The fish had turned silver from his original purple and silver, and the stripes showed the same pale violet colour as his tail. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the late summer of 1857, the first hybrid peas had bloomed in the abbey garden, in a riot of purple and white. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mother was sunbathing on a towel which had red and purple stripes and she was reading a book by Georgette Heyer called The Masqueraders. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mimi had wandered over to where the purple coat lay draped over a basket. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The street and open courtyard were filled with umbrella-covered stands and stalls, flaunting jade-colored cabbages, curled cucumbers, purple eggplants, and tangy oranges. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

I find a scented purple pen and start to write about my trip, random thoughts and memories that I can maybe turn into lyrics later. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

She's wearing a purple dress with knee-high boots and an oversize crescent necklace. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Jude holds out her hand in front of her, examines five shiny purple nails. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Max is wearing a hospital gown too, but she's got purple warm-up pants underneath and a matching sweatshirt on top. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At the back of the lead boat, a purple banner emblazoned with a black scythe flapped in the night wind. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then again the gold and red and purple, the gloat and glamor of the secret orders, each with its insinuations of power and glory undreamed of by the uninitiated. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

There was the aching glory in masses of clouds burning gold and purple from an invisible sun. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The area was purple in the center, ringed by white. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

From the tip of every branch, like a fat purple fig, a wonderful future beckoned and winked. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

She held up a tray of purple orbs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

His trademark purple complexion was even rosier than usual. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

At higher levels it became purple, and this purple afterglow persisted for what seemed a long time. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

Seven tried not to feel jealous, and she tried not to look for Poppy in the large patch of purple in the crowd but she couldn’t help it. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“Dug up all those plants, that big purple one, the stones—everything.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Moira, sitting on the edge of my bed, legs crossed, ankle on knee, in her purple overalls, one dangly earring, the gold fingernail she wore to be eccentric, a cigarette between her stubby yellow-ended fingers. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As a rule, I didn’t like pink and purple, but the color made my red hair pop. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The shadows of the elm and the maple in the backyard entered the kitchen and flung themselves in purple lines across the floor. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z

I was in a cloud of light purple. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wore a bizarre mix of plumed Roman helmets, breastplates, scabbards, blue jeans, purple T-shirts, and white athletic shoes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Because we want to touch that sky, the sky that turns from blue to purple to pink and orange. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

“Name of Meshe, to laugh at a child’s death,” said a fat old man in purple sitting heavily down beside me, his leggings bunched around his thighs like skirts, his face heavy with disgust. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

The moon was lowering, and a purple radiance grew in the eastern horizon. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

At the end of the dock was a tiny boat, like a dinghy, covered in a purple tarp. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The color was called devil’s plum, a deep matte purple that I accented with tiny lavender rhinestones—just like the color of the journal Monday gave me for Christmas last year. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

He angles his head against the window and watches the autumnal landscape pass: the spewing pink and purple waters of a dye mill, electrical power stations, a big ball-shaped water tank covered with rust. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

They were white and yellow and blue and purple and spotted and striped. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

I eat my vitamins and the crazy seeds that keep my brain from exploding: one long purple, one fat white, two poppy-red. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

I draw how I usually look: brown ponytail, blue- gray eyes, wearing my purple T-shirt. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ivy slid her purple notebook back into her own lap. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The purple bled away from her form, and she looked at Ophie and gave her a wink. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Taisin felt as though there were a thousand purple flowers blooming inside her, a sea of them, each opening her black eye to the sun, trembling to see the wide-open sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

After much choking, during which his various chins turned purple, he managed to get it out: “If you have your lower animals to contend with,” he said,“we have our lower classes!” Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z

On the door hung a black crepe wreath with purple ribbon. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

He sat in the emperor’s box wearing purple robes and golden laurels. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The sky turned a bizarre mix of purple and yellow. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

People prayed for rain and used powerful magic to bring on the heavy purple clouds that would save the land, but all this was to no avail. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z

Behind him, the purple strip lighting of Pleiades Corporation lines the cockpit. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There are boxes packed with bottles of purple hair oil. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“I’m here every morning by seven-thirty,” Mrs. Garcia continued, still looking at me while I stared at her brown sandals with small purple flowers on the buckles. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

The dancer was there, smiling at him and bowing for him, changing from splendid orange to icy green to iridescent purple. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every corner she turned billowed with color: the greens of leeks, the deep purple glaze of eggplants. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Tied around her waist was a small, purple velvet bag that jingled when she walked. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

When I went to take out the cereal piece, I found four purple jelly beans instead. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

We talked as the sky turned pink and then purple and finally went dark, as the bugs started to bite, as we began to get hungry. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her mom then produced a hot pink hat with purple stars embroidered on it and sparkly silver strands in the puff on top, and hot pink mittens to match. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Perceiving this he let her go and sat down opposite an elm tree over which grew a vine loaded with purple grapes. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

In colors of rose and lavender and purple it moved and pulsed against the night, and the frost-sharpened stars shone through it. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But he loved that house. Remember the tour? The Chicago designer? The purple living room?” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

They were a deep purple and made of velvet or felt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I would have picked purple myself,” she replied, and touched her hair. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

“Did a woman come to your door? Did anyone ever say that a woman in a purple dress came to their door?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

He wore a gray suit and the new purple tie that Mom bought him. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Jon’s painting is a series of intestinal swirls, in hot pink, raspberry ripple red and Burgundy Cherry purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Red and blue stripes, and purple circles with numbers in them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The table filled up with olives, purple marinated turnips, plates of baba ghanouj and hummus, and hot flat breads, even before the real lunch came. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

She lifts her skirt up and shows me the big red and purple patches covering her white thighs. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“He'will meet with you on the morrow, by the spice market. Uook for a door marked with a purple lotus. Knock twice and call for freedom.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I embroidered vegetable stalls with purple eggplants and green melons. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

High arching eyebrows, sharp cheekbones, smoldering eyes, deep purple lips. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing about the town was grand except the big empty sky and, off in the distance, the stony purple Tuscarora Mountains running down to the table-flat desert. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The comet's tail spread across the dawn, a red slash that bled above the crags of Dragonstone like a wound in the pink and purple sky. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And he was taken with the hedges, plants, and flowers, including the purple magnolias up against the house. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we reach the next corner, the entire block ahead of us lights up with a rich purple glow. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It’s sleeveless and purple lace with these tiny buttons at the back and falls to midthigh. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Zola, she is all orange and yellow and turquoise, with three skirts and a blouse and a shawl and a purple ribbon wound around her ankle and green feathers in her hair. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

She looked around the room, her eyes seeking out every blip of purple and white. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

They were the same color Osh made by mixing purple and yellow, blue and orange, red and green. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

She looks like a turtle, her head poking out of her purple shell. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

"Across die Red Fork. They are flying a purple unicorn below the lion of Lannister." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The letter was written with a purple pen on hotel stationery in remarkably neat handwriting. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

“Just don’t get violent on me. You seeing any purple rabbits running around or things like that?” 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ron, who was supposed to be jinxing Harry, was purple in the face, his lips tightly compressed to save himself from the temptation of muttering the incantation. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The slice of sky peek­ing between the curtains was the purple of twilight turning into night. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

But she could not put it in the pocket of her precious purple coat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hermione made purple and gold streamers erupt from the end of her wand and drape themselves artistically over the trees and bushes. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The yellow daffadowndillies have burst into bloom, and the tiny cupped flowers of crocuses are spreading their pied blankets of white and purple. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

A huge butterfly flapping its pink and purple wings. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She turned me onto my stomach and examined the bruise—a patch of deep purple the size of a human head—that had formed a few inches above my hip. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In the purple hall, Dany found her ebon bench piled high about with satin pillows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a silk purple peony pinned at the side of her head, holding up her mauve scarf. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen the imperial family several times, the emperor an ugly, hard-looking man, the empress pale and pretty, but dressed in bad taste, I thought—purple dress, green hat, and yellow gloves. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

By this time Sir Grummore’s helm was unlaced and they could see his bare head glaring at King Pellinore, quite purple in the face. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red, green, and purple flower, blooming from arm to arm and all the way down his stomach. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I take off my glove, raid my purse, rustle bills, pink ones, blue ones, purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As his toes and face turned purple, I questioned my wisdom. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

I look at his face in the near-darkness, made of tiny points of blue and purple. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked exhausted, with purple smudges beneath her eyes and yellow and red stains on the front of her tunic. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It is in fact a landscape, done in oils, with the blue water, the purple underpainting, the craggy rocks and windswept raggedy trees and heavy impasto of the twenties and thirties. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yet there it stood, immense and beautiful, the great horses framing the distant purple mountain beyond. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He rolled his eyes furiously and went purple in the face, but neither he nor Basta could utter a sound because Farid had gagged them both, again very expertly. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s a purple one that matches the lavender scrubs she’s wearing. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

But at least purple fluff cushions the noise. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

A knot on Jim’s head was rising, and there was going to be a nice purple welt on his leg. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her cheeks were staining a dusky purple as she tugged the hem of her dress, as if she could will it longer simply by sheer physical strength. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I took out a sheet of the stationery—it was fancy white paper with one dark purple line going around the perimeter. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

His rough-skinned face was purple with rage, and the veins in his eyes bulged like tiny red worms. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

He held back even then until the bloated colonel with the big fat mustache whirled upon him savagely with a purpling face, and then he offered the explanation that made him immortal. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Taisin remembered the way it had felt when she pulled life into that tiny purple blossom, the torrent of energy through her body. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

When he unfolded it, Hazel saw a half-burned piece of driftwood, glowing with purple light. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He had been fascinated by the colors of the desert, the blues, the purples, the yellows of the minerals lying on the surface of the earth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sneak to what was once the teen stasis room and find a metal calibration tool from the drawer below the ship’s atmospheric monitor, still glowing purple. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“I’ve already signed one for him,” Alex offers up, while Henry’s ears turn from red to an alarming shade of purple. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

And he was not going to grow out of her overnight like she was an old puffy purple jacket. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Occasionally I picked up a stone and flung it toward the purple Maricopas. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

There was only one thing on it apart from his half-completed form: a large, glossy, purple envelope with silver lettering on the front. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

And I am thinking, thinking, remembering through the purple haze of the wine. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The captain lay bloated, his face puffed and purpled, the sun baking and ruining his flesh. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

Another year he abandoned red, even as the mother of purple. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

She envisioned her former master tangled in linens, purple tongue poking from his lips. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Van Eck turned up the light on one of the lanterns, and Kaz saw a body in a purple uniform slumped on the floor, eyes closed. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The raw pigments used for paints fascinated her: dried buckthorn berries for green, shellfish for purple, precious lapis lazuli for blue. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She had on a white dashiki etched in purple, blue, and black designs over white pants, and she looked stunning. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Or not a poster, more like a flier: a violent shade of purple, with green accents and black lettering, risley in RETROSPECT, it says; just the last name, like a boy. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The black eyes and purple jaw were accentuated by an arrangement of scratch marks on her forehead. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

Her pop-eyed face was purple, and her monstrously swollen tongue was hanging from her mouth. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

“See, the purple hibiscuses are about to bloom,” Jaja said, as we got out of the car. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t have bandages or a purple scratched-up face so how am I supposed to know how it feels? Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Half was a purple contusion that hung in strips like a shredded mask. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

She could dive into the purple of the violets and live there. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He takes a purple marker and writes on a notepad. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

A trace of dawn had brightened the eastern sky, the darkness fading into light purple over the houses and trees in the distance. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

To hide her embarrassment, she moved to the bed and ran her hand over the heavy purple and black coverlet. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Black and purple streaks covered her cheeks, a combination of her makeup and tears. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

I caressed his cheek, delicately stroked his eyelid, the purple shadow in the hollow under his eye. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

His black curls flopped into his eyes, and his other arm sported a purple cast. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

That was true of the narcissus, which was not like ours of that name, but a lovely bloom of glowing purple and silver. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mom’s not working today, so she’s wearing a pair of black leggings and a white T-shirt decorated with shiny purple hearts. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

“Wow!” he says, glancing around at Chucha’s purple towel hanging from a peg, her purple mosquito net strung between two nails, her purple dresses draped over a chair. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The purple cards all said Lose a Turn. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The sky was awash with streaks of red and purple as the sun set on Peshawar. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Overhead was a dark purple skin with gray veins. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remembered what Zion had said about his parents being huge geeks as I took in her Wolverine tank top and purple skirt. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And I got out of the bath and dried myself with the purple towel. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

An air mattress lies on the floor next to her neatly made bed, which is covered with a purple blanket and too many pillows. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

People passed this way and that through the purple shadows, but Nok didn't dare ask for directions. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

Then it rose redly into the purpled sky, resembling a black eye. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The crinkly paper holds a bright blue shalwar kameez with a tiny purple paisley pattern and gold buttons. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

He looked across Tab’s still form at Taisin, and he noticed how young and vulnerable she looked today, with purple shadows beneath her eyes and her narrow shoulders slumping. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Green, blue, red, black, yellow, purple, orange: The colors seem to glow. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Both of his knees were red and swollen, and his toes were almost purple, twice the size they should have been. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When the sun sank and the words faded, he gazed over the landscape, moved by its beauty, watching it slip from gray to purple before darkness blended land and sky. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z

The room is full of purples, pinks, and greens. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

“My room is purple, and my bed has a big white canopy on it.” Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The light of the half-moon and stars tinged the sands blue, purple, and silver instead of the daylight colors of orange, red, and white. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

In the last bowl, dark green leaves mixed with cooked onions and the wrinkly purple things and some smallish white things. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

With a purple funeral pennant flying from the antenna, we left Greektown and headed down Jefferson. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Melissa turned around and began to take off the purple skirt. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

But then she thought of her purple coat and her plaid skirt that she wore almost every day. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Many of the statues lacked heads, the dwarf noted, yet even headless they still managed to look imposing in die purple dusk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Tiny sparks danced before her eyes; they were as beautiful as fireflies in a purple twilight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, she turns out to be Mrs. Police Superintendent, and Uncle Al ends up with a shiny purple eye instead of a fat lady, along with summary instructions to leave town. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

People shower me with applause and confetti and candy, especially caramel squares and purple lollipops. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dropped the stick and took it, stared at the jeweled box winking blue and red and purple in the light of the fire. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Up in the sky, behind the rest of the perched, cackling lechuzas, there was a tinge of pink on the purple face of night. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

His doublet was divided down the middle; the left side was purple velvet with bronze studs; the right, yellow wool embroidered in green floral patterns. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was concerned about a purple splotch on my cheek, thinking it was a port-wine stain. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Alma wore a long black winter coat and a fuzzy purple hat. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

John had finished sweeping, and he now mounted to the pulpit to dust the three thronelike chairs, purple, with white linen squares for the headpieces and for the massive arms. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Cracked his lip so it swelled up like an earthworm struck with a shovel—all purple and oozy. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

His fine purple robes snagged on the trigger rope, but Octavian didn’t notice. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had found some young puffball mushrooms and a plum tree covered with purple plums which had ripened and dried almost to prunes, when he spotted the bird in the undergrowth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Finally Jacob revealed what he had been searching for this time: foxglove buds, small and round like purple fists. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She had waist-length blond hair lassoed with a purple headband. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Or the purple bathing suit Dad said made her look like Marilyn Monroe. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Omer was wearing a thick, white, long-sleeved T-shirt with three buttons at the throat, blue jeans, and purple high-topped tennis shoes. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

There was a choir in bright purple robes. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hatch door was halfway closed and Alec leaned out and over, trying to pull the rope up, his face almost purple from yelling. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

Holding it up to the sunlight, I saw it was muddy and full of mysterious particles, but I put iodine in until it was cast purple and hoped for the best. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

On my lap was a journal Jasmine got me for my birthday, which had a Z made of flowers on the cover, and a purple pen. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Mabel's lips are purple; shivering doesn't begin to describe what my body's doing. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a purple t-shirt, which immediately made me feel overdressed. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Tyrion was given a flagon of purple wine, Penny a flagon of water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She turned to her two children and told ’em, “Y’all go on in the garden and pick Mama some flowers. Make sure you bring me some them pretty purple and white ones.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He shuffles forward, his face bright red, and holds the rungs so tightly that his hands turn blotchy and purple. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

So my mother took the yarn, which was purple, and the two knitting needles, and started to show Needles how to knit. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

“When the weather turns hot and the flowers dry up, the bees start sucking elderberry. It makes a purple honey. People will pay two dollars a jar for purple honey.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cloudless sky turned a deep purple, the color of an old bruise, then faded to black. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Virgil imagined a bright purple sky with thick blue clouds. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

It has one narrow purple door with the letter Q on it drawn in bright-silver paint. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Others were painted blue or purple or polka-dotted, with big banners out front and colorful menu boards and tables like do-it-yourself sidewalk cafes. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

At last, he drew out the first of the vases and his face grew purple with fury “Useless!” he screamed, gripping the mouth of the vase with one hand and waving it about. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Ivy found her purple notebook in her bag and placed it in Mom’s lap. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

So Chris sat quietly, his body at ease, and heard about ghosts and ghouls and purple waves, and smiled at his brother with pure delight. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under the picture in fancy purple words it said Mt. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I had pairs in brown, black, rainbow stripes, flowers, and now purple. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes when we talk I can spin Rondell around so bad his black face scrunches up and turns purple he’s so confused. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

It was a jagged purple line running from below his eye to below his mouth, like a tattoo of a scar. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

As the bird pecked at the Puffs, sunlight skipped off glossings of green and purple around its neck. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Next to me was an old lady dressed in a purple skirt and a black and purple polka-dot shirt. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Over the water, the air turned purple with twilight. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I try to say that purple is actually my favorite color but too many of the girls are yelling at me. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were lying in bed, between new purple sheets I had just bought for him. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone in the squadron knew that Kid Sampson’s skinny legs had washed up on the wet sand to he there and rot like a purple twisted wishbone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was turning pale except for under her eyes where the skin was purple. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The color purple was coming from my mother’s eye where my stepdad had punched her. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Then I think—if I dyed my hair purple, maybe no one would notice, or even care, how frizzy it is. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Mam and Bridey sit so close to the fire their shins turn red and purple and blue. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

