1 One window of excellent clothes for men, interspersed with collars of floral pique which showed mauve daisies on a saffron ground.
2 So brilliant was the snow-glare that when she entered the house she saw the door-knobs, the newspaper on the table, every white surface as dazzling mauve, and her head was dizzy in the pyrotechnic dimness.
3 The thick grass beside the track, coarse and prickly with many burnings, hid canary-yellow buttercups and the mauve petals and woolly sage-green coats of the pasque flowers.
4 Black hair clumsily tucked under a mauve straw hat which would have suited a spinster.
5 Michaelis came: in summer, in a pale-coloured suit and white suede gloves, with mauve orchids for Connie, very lovely, and Act I was a great success.
6 Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons.