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  • He was originally portrayed as having neatly trimmed purple-grey hair, but this was soon redesigned to be a long, straggly, grey-black mane, and more recently intodreadlocks.

    Hero/Villain of the Week! « Giant Killer Squid - Film, Comics, News, Reviews and more 2009

  • They were the size of children, but their bodies were thick and apelike with muscle, and their skins were the dark purple-grey of an old bruise.

    Tran Siberian Michael J. Solender 2010

  •   They were no ordinary purple-grey: the color seemed so intense that it bled from the screen into the air.

    True Love and the Giraffe 2009

  • The sky was low with purple-grey clouds that seemed too heavy to stay afloat.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • The sky was low with purple-grey clouds that seemed too heavy to stay afloat.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • The sky was low with purple-grey clouds that seemed too heavy to stay afloat.

    An Atlas of Impossible Longing Anuradha Roy 2008

  • They were the size of children, but their bodies were thick and apelike with muscle, and their skins were the dark purple-grey of an old bruise.

    The Outstretched Shadow 2003

  • The old ram was purple-grey, his rump was white, and when he raised his head you saw the great heavy curl of his horns.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • The old ram was purple-grey, his rump was white, and when he raised his head you saw the great heavy curl of his horns.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

  • The old ram was purple-grey, his rump was white, and when he raised his head you saw the great heavy curl of his horns.

    Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001

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