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  • When its ready, drop 2-3 aubergines at a time and deep fry till they turn purplish-grey, and the skin becomes crispy.

    Archive 2008-08-01 2008

  • Minutes later, following a harsh croak, a dark purplish-grey bird with a wingspan of nearly five feet lifted itself laboriously out of a stand of ferns about 20 yards ahead of me.

    Birders Flock East 2008

  • When its ready, drop 2-3 aubergines at a time and deep fry till they turn purplish-grey, and the skin becomes crispy.

    Hyderabadi Baghare Baingan (Eggplant Curry) 2008

  • Walls are white, carpet is greyish, curtains are purplish-grey, bed is either purple and black or blue and black depending on which sheets are in use and which ones are in the wash.

    a whole lotta nuthin 2005

  • Walls are white, carpet is greyish, curtains are purplish-grey, bed is either purple and black or blue and black depending on which sheets are in use and which ones are in the wash.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • The flowers are 1½in. across, of a variously tinted white, sometimes with pink and sometimes with purplish-grey inside the corolla.

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

  • When he looked straight up he could see a lead-colored mast sweep back and forth across the sky full of clouds of light grey and silver and dark purplish-grey showing yellowish at the edges.

    Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933

  • The sun had disappeared under soft purplish-grey clouds.

    Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933

  • When the rain stopped they walked across wet fields by a foot path full of little clear puddles that reflected the blue sky and the white-and amber-tinged clouds where the shadows were light purplish-grey.

    Three Soldiers John Dos Passos 1933

  • When he looked straight up he could see a lead-colored mast sweep back and forth across the sky full of clouds of light grey and silver and dark purplish-grey showing yellowish at the edges.

    Three Soldiers 1921

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