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Definition of Purpling
1. purple [v] - See also: purple
Lexicographical Neighbors of Purpling
Literary usage of Purpling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Catalogue of the Exhibition: Horticultural Hall, Boston, January 11 to 26, 1902 by Chickering & sons, Boston, Chickering & sons (1902)
"396 VIOLIN purpling. Bent. 397 VIOLIN SOUND POST. 398 VIOLIN BASS BAR. Shaped.
399 VIOLIN LININGS. 400 VIOLIN LININGS. Bent. 401 "TEMPLI CARMINA. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"... the starry heavens shining through tho foliage of the elm at his door; the
purpling of the dawn ;t his admiration of the psalms and the prophets, ..."
3. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"S. Now rosy May t О were my love yon lilac fair, purpling. When up ward-springing,
blythe, to greet Purpose. The purpling East. . To a Mountain-Daisy. ..."
4. The Christian Examiner edited by Edward Everett Hale (1863)
"Except the phrases " livelong day," " shady dell," " purpling," and " showery,"
there is not an image or a thought in these lines which is not strictly ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1898)
"Behind me another purpling ridge rose almost sheer above me, with a patch of
dusky firs half-way up its side and a bare heath-crowned summit. ..."
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