He suggested I try a different medium, so I used purple finger paints. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

I look down and notice that there’s something on the floor, a hair band, purple, stretched, well used. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their veins and arteries have been injected with colored rubber, blue for the veins, purple for the arteries, so we can see that their blood systems are connected. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

It had a magenta rachis down the center with soft green vanes that shimmered yellow and purple and blue depending on how you turned it. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Black and purple clouds were swirling across it, and as another thunderclap sounded outside, a fork of lightning flashed across it. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Both eyes were badly swollen and ringed with purple bruising. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her hands, the Death Danda had shrunk to the size of a purple compact. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I was trying to paint a bouquet of purple and orange flowers but the teacher, Ms. Murphy, wanted us to only use primary colors, so I blended the paints to get the colors I wanted. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

His legs were covered in dark greaves; his flesh all thick purple muscle, like the ground. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The small entryway has a table with a purple orchid and a bowl on it. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

Catherine was dressed in purple tennis shoes, green tights, a purple suede skirt, and the ugliest green sweater I’ve ever seen. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Trees and bushes with shimmering leaves of blue and pink and purple. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She would have wrapped us up in her green, purple, and orange African print dress and begged our forgiveness for having left us. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its orb glowed with purple light, as if in sympathy with the dark storm. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I had on my gray sweatpants, Nicole had on some cute purple Nike shorts, and Ana wore capris. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Mr. K’s house has a bright purple door with a line sawed through the middle, a Dutch door for keeping farm animals out, or kids in. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

In the kitchen, Baby Girl’s up in her high chair, got purple juice all over her face. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Through a sliver in the curtains, I see that the sunset has faded now to purple, and the first star appears in the sky. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

She leads the way into her room, hung with purple cloths at the windows, a sweet, herbal smell in the air. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

They came together amid the throngs of people dressed in crimson and purple and rich black velvet. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The contrast be­tween its purple bracts and the red flowers of the tree was very pretty. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

After a half dozen hard tugs, the motor spluttered to life in a burp of purple smoke. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Seven and Poppy looked at each other, and Seven had to hold back a giggle, excited for their amulets to go purple. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The bathroom is purple, with red footprints painted up the wall, across the ceiling and down the opposite wall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

"I'm sore all over," Arya reported happily, proudly displaying a huge purple bruise on her leg. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The sun was behind the roofs of the houses and the sky in the west was purple and pink. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The sun was dropping slowly from sight, and stripes of purple and orange and crimson and gold piled themselves on top of the distant hills. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Now the world had changed, had grown blurred with day’s leaving and then purple at dusk and then dark. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Out in the street again he saw that the clouds had turned a deep, angry purple. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The gourd head began to rot in the sun and collapse upon itself, oozing and purple like a bruise. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Their high cheekbones shimmered with silver fae dust, a magic enhancer, and their long purple hair flowed in shiny waves. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was purple and lavender, and had designs of the sun, moon, and stars stitched all over it. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

By morning, the toe had turned purple and he diagnosed a fracture. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

She travelled into the stratosphere on an exhibition trip, where the sky turned deep purple and the stars came out and the misty earth below looked like a huge concave bowl. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The boy’s left arm was purple and swollen. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The purple fabric shot through with gold and silver is so bright that it seems like moonlight itself puddling over the cushions. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He could see mountains and forests under a deep purple sky. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Using the ice cream scoop, he slides the purple Cog along the base of Javier’s neck, then holds it in place. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Death is all over them—in the mottled patterns of their battered torsos, the eggplant purple on bloodless white; in the sinking, hollowed eye sockets. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The Cactus: “Oh, what a regal cactus, crowned with purple prickly pears.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

I still think that purple dress is the prettiest dress I’ve ever seen. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Above them, the sky is purple with twilight. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I bring my recipe notebook with the glittery purple lettering on the cover, and we go over our notes again. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Instead of me doing this, you want a weird purple crystal from New Mexico?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

The jacket was multicolored, made of large patches sewn together — some dark blue, some deep purple, a few bright red. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

When I took my bike on its first spin, my hair blew in my face as wild primroses and bluebells flashed pink and purple along the fence. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

He raised his broad-brimmed hat, and purple fire flickered in his eyes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Cecilia, looking like a vibrant mariposa in a purple tunic, her hair blossoming with sprigs of lavender, was fluttering about the kitchen looking confused and agitated. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Ibis close, I see that his jaw juts out, making his swollen purple lips even more prominent. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I don’t want to adjust to the constant surveillance and the threatening gaze of white guards with weapons, and the permanent smile of death from the Director’s purple lips. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He broke the pack and thrust one between his full, purple lips. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I touch the purple fluff on my head. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

It was made of a purple satin sheath with layers of cerise tarleton underskirts. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

His trident beard was purple, his flamboyant mustachios gold, his long curls equal parts of both. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Angry ghosts had a deep purple aura that scared Ophie, and she tried to avoid looking at those ghosts as much as possible. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

During the days we dug up delicious fat purple potatoes, chatting and joking all the while. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hanako hid the purple kimono in the closet, in her mother’s empty suitcase. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My nail-bitten fingers twinned with his, pale and webbed with purple veins. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Madam Pomfrey, who had bustled off to her office, returned holding a small bottle of some purple potion and a goblet. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The wound on Kwadzo’s head grew swollen and purple, and Amari could tell he was in pain, but he continued on, as they all did, one foot after the other, mile after mile. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to believe that parts of you can turn green and purple at the same time, but they can. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Lorena takes a deep breath and wipes her eyes with the neck of her faded purple sweater. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

There thousands of California fans dressed in blue and gold mingled on the span with hundreds of Washington loyalists in purple and gold, everyone jostling to get a good view of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

She was pointing at a number of round balls of fluff in shades of pink and purple, all rolling around the bottom of a cage and emitting high-pitched squeaks. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

From the backseat, two policemen produce a frail-looking man in a beige suit with a perfect purple bruise around his left eye. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

There was a medium-sized purple bruise on the back of my right shoulder, but I could pass it off as a basketball injury. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

I just happened to have two purple jelly beans in my jeans pocket. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

One could see that, for all the lupus and the purple eyes, she was uncommonly pretty. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma laughed and touched the flower, colored a deep shade of purple that was almost blue. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Levi lives in a small, neat white house that’s decorated with purple flowers and large pumpkins. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They were dark, small, and lovely—the exact purple of the lining of night, with the shot-silk shimmer of starlight on dark water. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

For the wedding, Mom wore a traditional African dress—long and formfitting, in shades of blue and purple—and Dad wore a classic dress shirt and pants. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Next to my name, she wrote BFF in purple glitter ink. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

I shoveled dirt into the dump truck; then I drove the truck over to the flower bed and dumped dirt onto a purple pansy until I buried it. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z

A bougainvillea bursting with purple blooms climbs up one side of the house, as if holding it up. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

That’s when I began to understand that the color purple isn’t just a color or the name of a book. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

They belonged, as Harry saw when he raised his head, to a triple-decker, violently purple bus, which had appeared out of thin air. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of com letting their auburn hair wind down to their stalks. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Murdo gave Poppy a long purple scarf to play with and made a creamy mushroom soup with potatoes, and all day Lina stayed there, snuggled under the blanket. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Behind her came two more old ladies: one in a green hat, one in a purple hat. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

His skin covered in what looked like faint purple scales. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The days were long, beginning before dawn when the sea was purple black, ending with the sunset when the sea was burning red. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

These golden surfaces were encrusted with countless jewels—blue, purple, and red—which, in the flickering candlelight, seemed to pulse with a life their own. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

When he saw my puzzled look, he said they weren’t just sticks; they were stalks of purple hibiscus. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

I nodded and opened the car door with my foot, then slid it back into my new purple ballet flat. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She looked down at her giant white shirt, her fat paisley tie, and her half-dead purple corduroys. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

There’s a painting of an old man in a purple robe over by the door. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Children wandered the twisty alleys and found eld bronze coins and bits of purple glass and stone flagons with handles carved like snakes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He wore a vest of woven gold thread over a loose gown of purple silk, and on his feet were pointed slippers of soft velvet. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She must be the giver of the purple mini backpack. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

The laces of the sneakers had a design of hearts on them, red, purple, pink, and yellow. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

After lunch it was on to creative writing, where Boobie spent a few minutes playing with a purple plastic gargoyle-looking monster. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By now he’s reached a whole new level of blushing—almost purple. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She saw her chalk-white and cold, her beautiful purple eyes shut, lying in her coffin. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

But a purple ribbon isn't going to get me admission to Prism Art School in New York. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She twirls so that her flowing purple dress fans out like a bell. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The purple velvet walls curved overhead to form a roof, making it pleasantly warm within despite the autumn chill outside. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Daylight is fading and the sky is turning purple, with barely a ribbon of orange on the horizon. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

While her mother went down her shopping list, Mai wandered the aisles of the parking-lot-turned-market, looking at the organic honey and the purple turnips. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

A handful of older boys were there too, leaning against the building in white jerseys emblazoned with large purple Ws, their arms crossed, sizing up the newcomers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Outside light from the moons and dwarf sun in the purple sky fills the room. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I gave one to Rontu and on the way back to the canoe gathered purple sea urchins to use for dyeing. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

The years he had spent filing receipts had left him with purple crescents under his eyes. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Later that night the boys were treated to the annual Loyal Shoudy banquet, where they found the traditional purple necktie and a five-dollar bill waiting at each place setting. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They dropped their huge purple flowers every so often, one at a time, like ladies dropping their hankies to get your attention. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light purple paint, almost exactly the color of... Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

On a good night, I'd seen it twenty feet high, bright purple, and so hot the whole front row's marshmallows burst into the flames. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

And he hated himself because even as she lay dying he saw how wide and ghastly her purpled lips drew back from her teeth. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The purple sequins fall, slithering down over the step like snakeskin, glittering in the sunlight. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Pow!—a wringer. I’m gonna wring their—” He tried to show what he would do but spilled purple slush over his own wrist. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

The Domishmen left the Great Pyramid an hour shy of sunset in case they took a wrong turn or had difficulty finding the purple lotus. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was looking very peculiar in a large purple turban. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He leans over a card table; the edge of their bed, two twin mattresses pushed together under a red and purple batik spread, serves as his chair. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He slips around my wrist a tag, purple, on an elastic band, like the tags for airport luggage. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s a quilt of many different squares of fabric in all colors of purple with some red and orange sprinkled in. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The bitter upland plains, the purple wastes of sage, the wild, swift antelope, and the grouse are then a natural system in perfect balance. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

For a while, I just watched people walk up to the coffin, which was on some kind of cart covered in a purple tablecloth. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

It’s hard to see against the wine-colored fabric of the jersey, but there’s a light purple splotch about the size of my fist just below the team crest. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

I admit it—I miss those purple spirals. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

“Look how he quiet and respectful, just like his father was in high school,” a large woman with dark purple hair extensions says. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I am going to sew them onto that purple blanket,” she said. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

“There might be a purple author on it.” The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Three days later, I discover the house from my fantasy, only it’s yellow instead of purple, and more like a palace than a house. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the time they reached Volantis, the sky was purple to the west and black to the east, and the stars were coming out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The opposite wall was adorned by an enormous banner with no discernible pattern, a patchwork of slender strips of cloth—mostly red and blue, but some purple, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

As the Chippewa headed north, up the lake toward the finish line at Sheridan Beach, a navy cruiser and nearly four hundred other vessels flying purple and gold pennants joined her. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

"The newly decorated restaurant, Hoo's On First, the eatery of athletes, will hold its grand reopening on Sunday. Specialty of the day: fruited sea bass on purple waves." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin around her eyes is purple and black. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dark splotches of blue and purple camouflage Uhmma’s bare back and shoulders. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

But all I remember thinking is how great it was to have a friend who liked purple jelly beans as much as I did. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“The song, sir. He was singing a song about the deep purple falling over sleepy garden walls. ” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

“I see no evidence to the contrary!” shouted Fudge, now matching her anger, his face purpling. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She was wearing an orange turtleneck and a denim skirt with purple and black striped tights. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

“That one looks like it really hurts,” she said and touched a fingertip to the huge purple bruise on my back. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

She grew up in town, in a yellow house with a white picket fence lined with purple irises. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

In fact, Sparrow, sinking her hand into the soil and concentrating for a moment, grew some spikes of purple liriope tall enough to screen them from sight. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Ammu recognized vaguely that her thoughts were shot with a delicate, purple tinge of envy. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully I squeezed the plastic container until every gooey purple drop landed in the toilet hole. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The walls are black and purple, and there is artwork from floor to ceiling on the entire wall behind the counter. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I want people to notice me, not purple fluff. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The taste of it was languorous and heady on the tongue, the color a purple so dark that it looked almost black in the dim-lit cellar. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a dark purple suit, and a starched white shirt with matching purple buttons. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

He kept ’em hid under the floorboards wrapped up in a fancy piece of thick purple curtain that had beautiful gold tassels sewed on ’longside the fringe. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

I own a well-used library card, an envelope full of dried beach roses, a book of fairy tales, and a handful of lovely purple rocks. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

I put on my purple housedress and stomp to the kitchen. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

His hair is pulled back in another of my ponytail holders, a purple one. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z

The old lady would pick out the purple brinjals and yellow pumpkins, the shiny green and red chillies, feeling them with her wrinkled fingers and complimenting me on their size. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

She stared out the window and watched the dusk turn the white of the neighbor’s house pale purple, then gray. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The other woman, whose name escaped Mariam, looked older than Fariba, and her hair had an odd purple tint to it. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The saint’s face had been rubbed off, but the fingers of his right hand were raised to bless a short, purple, terrifically self- confident-looking mulberry tree. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I’m sure I’m imagining it, but then Unanimity replaces it in purple. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

In my head there’s a square of darkness, and of purple flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A large daisy was stuck into his shirt pocket, and a purple bow tie with very thin white stripes lay against his throat. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

There was a thick tartan scarf bound around his head, and his nose was unusually purple. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Very small, on the inside of his left wrist, is my name, Isabella, penned in a really pretty cursive next to a small purple daisy. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

My eyes for seeing the blooming purple flowers coming back to say hello after being gone all winter long. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Celaena walked down a marble hall, her dress flowing behind in a purple and white wave. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

We were assigned a list of colors to study, not the hues, but the words themselves—“red,” “blue,” “green,” “black,” “orange,” “purple,” “white.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Ivy could draw it, the loneliness, a wispy cloud the color of a clear sky just after sunset, all deep blues and purples. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Beneath the water’s surface, a glowing purple cluster emerges from the core of the ferns. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

"Lady Christiana just had her hair color changed from brown to a plum purple. Hideous color. And at this hour. I wonder which teahouse she's patronizing." The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

The bump near Lolo’s eye has become a purple bruise by dinnertime. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Even Dr. K in her purple Nikes doesn’t seem quite as tall. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It made the invisible ink glow blue or purple. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I couldn't see her. Just that her bra was purple.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

“Pickled eggs are purple,” she mumbled through the mush in her mouth. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The artist was discovered at the bottom of the yard drawing the nursemaid Milagros's boy with a brown and a gold and a purple crayon. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Plus, this isn’t purple, it’s eggplant Sure, Mom. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Harry, the entrance to the marquee revealed rows and rows of fragile golden chairs set on either side of a long purple carpet. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

The sky was navy blue in the east, azure overhead, purple bleeding out to a pink-stained orange in the west. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

But something was bugging me—it was bad enough Needles was sitting outside in the middle of the summer, in the hood, knitting, but what made it worse is that he was using purple yarn. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

It was all purple and white and yellow, like some artist had designed an impossible bloom without worrying about composition, like he went wild and let it all go. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I put my purple pen back inside the plastic case. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Lurvy went to shave and put on his plaid shirt and his purple necktie. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z

Her exaggerated hips were even more exaggerated by the wavy stripes of white on her purple dress. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in his ghostly purple form, he looked so big and sturdy. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a pretty purple flowered dress with a gathered bodice, and I wonder if she made it herself. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Clusters of daffodils and pudgy little purple hyacinths had sprouted up all over our yard. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The man explains the imprisonment and murder of Jehovah’s Witnesses, and how they were forced to wear purple armbands. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

We see the sun rise and the big purple sky that stretches out far as bird can fly. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

His fingernails were painted purple, and his earlobes dripped with pearls and amethysts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Giti’s decomposing right foot, still in its nylon sock and purple sneaker, would be found on a rooftop two weeks later. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

She stared at it, then pulled out the King James Bible, and there—a purple bottle of Maui Wowie wine cooler. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The lighter flame flickered magically, making golden the purple shadows on the wall. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

But when I woke up properly it was dawn and the sky was all orange and blue and purple and I could hear birds singing, which is called the Dawn Chorus. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were lots of green snap beans, stalks of yellow sweet corn, Sea Island red peas, crookneck squash, benne seeds, and purple okra that looked like fingers reaching for the sky. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The women's long dresses were made of thick fabrics, purple, gold, and navy blue, and stitched brightly with fabulous, complicated embroidery. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain saw a purple gash, white scar tissue. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a huge purple bow put on it. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

As twilight edged from grey to purple there was a noise in the spire, like a fluttering of heavy velvet, and Silas left his resting place in the belfry and clambered headfirst down the spire. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She had breakfast, then her mom emerged from the basement holding something puffy and purple. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Her hair was up in a bun and she wore pale purple lipstick. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z

He caught up to them and gasped for air, his purple aura flickering around him. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

"Man's hope can paint a purple picture, can transform a soaring vulture into a noble eagle or a moaning dove. Oh, yes! But I knew," he shouted, startling me. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Printed in curly purple along the bottom were the words Mt. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was a white full moon, and low purple clouds lay over the horizon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I long to pull his cards out and add red to the van, yellow to the happy face, and thick purple jelly between the slices of bread in the sandwich. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She dashed to the closet and pulled out a flared skirt of purple swirls and rummaged through a drawer for a hot-pink tank top. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

The light from the portholes was a pulsing purple. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That’s my last line again 1” shrieked the colonel, turning purple with anger. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

