empurpling

Invisibly the shadows grow, empurpling in a rising tide5

A City Afternoon 1917

Gordon had a fleeting vision, against the empurpling banks, the dark, sliding water, and the mountainous wall capped with dissolving gold beyond, of a room filled with the hot glow of kerosene lamps; he saw Jake's twitching, murderous countenance above him ....

Mountain Blood A Novel Joseph Hergesheimer 1917

Binet, his face slowly empurpling, glared at him in speechless stupefaction.

Scaramouche Rafael Sabatini 1912

The Jew, his face empurpling, seemed to fight for breath

The Sea-Hawk Rafael Sabatini 1912

But see to it, "he ended, with a sudden and most unreasonable ferocity, his visage empurpling if possible still more," see to it that you pit neither that courage nor that wit against me again.

The Shame of Motley: being the memoir of certain transactions in the life of Lazzaro Biancomonte, of Biancomonte, sometime fool of the court of Pesaro Rafael Sabatini 1912

And then, abruptly, with no word yet spoken, he sank back into his chair, fighting for breath, clawing the air, his face empurpling until suddenly the blood gushed copiously from his mouth and nostrils.

The Historical Nights' Entertainment Second Series Rafael Sabatini 1912

I started round as if I had been stung, and at sight of my empurpling face she slowly smiled, the same hateful smile that I had seen upon her face that day in the garden when Gambara had bargained for her with

The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza Rafael Sabatini 1912

The fine, empurpling dye of sunset still stained the western skies, but the moon was rising and the water lay like a great, silver dream in her light.

Anne of the Island 1908

Maitland's wrists, face empurpling, eyes staring in agony, he stumbled.

The Brass Bowl Louis Joseph Vance 1906

His heavy and pendulous cheeks quivered, slowly empurpling with the dark tide of his apoplectic wrath.

The Black Bag Louis Joseph Vance 1906