"Purple" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... in the costumes of the portraits struck him for the first time—first the cope and mitre and cross, then the skull-cap and the tippet, then the balloon-sleeves and the wig, then the coat and breeches and white cravat, then the academic robes, and then a purple cassock. Its interest to Julie was other, however. "Peter," she whispered, "perhaps you'll be there ...
— Simon Called Peter • Robert Keable
... in brioche stitch with black and purple wool, so that the raised ribs appear black on one side and purple on the other. The bodice fits quite close. It is fastened in front with black bone buttons and a steel buckle. Two strips of silk elastic are knitted in at the bottom. Begin at the bottom of the bodice with ...
— Beeton's Book of Needlework • Isabella Beeton
... preserve his recollections. It is the private history, the familiar life, the leisure moments, passed in undress, of Napoleon, which we now present to the public. It is Napoleon taken without a mask, deprived of his general's sword, the consular purple, the imperial crown,—Napoleon resting from council and from battle, forgetful of power and of conquest, Napoleon unbending himself, going to bed, sleeping the slumber of a common man, as if the world did not ...
— The Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte • Bourrienne, Constant, and Stewarton
... time of day. In the early morning, mists often hang upon the water, and the air is bitterly cold, for these sandy wastes which abut upon the Nile retain little heat by night. Above the cool green of the banks the high hills rise mysteriously purple against the sunrise, or catch the first gleam of gold ...
— Peeps at Many Lands: Egypt • R. Talbot Kelly
... mouldy, and the words and figures Thomas Flour, Bristol, 1769, being first impressed in common letters on the upper crust of the said loaf, and on the under side thereof, in Gothick Characters, Thomas Wheateley, 1464 (which Thomas Wheateley Mr. Barrett, if he carefully examines Rowley's PURPLE ROLL[V], will find was an auncyent baker, and "did use to bake daiely for Maister Canynge twelve manchettes of chete breade, and foure douzenne of marchpanes;" and which custom of impressing the names of ...
— Cursory Observations on the Poems Attributed to Thomas Rowley (1782) • Edmond Malone
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