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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of impurple.

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Examples

  • These soldiers of the outermost outpost were in the regulation-uniform, -- red-flannel shirts, impurpled by wetting, big boots, and old felt-hats.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 59, September, 1862 Various

  • With lips impurpled by the earliest huckleberries, we came out again upon Champlain.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Various

  • Tawny filemot gilding the valleys, each seam and rut a scroll or arabesque, and all the year pouring out her heart's blood to flush the maples, the great impurpled granites warm with the sunshine they have drunk all summer!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 28, February, 1860 Various

  • A tender after-glow impurpled all the heaven like a remembered passion, and bathed field and fallow in its bloom.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864 Various

  • And Aylmer, excluding the sunshine, which would have interfered with his chemical processes, had supplied its place with perfumed lamps, emitting flames of various hue, but all uniting in a soft, impurpled radiance.

    The Short-story William Patterson Atkinson

  • Selwyn coolly watched him as he sank on to the couch and sat huddled together and leaning forward, his soft, ringed fingers covering his impurpled face.

    The Younger Set 1899

  • And Aylmer, excluding the sunshine, which would have interfered with his chemical processes, had supplied its place with perfumed lamps, emitting flames of various hue, but all uniting in a soft, impurpled radiance.

    Stories of Mystery Various 1885

  • Its effects were such as could not last, or could not be farther evolved; they were the expression of youth musing away from its environment and smitten with the glories of a world afar and beyond, the great world, the fine world, the impurpled world of romantic motives and passions.

    Literary Friends and Acquaintance; a Personal Retrospect of American Authorship William Dean Howells 1878

  • But that horror gave way to a more intense and thrilling emotion as he saw the face -- although strangely free from laceration or disfigurement, and impurpled and distended into the simulation of a self-complacent smile -- was a face he recognized!

    From Sand Hill to Pine Bret Harte 1869

  • And Aylmer, excluding the sunshine, which would have interfered with his chemical processes, had supplied its place with perfumed lamps, emitting flames of various hue, but all uniting in a soft, impurpled radiance.

    The Birthmark 1846

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