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Sentences starting with blue

Blue veins showed through the clear white skin, and the long, silky, silvery hair still flowed in unthinned waves round his massive head, bald only on the crown. [10]
Blue points, on the half shell. [5]
Blue and white lotus-blossoms floated on the smooth surface of the water, and vast numbers of water-birds hovered along the shores or over the flood. [10]
Blue eyes are gray in certain unusual lights; but they resume their natural color when that stress is removed. [5]

Sentences ending with blue

Her cheeks glowed with health, and she wore a becoming suit of dark blue. [9]
The third, upon whose figure Austen's eyes were riveted, was seated on a stone bench set in a recess of pines, and looking off into the Yale of the Blue. [9]
To the right, where a river empties in, were scattered groups of queer, rakish craft, each with four slanting pipes and a tiny flag floating from her halyards; a flag--as the binoculars revealed--of crimson bars and stars on a field of blue. [9]
Benjamin, in addition to his emigrant's leather box, brought with him some of that pigment that was to dye the locality for generations a deep blue. [9]
Its panels were the most delicate of blue-gray, fantastically designed and outlined by ribbings of blue. [9]
They descended into the darkness of a deep valley, scored out between the hills by one of the rushing tributaries of the Blue. [9]
Then there was the bed-canopy, the pleatings of which were gone, and it was turned white instead of the old blue. [9]
As the light struck them, the sails which enlivened the scene were either dark spots or shining silver sheets on the delicate blue. [4]
Everything does look so blue, so dismally blue! [5]
The city lay sleepy and listless beneath a proud and distant sky of changeless blue. [11]

Short sentences using blue

How blue the sky was! [4]
I'm particularly fond of blue. [10]
But the Blue Grotto? [4]
They were blue grey. [9]
I thought so Forget-me-not blue! [10]
Is it so blue? [4]
It makes me blue. [5]
They were fathomless blue. [13]
Nothing but powdered blue vitriol. [6]

Sentences containing blue two or more times

She was tall, with rich, yellow hair falling loosely about her head; she had a strong, finely cut chin and a broad brow, under which a pair of deep blue eyes shone-violet blue, rare and fine. [11]
The next morning was blue with the presage of showers; blue, too, with the presage of fate. [9]
The water appears to be as deep as the roof is high, and is of a light, beautiful blue, in contrast with the deep blue of the bay. [4]
However, they worried through, and each got his reward--in small blue tickets, each with a passage of Scripture on it; each blue ticket was pay for two verses of the recitation. [5]
As he left the rose there, his eyes wandered slowly over this retreat of rest and sleep: white robe-de-nuit, blue silk canopy, blue slippers, blue dressing-gown--all blue, the colour in which he had first seen her. [11]
Mazarine had seen the flutter of a blue skirt in the waiting-room, and his wife had worn blue that day! [11]
Spiza cyanea, during the breeding-season, is of a bright blue colour; and though generally peaceable, it attacked S. ciris, which has only the head blue, and completely scalped the unfortunate bird. [1]
On the centre table, in addition to a ponderous Bible, was one of those old-fashioned carafes of red glass tipped with blue surmounted by a tumbler of blue tipped with red. [9]
Her face was oval, her features not quite regular,--giving them a certain charm; her colour was fresh, her eyes blue, the lighter blue one sees on Chinese ware: not a poetic comparison, but so I thought of them. [9]
He had an old battered-up slouch hat on, and a greasy blue woollen shirt, and ragged old blue jeans britches stuffed into his boot-tops, and home-knit galluses--no, he only had one. [5]

