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Definition of Purpled
1. purple [v] - See also: purple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purpled
Literary usage of Purpled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1770)
"... Some Louis running mad ambition's round, Give him to fee fair Virtue's form
divine, The purpled ..."
2. Essays on Song-writing: With a Collection of Such English Songs as are Most by John Aikin, Robert Harding Evans (1810)
"TH E western sky was purpled o'er With every pleasing ray, And flocks reviving
felt no more The sultry heat of day; When from a hazel's artless bower Soft ..."
3. The Philosophy of Elbert Hubbard by Elbert Hubbard (1916)
"purpled Ease No quarter! We want all that you possess. We will be content with
nothing less than all that you possess. We want in our hands the reins of ..."
4. The Dawn in Britain by Charles Montagu Doughty (1906)
"... With such effusion of their barbare blood, (Is seen, twixt Aquae and Aries,
the battle-place !) That purpled seemed Gaul's plain, as summer heath. ..."
5. The British poets, including translations by British poets (1822)
"But when Aurora, daughter of the dawn, With rosy lustre purpled o'er the lawn,
Again they mount, their journey to renew, And from the sounding portico they ..."
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