amaranthine
Example Sentences
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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019
See how the angelic guards point with amaranthine wands afar, where glows, beyond the vale of tears, the Mountain of Immortal Life.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 2, February, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy by Various
His private worth was crowned with amaranthine flowers, richer and sweeter than the epic and civic wreaths that decked his brow in the public view of an admiring world.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll
Her bricky teeth flung far and wide, On virgin fields my London browses, The amaranthine plains are pied With nutty little bijou houses.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, June 10, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir
His manly brow was decked with epic laurels that can never lose their amaranthine freshness whilst patriotic fire glows or history endures.
From Sages and Heroes of the American Revolution by Judson, L. Carroll