She was lovely as always, but with a heavy, purpling bruise darkening one of her high cheekbones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

A nurse, young and cheerful as my own, stood in the doorway of Miss Norris's room, helping Miss Norris into a purple coat with a scrawny squirrel-fur collar. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Here, the sun is only just beginning to set, hurling up streaks of purple and orange as the night pushes it away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Each time a state ratified the 19th Amendment, Alice Paul sewed a star on the purple, white, and gold “ratification banner” she kept at the National Woman's Party headquarters. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Matt saw the dusty cornfields and purple mountains of Durango. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

McMillan perceived the same purple glow as Lawrence through his welders glass, and similarly attributed it to the ionization of atmospheric gas. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a dress with purple cartwheels on it and she looked awful. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

It is with pleasure that I sometimes recall the dead man's purpled face or the report of the handgun ringing in my ears as I studied the blood pooling beneath the dead white piglet. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

His face and neck were purple as a beet, and the spittle was flying all over the oblates as he spewed his sermon. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

If there are no purples, reds are pretty good. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Root’s face had lost its purple tinge—he almost seemed embarrassed. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Even from a distance, Jesper could see the stacks of bills in palest Kerch purple, emblazoned with the three flying fish, row after row of them, bound in paper bands sealed with wax. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

My grandmother is wearing a purple velour housecoat that clashes with the orange-and-green wallpaper in the kitchen. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

I like the sundown colors, red and purple. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

Light pinks and purples, the color of the munca flowers, were beginning to creep through the mountains. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

At the end of the room was a small dais, and, on it, a cream-colored casket with several displays of flowers arranged about it: scarlets and yellows and whites and deep, bloody purples. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

My arms were sore from turning the crank, and I had purple ink all over my hands, but we needed the copies. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it worked, through “black,” “orange,” “purple,” and especially “white.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sidewalk was splotched purple, as was the grass itself, and the rocks in the flower beds. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A large, bosomy Slavic lady in a bulky sweater of natural sheep's wool, purple slacks, high-heeled black overshoes with Persian lamb cuffs and a matching toque, puffed white, inaudible words into the wintry air. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

With my porch and my pillow, my pretty purple petunias. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve seen the stitches, up close, black thread surrounded by swollen purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

We pitched our tents—they were quite brown now and no longer a bright purple—for the fourth time in four days. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Akimi reached for the card on top of the purple stack. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

It took every effort to ignore it, to focus instead on the elusive thread of energy that had come so easily to her when she had seen that purple flower. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The veins on Hercules’s neck turned as purple as his robes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

There were seven rooms, each a different color, one blue, one purple, one green, one orange, another white, the sixth violet, and the seventh shrouded in black velvet. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

I can see it in the turned-down corners of his mouth, in the purple skin under his eyes. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

He wore a faded purple Prince concert tee and ancient running shorts he constantly had to pull up. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Seven tied her combat boots and slipped on her oversized purple hoodie before securing her pointy hat on her curly hair with some pins. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Using one of her dad’s purple editing pencils, she corrected the misspellings like he did, marking through the incorrect letter and writing the correct one above. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Where it punctures the belt, a purple liquid spews forth, coating his face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I resist, ready to take the purple hat box and jet, but I guess the mystery is just too much. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

Stella scooted closer to her mother, who very quietly slipped the purple bracelet onto Stella’s wrist. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing black leather sneakers, but I can see the hem of her purple housecoat hanging below her beige overcoat. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

After gym class, she found more pervy stuff written on her chemistry book—pop that cherry, written in globby purple ink. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

The goat, With pipe hanging From his mouth, Runs around the yard, Through the patch Of chiles and tomatoes, The purple of Eggplants. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But here and there small purple flowers shone iridescently, and in the upturned earth and ragged dunes a few delicate asters grew; for some reason, hundreds of tiny fuzzy caterpillers were chewing on the asters. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

“A fine rich purple from head to toe! But there you are! That’s what comes from chewing disgusting gum all day long!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

I dove under my heavy purple bedcovers, knocking the row of carefully arranged stuffed animals to the ground. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was even further away, a purple carriage receding as I approached. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sang the Rabanito song, about a purple radish flower standing tall and proud in the wind. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were sheets of unlined paper and old magazines Dad had given me, an uncapped purple glue stick, and a folder so fat with clip art that papers spilled out of the opening. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

But Jennifer is still stylish in pants that look like purple leather and a shirt that hangs off 1 shoulder. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Daddy nearly turned purple when he heard this news. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Pepperhorn was lifting up a pendant that hung from his neck and watching as it began to glow purple. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dishes are real china in a pattern of purple forget-me-nots with silver trim. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

They were out of breath and sank down in the green-and- purple grass on the edge of the pine woods. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Shadows dripped like dark purple paint down the fiery orange sides on the rocky plateaus in the distance. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The two teddy bears, the orange kitten, the beat-up Grover she’d had since she was two, and the large purple hippopotamus on her bed eyed her as she moved. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

As the gin rose in him he belched through purple lips. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

I reach into my drawer and pull out a purple folder where I drew some of the little monsters in the story. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

I watch as the wind sweeps everything off the shelves: knickknacks, books, a vase of purple flowers. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Candy gives Safer a big grateful smile, and I notice that her teeth are a little purple around the edges. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The black dude’s face changing colors, turning bright red and purple, eyes bugging out of his head, looking back at Rondell, scared for his life. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

A’Leia’s are thick with black trim; Kelvin’s glasses are thin purple squares. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

We have a maroon chesterfield which has come out of storage, with an oriental-style maroon and purple rug in front of it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

From there, he sighted the advantage he needed: midway down from the mill walls, where the field began to flatten out, a purple granite slab shouldered out of the ground. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Other bushes were laden with purpling currants; butterflies abounded; and at every step grasshoppers whirred off, some crackling like the snappers kids placed against their bicycle tire spokes. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Honeysuckle and purple wisteria hung heavy from the trees and white magnolias mixed with their scents in the bee-humming air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The purple monkscloth drapes that hung from the window next to Mr. Reilly’s desk created a meditative area in the office. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jutta painted the vessel in ecstatic purples and greens, and she set it on the water with great formality. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

The stranger had rumpled gray hair and an anxious expression, and was wearing a strange mixture of clothes; a pinstriped suit, a scarlet tie, a long black cloak, and pointed purple boots. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The night is black and blue and purple like an ugly bruise. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The light is fading, and the whole meadow is covered in purple shadow. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The worst of it was my mouth, a grotesque blob of purple and red, all bruise and stitches. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know how long I sat there, watching the woman in purple and wondering if her pursed pink lips would open, and if they did open, what they would say. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

An alarming purple rash on her leg led to a trip to a dermatologist. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

A huge purple and yellow bruise surrounded my left eye. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Abby’s mom came in yawning and wearing a fluffy purple bathrobe that swept along the floor behind her. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I remember looking up and seeing one lady with a purple scarf, laughing so hard she had to hold on to the guy standing next to her. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

Ahead of me, out the window, the sun sinks in a murderous, vulgar, unpaintable and glorious display of red and purple and orange; behind me the ordinary night rolls forward. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Beads of spit fly from his swollen purple lips; a deep animal-like growl rises from his throat. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

By then I had backpedaled so far I was pressed against a heavy purple velvet curtain that divided the back of the viewing room from the front. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Dimblewit whipped around, her face shaking with rage and almost purple now. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

In a flash, I have him up against the locker, my hands around his throat, and I’m choking him until he turns purple. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Up to thirty feet in length, the Hebridean Black is rough-scaled, with brilliant purple eyes and a line of shallow but razor-sharp ridges along its back. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gregor looked straight into the girl’s eyes and saw that her irises were a dazzling shade of light purple. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

My heart leaps and then plummets when I see Molly hobble across the dormitory, her nose purple between strips of medical tape. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was no response; the sky above was a deep color—blue perhaps, or purple, not black—sprinkled with more stars than the mind could hold. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Werner stops coughing and pushes the debris off his chest, he finds Volkheimer staring up at a single sheared hole of purple light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She plucked a purple card out of the pile. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

The purple blooms of thistles became black behind the people’s houses, and migrant birds moved through. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the purple light of Diocletian’s scepter, the hollow eye sockets seemed to blink. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As the enchanted ceiling overhead began to fade from blue to a dusky purple, Dumbledore rose to his feet at the staff table, and silence fell. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

They wear scarlet outfits or purple ones, and dangly earrings, and hats that look like stage props. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The smoke filled the sky for hundreds of miles, tinting the sunset into gorgeous contusions of crimson and purple. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

He places her gently on her bed and covers her with her favorite purple blanket. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

He paints very swiftly, in violent eye-burning acrylics, reds and pinks and purples, in frenzied loops and swirls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

She stands up and smooths out her purple sweatshirt with two hands as she repeats herself, just loud enough for me to hear this time. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While we played, Mom made two quilt covers out of the gowns, one deep purple and the other a bright gold. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A porcelain vase of pink and purple flowers stood in the center of the table, just like the painting. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

The guard, a short girl with purple hair, throws her gun to the ground in a tantrum. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Uncle Vernon’s face purpled once more, and Aunt Petunia started chewing her tongue again. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

He was also sure that ghouls were generally rather slimy and bald, rather than distinctly hairy and covered in angry purple blisters. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Next to him an eating lady in a green and purple Kanjeevaram sari and diamonds clustered like shining bees on each nostril offered him yellow laddoos in a box. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

When it seemed almost real enough to touch, and very beautiful, it vanished abruptly; for the tundra was even more beautiful—a glistening gold, and its shadows were purple and blue. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were beautiful pinks and blues and reds and browns and purples. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Julia’s are really worn out, and Isabella’s are splotched with purple paint. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

The Volantenes made a cold soup of them, as thick and rich as purple honey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of the warehouses, right on the river, was painted bright purple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I remember my father’s eyes were so red—like raw-hamburger red—and his face was still bruised purple and yellow. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I could tell my hair was frizzing, and my purple tutu skirt was completely rumpled. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Slowly at first, then all at once, it blossomed purple, then pink, now orange and gold. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The air began to blush with a hint of pink, streaks of red, orange, purple rising behind the water. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their polished chain mail and greaves gleamed over purple T-shirts and jeans. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It looked like a photograph of a night sky filled with multicolored fireflies glowing red, blue, yellow, green, purple, and turquoise. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Tyrion saw ruins rising along the eastern bank: crooked walls and fallen towers, broken domes and rows of rotted wooden pillars, streets choked by mud and overgrown with purple moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Dad,” I asked, “did you buy some purple jelly beans?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were dark, picking up the purple in the sky. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a particularly dazzling one of bright purple silk sheets. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the comet hanging above the Guards Hall and the Bell Tower, and farther back the First Keep, squat and round, its gargoyles black shapes against the bruised purple dusk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

After that she put a cake with pink and purple flowers in a cardboard box from the grocery store on the kitchen table and told us to have some. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“It’s mostly hot pinkish purple because that’s the color of the d, but the colors of the other letters add a gold tinge to it. Oh, and it’s also kind of grainy.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Emmett digs out a purple bubble gum from a bin and puts a penny in her hand. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

On the battlements of their castle at Camelot, during an interval of peace between the two Gaelic Wars, the young king of England was standing with his tutor, looking across the purple wastes of evening. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hold up a sheer pair of purple underwear by my pinkie. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The purple cooler was in the middle of the garage and two plastic chairs were stacked on top of it. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z

Helen ordered her house-maidens to arrange beds for them in the entry porch, soft and warm with thick purple blankets covered by smoothly woven rugs and on top of all woolen cloaks. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Afterward, when Taisin was too weakened to walk back immediately, Kaede sat with her on the forest floor, watching as the purple flower, gloriously open to the air, bobbed in the wind. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I write the chorus from memory in purple pen, and then cut the paper in a square around the words. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

“Who ever heard of a C.I.D. man with purple gums?” he moaned. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“If you don’t have purple jelly beans,” he said, “red will do in a pinch.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

The walls of the Young Adult Room were painted purple and yellow. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Miss Lupescu’s lists were printed in pale purple ink on white paper, and they smelled odd. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

Why is it that all the fast-moving fish of the dark current have purple backs and usually purple stripes or spots? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean back into my pillows, take out the purple pen, and write in my math notebook. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

From the layer of purple petals that had drifted over him, it was clear he had been there awhile. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Under his feet, the ground glistened a nauseating purple, pulsing with webs of veins. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The tide was out, and in such strong light there was a purple sheen on the mudbanks where thousands of wormcasts threw tiny sharp shadows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I stared at my two dollars and change spread on the floor beside me, then at the purple mittens. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Instead, she’d said she wanted to be purple, like the sky at sunrise. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Five thousand yellow chairs stood on the red-carpeted speaker’s platform, and in these chairs sat businessmen dressed in black, and foreign commissioners and clerics in scarlet, purple, green, and gold. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Some of the purples blushed faintly pink, others were tinted pale blue, but there was no other color. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was a roly-poly man, his stomach hanging amply over the bright purple shirt he wore. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A pair of enormous purple toads sat gulping wetly and feasting on dead blowflies. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

Her foragers returned he land was red and dead and parched, and good with gnarled cottonwoods, purple brush, sheaves of brown grass. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

The celebration of the Bladder Feast was many colors—black, blue, purple, fire-red; but Kapugen s hand around hers was rose-colored and that was the color of her memory of the Feast. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the purple of the sky spread all the way across to the west, he rowed. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

My excitement dribbled away, my face going purple. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Before I left, he handed me half a dozen purple mimeographed handouts, which we both knew were useless. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

One Indian lady in a purple sari crying. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

We waded through Queen Anne’s lace and thick-stalked purple flowers, into dragonflies and the smell of Carolina jasmine so thick I could almost see it circling in the air like golden smoke. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I approach she looks me straight in the eye and plucks a purple cabbage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I slam my arms down on top of it, but not before her cheeks go past red to an “icebox plum” shade of purple. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Hanako ran back into the bedroom and grabbed Mama’s pajamas—the purple coat was in the living room. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His upper lip is bluish purple, split like a grilled sausage. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The side panels were adorned with painted peacock feathers, green and gold and purple, the same color as the tassels. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

The vegetables—onions and celery and something that resembled a purple carrot—were spicy and made my eyes water. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

The woman was lying on her bed in a purple dress that fastened at the neck with a cameo brooch and reached midway between her knees and her shoes. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“I was just leaving,” he says, handing me a purple letter with gold writing on it. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Ivy blinked a few times to make sure she wasn’t dreaming, but it really was June, wearing a dark purple sundress and grass-green leggings. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

There were scattered white flowers in the dark purple section. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

His face is purple, and the veins in his neck are hulking out. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Does this mean we can go to Old Navy today? And I can get purple leggings?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He has a huge purple bruise covering half his face-—the other half is red and angry to match his eyes. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

How beautiful the sky looks with its orange and purple swirls. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

She was sitting under an umbrella, and she wore a black swimsuit that did not hide any of her midriff bulges or the purple veins on her legs. The Landry News 1999-12-01T00:00:00Z

When the biologist stood up, I saw her thick, curly hair, pulled back with a purple headband. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Off the port bow, the sky was darkening from purple to black. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

That was before she’d turned into a walking purple and pink glitter marshmallow. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

But just as quickly as Clara had gone purple she was back to her usual self, no outline at all, looking more like a real person than a spirit. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

His face presents a map of purples and yellows. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Half-hidden under a faded purple cloak were a long- sword and a brace of daggers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The plain white sheets that we usually covered the bed with had been replaced by a large piece of purple cloth. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

She stood there with her mouth open and her purple tongue dangling out. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The fog had burned off, and the cool air was clear, the shadows bruised and purple. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

There’s a notebook and a purple pen on the table where the Kleenex usually is. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Or gifts like a stick of gum, a purple lollipop. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

The faces were covered in purple patterns, tattooed in swirls of indigo, turning the dead faces into strange, expressive monstrous things. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

“The water butterflies swim in swarms and conceal their magnificent purple glow by hiding among a home of dense vines.” The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

We stopped to admire the grapes, dangling in heavy clusters from the vines, fat and purple. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

All around, the rocks were stained with purple splotches. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s not there anymore,-but the custodians are scrubbing at what’s left of it, their sponges dripping purple paint. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

The walls glowed with luminescent mosses—green, red, and purple. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

I stroked my purple cake, and a bruise-colored cat and then a brown stick cat darted out. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A livid purple welt had raised on the left side of her face where Lockton had struck her. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The entrance wound on his back was an ugly shade of purple and it steamed. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

One woman, hardly more than a girl, had green and purple hair. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

In the book, she would be kissed by a wandering prince; and then the happy ending would sprawl across the pages, in scroll-wreathed letters, with purple and yellow banners. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

He extracted the speckled purple jelly bean with a pair of stainless-steel tweezers. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

A thin strip of Pleiades purple strip lighting in the shape of a door, just like the one at the back of the ship leading to the hold. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Kelly gave up and Melissa delightedly put the pink tank top and purple skirt back on. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any purple jelly beans?” he asked. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

A long table stood at the far end; paper cups, plates of sandwiches, and napkins surrounded two punch bowls filled with a purple mixture. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Now hearing these things said, the boy’s heart rose in a long pang for his father, and he wept, holding his purple mantle with both hands before his eyes. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I turn right where purple flowers curve like baby moons over butterfly bushes. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The diary is covered in purple and red silk, decorated with small sequins and bits of mirrored glass sewn in. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He could see a yellow stain on her arm around where the tube went in and little purple bruises all the way along the inside of her elbow. A Monster Calls 2011-05-05T00:00:00Z

By nightfall the bruises that Rattleshirt had given him had turned purple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Which one will get you back through the purple flames?” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Looking to the sky, Kendra noticed that the eastern horizon was turning purple. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

She’s an older woman, wearing a purple caftan and gold eyeshadow, but I can tell she is nevertheless an Aunt. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The comic books are drawn in great detail and garishly colored, with green and purple and sulfur-yellow prevailing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

A purple ruffled bonnet and a knitted white sweater. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

He shifted in his pajamas, and the part of him that made him a man stuck out, reddish purple and frightening. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted one of those sparkly purple headbands. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

They dug up purple crocuses and planted them all around her grave. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Chandresh himself wears a suit of vibrant purple with a gold paisley waistcoat, and throughout the evening, he smokes specially made cigars that spout matching violet smoke. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I glance down, catch the slight purple flush across her cheeks. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Then lilacs, white and purple, sent waves of perfume over the porch in the evenings when a breeze sprang up. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The skin was green and purple and gray where it had ripped. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skin was purple, gray, cold, the color of those plums. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

Neither did the fact that Jason had chosen to wear a purple shirt today—the color of the Romans. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A huge purple lump pushes through the red hair on his forehead. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

A picture of us sitting on the porch at sunset, watching the sky flame up and then drift off into pinks and purples. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were a light purple, with pictures of smiling people painted on them. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Does everything she wear have to be purple?” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

I bought myself a clothbound black book with purple flowers on the cover and kept it next to my bed. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

She gripped my fingers so tight they turned purple, but she stayed still, like Will asked. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

“So to another synesthete my name could be purple with orange stripes when to me it’s candy-apple red with a touch of avocado green?” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

There were great elk in that wood, and spotted tigers, and lemurs with silver fur and huge purple eyes, but all fled before the approach of the khalasai and Dany got no glimpse of them. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

On the shoulder of the road stood a man in khaki shorts and a purple camp shirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, she’s been reading up on it. Just today she asked about your foundation shrubs. So I told her about the butterfly bush and that smaller one, the purple one.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Sitting there with purple and black streaks running down his chest and bawling whilst wearing half a woman’s leaf dress was the kind of thing that no one wouldn’t let him forget about for years. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

He was kneeling beside the coffee table, and he was gagging and sputtering on a foot-long, purple, slimy thing that was protruding from his mouth. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

At the dinner, each boy found a ten-dollar bill at his plate, along with a purple tie. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I recognised well that purple face,—those bloated features. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The bowl is filled with a purple liquid, thick and textured and rich, riddled with tiny bits of seeds. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly, I see what she sees: a confused girl in safari clothes with rock-star hair and purple eye shadow and cherry red lip gloss. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was going to be moved to purple, for Oddball. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Some scowled and gripped the hilts of their glowing purple swords. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In front of her, the demigods made way for a girl in full Roman armor and a purple cape. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It tattoos the smooth inside of your forearm with your schedule for the day in a sickly purple ink. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I thought about my “purple” ears all weekend. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

She had red and purple, gold and silver. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Nothing purple or frilly, but my own bed in my own room. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

My gown was a silvery blue with a pale purple petticoat. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

There was a large purple welt on the side of his neck. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The Heads of House converged on her; there was a great bang and a puff of purple smoke, which cleared to reveal Susan sobbing, reunited with her leg but looking horrified. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The dolphin look greener from there and you can see their stripes and their purple spots and you can see all of the school as they swim. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Octavian turned as purple as a Roman T-shirt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was a purple night, and we were driving on a highway full of cars. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Came screaming to me, all bloody and purple. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Finally I lay down on the bed, scared and despairing, staring blankly out the window as the sky began to turn purple, then pink, with a new day. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The material of the scarf had a bit of all the colors her mom was wearing and a little burst of purple that pulled it all together. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Another woman from the morning bioloaf group leans at the lake’s edge, observing the purple glow of a swarm of water butterflies where the pale floor normally would be. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He stood at his counter, wearing purple robes and a wizard hat topping off his dreads. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Just as I was about to break and suggest maybe not pairing purple with orange, the phone rang. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

His face is flushed from the cold, and he looks cute in his big, puffy jacket and purple stocking hat. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Both eyes were a deep purple, so deep they looked black, and so swollen I couldn’t tell whether they were open or closed. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the counter near the muffins is a small plastic figurine, a boy with a pointy hat, purple pants, and a big swoop of yellow hair. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Though the sky was still light, the sun had gone down completely, and everything on the ground had turned deep purple. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Craggy yellow teeth stuck out between the two purple frankfurter lips, and rivers of spit ran down over the chin. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He found a purple aerosol can, shook it, and said, “Close your eyes.” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mist hung just above the trees, burning off in patches where bright sun dulled the intensity of red hibiscus blossoms, yellow morning glories, the purple centers of passion fruit flowers. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

In her right hand, he put a bunch of the purple grapes. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

But if anybody caught Joe asking a dumb question or even thought he was the littlest bit scared, he went red and purple and white. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

He was crying quite silently, his face gleaming with tears, and in his arms, wrapped in purple velvet spangled with golden stars, was what Harry knew to be Dumbledore’s body. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The sky was touched with purple now, and the snow shone brightly against the dark background. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The dark purple rings under her eyes make her look like someone punched her out. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His face is pale blue, his eyelids almost purple, and translucent. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

People with blond hair and orange hair and even one with purple hair. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

For this one I’d wear pink feathers, purple stars, if that were what he wanted; or anything else, even the tail of a rabbit. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

As periwinkles etched the beach with their purple trails, and sea foam blew off the waves and tumbled across the beach as if longing for a dog to come out and play. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

They are moving fast through pines and elms, past billboards and fields, yellow lilies and purple lilacs. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her lips were wide and purple, like those African dolls you see in tourist store windows but could never afford to buy. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The land around them was hilly and green, turning slowly gold, then hazy purple. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Onlookers watched in amazement as Cleopatra’s gilded barge approached the harbor with its royal purple sails unfurled. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z

It was a shiny section of rock, split cleanly down one side but studded with shiny purple on the other and with a hole to allow for the thong. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a faded purple wreath leaning against the base. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

Gregor wondered how long it took people to become transparent with purple eyes. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

I gather up my schoolbooks, my pencils, my purple pen, and carry them to Mama Ya-Ya’s bedroom. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The mask was a silicone rubber North respirator mask with a Lexan faceplate, for good visibility, and the purple filters were the kind that stop a virus. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back at the house, at lunch, things got worse when Mamita was about to serve the purple potato soup. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The other man was lying on the earth, a huge purple welt growing on his forehead. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

As she patted the purple comforter, she considered the question Brandon hadn’t finished asking in the hallway. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The warrior’s arms were bare—muscular, purple, and glistening—his hands as large as crane scoops. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

How could her brother be wearing a purple hat and a fur coat? The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The sky was a robin’s-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

I get so excited I let go of the balloons—about a zillion red, yellow, blue, purple, and green rubber globes bobble all over the ceiling. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She is standing by her bed, trying valiantly to squeeze her schoolbooks into a purple minibackpack that I haven’t seen before. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Then June hiked up her skirts and showed him her swollen purple feet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His robes made him look like a priest, though Piper couldn’t remember which rank of priest wore purple. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A bougainvillea has grown itself right over the roof, like a purple shawl. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

Sitting in the purple shadows, I pulled out the mouse bones and worked them between my fingers. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Chancellor’s face was nearly purple with frustration, but he sat, the chair legs scratching across the floor again. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

She carefully left enough of her father's original hair tonic in the bottle so that when she gave it a good shake the whole thing still looked reasonably purple. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

The big purple heart with pink lace all over it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When said lord reached inside the helm and drew out a large purple melon dribbling pulp, he wheezed until his face turned the same color as the fruit. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The copper of the sky had deepened into a dark red, and the dark red was now deepening into the purple of early night. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Paul had ordered purple, white, and green flags, but some women objected, because those were the colors of the British suffragettes. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Her purple cloak fluttered, revealing the glimmer of her armor. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

I sort through my bag of scraps for reds, oranges, purples, heart colors. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

"Unhand, please, my lord . . . need your milk, the pain ... the chain, don't, unhand, no . . ." The pink face was beginning to purple when Tyrion let go. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

A row of purple bougainvillea, cut smooth and straight as a buffet table, separated the gnarled trees from the driveway. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had her hands in her pockets, but the edges of the purple mittens poked out around her wrists. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He leaned back on the shabby purple sofa that had come with my apartment and looked up at me. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Her gold eyeshadow and purple silk dress made her look like royalty. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“I plan to wear purple to your college graduation!” Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

He told her, “The child will turn eighteen and paint her hair purple,” and she said, “Yes, but by then I would have kicked her out of the house.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

I laid out a pair of green rubber gauntlet gloves, yellow rubber boots, a black mask with twin purple filters. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue smoke from the house chimney hung in flat layers in the purpling ranch-cup. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They too were dressed in their courtroom best: a purple jersey dress for Debbie; pleated slacks, a pink checkered shirt, and a tie for Karl. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Sir Ector stood on the top of a rick, whence he could see what everybody was doing, and shouted commands all over the two-hundred-acre field, and grew purple in the face. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wonder, could you get a purple kimono?” she asked. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Nestled in a scrap of purple velvet was a tiny jar of Mariam’s baby teeth. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

He was so pale, even with all the blood they had given him, and there was a large purple bruise in the crease of his right arm. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Eventually there are only a few cars on the road, no signs for tourist facilities or campgrounds, just more farms and woods, the fields full of blue and purple flowers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

She had a large purple bruise on her leg for days but what could I do except stand and watch my wife get beaten? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Had a big purple scar where the bone broke through the skin. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Or like I do at home, with ponytail hair and wearing my favorite purple T-shirt? Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

All of the saints’ statues in the church were covered with purple sheaths. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

"There was hissing, then bang, bang, sparks flying all over the kitchen, red sparks, purple sparks." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Muhammad braves that one pretty well against the reds from Michigan, the yellows from Ohio, the purples from Minnesota, the oranges from Iowa, and the greens from Indiana. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

She chose the gaudiest one there—four-inch-high ballet dancers in purple tutus, their pink legs pirouetting on a greenish four- in-hand. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

Sun comes through the fanlight, falling in colors across the floor: red and blue, purple. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Remembering made my afterlife harder,” she told Frank, who still drifted next to her as a glowing purple Lar. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The stems twist and intertwine, the branches cluster with red berries, purple flowers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

You could also find arrowheads and fossils and old bottles that had turned deep purple from lying under the broiling sun for years. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the view was the same one she saw from her own bedroom: trees, fields, and beyond them, on the horizon, distant purple hills. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He was well-known for his unusual dress—he wore purple vests, lavender gloves, and pastel waistcoats—and for his racist words. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He sliced the tip of his spear down Jason’s chest, ripping his purple shirt into a vest. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The week before, she had brought her knitting needles and a ball of purple yam to school. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

One of his eyes was swollen shut, and his nose was thick and purple. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

Instead of purple and white, this one was butter yellow with large butterflies on the cover. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

His hands, clenched into tight, angry fists, threatened at any moment to explode with purple rage into Jordan’s face. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A beggar shuffled in front of it, then dove out of the way as a dark purple stegosaurus trundled by, nearly trampling him, bags of mail and packages flapping at its flanks. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then he took the cardboard tray of jars filled with little red and brown and purple slices of the organs. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Shimmering purple warriors stood outside the armory, polishing ethereal swords. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

His angular face is pale, and purple shadows darken his eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Farther on, the knight paused briefly to consider a jeweled tiara displayed upon a bed of purple velvet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She dipped her finger into the cup, studying the purple liquid as it dripped off her nail. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The last light was draining from a purple sky. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

A purple fireball erupts from his candle, but I only see it in my peripheral vision, because we’re face-to-face now. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Once, Emenike and two other boys had lured Hadome into the toilet and beat him up, Hadome’s eye swelling so quickly that, just before school was dismissed, it looked grotesque, like a big purple eggplant. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The bottom six inches were a darker purple, and then the very bottom was trimmed in lilac. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

There’s purple light everywhere, and crushed bodies, and, wow, it’s hot. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

I left Mrs. Hauser sitting in her silky purple cloud under the springbok so that she didn’t have to battle her arthritis just to walk me to the door. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Old but grand, like she'd stepped out of a portrait, with silver hair and a royal purple shawl. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Bloom was purple and panting loudly; the pig puffed a little; chicken feathers were scattered across the lawn. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

And as the sky turned a dusky purple, the fat man began to snore. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I stare at the light purple walls and remember the happy times I had with my sister, before we started to flutter away from each other. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

He was bright in the sun and his head and back were dark purple and in the sun the stripes on his sides showed wide and a light lavender. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

There, in the middle of purple blossoms, was my dog’s collar. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you have any purple jelly beans?” he asked. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

She tried to look confident, though the scowling purple ghosts and the demigod skeletons at her feet made her want to turtle in her T-shirt and scream. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Next to her purple hat box is Dad’s small silver safety box with the key in the lock and practically begging me to open it, so I do, when, unexpectedly: What are you doing, Filthy? The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z

This is what I have, coffee and pie, sitting in one of the purple booths, watching young people exclaim over what they think is the quaintness of the past. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

When he sticks out his tongue we have to hold in the laugh because we never saw a big purple tongue before. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Have you ever met a demigod like us before? A guy in a purple shirt, with marks on his arm—” “Hazel.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They are full of new pink, yellow and bright purple garden flowers growing in neat rows. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sunlight dappled the ground; afternoon slid into dusk; and shadows spread purple and blue across the golden forest. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

“By the way, at the risk of repeating myself, how about those purple jelly beans?” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

They flickered from purple to orange as if the colors were fighting for dominance. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

You didn’t get enough for your money with a Grapette, and it left your mouth purple. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I ran over to a purple dress and tried to pull it down off its hanger. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

What force made tall versus short peas, or purple flowers and white ones? The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Bod realized it was because he had circles drawn around them in purple, making his face look like an owl’s. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

She wore a regal purple cloak over her armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

And you’ll see black women wearing these green and pink and purple and red and platinum-blonde wigs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nails are the same purple color as Jude’s. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He said, “Why is the hive white? Why not red or purple or whatever?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

It’s crisp and bright purple, totally plain except for three white letters: NYU. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

She was a lamentable splotch, her black hair and brown skin and green shirt and blue jeans and purple backpack a speck in this eternal whiteness. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

My gnarled purple legs are rootlike, sparking with intelligence, or maybe it’s just a series of short circuits. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

It was a large, stately apartment, with purple chairs and curtains, a Turkey carpet, walnut-panelled walls, one vast window rich in stained glass, and a lofty ceiling, nobly moulded. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

The purple of the mountains flowed like watercolor. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Every hull was striped: black and yellow, pink and blue, green and white, purple and gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She curled her tongue around the edge of the cone, scooping up a dollop of purple that made my eyes water. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Beyond the lake, over Sally Gustafson’s house, the sun had left a smudge of purple on the horizon. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around his neck, he wore a necklace with a chintzy pewter dragon gripping a purple crystal ball—a memento from some Renaissance festival. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Chucha always wears purple because she once made a promise that she would always wear purple. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Henry detected the weariness in those purple eyes, the pallor beneath that glaze of lupus, the sadness at the corners of the unsmiling crimson mouth. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

I noticed lots of different-colored hair—blue, purple, fire orange, and one girl with thick, beautiful braids. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

It raked back and as the fish swam just below the surface the old man could see his huge bulk and the purple stripes that banded him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he stood, his robes shimmered, the purple shifting until it was the same deep blue of his jasper scepter. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The wind hurled the sand ship keening over the dead sea bottom, over long-buried crystals, past upended pillars, past deserted docks of marble and brass, past dead white chess cities, past purple foothills, into distance. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind them lightning stabbed down from the sky, blinding purple bolts that danced across the sea in webs of light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Sticky purple drops of syrupy sap splattered my food. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

Percy was glad he was wearing a regular purple T-shirt and jeans. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Looking out, she saw the bright shout of a red hat, a child in a purple jacket pressed against the window, a bald head just rising over a stiff rectangle of newspaper. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

It looked like it had been painted with watercolors of pink, orange, and purple. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Brother Jack cried, his face turning a deep purple. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“When will they learn,” said Uncle Vernon, pounding the table with his large purple fist, “that hanging’s the only way to deal with these people?” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

“I’m trying. Can you two forget about the bubbling purple goop for a nanosecond? I’m trying to reveal our big family secret!” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Flavius, too, appears washed out without his purple lipstick and bright clothes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

His eyes are a deep blue, almost purple, and his gold tooth gleams when he smiles for me. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Heleen had called her a criminal, but to them, she was only a little thief in scraps of purple silk. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

A hasty mural on a wall in Mexico City of Alex’s face in blue, purple, and pink, a crown on his head. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

We were dipping the first shirt in a tub of purple when Miss Agnew came in to get ready for first period. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

His eyes darted from one scene to the next, to the superhero in the purple outfit and red cape. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Mr. Hrbik stared up at me with his shining purple eyes. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

At first he wouldn’t tell anyone what had happened—not even when Danny threatened to give him a matching set of black, green, and purple eyes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

He fed me a purple slice of orange. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

When pickled and eaten, these Murtlap growths promote resistance to curses and jinxes, though an overdose may cause unsightly purple ear hair. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pick out a purple faja for around the waist, in honor of the rabanito flowers standing tall in the song I sang for fresh rolls as a little girl. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It came down to hover over Billy, and to enclose him in a cylinder of pulsing purple light. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

His hair is squashed to one side of his face; he has purple bags under his eyes. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There was Mrs. Lapham in her morning apron, her face purple with excitement, and all four girls crowded about her listening, gesturing at Johnny. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He picked up a round purple stone and lobbed it into the water. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

At the mention of this word, Miss Trunchbull's face turned purple and her whole body seemed to swell up like a bullfrog's. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

He looked at me, and purple fire flickered in his eyes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t easy looking dignified wearing a bedsheet and a purple cape. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Violets are purple, and Valencia oranges are, well, orange! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

“I want to buy those mittens. The purple pair.” The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“You said the boy was from Farbranch,” says a third man with a purple birthmark under his eye. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Darrell’s face turns purple, and it’s obvious that he’s trying to come up with a better response. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

"You heard that doorman say 'purple waves'; it must mean something. And that ghastly secretary was wearing a dress with purple waves last night, not to mention her crutch." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had two bags of stuff with her, including her purse, and her purple just for show glasses were pushed up, holding her curls back. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I had bought Mom a pair of earrings, a bottle of purple nail polish with glitter in it, and some striped tights, even though I thought, and I still think, that striped tights look dumb. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

