inky-purple

He tastes many of the inky-purple, tooth-staining, tannic barrel samples that have not yet been blended on the premises of each chteau.

A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

He tastes many of the inky-purple, tooth-staining, tannic barrel samples that have not yet been blended on the premises of each chteau.

A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

It is profusely blotched and streaked with a somewhat pale yellowish brown, these markings being most numerous and darkest in a broad, irregular, imperfect zone round the large end, and it exhibits further a number of pale inky-purple clouds and blotches, which seem to underlie the brown markings, and which are chiefly confined to the broader half of the egg.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

It contained three fresh eggs, of a slightly greyish-white ground, very thickly spotted and speckled with yellowish brown, dark umber-brown, and a pale washed-out inky-purple.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

In some eggs the markings are rather bolder and coarser, and in these there are generally some few pale lilac or inky-purple spots intermingled where the markings are densest.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

Their ground-colour is a very pale greyish white, thickly spotted all over the large end, and thickly dotted elsewhere, with specks, spots, and tiny blotches of pale yellowish brown and pale inky-purple.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

Then there is another type with a very delicate pure pink ground, and with a few large, bold, deep red blotches, chiefly at the large end, where they are intermingled with a few small pale inky-purple clouds, and with only a few spots and specks of the former colour scattered over the rest of the surface.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

First, pale inky-purple spots and clouds are thickly sprinkled over the surface, and over this the whole egg is freckled with a pale purplish brown.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

Almost all have a dull pinkish or reddish-white ground, very thickly freckled, mottled, and streaked all over with a rich red; in most blood-red, in others brick-red, underneath which, when closely looked into, a small number of pale inky-purple spots are visible.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870

At the cap there are a few spots and short lines of inky-purple sunk into the shell, and over the whole egg, very sparingly distributed, there are spots and irregular fine scrawls of reddish brown.

The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1 Allan Octavian Hume 1870