all these colors, from the blue sky to the yellow valley smoothly blending as they do in a rainbow, making a wall of light ineffably fine. ❋ John Muir (1876)
Then the leaves catch forming an immense column of fire, beautifully spired on the edges and tinted a rose-purple hue. ❋ John Muir (1876)
[Elle] [hooked] me up with that purple rose. Shit had me [lit]. ❋ Thealphaqueen (2016)
I got so [horny] after that [hot guy] [groped] me that I got a purple rose. ❋ SHBastet (2014)
