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Definition of Empurples
1. empurple [v] - See also: empurple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Empurples
Literary usage of Empurples
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"Itself a grove, gave our first parents clothes ; The cine, which, like a blushing
new-made bride, Clust'ring, empurples all the mountain's side ; The yew, ..."
2. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"There is the fair light that illumines the dawn and empurples the evening, but
throws its radiance over mists and exhalations. There are smooth waters that ..."
3. A Parody Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1904)
"I see them in the evening, when the sun empurples the horizon, and through the
darkening forest aisles are heard the sounds of myriad creatures of the night ..."
4. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1874)
"... which loom up cold and gray against the intense blue, except when the morning
or evening light warms and empurples them, or tinges them with rose, ..."
5. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1825)
"... and empurples In the grounds there of my Redi." Come now, Hunt, off with your
salt and water.—What! will you rebel against the chair ? you have been ..."
6. Six French Poets: Studies in Contemporary Literature by Amy Lowell (1915)
"His foot rests upon the hillock where in the black background the flaming grenade
opens a red gash, and the flash of the cannon empurples his rude and fresh ..."
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