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