Soon the dinner carpet was full with trays of kebab, grilled onions and tomatoes, platters of fresh chives, green and purple basil, cilantro, radishes, and dill. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

“It’s purple and pink. Pink’s my favorite color.” Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

The occasional Harmony or Unity flashes above, each purple letter larger than the person cleaning it beneath, like an ant holding a grape. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I pull the ribbon, and the box unfurls into a handmade, colorful, pop-up bouquet of flowers, the same purple lilacs and pink hydrangeas and white wildflowers as in Abby’s drawing suddenly brought to life. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

He was turning red and then—that high blood pressure we hadn’t mentioned—almost purple. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The boys wore white sweaters with big purple Ws emblazoned on them. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The purple plants had started to push out sleepy buds, but most of the flowers were still on the red ones. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“First off, they don’t like red. They like yellow and purple—and blue the best.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

“He has stiff white hair, blazing little eyes, and a dull purple birthmark on the side of his face,” recalled one of the suffragists. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The field is filled with cows and sheep and bursting with yellow and purple flowers. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Despite the pain pills, his whole body felt raw, the horseshoe in the center of his chest etched in angry purpling bruises. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

His face was purple, veins bulging in his forehead. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

His shoulder strap slipped down, and I saw that mark on his neck—the purple blotch. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She moved the butterflies around, starting with the red one and finishing with the purple one—the one that might just as easily be called violet. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

He is in his mid-thirties, with dark thickly curled hair, a mustache, an eagle nose, and eyes that look almost purple, like mulberries. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I choose a pair with purple handles and sit down opposite her, our knees bumping. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The water below undulated in shades of blue to green to purple in some spots. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

I chose a purple color scheme, of course—it was still my favorite color. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

At school we make Easter eggs out of construction paper, pink and purple and blue, and stick them onto the windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chase rubbed his own purple hands together and stepped closer to the fire. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

There wouldn’t be any cake with pink and purple flowers. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

In such places my spirit lifted to the sight of the drifts of white clover or the clouds of purple vetch with here and there the flaming cup of a wood lily. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z

He removed the bottle of Crown Royal from its purple velvet sack and set it out for the guests. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The boy of coconut-shell skin is dressed better than for church, a purple bow tie, a white white shirt that wouldn’t wrinkle even if he rolled down a hill. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

I wish it were the blue of Devon’s room and I were in my hidey-hole with my purple fleece looking up at the carving of my name. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

The throne was made of plywood, its back shaped in a fleur-de-lis all covered with purple taffeta that shone like oily water under moonlight. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sores lined his bottom lip, and his gums looked purple. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Now he watched the purple recede blotchily from Uncle Vernon’s face, making it look like badly mixed black currant ice cream. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

I glanced down at my baggy purple T-shirt. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a dress of rich purple with crisp pleats in the skirt. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On the table is a second man: slumped as if sleeping on his ear, only the edges of his wound showing, a whorish purple. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Pima and Nailer huddled through it, watching the roar and rain and holding close as their lips turned purple and their skins pimpled with cold. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

He starts by painting long green vines that sprout pink and purple flowers. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

The outer border is purple, and there are lavender pillows propped up against the headboard. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The solid black surface rippled, and another tunnel appeared, leading through a luminous purple tank. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She wore a lime-green coat to match her hair, with leopard spots and purple shoes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

She didn’t like him to pull on her purple coat—it was her favorite thing, and it was from a store instead of sewn by her mother. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

It was larger than an eagle, its breast saffron, its head crested with scarlet, and its tail purple. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

We paused a moment to marvel at how the rising rim of gold sun silently announced itself by illuminating the sky with brilliant, broad streaks of pink, purple, and orange. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Piper explained what she’d seen in the knife—the man in purple with a goblet. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It glittered red and purple in the light of the setting sun. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“Bubbling purple goop over a Bunsen burner is a whole different, top-secret kind of category.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

The girls with blue green red purple hair shrieking into each other’s arms. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Leaning casually on a pinecone-topped staff was a man in a purple camp shirt, khaki shorts, and sandals with white socks. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The candles sat in red, blue, green, yellow, and purple glasses and looked like fragments of rainbow dancing over the ground. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A screaming tornado of insects swirled around the room, coating the walls in glistening black, purple, and green. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

“Perhaps a Braavosi ship? One hears of purple sails as far away as Asshai and the islands of the Jade Sea.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“I remember how you used to always search for purple rocks when we were little.” We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

One day she came back grinning her horsey grin, her hair all tangled and her clothes covered in mud, clutching a raggedy bunch of purple and green flowers for Father. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were bruised purple and green and blue from past injections. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“The camp, yes. Vengeance! The orange and purple ones destroyed my home. Now Ma Gasket will destroy theirs! Do you hear me, Leo? Jason? Piper? I come to annihilate you!” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

He gave no indication that he’d just delivered a puzzle via sand pail, but now he wore a bulky purple scarf. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He led me through an arbor; we stood in a small grove of dead vines trailing purple across furniture of marble. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It shows the silhouette of a girl at sunset, running up a steep mountain path, and it’s all clouds parting and God rays shining down and purple mountain majesties. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It floated cheerfully as a bubble with its long deadly purple filaments trailing a yard behind it in the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue kite sliced a big purple one and swept twice in big loops. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then they wrapped them in warm purple mantles over fine tunics, and conducted them to the banquet hall. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tyrion glanced at the door, where a man had just come in: tall and stooped, his pointed beard dyed a splotchy purple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

There were purple shadows beneath her eyes, and there was a smudge of dirt on her cheek. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jason even spotted one guy in a purple Camp Jupiter T-shirt and Roman legionnaire armour. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She is there in a minute, wearing monkey pajamas and Freud slippers, and a long purple robe, her hair pulled into a ponytail. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He leads me to a can of purple paint, the color written on the lid: Violet. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I took my flower down and with a purple crayon I added, “I have a dog named Wishbone.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

“Of course you hear nothing. Too busy strutting around in stupid purple uniform.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe she’s has a scar, or one eyelid droops, or her nose is a mottled purple. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I darted a look at the thin strip of sky visible overhead and saw it was purpling into twilight. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

"I have that purple one that Dadu bought you. Maybe I'll wear one of my own, from Mumbai. And join you." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He looked exhausted: His chin was blue with stubble and there were deep purple shadows under his eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I got to Mattie, her lips were as purple as the spring crocus, her skin the color of wet ashes. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

And it really didn’t help when I pointed out that I had had to wear white feathers on my butt and that wearing a purple orchid really wasn’t as bad as that. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he thought of his Aunt Jimmy, her asafetida bag, her four gold teeth, and the purple rag she wore around her head. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ghost's tongue was a weird shade of purple, dyed from something. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

August huffs and puffs and turns so red he’s actually closer to purple. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

He tried to point this out to Ron, but Ron was having trouble with his wand again; large purple bubbles were blossoming out of the end, and he wasn’t much interested in anything else. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I almost hit him...I was about to… He had one cheek burned, purple, and I see: he understood everything, tears are running down that cheek. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

The Lares had formed shimmering purple lines against a mob of black, vaporous shades in ancient armor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“It’s okay. Your parents seem so cool. Mine would never let me run around the house swinging a baseball bat. And your mom’s hair! I love the purple.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He didn't look nowhere near as soft as he did with the purple. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The purple juice bursting here and there through crust. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The comforter on my bed had a purple unicorn on it. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I bring my hand up to my face: it looks startlingly white against my reddened skin, my purple lips, my bloodshot eyes. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her hand was the danda of the Dharma Raja, a staff that was as tall as she was and braided with purple light. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

A girl named Starlight whooped when her amulet began to glow purple. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Padma wears a bright purple dress with an empire waist that falls in a clean line to the floor. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

But she was so upset that she choked, and slowly turned a deep purple. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He owned just the one suit, and one beautiful blue tie, and he liked them as much as she liked her purple coat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

After that, the four of us wander the mall, trying on purple lipsticks and eating sour apple candy slices crusted in sugar that turn my tongue green. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

They probably don’t know that I once threw up right in the hallway, or that Charlie drew purple crayon all over the wall in the living room. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z

The book has a purple leather cover with a gold hibiscus flower embossed on the front. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Well, they ain’t naked, but they might as well be. Little purple flimflams—” “Tutus,” prompted Gilly primly, gratefully recovering from her earlier shock. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z

But Miss Hilly’s face, it’s purple as a plum. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Under the watch of Mr. Bird and Mr. Onion, they marched into springtime fields so full of purple flowers they looked like carpets in the house of God. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

And someone sat down on the other end of the bench and it was a lady who had a black briefcase and purple shoes and a brooch shaped like a parrot. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Her right arm had been horribly burned and she grew up with its skin withered and purple. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could imagine Root’s face, purple with rage as he spat into the mike. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

The harassment had taken toll on his father’s face, his hair disheveled, purple crescents under his eyes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were purple, for justice, white, for purity, and gold, for courage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Inside are purple earmuffs with a white band. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Now his face looked all pink and sweaty, which I’m sure complemented my purple, sweaty one. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Dusk approached with lightning speed, casting a muted purple hue over the backyard. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

For decades afterward, Washington crewmembers were feted at the end of each rowing year with a Loyal Shoudy banquet, where each found a purple tie waiting at his plate. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I close my book and glance at my purple earmuffs on my dresser. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

Faces floated in the air—the judge's face crowned with that mockery of grey wool—the cold dead face of Mrs. Rogers—the convulsed purple face of Anthony Marston. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The clouds in the sky were aglow: pink and purple, maroon and gold, pearl and saffron. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He had dyed it afresh for her, taking it from purple back to blue, as it had been when first she met him. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Grace lit another cigarette and rearranged the clues to read: purple waves. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We could get him to walk across a stamp pad so he would leave purple footprints. That way we could see if he went to the cafeteria and the library and all those places.” Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z

I thought for a second as I looked over Needles's body, now starting to blue and purple up, the bruises looked like they were made with bats, not fists. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

And in confirmation, a little Arctic flower, a purple saxifrage, blossomed improbably where the witch had planted it as a signal in a cranny of the rock. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

It can go purple and keep an orange heart so the clothes of the people on the streets glow like dance-hall costumes. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fancy purple strip-lighting of the Pleiades Corp still runs along gunmetal floor and ceiling. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

There was a limp flower bud there, tucked behind a clump of grass—the only splash of purple anywhere in sight. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sky was a royal purple and dotted with fading stars, the light of day just beginning to break through. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

A crystal chandelier hung from the ceiling, more portraits against the dark purple walls. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Her red lips are purple and dry, her cheeks are sunken, there are deep shadows under her eyes, her porcelain white skin is brown and wrinkled from the sun. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since Roger is a purple name, it is very unnerving to see him in red. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He was wearing long robes, a purple cloak that swept the ground, and high-heeled, buckled boots. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Oaks and purple maples, bitternuts and striped elms. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Hanging at his side, the sceptre of Diocletian glowed angry purple, like a radioactive bruise. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His rich dark hair flowed down over a purple cloak that covered his strong shoulders. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t ordinary fire either; it was purple. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Finally, his large purple face crumpled with concentration, Uncle Vernon stopped in front of Harry and spoke. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

We walked across the dried grass field dotted with purple flowers until there were none. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

Finely groomed purple and black feathers sprouted from its slender arms, and each razor-like claw on its feet had been shined and sharpened. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The girl in the purple cloak stepped forward. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Good. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I must return to my laboratory. My purple goop is boiling over a Bunsen burner. So are my ramen noodles.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Josef takes me to the Park Plaza Hotel Roof Garden, in my new purple dress. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh yeah it does, most definitely it has an ocean, only it’s purple, and the sand is blue and the sky is hella green.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

There were all kinds of dresses in it, and lacy ladies’ coats, and hats that looked like they must have been the purple rage at the turn of the tenth century. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Die Engel-kinder!” cried the poor things as they ate and warmed their purple hands at the comfortable blaze. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wine sparkles purple into my glass, and it is sweet and delicious. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I look at slides, planaria worms in section with their triangular heads and cross- eyes, bacteria colored with vivid dyes, hot pinks, violent purples, radiant blues. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

There it is, swirls of blue, purple, and periwinkle watercolor. Bronx Masquerade 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The son of Dionysus who’d gone down fighting an enemy half-blood was wrapped in a deep purple shroud embroidered with grapevines. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

They were the notebook pages again, woven with the purple scribbling, in which he dedicated a special paragraph to each one. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Being completely covered by my purple fleece blanket under my bed or putting my head under the sofa cushion or reading my Dictionary. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took the pipe out of his mouth and pointed with the stem of it at a star in the purpling sky. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

At the same moment, the purple door opens, and a fat guy I recognize stands at the entrance. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On it is a cool punky charm bracelet that perfectly matches the rest of her: purple hair, tattoo sleeves, acid attitude. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Others have virtual pets trotting alongside them, bright purple virtual dogs or sparkling silver virtual tigers. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She’s sprinkled gold glitter as earth and added purple and white flowers. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

It’s called Irish Wreath, four purple irises with green stems meeting in the middle on a black background. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I picked up my coffee and plate and settled onto a big purple pillow on the floor by the front window. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

Framed by strong blue, purple, and green hues, her features stare back at her with fiery intensity. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister had used most of the getting-ready time to complain, especially about the stupid purple orchid that the Kiwanis Club had sent and which she had to pin to her shoulder. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Before he ate each nut, he examined it—soft-boiled, light purple, shriveled—and tried not to think of the crumpled pages in his study, until the train arrived in Port Harcourt. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

We gather around the baskets and find ripe red strawberries, purple mulberries, and round loaves of bread made from some kind of coarse meal. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Nobody told her not to, so she went out in her purple coat and took a full two hundred and fifty steps away from the house, then sat in a cool patch of grass. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Hazel pondered what the Cyclops had said: Orange and purple ones. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The fever made his cheekbones a ghastly purple. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The wind picks up, fluttering the pages of my pad, revealing the drawing of that purple flower in my mother’s garden. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling glittered with different- color crystal formations—white and purple and green, like I was inside one of those cut geodes you see in souvenir shops. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

During Holy Week all pictures and statues in church were shrouded by purple silk drapes. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Really dressed all-out with a country way of talking and a old-style hat made out of purple plaid. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

One artist offered a giant bright installation titled “Underground Springs” made from tin cans roped together, painted flashing purple and silver, spilling forth from a map of Israel on the wall. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Cersei could have given the prince the sons he wanted, lions with purple eyes and silver manes ... and with^ such a wife, Rhaegar might never have looked twice at Lyanna Stark. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She is bursting with Merryweather Pride, all perk and pep and purple. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

He indicated a purple cord hanging against the wall near one of the beds. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Using one of her dad’s purple editing pencils, she corrected the misspellings like he did, marking through the incorrect letter and writing the correct one above. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Aunty Ifeoma chattered as she put the rice back on the stove and chopped two purple onions, her stream of sentences punctuated by her cackling laughter. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

The way she pinches like this, it leaves purple and blue star-shaped bruises that are sore for days. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His purple cloak had been ripped to shreds. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It’s bright blue and purple and says Gertrude Nix Rock Camp for Girls, with pictures of girls screaming into microphones, guitars weighing down their shoulders, drumsticks flying. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Twenty or so men and women dressed in deep purple robes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She would manufacture a beautiful corpse, with the linen shroud and a plush-lined coffin with purple trim, and she would put it at the disposition of the worms with splendid funeral ceremonies. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

A girl with purple hair, talking to a boy with numerous facial piercings. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

The jagged purple words that had been scrawled across the page remained seared in her brain. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I also see the pinks and greens and purples and yellows. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Turn left where purple fluffy wands arch on tall bushes inviting butterflies. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a garment, apparently, and for a woman: there are the cups for the breasts, covered in purple sequins. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat upright on his chair, fingering the purple stole across his shoulders. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

She had put a new potpourri, a mix of dried, leaves and seeds in a purple bowl, on the cover of the toilet tank. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He brandished a piece of purple writing paper at Harry. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Behind him, Mr. Gunthrie’s face turned a mottled hue of purple. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The god frowned, but the purple glow faded in his eyes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Maybe if you found a really pretty purple kimono, I could see if I could find you a little. It must be pretty, though. Very pretty.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I pull out the purple ink pen and write: Romeo + Juliet = Me Ten times. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

His robes were a somber purple, trimmed with ermine. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

They painted his toes purple, too, and forced a laxative down his throat when he opened his mouth again to complain, and then they sent him away. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Mr. Curtain’s face had gone quite purple, and drops of perspiration fell from the tip of his lumpy nose like water from a leaky faucet. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

We would giggle and chatter away as we debated whether to wear pink, purple, polka dots, or prints. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The red spots, which a few days before had started out as starlike speckles, have expanded and merged into huge, spontaneous purple shadows: his whole head is turning black-and-blue. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She rode past the big purple house with a cactus garden for a front yard, and past the building where her old babysitter used to live. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

I flick my finger against the purple ribbon dangling from its spout. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The seat cushions were done up in an obnoxiously bright purple, but they, like the small TV hanging on the wall across from them, were coated with dust and dirt. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Whereupon, Chester and his sixteen purple mice went into the kitchen for dinner. Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

I only gazed at the unfinished piece with its gillyflowers and pansies in blue and purple silk, while I whispered to myself, “I am Hamlet’s wife.” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The skin on his face and on her knuckles is nearly the same color, purple- blue-green, as if drawn with ink. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

“They painted my gums purple,” the chaplain replied sheepishly. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Inside the box were at least a dozen colored pencils—red, green, blue, yellow, purple, orange. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I realize I must be purple and swollen, too, for him to look so satisfied. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

He helped him carry Wielaf out of the cavern and into the purple twilight. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Seven took the vials out of her coat pocket as Valley pulled out five blow darts and began filling them with the dangerous purple poison. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Its surface is lined with hot-pink construction paper, covered in blue and purple heart stickers. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

