"Violet-colored" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the friends had been absent for two years. In the last year, violet-colored gillyflowers had adorned a grave ...
— O. T. - A Danish Romance • Hans Christian Andersen
... of the big table, perched on the ink-stand, stood the most beautiful bird I have ever seen. She had a deep violet-colored breast, scarlet wings and a long, long sweeping tail of gold. She was unimaginably beautiful but looked dreadfully tired. Already she had her head under her wing; and she swayed gently from side to side on top of the ink-stand like a bird that has flown ...
— The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle • Hugh Lofting
... She took the violet-colored silken ribbon from her hat, and threw it lightly around the sleeper's arm and around the tree, and with three knots tied Colin fast. Now when he awoke, how astonished he would be! How his curiosity would ...
— The Broken Cup - 1891 • Johann Heinrich Daniel Zschokke |
