amaranthine
Example Sentences
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They were amaranthine and violaceous and subtly velvet.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 20, 2019
It is for this crown of amaranthine glory, or blessed eternal salvation, that we are to watch and labor with fear and trembling.
From Food for the Lambs; or, Helps for Young Christians by Charles Ebert Orr
At the bottom of this dell the flowers have an amaranthine bloom.
From 'Midst the Wild Carpathians by M?r J?kai
Illy hid; for every spring the amaranthine and celestial flower gained on the mortal household herb; for every autumn the catnip died, but never an autumn made the amaranth to wane.
From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Herman Melville
She settled herself on a wide divan covered with a Bokhara carpet of faded amaranthine hues on which languished great cushions embroidered with spreading palms of dull gold.
From The Child of Pleasure by Georgina Harding