August, Rosaleen, and I stood on the screen porch that jutted off the back of the kitchen and watched the clouds bruise dark purple over the treetops and the wind whip the branches. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Outside the Midland High band, dressed in its purple and gold costumes, played the national anthem. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each cabin had its own table, covered in white cloth trimmed in purple. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

East, west, north, south, everywhere he looked, the clouds rose up like black mountains, their tumbled slopes and collossal cliffs alive with blue and purple lightning. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Then he inscribed across the bottom of the picture, in purple ink, a very special message. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ladles it out of a purple bucket into big bowls. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The man’s face went so purple I thought he’d burst a blood vessel in his neck. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

The Death Danda, as if it were matching her mood, hopped and danced, then turned from a purple compact into an imposing stick at the blink of an eye. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Jack, as always, had peeled open a tin of shriveled purple olives. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue sky and white snow of the morning had deepened into an icy purple laced with black. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

A white dresser, pale purple wallpaper, a flashing alarm clock, a mirror on the opposite wall, and our reflections there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

It was shiny purple and had a white banana seat, wire baskets on the side, chrome handlebars that swept out like steer horns, and white plastic handles with purple-and-silver tassels. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Paint is smeared across her forehead, giving her a purple eyebrow. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The customer is a boy around my age, black with short purple hair, three lip rings, one nose ring, an eyebrow ring, and too many earrings to count. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

We’d get up at dawn, my favorite time, when the shadows were long and purple and you still had the whole day ahead of you. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The surface of the gem was smooth and round, and it gleamed up at the assassin like a purple eye. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One Cloud-Man, taking very careful aim, tipped a gallon of thick purple paint over the edge of the cloud right onto the Centipede himself. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

She had difficulty seeing past the purple spots the light had left on her eyes. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Just like the purple creatures in the water, the cave’s walls glow. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

A winding path, lined with purple and white bougainvillea, and water sparkling in the distance. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Laertes cupped the delicate purple and white flowers in his palm and sobbed. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

“Exactly,” said Harry, looking calmly up into Uncle Vernon’s large, purple face. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

He sucked on his pipe, staring out at a row of purple flowers. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

The western sky was a deep purple, speckled with stars. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

If she really gave me a house one day, I’d paint it purple with white trim. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were dark purple, as if the clear blue water of their life source had condensed and thickened inside them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A few men wore robes made of satinlike material; some were red, others a brilliant purple. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mixed in with the crumpled strips are pearly purple fragments of something that looks like it’s been broken. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

He’s decorated our bathroom in red and orange, with purple mermaids swimming on the walls, and hooked up the toilet seat so that it plays “Jingle Bells” when it’s raised. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the gathering dusk, with fires lit beneath them, the domes glowed blue and red and green and purple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The bird looked like it was made out of the same colors as the flowers in front, with a rich purple body, a yellow mask, and a bright red belly. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

His wings glimmered in shades of blue, black, and purple. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As day drifted into night, the sky shucked its oranges and purples for black and blue. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Already the gates of the east glowed purple, and Dawn had opened her courts full of rosy light. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m already rolling my eyes as I wrestle myself into a purple chiffon nightmare. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The two older ladies started shrieking when they got a look at my face, which had bloomed into a hellish palette of grayish yellow and blackish purple. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Grilled mackerel, purple rice, spicy bean-sprout soup, and lots and lots of delicious side dishes. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His silvery hair was blowing in the wind, and his eyes were a deep purple, darker than this boy s. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I’d been trying not to pay attention to Mr. D, but he was kind of hard to ignore in his neon orange leopard-skin warm-up suit and his purple running shoes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

Everything was still purple, dark blue, and black, yet scarcely a minute remained to the long, quiet night. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He presses a button on its handle, and the Cog glows purple. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

I don’t know what made Mom crave purple stuff. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

My jeans were soon covered in dust; my purple boots, brown. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

A purple discoloured face—a hideous drowned face.... And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Early Tuesday morning Rachel Lockwood comes into class and her face is scratched up and purple. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t mind the light purple walls, but the flowy, white fabric tied in bows is too much. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The only difference between the two giants was that the second one’s hair was green rather than purple. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Piper remembered her vision in the knife: the strange man in purple, holding out a goblet and beckoning to her. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

From the shelter of a clump of purple loosestrife they looked back at the river. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A purple hat sat crookedly on his head, and a white pipe was clamped between his teeth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

The lights inside the limo transmuted from orange, to red, and back to purple. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

His withered arms were green and purple with bruises. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

Ernie was looking rather grumpy; determined to outshine Harry for once, he had most rashly invented his own potion, which had curdled and formed a kind of purple dumpling at the bottom of his cauldron. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I fixed my eyes on a purple human liver that looked just like the cow liver Mom always served me because it was “filled with iron.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“The emperors used to eat the peaked hump of purple dromedaries,” she would say. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first streaks of evening lay against the sky like a purple border on a blue sari. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

As Roy emerged into the fairway, the purple sky opened up. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a different corner was another stack of clothes—silks of bright red and blue and purple and green. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

I left the library in a purple froth and found Harry lounging in front of the general store. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It was very fragile and covered with crinkly paper with a miniature spray of purple wisteria painted on the top. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bought a new dress—a purple, shimmery thing. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Flowers bloomed along the edges of the trail, pink and purple and white, and birdsong filled the air every morning. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

A sleek purple cat leaped out of her arms and away into the darkness. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He stood at his counter, wearing purple robes and a wizard hat topping off his dreads. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Her funeral was filled with people, another broken community jammed into a church, this one working to handle the sight of a teenage girl in a casket lined with purple silk. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

The old man spoke of the dusty cornfields and purple mountains of Durango. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t feel good in this room anymore so I go get my purple fleece and wrap it around me and go to the living room. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had long wavy brown hair, and wore a brown T-shirt with a purple peace sign on it. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Singing in Navajo, she bent over and scattered a handful of red, blue, and purple kernels in the hole. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

But for now, the only thing I knew for sure was that purple jelly beans tasted way better than bran cereal. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t help but watch it turn from rose to red to purple to blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Not counting Holy Week, Sundays, holy days of obligation, first Fridays, retreats, sacrifices, and cyclical impediments, her effective year was reduced to forty-two days that were spread out through a web of purple crosses. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

In front of them marched Octavian, purple robes over his armour, Imperial gold jewellery glittering on his neck and arms, and a crown of laurels on his head as if he’d already won the battle. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

When all was burned they quenched the flame with wine and gathered the bones into a golden urn, shrouding them in soft purple. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hazel collapsed in agony, her side burning, as the Doors shuddered and disappeared in a flash of purple light. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It’s even in a different color than the other doodles and text around it—it’s pale blue while the other doodles around it are mostly in black, with some red and purple. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The man stares at us as we enter, his eyes like daggers and his blubbery purple lips drawn into a plastic smile. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He lets go of my waist and waves his hand in front of his purple face until he stops sputtering. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Mr. Clyde said with such vehemence that Ignatius was able to see the purple veins swelling around the whitened scar on his nose. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At sunset, clouds piled up like purple mountains, forecasting rain. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

One arm was livid with bruises, red turning purple, the clear, brutal marks of a big hand that had gripped her hard and not let go for some time. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

It’s got a picture on the cover of what looks like the Nile at dusk, with a palm tree lilting left, echoing the brightening moon, and the purple sky rolling up from the horizon. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I still remembered the purple nail polish she’d worn when I first met her. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

When the eggplants appeared in August they were pale purple, a strange and eerie shade. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The maid tells it true,” declared a stocky man in white and purple, whose cloak was fastened with a pair of crossed bronze keys. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Graceful purple martins congregated around an elaborate miniature apartment house on a pole nearby. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Seven and Poppy would often help Miss Dewey set up for meetings there...Funny that until that moment, Seven had not thought of the purple coven or Poppy in a long time. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His face turned a darker shade of purple. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Fat men pressed their faces, snaked with purple veins, against her cheeks. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The setting sun played hide-and-seek with some purple clouds stretched out along the Jersey City skyline, and a warm summer breeze swooshed in through the open Cadillac windows and made a mess of her hair. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I took off my face mask and dunked it, along with the purple filters. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was the checkered rug where Mikayla and I did our experiments, the purple stain where we’d mixed baking soda and vinegar—and a whole bottle of bubble bath. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Booth’s lips turned purple and his throat swelled. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the doorway, I see Nat’s soft purple blanket in a tangled heap. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a week, Dana Matherson’s nose was still slightly purple and puffy, though it definitely wasn’t protruding from the center of his forehead, as Garrett had claimed. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Root’s face took on that familiar purple hue. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Arthur’s face was covered with purple bumps and red cuts. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She glanced down at her own dull amulet, then over at her best friend: Poppy’s amulet was a vibrant purple. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

But I focus in on one of the singular purple creatures and trail it until it disappears behind the spiral of kelp. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

One of them held a purple banner with the blade scythe design. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

I place my hand above it, creating a shadow umbrella, and it glows the deep purple of an amethyst. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The stairs into the stadium were carpeted in rich purple. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, the purple honey didn’t do a whole lot for her. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hermione emerged, coughing, out of the smoke, clutching the telescope and sporting a brilliantly purple black eye. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The dark skin of his face, which had been oddly pale just a minute earlier, had turned purple, his eyes rolled up so far in their sockets they looked like glowing white marbles. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I load a plate with eggs, sausages, batter cakes covered in thick orange preserves, slices of pale purple melon. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a purple caftan that, when she raised her arms to greet me, filled up the entire doorframe. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

The slow, measured sound of footsteps went before him, echoing amongst the purple pillars of her hall. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She was eating slices of bread and jam, deftly cutting the bread from a large golden-brown loaf with a huge knife, then spooning on the purple jam with a wooden spoon. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The black and purple benches, highest and most distant from the sand, were crowded with freedmen and other common folk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Boots heard the word and came over holding up her palms, which were still dyed purple from the marker. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Thank you very much, but this is my really special coat,” Hanako said, putting on her purple one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

They still look strange to me—a mother with a pierced eyebrow, a father with a tattooed arm, an initiate with purple hair, a wholesome family unit. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

At the end, Christina crosses her arms, purple light playing over her nose and mouth. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The little girl reached out and touched the purple coat sleeve, first tentatively, then curiously. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

“Tell your mama I got a purty little bracelet made of purple glass that I been savin’ just for you, Stella,” Spoon Man called out. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I ached for the lesson to begin so I could draw and color in those ivory teeth with the purple muscle of the tongue showing between like some fat beast caged inside her mouth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Two men and two horses materialized from under the purple storm clouds, walked up the track, and reined up in front of the press box. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky hung low, a cloudy canvas with swirls of dark purple and stormy greys. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

It was puffed up, so much purple on her pale skin. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It’s Rabia, dressed in a purple puffy jacket, jeans, and a matching purple hijab. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“The boy could preach till he's purple,” the daughter told him. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

The sky was so overcast it was almost purple. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Everything was good, well made, and little worn, but Amy’s artistic eyes were much afflicted, especially this winter, when her school dress was a dull purple with yellow dots and no trimming. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend a lot of time noticing how my purple paisley bedspread clashes with the oriental rug. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

“And talkin’ about this morning,” the sheriff said, his face shading purple even in the darkness, “you stole my boat. That’s what we call larceny, Mrs. Dowdel. You could go up for that.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

They have a soda fountain countertop, with stools along it topped in acid lime-green, and vinyl-padded booths in a shade of shiny purple that looks like the skin of an early shark-finned convertible. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

And did the purple color mean he was the Roman version of Hercules rather than the Greek? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then she returned her attention to a glowing purple Greek dude who was trying to make her sit on his lap. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There was a bruise on her left cheek, turning purple. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

It looks like an oval of colors, greens and blues, yellows and purples, all constantly shifting. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the Midwest, as I’ve mentioned, winter is an exercise in waiting—for relief, for a bird to sing, for the first purple crocus to push up through the snow. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Two butterfly bandages almost cover a small cut on her right cheek, and at the hairline above her left eyebrow there's a purple lump the size of a golf ball. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The girl wore her purple silk, belted with a cloth-of-silver sash. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Then a conductor in a purple uniform leapt out of the bus and began to speak loudly to the night. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

I choose a green one and a purple one, and Shanti sets aside two for herself, one blue, one yellow. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In her hair, she wore a bright purple island flower. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Grace was about to insist on purple waves, but plums reminded her of something. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

They said a victim's face turned as purple as the little crystal seed from which his death was grown, but so too did a man choking on a morsel of food. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The next morning, before she left for work, Mom asked me to help her plant two purple coneflowers someone had given her at the nursing home. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

We stood shoulder to shoulder, close enough that our linked fingers were hidden between the fabric of my pajama pants and her purple puffer jacket. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And in two days thence you shall see the purple shadow of Mount Mindolluin and the walls of the tower of Denethor white in the morning. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

Carefully, I peeled back the dressing and saw that, although the wound wasn’t oozing, her entire calf was purple now. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Four blocks from her mother’s place is a white house with purple trim. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

No, I had a purple, blue, yellow, and black eye. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about the way I had once loved purple so much. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

This time, the oval’s colors look deep red and purple. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The sky flushed pink, then deepened into purple as we drove. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

All along the Pomerian Line, the statues of Terminus were glowing purple, as if building up energy for some kind of attack. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He too holds out a round object: it’s flat like a disc and appears to be made of purple stained glass. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Areida collapsed on top of me, and together we shook the purple chair. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

My swollen cheek aches—it’s probably ten different shades of blue and purple right now. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I know we probably watched TV and played Hot Wheels and Lego, probably battled over Pokemon cards, but the purple elephant escapade wasn’t a one-time deal. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we’re given slides to look at: butterfly wings, cross- sections of worms, planaria stained with pink and purple dyes so you can see the different parts. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

By lamplight they turned black, and in the light of dusk they seemed purple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Lovely,” he said to Sweets, who had purple hair and violet eyes, “but we were hoping to be the pretty ones for once.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Today the brother, Etienne, had a great big ugly lump on his forehead over his left eye—quite fresh, a purple bruise with a bloody dent in the center, still swollen. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

His eyes were slightly purple beneath—hadn’t he gotten any sleep in the three weeks since Xavier had died? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Drifting through the crowd were purple ghosts—Lares—in togas and legionnaire armor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I watched the sky go light pink and then red and orange and then dark blue and purple. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

We stand there with the sun going down and the sky getting dark blue, purple way off in the distance. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Melba June gave me a kiss right on my mouth in front of my mother, making me turn nearly purple with embarrassment. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I stuffed the letter back into the envelope and tucked it underneath my purple comforter. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Cooling things down, staining and dyeing the evening purple and blue- black. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were not purple after all but dark brown. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Jay looked up into the sky, now stained with faded purples and pinks and hot orange. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Under poisonous clouds, the rolling terrain glistened purple with dark red and blue scar lines. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The late sun sifts through the bougainvillea trained to climb the walls of the patio, to thread across the trellis roof, to pour down magenta and purple blossoms. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

A purple chair was placed next to one of the two windows. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that the things inside were tied up with purple and green curly ribbon, like Christmas presents. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

"Sit here," he says, his face purple with rage. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

She imagined Coach Hedge getting impatient and aiming a ballista at the man in purple, or eidolons possessing the crew and forcing them to commit suicide-by-Hercules. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

But she’s never said why she made such a promise or to whom or why she decided on purple. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The one who once upon a time had painted her nails black and now wanted to dye her hair purple. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

I turned her my full face, with the bulging purple and green eye. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The rippling light shifted from sea blue and green to purple and sickly lime. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was under the shade of a large tree with droopy branches covered in beautiful purple flowers that gave off the most amazing scent, like real perfume. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

A single wand lay on a faded purple cushion in the dusty window. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

People still only see purple fluff, not me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

The red lipstick and purple eye shadow that matches her muumuu somehow make her look regal, dazzling, eye-catching. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Was she going to have new kids and give them cake with pink and purple flowers when they got home from school? Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

The grass was sandy and had empty snail shells scattered over it, small yellowish shells with a purple spiral. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stretched out his massive purple hand and might have plucked up Percy like a weed, but Bob interrupted. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The sun had almost set and left the sky swathed in smothers of purple and red. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“You can speak Spanish! The purple jelly bean worked.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

Along the western horizon the lower clouds formed a single purple mass, against which distant trees stood out minute and sharp. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

My face was probably as purple as my idiotic skirt. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Red, blue, yellow, orange, black, pink, purple, creamy white, multicolored—the jumble of colors in Mesoamerican maize reflects the region’s jumble of cultures and ecological zones. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

We watched the Big Sky do twilight proud: deep pinks and bright purples giving way to the inky blue-black of night. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

I have never seen her without this purple rock. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In the living room, there was a large rectangular box covered in purple wrapping paper on the coffee table. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Here and there a yellow tormentil showed in the grass, a late harebell or a few shreds of purple bloom on a brown, crisping tuft of self-heal. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t he look weird to you? His face is purply like an eggplant. Like he’s been drowned or something.” Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Petra, writing in neat purple ink, started a new page with the heading "Facts about Vermeer." Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“The girl’s going blue and purple all over! Even her hair is changing color! Violet, you’re turning violet, Violet! What is happening to you!” Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z

Nico lifted the scepter of Diocletian, which glowed even darker purple. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Carefully, I paint my nails a deep purple. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She was afraid of dentists, not ghosts or . . . don't think about purple waves, think about two dollars a minute. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then it turned out the purple flowers were called poison kisses, and Arya got a rash on her arms. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But Elsbeth had to keep its mate, another dress in dismal grayish purple. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

"Black amethysts from Asshai. The rarest kind, a deep true purple by daylight." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

She sat there, the needles clicking over themselves, the purple square of yarn growing more rectangular. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I look down and see the wild pansies, small purple and white violets, growing at my feet. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

And she’s dressed like a fortuneteller, with a glittery purple scarf around her neck and a yellow river of a dress with a red sash. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

My mother, in her purple cartwheel dress, sat at the other end. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Three weeks later, when orange, yellow, and purple leaves were showering down from the trees, Frightful was fat. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

The bottle explodes into little green chunks, leaving a small splash of purple on the wall. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

