crimson-purple

Full crimson-purple; attractive medium-bodied wine, with plum, blackberry and spice on both bouquet and palate; tannin and overall extract well handled.

Archive 2008-12-01 2008

Full crimson-purple; attractive medium-bodied wine, with plum, blackberry and spice on both bouquet and palate; tannin and overall extract well handled.

At My Table 2008

The rival house is the Casa das Tinta, where nubile girls are decorated by the Nganga, or medicine-man, with a greasy crimson-purple pigment and, preparatory to entering the holy state of matrimony, receive an exhaustive lecture upon its physical phases.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

As the crimson-purple, plume-like prince's feather has its own royal charm in Southern gardens beside the pale and placidlily, so these luxuriant adornments, do not misbecome his full and not too fleshy person.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 Various

There was nothing else in the world but a crimson-purple glare and sound, deafening, all-embracing, continuing sound.

The World Set Free Herbert George 1914

She had an impression of a great ball of crimson-purple fire like a maddened living thing that seemed to be whirling about very rapidly amidst a chaos of falling masonry, that seemed to be attacking the earth furiously, that seemed to be burrowing into it like a blazing rabbit ...

The World Set Free Herbert George 1914

My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lamp shade, the white cloth with its silver and glass table furniture -- for in those days even philosophical writers had many little luxuries -- the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct.

The War of the Worlds 1906

My dear wife’s sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lamp shade, the white cloth with its silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had many little luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct.

Chapter Seven: How I Reached Home Herbert George 1898

The rival house is the Casa das Tinta, where nubile girls are decorated by the Nganga, or medicine-man, with a greasy crimson-purple pigment and, preparatory to entering the holy state of matrimony, receive an exhaustive lecture upon its physical phases.

Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855

My dear wife’s sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lamp shade, the white cloth with its silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had many little luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct.

The War of The Worlds H. G. Wells 2009