deep_purple colors

Literary analysis:

In literature, deep purple emerges as a versatile and evocative color that imbues scenes and characters with emotional weight and atmospheric beauty. Authors use deep purple to capture the transient magic of twilight and night, such as in sunsets giving way to a nocturnal sky or in deep purple clouds foreshadowing a storm’s arrival [1][2][3]. At the same time, the hue conveys visceral sensations—from the bruising flush on a character’s face [4][5] to the rich, velvety petals of a flower or the sumptuous backdrop of an embroidered garment [6][7][8]. In these varied contexts, deep purple not only reinforces mood and depth but also serves as a symbolic bridge between the natural world’s quiet majesty and the inner turmoil or passion of its characters.

A horizon of deep purple marked the afterglow of sunset and preceded a desert night of stars.
— from A Man Four-Square by William MacLeod Raine
The sun was gone, and the blue sky had changed to a deep purple, set here and there with a quivering star.
— from The Broad Highway by Jeffery Farnol
By now the sun had gone down, and deep purple clouds swarmed across the blue face of heaven, forecasting a storm....
— from The Lure of the Mask by Harold MacGrath
His face was twitching and the red that flushed it shaded to a deep purple.
— from On the Iron at Big Cloud by Frank L. (Frank Lucius) Packard
He coughed and strangled, and his usually red face became deep purple.
— from The Believing Years by Edmund Lester Pearson
The flowers are very large, and, with the tube, fully a foot long, of a deep purple on the outside, and yellow within.
— from The Nut Culturist A Treatise on Propogation, Planting, and Cultivation of Nut Bearing Trees and Shrubs Adapted to the Climate of the United States by Andrew S. (Andrew Samuel) Fuller
These delicates would be displayed on a service which showed green vine-leaves in relief against a buff ground, bordered with deep purple and gold.
— from Far Off Things by Arthur Machen
Thus, those who are refined and well-bred avoid such startling color combinations as deep purple paper inscribed with white ink.
— from Book of Etiquette, Volume I by Lillian Eichler Watson

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