Example Sentences

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JMB Reptiles, a snake removal and relocation service located in Innisfail, took to Facebook earlier this month with photos of a scrub python, more formally known as an amethystine python, devouring a helpless wallaby.

From Fox News • Feb. 13, 2019

There were at least three species of scorpion in camp, and the native amethystine pythons were known to grow to 28 feet.

From Slate • Nov. 7, 2011

On the far amethystine peaks of the Blue Ridge leaned milky-breasted clouds through which the sun sifted in wide bars.

From The Valiants of Virginia by Rives, Hallie Erminie

Her magnificent wealth of burnished auburn hair flows back in amethystine waves from her sun-kissed brow.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 by Montgomery, L. M. (Lucy Maud)

Away to the east the wall of the Sierra Madre mountains rose up like an amethystine rampart, the snow peaks glowing in the light of the declining sun like mighty masses of fire opal.

From Lost in the Ca?on by Calhoun, Alfred R.