Athena's violet eyes grew tender.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
He thinks of his father's grave "under other snows" than those he looks on; and how the violet will blow there, "but we are gone."
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty
The shadow is long or short, clear-cut or vague, dark or light, blue or purple, violet or black.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook