purple-robed

People strolled by in faceless crowds, like giant flurries of storms crossing the valley with the saintly demeanor of purple-robed priests entering Communion.

Ghost Searches Downtown Michael Parker 2011

People strolled by in faceless crowds, like giant flurries of storms crossing the valley with the saintly demeanor of purple-robed priests entering Communion.

Ghost Searches Downtown Michael Parker 2011

Before entering the forest, we saw an impressive cell of mini thunderheads, gorgeously mauve and dimly aflicker from within, standing on the phony horizon like purple-robed clerics of Doom.

New Race Joe Sullivan 2010

After some two dozen purple-robed bishops processed into Krakow's St. Mary's Church to thundering strains of Mozart's "Requiem," Cardinal Stanislaw Dziwisz opened with a reference to Katyn the 1940 massacre of some 22,000 Poles by Soviet agents.

Polish President Is Buried in Krakow 2010

There, during Holy Week, worshippers pray at the feet of a purple-robed, life-sized papier mache figure of Christ.

The passion of Christ in Ixtapalapa, a Mexico City neighborhood 2007

There, during Holy Week, worshippers pray at the feet of a purple-robed, life-sized papier mache figure of Christ.

The passion of Christ in Ixtapalapa, a Mexico City neighborhood 2007

There, during Holy Week, worshippers pray at the feet of a purple-robed, life-sized papier mache figure of Christ.

The passion of Christ in Ixtapalapa, a Mexico City neighborhood 2007

Then, after a brief convocation by a purple-robed preacher emerged for a short prayer, the national anthem was voiced, and Obama took center stage.

Brian Ross: The Speechless Speech 2008

And then came a strange thing; a long strip of this apparently solid wall rolled up with a snap, hung over the two retreating men and fell again, and immediately Graham was alone with the new comer and the purple-robed man with the flaxen beard.

When the Sleeper Wakes 2006

Once the way was cleared Trok, with twenty troopers at his back, strode through into the temple courtyard where all the purple-robed priests of Ninurta were gathered.

Warlock Smith, Wilbur 2001