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  • Maximilien Luce's purple-pink "Notre Dame of Paris" also sold to a European buyer for a record $4.2 million.

    Christie's $156M Sale Falls Short of Forecast Kelly Crow 2011

  • The diptych "The Traveler and the Travel" is two panels whose size and edges don't quite line up, though the image continues from one canvas to the next (in a slightly different form) and both share a purple-pink under-painting.

    A sense of direction in the middle of 'Nowhere' Jessica Dawson 2010

  • Just at that instant the sheets of rain, the ginkgo branches, and the muddy construction site across the street flashed purple-pink, then brilliant white; there was a tearing blast, as if the sky had been ripped in two; the room went dark.

    Here Comes Another Lesson Stephen O’Connor 2010

  • Avoid any venison liver that doesn't look purple-pink and evenly beautiful; if it's spotted or mottled, it could be diseased, so trash it or use it for catfish bait.

    How to Cook Your Gut Pile 2004

  • Other times it's a light purple-pink sky with hot-pink trees instead.

    Archive 2006-05-01 fusenumber8 2006

  • The other single is the same merino carded with variagated purple-pink silk noils.

    Bombay Stores inspiration. Spinningfishwife 2006

  • The other single is the same merino carded with variagated purple-pink silk noils.

    Archive 2006-03-01 Spinningfishwife 2006

  • Flower bud greenish brown opening to a striking purple-blue or purple-pink blossom.

    Chapter 7 1999

  • Quickly she opened the thick silver blades of Sylvia's scissors and then sliced the soft, almost purple-pink tissue from the opening of the vagina, down to within a centimeter of where it bulged over the anus.

    The Silent Cradle Cuthbert, Margaret 1998

  • The flowers are of a purple-pink colour, very small, and in close drumstick-like heads.

    Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies. John Wood

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