More example sentences with the word blue in them

She was a young woman of thirty, slim to spareness, simply dressed in a shirtwaist and a dark blue skirt; alert, so distinctly American in type as to give a suggestion of the Indian. [9]
He was a young man, very spare and very burned, with bright red hair and blue eyes that had a kind of laughter in them, and yet were sober. [9]
A very handsome young lady in the store offered me a pair of blue gloves. [5]
But I tell you"--her deep blue eyes flashed as she spoke--"that so long as you were still a genuine creating artist the case was different. [10]
Didn't I tell you those criticisms would be the making of us, when they first began to turn you blue this morning, March? [8]
Let me see--why, yes, she was born the day I sold the blue enamelled timepiece to his Highness the Duc de Mauban. [11]
See, already, green, yellow, blue, red! [4]
He is eleven years of age, of sanguine-nervous temperament, light hair, blue eyes, intelligent countenance, well grown, but rather slight in form, to all appearance in good health, but subject to certain peculiar and anomalous nervous symptoms, of which his father gives this history. [6]
Far below them wound the Blue into its vale of sapphire shadows, with its hillsides of the mystic fabric of the backgrounds of the masters of the Renaissance. [9]
Generation after generation would labour with unflagging zeal until the art sculptured fragment of the new Cathedral--the new Cathedral of Democracy --pointed upward toward the blue vault of heaven. [9]
There are elaborate works for reducing the blue rock and passing it through one process after another until every diamond it contains has been hunted down and secured. [5]
As the day wore on to afternoon a blue haze--harbinger of autumn--settled over fort and forest. [9]
Over this he wore a mantle of white cloth-of-gold, pounced with the triple-feathered crest, lined with blue satin, set with pearls and precious stones, and fastened with a clasp of brilliants. [5]
And thus the wonderful Blue Grotto is suggested to me. [5]
He wore a woman's loose gown of frieze, blue trousers, and large torn Hessian boots. [2]
Dolokhov walked slowly without raising his pistol, looking intently with his bright, sparkling blue eyes into his antagonist's face. [2]
Now Mastor returned with the water and the blue phial, and gave them to the Bithynian. [10]
Broad-shouldered, stout, ruddy, with small but kindly blue eyes, and a resonant bass voice suited to fill great spaces, he was always at his ease and made others easy. [10]
Both were heavyset, with rather stern faces, both had close-cropped, tan-coloured mustaches and wide jaws, with blue eyes like Susan's. [9]
Great maples, heavy with leaves, stood out against the soft blue of the sky, and the sunlight poured over everything, bathing the stone walls, the thatches of the farmhouses, extracting from the copses of stunted pine a pungent, reviving perfume. [9]
The wind brought with it a suggestion of the pine-clad wastes of the northwestern wilderness whence it came, and that sure harbinger of autumn, the blue haze, settled around the hills, and benumbed the rays of the sun lingering over the crests. [9]
It is octagonal, with a peaked roof, each octagon filled with a spacious window, and it sits perched in complete isolation on top of an elevation that commands leagues of valley and city and retreating ranges of distant blue hills. [5]
It had glass windows and a lion on a blue shield on the door, and within it was all salmon silk, save the painted design on the ceiling. [9]
The scorching desert wind which, during the Spring months, so often blows through the valley of the Nile, had risen, and though the bright blue sky which had been visible by night and day was still cloudless, it was veiled by a whitish mist. [10]
They passed, too, wild lakes overhung with primeval trees, where the iris and the waterlily grew among the fallen trunks and the water-fowl called to each other across the blue stretches. [9]
And in that wild covert Venters shut his eyes under the great white stars and intense vaulted blue, bitterly comparing their loneliness to his own, and fell asleep. [13]
A thousand blossoms, white, red, blue and yellow, swayed on their slender stalks, opened their calixes to the bees, unfolded their stars to deck the woodland carpet, or proudly stretched themselves up as straight as candles. [10]
His beard was white, his face long and narrow and shrivelled, his forehead protruding, his eyes of the cold blue of a winter's sky. [9]
Several of the white ones were barred like zebras with rainbow stripes of blue and red and yellow paint. [5]
Michael Clones--in his white jean waistcoat, white neckcloth and trousers, and blue coat--is coming up the drive in hot haste, bearing a letter. [11]
The blue and white beauty of the sky proclaimed all things possible for the strong; and the air was vibrant with the sweet music of bells, calling her to happiness. [9]
In Spring, truly, white and rose-red, blue and yellow chequer the green turf; but now gold and crimson are bright in the tree tops, and on the service trees. [10]
