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Usage examples of "imperial purple".
Constantius shook out a silk chiton dyed the true, imperial purple, and held it out to me.
The bishops whom he summoned, in his last illness, to the palace of Nicomedia, were edified by the fervor with which he requested and received the sacrament of baptism, by the solemn protestation that the remainder of his life should be worthy of a disciple of Christ, and by his humble refusal to wear the Imperial purple after he had been clothed in the white garment of a Neophyte.
On the third day of his reign, the soldiers seized on a noble senator, with a design to carry him to the camp, and to invest him with the Imperial purple.
O mother, once clad in gold and imperial purple, now befouled and haggard.
When these words were translated to Sublatus, the purple of his enraged face matched the imperial purple of his cloak.
Over one shoulder was draped the marriage cloak she had woven that winter: a fine expanse of imperial purple and bright sky blue in the cunning checked pattern of the north country.
It is not true, however, that I had promised him the imperial purple.
Men gasped, for the clerk had drawn forth, from a chest at the back of the dais, a long, purple robe, of the imperial purple, trimmed with white fur, from the pelt of the ice bear.
Her robe was of the Imperial purple much overlaid with jeweled embroidery until it made such a stiff encasing for her body that she moved very slowly under its weight.
The blossoms that adorned the stern were a marvelous cerulean blue, shaped like dragon's heads, their gaping throats lined with imperial purple and butter yellow.
But weak emperors followed, and weak emperors mean strong viceroys, and our last viceroy -- the same Wiscard, whose remnants still prey on the commerce among the Red Stars -- aimed at the Imperial Purple.
Justinian reached into his robes-still imperial purple, whatever else might have changed-and pulled out a bound scroll.