“Everything we need is here on this paper. Seven bottles: three are poison; two are wine; one will get us safely through the black fire, and one will get us back through the purple.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Lush purple orchids hung beside the explosive pink, gold, and orange petals of countless wildflowers. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

It's soft purple, and leans back, and Darryl's always lint-rolling it, and brushing its bulky arms softly with the palms of his hands, like patting a son that's made him proud. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, Clement was able to find yellow bacuri and purple a^ai. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

Its innards tumbled out onto the cutting board, red and purple and plum-colored, intestines and vital organs like wet jewels on the dusty wood. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

The commander ignored the water jugs, instead pouring himself a shot of something purple from a hip flask. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Dad said that any progress is a good thing, but I still don’t see the purple spirals that I used to see when my alarm went off. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

They are in the second row, white blouses starched, blue skirts almost purple from ironing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun sparked iridescence from their purple necks as they pecked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Galazza Galare awaited them outside the temple doors, surrounded by her sisters in white and pink and red, blue and gold and purple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Jagged blue sapphires and purple amethysts floated in a space cut way at the top, and they flashed in warning, like a lighthouse. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had a fresh pair of jeans and an extra purple T-shirt from the camp quartermaster, plus some nectar, ambrosia, snacks, a little mortal money, and camping supplies. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The four o’clocks were blooming purple and red. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Look what they did to me,” he reported back to Major Major with purple gums. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

The gift wrap was familiar—shiny purple paper that her mother had been using for six months. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

On a long table, also heaped with old books and papers, the proprietor was writing tireless prose in purple letters, somewhat outlandish, and on the loose pages of a school notebook. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

Pattie makes it to the apartment just as the horizon is going purple. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Black-clad people came out of the houses along the way to join the procession in back of us, many of them carrying homemade wreaths tied with purple ribbons. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Though I could not hear his jokes, I heard the king roar with laughter and cough until his face grew purple and he began to choke. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

The brownish-green husks, oozing their dark purple stain, were beaten off on a flat rock outside the cabin. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the inside, sharp smells—vinegar, alcohol, purple liquid iodine, red Mercurochrome solution, and soap—filled the air. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Then I lay in my own bed, looking out the window at the purple sky over Islamabad. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Do you think Mr. Powell will like this? It’s a little electric, but purple is his favorite color.” A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Minos of Crete laid siege to his city, but Nisus knew that no harm would come to it as long as he had the purple lock. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pull out dresses, black, blue, purple, jackets, skirts; none of them will do, none of them even fits, they’re too big or too small. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Juanga is wearing a suit one size too big and a skinny purple tie. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

My stuffed rabbits crawl out of their burrows, noses awiggling, pink bunny, purple bunny, a gingham bunny from my grandma. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Light, the deep purple of the ocean and a reminder of the Pleiades Corporation, illuminates a stairwell spiraling downward into darkness. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He thought again of the banner on the wall, all those strips of red, blue, and purple. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Now that my eyes have adjusted to the light, I can see that the plants in this room were selected for beauty, not practicality—flowers and ivy and clusters of purple or red leaves. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

The sky looks like a big bruise of purples and oranges. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I don’t care,” I said, taking a sip of the milk and settling into the purple beanbag. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I’m not here—he can’t see me standing here in my purple marshmallow jacket. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

When Turner looked over the river, he saw an iron sheet of rain coming toward him, lit up from behind through a rip in the dark purple of the clouds. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

A Bunsen burner’s hissing blue flame was making a round-bottomed bottle full of purple goop burble and bubble. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

His purple tie and handkerchief match Grandma’s dress and hat. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The silk rippled in the wind like a living thing; across the fabric was blazoned a night sky slashed with purple lightning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

There when they arrived everything was delightful, soft green meadows, lovely groves, a delicious life-giving air, sunlight that glowed softly purple, an abode of peace and blessedness. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she stood, panting, staring at her wrecked hands until the sun set and the stars winked slyly in the purpling sky. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

“You say purple is the color of royals,” he says. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Her pale arms, bare almost to the shoulder, were thin and wrinkled, with faint blue veins and a few purple scabs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

Around the goddess, flowers bloomed in the dust—dark purple, orange, and red blossoms that smelled sickly sweet. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Everyone wore neat, plain coats except for Hanako, who of course wore her purple one. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

As Clara trailed off she flickered a little, her expression twisting suddenly into one of rage and her outline going purple before she was back to her usual half smile. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

As she hugs me, I wonder if I also have purple juice stains like the ones I spot around Mustafa’s mouth and hope she doesn’t notice. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

At the sight of purple teeth marks on Velia’s forearm, I lost it. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Back in the cafeteria, Freak is turning purple. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

Along the benches, a dozen ghosts shimmered into existence—glowing purple men in Roman togas, like the Lares she’d seen at Camp Jupiter. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

That was the day Ms. Keen wore a purple dress with bright blue roses. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sunset has turned from orange to purple. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but how often does a guy get a purple cast? I think it’s pretty cool.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She had colored her hands purple with washable markers that Gregor thought maybe a sandblaster could remove, and her diaper sagged down around her knees. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

His eye went from purple to blue to green to yellow. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A few miles to the south, another two thousand fans dressed in purple and gold clambered aboard an observation train at the Northern Pacific Railway’s University Station. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Henry turns to face him at last, and now that Alex’s eyes aren’t full of rainwater, he can see the skin under his eyes is papery and purple, rimmed pink at his eyelashes. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

In the strange light, beautiful plants grew—giant orchids, star-shaped flowers, vines bursting with orange and purple berries that crept among the crystals. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As the final words left their lips, purple smoke snaked from their mouths to dance in the center of the circle, right above the Gran’s head. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

It was turning a dull purple with age. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

One side of the person's face was purple, and bulged out in a shapeless way, shading to green along the edges, and then to a sallow yellow. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Everything around me was as familiar as my purple comforter, as easy as saying my own name. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

But after a while something begins to form: a thicket of dark-green leaves with purple blossoms, dark purple, a sad rich color, and clusters of red berries, translucent as water. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He looked down and could see the strap of her purple bra. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z

Nevertheless, his long purple hair was braided in a ponytail of dreadlocks, woven with gold and silver coins, which struck Percy as a giantish hairstyle. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She has bright brown eyes, a smile with dimples, and chestnut hair with purple tips. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The soft purple liquid rippled, what sounded like hundreds of voices whispered softly at once, and on the surface of the potion, an image formed. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His age is betrayed only by the creases across his brow and a proud, deeply pitted nose, over which a purple filigree of veins unfolds like a finely wrought tattoo. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Uncle Al is breathless and purple, waving his cane and whacking people if they’re not moving fast enough for his liking. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Her purple dress had slipped up over her bony knees, which were spread apart, and I hate to say it, but you could see right up her skirt. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The muffs are as purple as eggplant, and the white band is clean again. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He gives his orange corkscrew locks a shake and applies a fresh coat of purple lipstick to his mouth. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

There are grasslands filled with endless purple flowers whipping by our windows. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z

Gay held up a purple dress with a lace collar and puffy sleeves. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The Family of Mourners screensaver has been changed to a single purple tulip. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Today, a purple headband with a unicorn horn held back her dark curls. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z

The combination of pink, purple, green, and blue needs some touch-ups, but that can wait until next week after she catches up on assignments. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Then, oh happiness, she saw her mother give Spoon Man ten pennies for that purple glass bracelet, which Mama then quickly tucked into her apron pocket. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wore only his purple camp shirt, jeans and running shoes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They were nothing like the dazzling purple petunias and multicolored pansies Miss Mallory cared for at the Home for Lost Girls, but they made Cady ache just the slightest for the place all the same. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I never knew before that dead children looked purple. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Eventually, the cuts from the paper birds healed, and became scars—first purple, then pink, then white. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

I twist the cord tighter, my fingertip turning purple with backed-up blood. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

JPs head snapped back, and purple blood sprayed from beneath my knuckles as he lost his balance and fell backward—right into the muddy shallows of the lake. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Something alarming’s occurring to me, more alarming than the fact that Jude’s joined this purple polish cult. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The sun was glowing orange now, clipping the mountains’ purple crests. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z

Now the purple spread from horizon to horizon, and the stars that had clustered in the east were fading with the early light of the rising moon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Once he spotted a glowing purple ghost—a Lar—glaring at them from the window of an apartment building. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And while her father played another song, a song about the deep purple falling over sleepy garden walls, the princess reached out and touched the top of the mouses head. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

You were supposed to be my wife, to bear me children with silver hair and purple eyes, to keep the blood of the dragon pure. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A horseshoe puckered on Sybil’s neck, ugly and purple—her first owner had raised draft horses. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

To see her in all that purple is beautiful. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The color of lights goes from purple to blue. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

By the time I found a small spring-fed pool nestled among some birch trees, I could see the sky purpling into dusk behind the trees. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The man in purple was waiting for them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I take a deep breath and reach into my bag, easing out Suma’s purple unicorn sweatshirt. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Now that he had seen him once, he could picture the fish swimming in the water with his purple pectoral fins set wide as wings and the great erect tail slicing through the dark. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“All right,” he said, grabbing her purple coat and pulling at it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

June burst into bloom—daisies, larkspur, meadowsweet and thyme, foxglove and thimbleberry, purple thistle flowers, and yellow whorls of blooming fennel. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was pretty in a dryad-y way, with her purple gossamer dress and her elfish face, but her eyes were green-tinted with chlorophyll from crying. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They were at the base of the sandstone mesa, which was now dark purple. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

He stood no higher than her knee, his faced pinched and pointed, snoutish, but he was dressed in delicate livery of purple and blue, and his tiny pink hands held a silver tray. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The man picked up the purple mittens and pointed in the direction of the register. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Their little toes were purple when we finally made them come in. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The table was covered with a scarf of purple and gold—the school colors. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Street in Cairo glowed with soft yellows, pinks, and purples. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Despite the sleeping bags under her eyes, Mrs. Branson made lively “ooh” and “aah” faces at her daughter, Sabrina, while waving a purple rattle. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She looked just like she had the first time I saw her, wearing that ridiculous net on her head, and that greasy purple shirt. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

In the quiet of her chambers, Dany stripped off her finery and donned a loose robe of purple silk. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And I say, Black Mary straight up and then I get to laughing at myself, setting in my kitchen having this daydream, cause the raciest thing I ever take is the purple Nehi. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She pulled a heavy-duty purple case from her bag. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

She had bruises on her arms and shoulders too, dark purple welts and faded green-and-yellow splotches; Sansa had seen them when her sister undressed for sleep. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

One day he darkened the diminishing bruise with a bit of purple crayon. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“He danced with me,” Hattie said, her teeth stained purple from a blueberry muffin. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Chucha lifts her arms and pumps them up and down, her purple sleeves billowing. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

She’s wearing a T-shirt with purple sparkles that says, “My Other Car Is a Unicorn.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

She wore her armour and purple cloak as easily as most people would wear shorts and a T-shirt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Max looked terrible, a deep purple shadow underneath each eye. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I found it trembling in a corner of its pen, the color of purple grapes, with sad little eyes that cast around for its mother. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hibiscus bushes lean over floating purple flowers like dancers trying to glimpse their own reflections. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The smell of purple ink swirled up my nose when I unfolded the bright white paper. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He needs to fly out of that maze naked on a broomstick made of purple feather dusters. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child 2016-07-31T00:00:00Z

Such blue sky and purple mountains so sturdy and silver lake so calm and still. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

It’s a big, fat purple F and a note to meet with her as soon as possible. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Her expression didn’t change as she pulled out the purple silk. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

She stormed into the principia with her purple cloak billowing, and her greyhounds at her feet. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

She was wrapped in dark purple silk, with gold bangles on both wrists and black pencil around her eyes. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

She nodded impatiently, not taking her eyes off her potion, which was still deep purple, though according to the book ought to be turning a light shade of lilac by now. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

His augur’s white robe was draped over a purple T-shirt and cargo pants. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

It spread right across the face almost ear to ear, and it had lips that were like two gigantic purple frankfurters lying one on top of the other. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

So ran that craft and showed her heels to the swell, her bow wave riding after, and her wake on the purple night-sea foaming. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

German pilgrims, Italians humming hymns, and Japanese travelers wearing small purple caps converged on the same narrow pathways. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Then Reyna gave him an eagle medal and purple cloak, symbols of the praetor. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It didn’t help when I pointed out that I had to wear a white carnation in my lapel and that wearing a purple orchid wasn’t nearly as bad. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

In the summer it was a wild and beautiful place, bright with blooms and full of the smell of blackberry blossoms and purple clover. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

After a night of struggling in my head, the purple light of dawn comes, and I’ve made a decision. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, purple’s a good color on you. Anyway.” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Two centurions leaned casually on their javelins, chatting with a tall skinny blond guy in a purple toga. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Ron went purple in the face; he looked like a radish with a bad sunburn. “... for the best-played game of chess Hogwarts has seen in many years, I award Gryffindor House fifty points.” Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

She stormed off, her purple cloak billowing and her dogs at her heels. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Crosses, entire crypts, are painted periwinkle, neon green, purple. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

He and his old wife cheesed at me one more time and wandered over to a purple health-department booth where the staff were taking people’s blood pressure. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

“That would be fun. Hey, speaking of purple leggings: After school today, who wants to go to E Motions?” Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

He said no more, but Helen called the maids and sent them to make beds, with purple rugs piled up, and sheets outspread, and fleecy coverlets, in the porch inside the gate. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stops midstroke, its slick purple head extending beyond his fist. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

At the kickoff, hundreds of purple and gold balloons dreamily floated into the sweet, gorgeous night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

He kisses both of her cheeks, careful not to leave behind the bright purple rouge-stick he wears. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Above was the high blue sky and be-low were the pink and purple and black rocks. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But there was much more to it than a purple glow. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As the ship approached the columns, she saw a dark-haired man in purple robes, his arms crossed, staring intently at their ship as if he were expecting them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And all shades of orange and purple, of course. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The roar of applause came from thousands of shimmering purple ghosts, the Lares of Rome brought back for an encore performance. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In two or three weeks towering clouds with swollen purple bottoms would rise out of the east. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I wanted her to wear the pretty purple dress that didn’t hide her body like all of her other outfits, but Amá chose the bright yellow one with the pink flowers I’ve always hated. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The purple and black of my swelling arm. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

“Sure. Richard, you keep time for a while ” Mom stretches and peels off her purple sweatshirt. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

He gave no indication that he’d just delivered a puzzle via sand pail, but now he wore a bulky purple scarf. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

Piragua! sells shaved ices from a white cart filled with bottles and bottles of fruit-flavored syrup colored red and purple, orange and blue. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The fat knight grew quite purple in the face and shouted: “Liar! Liar! Devil! Come down at once.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When she descended.to the purple marble hall, she found it almost empty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He was purple all over, and now that the paint was beginning to dry and harden, he was forced to sit very stiff and upright, as though he were encased in cement. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Zane sat before the enormous gaping hole, clutching the chair’s armrests so tightly, his knuckles were purple. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Large and greyish purple with a humped back, the Graphorn has two very long, sharp horns, walks on large, four-thumbed feet, and has an extremely aggressive nature. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Its inside was purple and glittered as though it were a tiny piece of starry sky. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z

Her hands were stained with blackberry juice, and when she wiped the tears from her eyes she streaked the purple from her nose to her cheekbone. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their robes were of crimson and silvery gray and deep purple and vivid green: and there were patterns, and pictures of flowers and strange beasts, in needlework all over them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z

He wore a formal black suit, so I almost didn’t recognize him, a deep purple tie and violet dress shirt, his curly dark hair carefully combed. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She sings to me: “When the deep purple falls over sleepy garden walls, someone thinks of me. ...” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Our cabby was craning out of his window with a furious, purple expression. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His robes shimmered, momentarily turning white, then back to purple. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was blue when the sun hit it one way, and purple when the sun hit it another way, and sometimes yellow or green. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Boys are crowded around, so that all you can see is them purple shoes of hers and that tight, black designer skirt. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Unfortunately, Belby had just taken a large mouthful of pheasant; in his haste to answer Slughorn he swallowed too fast, turned purple, and began to choke. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

He made an altar with cactus spines and purple locoweed flowers. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Red fades into purple across the Louisiana sky. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

“You insulted her, Harry! You said it was a joke!” shouted Ron, who was slowly turning purple in the face as all the blood rushed to his head. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I’m talking about purple felt the size of a sombrero with fake fruit on the back. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Percy could distinguish them only by their hair—Ephialtes had the green locks braided with silver and gold coins; Otis had the purple ponytail braided with...were those firecrackers? The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The clouds above the setting sun were streaked scarlet and purple. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a thick magenta cloak with a furry purple collar today, and her crocodile-skin handbag was over her arm. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The gash he’d gotten from the Nightingale was purpling around the edges, bruising deeply. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

I mean, I had never actually been in one in real life, but I had seen them enough times on TV to know that they're all bedazzled in pink and purple. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

In a small earthen pot on the table, the bouquet of yellow loosestrife, purple coneflowers, and lacy ferns cast a shadow against the wall in the dimming light. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He rips off his baseball uniform to reveal a very Tiny purple polo shirt and chino shorts. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Typical JP: His face was blacked, which was a good cover for the massive purple bruise around his eye, and he was dressed in combat fatigues with a camouflaged bucket hat that shaded his eyes. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

As we descend, blue and green and purple and red lights dance over the walls, shifting between colors with each second. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Flavius badly wants to use his own trademark purple lipstick on me but resigns himself to a pink as they begin to color my face and nails. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She has her purple heels on and her Afro is in a sideswept updo, but there’s one thing she doesn’t have that surprises me. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

A teacher with long skinny legs, black skirt, white blouse, and purple cardigan. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Rows and rows of waiting seats are padded in orange and purple plush cushioning. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He picked up a piece of excelsior and put it in a garbage can and then he looked at Doc where he worked labeling specimen bottles containing purple Velella. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But I look better in blue and I despise purple.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

Its wing colors changed to blue and purple, then to yellow and white. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Through the purple twilight he watched fires waken one by one in the great stepped pyramids, as the many-colored bricks of Meereen faded to grey and then to black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Even though I’m an expert at making deals to get what I want—my goat, warm rolls, purple lollipops—this is somehow different. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Farther down the shelf are a pair of shiny purple Sky Sprints in a glass case. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