There they stayed, while the blue lines quivered and fell back through the forests on that short winter's afternoon, dragging their wounded from the stagnant waters. [9]
His blue eyes, which usually sparkled so brightly, now looked dull and bleared, and there were white spots on his copper-coloured cheeks. [10]
A little later, when the veil had lifted, it became a mirror for the hills and crags, the blue reaches of the sky. [9]
Where was it when the blue flies were buzzing over the coffins of the unburied dead piled up in the cemetery of New Orleans, at the edge of the huge trenches yawning to receive them? [3]
A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design. [9]
Then, from the wharves, I saw the bay dotted with islands, their white sand sparkling in the evening light, and fringed with strange trees, and beyond, of a deepening blue, the ocean. [9]
In the fair west wind I know the Mistress herself, full of hope, and always the first one to discover a bit of blue in a cloudy sky. [4]
All the gentlemen were very pigeon-breasted and very blue about the beards; and all the ladies were miraculous figures; and all the ladies and all the gentlemen were looking intensely nowhere, and staring with extraordinary earnestness at nothing. [12]
In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals. [2]
And fairer still were the faraway blue mountains beyond the river, the nunnery, the mysterious gorges, and the pine forests veiled in the mist of their summits... [2]
Warm, still days were interspersed between the windy ones, when the sky was turquoise blue, when the very river banks were steeped in new colours, when the distant, shadowy mountains became real. [9]
The distant prospects were Anne's delight, and when I look round, she is in the blue tints, the pale mists, the waves and shadows of the horizon. [14]
The young ladies were all in dark blue dresses, touched up with a red ribbon here and there, and wore light straw hats. [6]
If their cheekbones were a little too high, their Delft blue eyes a little too small, their colour was of the proverbial rose-leaves and cream. [9]
The farther he went, the more cloudy became the sky,--which here so rarely failed to show a sunny vault of blue at noonday,--the more fiercely howled the tempest. [10]
At last she went on, her face turned away from the great kindly blue eyes bent upon her, from the face flushed with honourable human sympathy. [11]
As the days went on and spring began to appear in the light, fleeting clouds in the blue sky and in the greening foliage in the city squares, Philip became more and more restless. [4]
In the afternoon we sighted Suva, the capital of the group, and threaded our way into the secluded little harbor--a placid basin of brilliant blue and green water tucked snugly in among the sheltering hills. [5]
Close by them we saw the intense blue of the skies, through rents in the cloud-rack, and away off in another quarter were drifting clouds of a delicate pink color. [5]
By and by we passed through Marysville, and over the Big Blue and Little Sandy; thence about a mile, and entered Nebraska. [5]
For three days we marched in the green shade of the primeval wood, nor saw the sky save in blue patches here and there. [9]
And so, as we left league after, league of the blue ocean behind us, I would set my face to the forecastle. [9]
During this walk we gathered blue cornflowers and scarlet poppies from the fields, bluebells, daisies, ranunculus, and snapdragon from the narrow border of turf along the roadside, and tied them into bouquets for the graves. [10]
However, the land-locked water was lovely, at any rate, with its glittering belts of blue and green where moderate soundings were, and its broad splotches of rich brown where the rocks lay near the surface. [5]
The king himself was to take the lead at the head of the ten thousand Immortals, preceded by the blue, red and gold imperial banner and the standard of Kawe. [10]
Above him again was the same lofty sky with clouds that had risen and were floating still higher, and between them gleamed blue infinity. [2]
What peace there was sitting once again under the rustling trees on the lawn with the green river and the blue bay spread out before us, and Scipio standing by with my grandfather's punch. [9]
Alonzo Fitz Clarence was sitting in his snug and elegant little parlor, in a lovely blue silk dressing-gown, with cuffs and facings of crimson satin, elaborately quilted. [5]
The widow Tynan was practical, and she saw none of those things which made her daughter stand for minutes at a time and look into the distance over the prairie towards the sunset light or the grey- blue foothills. [11]
When the cotillion was over the old count in his blue coat came up to the dancers. [2]
A new sense was opened up in her, and she felt somehow that the ultra-marine blue was not right, that the over-mantel had been spoiled, that the new walnut table was too noticeable, and that the American rocking-chair looked very common. [11]
The water ahead was now like blue velvet, and the rain pelting. [9]
This young man was dressed in a threadbare blue cloth coat lined with fox fur, that had once been smart, and dirty hempen convict trousers, over which were pulled his thin, dirty, trodden-down boots. [2]
