wine-blue

Night after night the skies were wine-blue and bubbling with stars

Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases A Practical Handbook Of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, And Oratorical Terms, For The Embellishment Of Speech And Literature, And The Improvement Of The Vocabulary Of Those Persons Who Read, Write, And Speak English Grenville Kleiser 1910

On the blackness of cork and ilex and cypress lay the green and purple lustres, the coppery iridescences, of old bronze; and night after night the skies were wine-blue and bubbling with stars.

The Custom of the Country Edith Wharton 1899

And if some god batters me far out on the wine-blue water,

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