Oh, the yellows and the greens, and the lakes and the cobalts, and the Purples which sprang from the blending of them!
"Moonshine & Clover"
Laurence Housman
"Tyre," says Strabo, "overcame her misfortunes, and always recovered herself by means of her navigation, in which the Phenicians were superior to all others, and her Purples.
"The History of Antiquity, Vol. II (of VI)"
Max Duncker
I have always thanked Him for his goodness in giving as much thought to the flowers that cover the hillsides as He did to the dull earth that lies beneath; as much care to the matchings of Purples and gold in the sunsets as to the blue-black crags that are outlined against them.
"The Other Fellow"
F. Hopkinson Smith