One, whose name was Cutcheon, was a little man with a short forehead and a bad eye, and he wore a weather-beaten blue coat of military cut. [9]
I'm sorry I was blue, but it did seem as if everything had been going against us for whole ages. [5]
As the bottle was being opened the Pasha took up his string of beads and began to finger them, for the blue eyes in the poke bonnet were disconcerting. [11]
And now she was aware that Susan's blue eyes were fixed upon her, and that they had a strange and penetrating quality she had never noticed before: a certain tenderness, an understanding that made Honora redden and turn. [9]
In truth, it was at the Judge's suggestion that a blue provost's guard was called in later to protect the seized property. [9]
Almost instantly there was another shot, and a blue wisp of smoke rose from the red-bud bushes, where Tom was. [9]
Colonel Carvel, who was a Director, laid his hand paternally on the blue coat of the young Prince. [9]
But suddenly one warm September noon, when her pale, waxing crescent was plainly visible in the blue sky by daylight, she beheld him again. [10]
Janet opened the wardrobe, looked at the new blue suit hanging so neatly on its wire holder, hesitated, and closed the door again. [9]
I did not want blue, but she said they would look very pretty on a hand like mine. [5]
It was the wall-like butt end of a huge glacier, which looked down on us from an Alpine height which was well up in the blue sky. [5]
A white shell walk divided the garden and ended at the door of a low outbuilding, from the chimney of which blue smoke curled upward in the evening air. [9]
I am a vessel of wrath," replied Paulus, with a deep, rich; sonorous voice, and his peculiarly kind blue eyes were raised to heaven as if to attest how greatly men were deceived in him. [10]
Her slumber was very light, and she often opened her large, blue eyes and gazed with touching anxiety at the sick woman. [10]
If you looked very hard at Susan (which few people ever did), you saw that she had remarkable blue eyes: they were the eyes of a saint. [9]
The sea is very dark and blue here. [5]
When the blue vapor stole through the cypress swamp, my trained ear caught the faintest of warning sounds. [9]
The gallows Herr Van Bronkhorst had erected for men like you, is still standing by the Blue Stone. [10]
This was the Vale of the Blue, and she had touched it with meaning for him, and gone. [9]
Mr. King remarked upon this dumb-show to a gentleman in a blue coat and white vest and gray hat, leaning against a column near him. [4]
The fire flashes up; all the row of heads is lifted up simultaneously to watch it; showers of sparks sail aloft into the blue night; the vast vault of greenery is a fairy spectacle. [4]
She drew herself up, a gleam in her eyes like the crest of a blue wave in a storm. [9]
When Seth whirls up the sand, and a grain of it flies up his nose, he waxes angry--so it is Paaker's nose, and that only, which is answerable for all your blue bruises. [10]
It is piled up now, I should say, a thousand feet above the crater, straight into the blue sky,--a pillar of cloud by day. [4]
They were toiling up a long, slanting ridge of snow--twelve persons, roped together some fifteen feet apart, marching in single file, and strongly marked against the clear blue sky. [5]
The pirate, unconfused, undismayed, with his wide blue asking eyes, came forward and dropped upon his knees. [11]
She lay there under the cedars, gazing up through the delicate lacelike foliage at the blue sky, and she thought and wondered and did not care. [13]
And Janet, lingering unconsciously in front of that very emporium where Lisehad been incarcerated, the Bagatelle, stared at the finery displayed there, at the blue tulle dress that might be purchased, she read, for $22.99. [9]
The old Latin tutor put a modest blue stone at the head of his late companion, with her name and age and Eheu! [6]
And it magically transformed for me (as I stood, momentarily alone, in the doorway where I had first beheld Maude) the accustomed scene, and charged with undivined significance the blue shadows under the heavy foliage of the maples. [9]
Now it was Tom's face that was close to mine, and the light of a fierce anger was in his blue eyes. [9]
These English had toiled, slow but resistless, over the misty Blue Ridge after Boone and Harrod to this old St. Louis of the French, their enemies, whose fur traders and missionaries had long followed the veins of the vast western wilderness. [9]
The three got to their feet, and each made obeisance after his kind- Buonespoir ducking awkwardly, his blue eyes bulging with pleasure, Lempriere swelling with vanity and spreading wide acknowledgment of their presence, the fool condescending a wave of welcome. [11]
And they climbed to the nook and rested and looked out across the valley to the curling column of blue smoke from their campfire. [13]
He had been to the hanging-gardens that morning early to visit Nitetis, but had been refused entrance by the guards, and the blue lily seemed now to offer him another chance of seeing and speaking to his beloved pupil. [10]

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