1Their short kilted skirts were of rich Tyrian purple embroidered with gold.
2Sometimes the Spanish sheep was immersed alive in the Tyrian purple.
3The head was of Persian silk, and dyed with Tyrian purple.
4At thy soft feet let me kneel-oncushions of Tyrian purple.
5At first, they called the dye Tyrian purple after the ancient city of Tyre.
6Tyrian purple was used for coloring the parchment or vellum.
7The Tyrian purple of the ancients was obtained in part from mollusks of this genus.
8Juba says that the Tyrian purple can't be reproduced.
9Hangings of Tyrian purple, adorned with gold, hid the ebony walls -richnessblotting out richness.
10The Greeks loved color, and their embroideries were in gold and blue and Tyrian purple.
11In the Forum Romanum, one of the finest buildings, still bears stains of the Tyrian purple.
12Ouida has not missed weaving her Tyrian purples into the exalted pattern of her romantic painters.
13Her barge was gilded, and was wafted on its way by swelling sails of Tyrian purple.
14Apollo rose, his brow wreathed with Parnassian laurel, while his robe of Tyrian purple swept the ground.
15The gangplank, draped with rich Tyrian purple and transformed into a triumphal bridge, welcomed the guests aboard.
16They were nearing the mountains again, and both raised their eyes to the peaks deeply shadowed in Tyrian purple.
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