amaranthine

Example Sentences

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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.

From The Guardian • Mar. 20, 2019

We are not in a hurry, because the crown we are seeking is amaranthine, unfading.

From Our Lady Saint Mary by Barry, J. G. H.

There in amaranthine glory I will sit at Jesus' feet; There I'll sing the sweet old story As I walk the golden street.

From Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Orr, Charles Ebert

Shall the patriots and soldiers of '76, the "Immortal Band," as history styles them, meet again in the amaranthine bowers of spotless purity, of perfect bliss, of eternal glory?

From McGuffey's Sixth Eclectic Reader by McGuffey, William Holmes

Ah! is Thy love indeed     A weed, albeit an amaranthine weed,     Suffering no flowers except its own to mount?

From Charred Wood by Shepherd, J. Clinton