His cheek is swollen, and one of his eyes is turning purple. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

She wore a sparkly purple headband in her curly black hair. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

I loved sitting next to him at sundown, high in a tree to get a better view of the gold and purple in the distance, swinging our legs as we watched the sun disappear. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

None of the girls at school would own leather shoes, purple coats, or plaid skirts, so she wouldn’t fit in the way she liked to do. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

Seven’s amulet spun wildly, and she closed her eyes, begging one final time for the thing she’d begged for whenever she thought of this night: Please let it turn purple. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

“People usually think tomatoes are red,” I say, “but they’re more red- orange with yellow-orange streaks. And there’s even the smallest hint of purple here in the creases.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

She gives me an oblong of purple cardboard from a stack of them on the table. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rain poured down, my clothes were in shreds, and my flesh was one big purple bruise, clear signs that I was still in the real world. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

I wore my own headband across my forehead and tied over my hair at the back with the ends hanging down, like my purple Ninja Turtle namesake Donatello. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Ivy nudged her bag out from under her legs and took out her purple notebook. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He had buried his face in her purple armpit. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

She plucked up a leaf with deep purple veins and spun it between her fingers. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The sun lighted a bowl of purple grapes on the table. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Julia touches red again, then blue, and there, suddenly, is the purple of a ripe grape. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

The head bounced past him, leaving spots of blood on the purple marble floor as it rolled until it fetched up against the foot of King Hizdahr’s dragon throne. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

When we were finished, she wrote my address in the front cover of her journal in sparkly purple pen. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

They would dig a foxhole and get the board out and play long, silent games as the sky went from pink to purple. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a thick, lush blanket of color—luxurious purple and electric blue and sunshine yellow and cheery red. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

He wore the same clothes as the day before—-jeans, his purple T-shirt, and Polartec jacket—but they’d obviously been freshly washed. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“With torches and a big purple curtain over the entrance . . . really mysterious. But inside, a totally decked-out pad with a game room and one of those home theater systems.” The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The anemones in the aquaria blossomed open, with green and purple tentacles and pale green stomachs. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the door, now, is a woman in a purple satin dress with cascading brown hair, elegantly nonchalant, waving at the porter with a bejeweled hand as she glides into the foyer. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like we’re all the color of dust and you are gold, and rich brown, in red and purple with dark-lined eyes and shiny red lips. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Fina and I walk along High Street, where golden light spills out from the windows of the houses and into the purple afternoon. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The other women carried plain cloth panels showing the colors of the American women’s suffrage movement: purple, white, and gold. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He pointed a thick finger at a purple button near the speedometer. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

She turned her wrist in the air, the purple jewels glinting in the sunlight. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

One girl emerges with a purple velvet cape and crown. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

He reached under the librarian’s desk and pulled outa purple flower-petal swim cap, which he tugged down snugly over his curly white hair. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The ghost Vitellius appeared next to them in a purple shimmer. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

The orb at the end of Diocletian’s scepter glowed purple. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

As the old man talked, Matt pictured in his mind the dusty cornfields and purple mountains of Durango. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over his jeans and orange Camp Half-Blood T-shirt, he’d donned a toga and a purple cloak—symbols of his old rank as praetor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

And Cain, to her delight, wound up going purple in the face after consuming belladonna. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

This purple glow was due to the enormous radioactivity of the gases. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z

As if the angry Romans, burning couches, and exploding buildings weren’t confusing enough, hundreds of purple ghosts drifted through the forum, passing straight through the demigods’ bodies and wailing incoherently. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The jacket was multicolored, made of large patches sewn together — some dark blue, some deep purple, a few bright red. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

Within the irregular arc of coral the lagoon was still as a mountain lake-blue of all shades and shadowy green and purple. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

She had to pluck a couple of pieces out of her braces, which had new purple and pink bands on them. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

In the Cow’s Guts a person could have green wings and purple horns: no one would be the least surprised. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

Surprisingly, one of the badges is purple and gold, which means Chian was a war hero once— although I have a hard time believing that he ever risked his life to save his comrades. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

They made satin tufted shrouds: white ones for dead virgins, pale lavender for the young married, purple for the middle-aged and black for the old. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then from a drawer in his night table he took out a sheet of paper, a yellow envelope, a small red pen box, and a square bottle with purple ink in it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

It’s pink and purple, your favorite colors, and has a heart charm on it. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

After work I take the precaution of a shower and put on my purple dress. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most looked like Lares from Camp Jupiter - transparent purple wraiths in tunics and sandals. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

His face was badly bruised and swollen, leaving purple splotches around his eyes and on one whole side of his face. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He turned to watch as the little girl ran toward the car, the wide purple bows of her sundress flopping on her narrow brown shoulders. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

The musicians played on, faster and faster, and the purple sun raced quickly across the sky. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The setting sun streaked the horizon with red and purple. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

A wave of purple capes roared in the audience as House Hyacinth celebrated their champion. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Outside in the yard, parked in a row, were three brand-new bicycles—a big red one and two smaller ones, a blue boy’s bike and a purple girl’s bike. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

I set it down, and we look for a while at the packages of pink and purple and neon. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Old Joe goes to stand by Older Joe, who is wearing a truly terrible purple wool hat and has cranberry sauce caught in his white beard. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

A few days after her abduction, the bruises on her face turned deep purple before they gradually disappeared. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even though I wasn’t allowed to go over to Monday’s without an adult, I pedaled my purple bike down the sidewalk—not brave enough to ride in the busy street. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

“Up it went,” reported William Laurence, “a great ball of fire about a mile in diameter, changing colors as it kept shooting upward, from deep purple to orange, expanding, growing bigger, rising as it expanded.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tinge of pink and purple colored the sky above the woods, and he felt suddenly sobered by the cold. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a small carton of delicate purple flowers, unlike anything Miss Mallory had ever seen before. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

When Taft gives me a purple one he’s found, because he remembers I like purple rocks, I put it in my pocket. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

She looked good, through the mask, her big sunglasses brown and purple in the light. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her purple cloak glittered strangely, catching the sunlight. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

I sat down behind Jenna, her hair pulled up into a purple ponytail. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

He hadn’t nm in the relay, and the left side of his jaw was purple and swollen. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

The streets are narrow and lined with Spanish-style houses, where purple vines climb up trellises to end at balconies. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

She placed both her purple and yellow notebooks on the bedside table. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Harry was just mounting his broom when Professor McGonagall came half marching, half running across the pitch, carrying an enormous purple megaphone. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

I grabbed another handful of hay and stuffed this one down the front of her T-shirt, a purple one from Jump Rope for Life. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

“It’s purple with orange stripes,” he announces, his voice more assured now. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

I try to imagine what it would be like to have a mom cool enough to dye her tips purple. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Do you think my hair would look better purple or blue? All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

You look at something you’d otherwise find beautiful—a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids—and it only somehow deepens the loss. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Wormtail’s eyes rolled upward in his purple face; he gave a last twitch, and was still. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

“How are you doing that?” demanded Hermione, who was red-faced and whose hair was growing bushier and bushier in the fumes from her cauldron; her potion was still resolutely purple. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

It was printed in a purple ink, and was the first item on a list. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

White Queen Anne’s lace and purple phlox and big orange daylilies blossomed along the road. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

We pass a car that looks purple at first, but when the streetlights hit it, it’s neon green. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

She pointed to a flush of purple in the distance. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

“And a very purple one, I see,” the checkout lady said, handing us the bag of bottles. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

While we fill the buckets, Ann walks to where some wildflowers are growing and picks a small bouquet of yellow, purple, and white. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Inej’s purple silks were far too loose, and as for Nina... Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

I pointed to purple, but then quickly slid my thumb over to green. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even notice such things. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

Being a Delsprite means red will be one of my favorite colors, second to purple. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

"Not purple," Angela corrected her, "amber. 'For amber waves of grain.'" The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I got a new sweater. It’s purple, which is the color of royalty,” she says, looking directly at me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

She came back to her duties just as I finally spotted a purple glitter pen and was retrieving it from the mound of treasures. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

Time for the citysky to move from a thin ice blue to purple with a heart of gold. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It took several purple firecrackers exploding from the end of Professor Dumbledore’s wand to bring silence. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

His white jacket was purple under the arms. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

“You’re a mess,” she mutters, readjusting the faded purple faja around my waist and then, in frustration, unwrapping the entire wide ribbon. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She realized something was different about the purple fabric. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

There were purple shadows under her brown eyes and he noticed a small sponge in her hand: She had been wiping his face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

If anything made that country habitable it was the mountains themselves, purple when the sun dropped and so sharply etched in the morning light the granite dazzled almost more than the bright snow lacing it. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

To the southeast, a city was nestled in the foothills of a mountain range, blue and purple in the afternoon shadows. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It had hand-shaped leaves and purple berries like the ones found on bramble vines. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little hard to tell that it was an ET sweatshirt, though, since both the letters and the sweatshirt were the exact same shade of purple. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Aureliano Segundo’s old carousing comrades laid on his casket a wreath that had a purple ribbon with the words: Cease, cows, life is short. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

It was still purple and the cuts were still evident, but he flexed it a few times without much pain. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

He was a pudgy guy in a leopard-skin Hawaiian shirt, purple shorts, red running shoes, and black socks, which didn’t exacdy make him blend in with the crowd. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

They got up and poked around, and soon they came across a plant whose branches were laden with the purple fruits, about the size of small beets, only softer. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I am wearing my Freud slippers, the fuzzy ones made to look like his face, and Target pajamas, the ones with the purple monkeys. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He’d pulled his hair forward so that no one could see the purple bruise on his forehead from where he’d hit his head against the metal frame of the Barbie display case. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

And then Mother made me take my clothes off and get into the bath and she said I could use her towel, which was purple with green flowers on the end. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

And then — it seemed like about a second later to Harry — Bagman was opening the neck of the purple silk sack. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

She wore a gown of pale purple silk and a moonstone hair net that had Jjeen a gift from Joffrey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Clouds gathered, the sky purpled, and a breeze rose from the northwest. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Carlyle pushes his mop toward a cowering batch of them, and they skitter away on purple little dendrite legs. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Each deposited a Roman commando in purple and denim with glittering gold armor, sword, and shield. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Kira tended his grave now, taking the babies with her while she weeded and watered the soft blanket of fragrant purple thyme she had planted there. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He fell on them, face first, and stained his shirt purple with grape juice. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then the queen beckoned to another curious member of her entourage: a tall gaunt stick of a man, his height accentuated by an outlandish three-tiered hat of purple felt. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The purple metal box with flowers on top full of Schrafft’s chocolates. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They could no more explain loving buses than they could explain loving the color purple. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Nisus, King of Megara, had on his head, a purple lock of hair which he had been warned never to cut. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

He pointed overhead to the purple lights that swung from the balcony railings. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

The sky is a sheet of purple and pink and gold, and giant planets are suspended against it, their rings curving past the horizon. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He sat plumb up there where the man had dropped him and cried so hard that purple and black streaks ran down his cheeks and splashed onto his chest. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Her skin was a dull ebony that seemed almost purple in the light of the lamp by her bed. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around the Cornucopia, the ground appears to be bleeding; the water has purple stains. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It is still dark and the shimmering sunset of red, gold, and purple over the horizon makes the sky look magical. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under that was the straight, slightly tapering column with its red to purple to blue. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The only light came from the dim purple glow of a dark sword, its Stygian iron blade set against one side of the container. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

This year a trumpet vine leaned eagerly against a cool lily, pointy leaves fought to see who could take over the steps, purples and blood reds argued loudly with each other. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Three stars twinkled in the purpling sky over the treetops. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Pax peered over the edge and saw a silver brook, studded with black stones, glinting between green reeds and purple blossoms. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then like country folk without any cares, we lay in the meadow, surrounded by tallgrass, and wove garlands of white daisies and purple columbines to crown each other. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

Root’s face turned an even deeper shade of purple. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Her spirit was commemorated at the ceremony by an empty chair, which her classmates had decorated with sunflowers and purple fabric. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He hastily disguised himself by replacing his red coat with a purple one and putting on a round civilian hat. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a scar like a purple zipper on her chest. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were bushy herbs with purple, daisylike flowers, growing as high as her knee. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The lips are the most purple because the baby is so dark. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Their skin is painted with black and purple and blue, and reminds me of the night sky, or of black stones on the side of the beach, rubbed smooth by the waves. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

It’s strange to see the gym filled with parents instead of kids running around in their gray and purple P.E. uniforms. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The open sky in front of him was a deep purple, slowly fading into the bright blue of day, with tinges of orange from the sun on a distant, flat horizon. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

I was bundled up in a purple parka and snuck out of the building through the staff exit. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

And I hide the sheet inside my purple fleece and stuff it way under my bed where Dad can’t find it in case he changes his mind. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Granddaddy flipped it over, and I saw that its underside shone a startling greeny-blue, iridescent and shot through with purple. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Look for a bright purple trail leading to Thunder Beach. But you’d better hurry!” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The purple had faded out of her hair, but it was still a right peculiar shade of red. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Frank jogged toward them, wearing his jeans, purple camp shirt, and denim jacket. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

It was brimming with buckets of orange lilies, purple stock, yellow spray roses, red carnations, baby snapdragons...and lavender, lavender, lavender. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They shone like jewels in the candlelight, so purple that the maester found himself thinking that he had never truly seen the color before. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The two others have purple placards hung around their necks: Gender Treachery. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single surface is hung with loops of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, and every imaginable shade in between. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

When she received Tiller’s postcard about the first purple crocuses springing up beside the creek and new leaves dangling like emeralds, she packed her bags and moved back to Ruby Holler. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The blue water wasn’t purple or orange or green. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

His coat and shirt were unfastened, his skin bloodied and bruised to a deep purple. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Chandeliers with Pleiades Corp’s signature color, royal purple, illuminating the faces of actors in fancy clothes, holding martini glasses and smiling as they stared out at a fake nebula. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a purple cape just like Jason’s—the mark of a praetor. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was very much like the tollbooths he’d seen many times on family trips, except of course it was much smaller and purple. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

He was in his subbasement lab holding up a small plastic bag with one speckled purple jelly bean sealed inside. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

As a sign of mourning, the statues of the saints were shrouded in purple robes that the pious ladies of the congregation unpacked and dusted off once a year from a cupboard in the sacristy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Habib flipped over his menu when a man in tight purple pants and an apron came by. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z

The water was a dark blue now, so dark that it was almost purple. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squint at the dark purple flowers on the bush. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Your aura is extremely purple,” says Elsie as she plops down at my table. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

Her swollen face looked better, but in the bright of day I noticed purple bruises on her arms and legs as well. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the peoples want surpleases of blossoms in those hard stone walls, they plant violets and other dainty purple and blue and white flowers. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

He was with a small curly-haired girl in purple overalls who looked like she was about two years old, and he was holding her hand. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

She lay down and pulled her purple cloak over herself. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Then the camera cuts away to a purple screen with the title of the show stamped across it like a rejection stamp. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She frowned and brushed her long black hair back, giving me a clear view of the purpling bruise that spread from her temple all the way back to her hairline. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Holly had white everything on her bed—sheets, comforter, pillowcases—because she had insisted on dark purple walls. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

They were cobalt blue, purple from manganese, yellow from copper, red, and a green which was also got from copper. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was scrubbing purple crayon off the TV screen. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s purple plaid, and it’s ripped right open on the bodice so one of her nipples shows, but she just runs around a-wearing it anyway like she never noticed and neither did anybody. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was purple, so still Mother thought he was dead. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He smiled at the children, then vanished momentarily, returning with his long fur coat and his purple hat. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

And something about the familiarity of it all makes me ache: their faces, their voices, Jessie’s purple floral bedspread. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Long loops and strands of yarn dangled out of the cubbyholes, and the browns and grays and purples were mixed in with the ochres and olive greens and dark blues. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He leans over the bench, purple with rage. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Mini rummaged in her backpack and pulled out a small purple compact. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“This, sir, was purple: the lips were swelled and dark; the brow furrowed: the black eyebrows widely raised over the bloodshot eyes. Shall I tell you of what it reminded me?” Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

She was at his side in an instant, grinning, a bruise coming up red and purple on her cheek. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

The tie is purple silk, and Alex is counting his breaths. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I could see the scorpions above us, the purple evening sky and the trees, and then the hole shut like the lens of a camera, and we were in complete darkness. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

His trousers sported multiple patches of various colors and materials, and his purple velveteen jacket had buttons made from—were those spools of thread? Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Tori wore all black, except for a pair of purple boots and a small silver pendant around her neck. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She’s a big lady wearing a purple dress and a little hat that matches. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patting his pockets, he eventually produces a purple handkerchief. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

The ocean right next to us and the sky all orange and pink and purple. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

The brothers are each much happier when the grey of winter fades and the colors of spring bloom: yellow sun; blue sky; purple, pink, red blossoms; green leaves; new life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

What we eat is vaguely Thai: chicken, spicy and succulent, a salad of exotic foliage, red leaves, tiny splinters of purple. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I love the purple- and-white bikini that looks like batik, but the top slides when I dive. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Another bruise wraps around her neck like wallpaper, only instead of flowers, it’s decorated with fingerprints of crimson and purple. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

I look at the ball, and it isn’t purple. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Captain Hardcastle’s face had gone from red to deep purple and he was twitching violently. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s actually a deep dark purple, like the skin of an eggplant. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

He had a red nose, big watery eyes, and curly hair so black it was almost purple. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

The fireball continued rolling and rising, twisting itself into an enormous mushroom shape, glowing dark purple thousands of feet above the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the next three hours, pinned under the terrifying weight of massive heartache, he watched the color of the rectangle change from orange to red to purple. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Fred and George bewitched a number of purple lanterns, all emblazoned with a large number 17, to hang in midair over the guests. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Cubes of it with salt and pepper, showered in a rain of purple gravy. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I looked up at my father, at his purple face, at the vein pulsing in his neck. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z