Of violet eyes
Only the second example I have come across of violet eyes, never yet seen in real life. Here the 76th...
An opiate vista
A curious vista of 'tallow-coloured' images floating before an opium-steeped lord.
'Laudanum' was the name for various opium-based preparations and...
Purple-grey sea
Storminess at sea, as in the sky, can be purple-inked.
'Beyond the ragged horizon of the purple-grey sea...'
Source:...
Scent as colour
I like metaphors that use one of our five senses to convey another - here a visual image serves as...
Ocean-grey eyes
A lovely description of a woman's eyes but a woman who has a certain transparence to her, not a particularly...
Crab-green water
I think I can imagine the shade of 'crab-green', a deep dark place where this wily old conger eel escapes...
Topaz-coloured eyes
Adrienne is far the most interesting female character in this monumental trilogy, and there is great finesse in the author's...
Cobalt polar lapis blue
A dazzlingly variegated Greek sky. It was under such a sky, which for me also includes hyacinth blue and lilac,...
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