Blue

the deep blue sea

Why is the sky blue?

He was wearing a blue t-shirt.

Gerty's were of the bluest Irish blue, set off by lustrous lashes and dark expressive brows. Time was when those brows were not so silkily seductive

“Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better.[…]”

"Will you play some of the 'Garden' now?" she asked. "I think I should like it. I'm just the least bit blue."

But I'm bluer than blue / Sadder than sad.

My hands were blue with cold.

The divers got them out of the car just in time – they were starting to turn blue.

The candle burns blue.

I live in a blue constituency.  Congress turned blue in the mid-term elections.

Illawarra turns blue in Liberal washout

blue and sour religionists;  blue laws

Some of the ladies were very blue and well informed, reading Mrs. Somerville and frequenting the Royal Institution; others were severe and Evangelical, and held by Exeter Hall.

His material is too blue for prime time.

The air was blue with oaths.

a blue movie

My wine I drank and oft got blue / On brandy, gin and whisky too— / Until my reputation gay, / Along with care, was cast away —

Lady Penrhyn was quite handsome enough to have spared one ingredient in her cup of fascination, but, unfortunately, having been married in her teens, she expected to live in them, and, never being reminded by the trials to which her sex is subject, of the flight of years, and the inroads of suffering, expected time to stand still, and the first bloom of existence (the blue on the plum) to remain as stationary as her own taste, for the pleasures of flirtation.

She watches the yachts in the creamy evening blues.

Red No. 3, red No. 40, blue No. 2 and green No. 3 all have been linked with cancer or tumors in animals. Other sources say red No. 40 and yellow No. 5 and No. 6 contain or may be contaminated with known carcinogens.

I don't like red Smarties. Have you got a blue?

The boys in blue marched to the pipers.

Come on, you blues!

He was safe! Terrible call, blue!

He excelled at rowing and received a blue in the sport at Oxford.

He was a rugby blue at Cambridge.

He dialed Kathy to be sure she was okay and see if the blues arrived. She was crying when she picked up the phone. “Kathy, honey, I'm here. It'll be okay. Are the police there?”

The balloon floated up into the blue.

His request for leave came out of the blue.

The problem with buffalo as well as most African antelopes as a steady diet is that they have very little marbling or body fat and, after six months out in the blue, one dreams at night of a T-bone steak sizzling in great globules of yellow fat.

On average, blues and other dilutes have weaker coats and skin problems seem more prevalent in the dilutes.

When snow falls on the roses, when a mako is beheaded, when the weaks and blues swim south

Blues are about as vicious a fish as you'll find on the Atlantic seaboard — they will continue to slash through schools of bait even after they have eaten so much that they're constantly regurgitating shredded baitfish.

"I had a blue with Dad," said Fay. "He wanted to drive us, I wanted to walk."

If they had a blue between themselves, they kept it there, it never flowed out onto the streets to innocent people — like a lot of things that have been happenin′ on the streets today.

On another occasion, there was a blue between Henry Daniels and Merv Wilson down at the pig sale. I don′t know what it was about, it only lasted a minute or so, but they shook hands when it was over and that was the end of it.

I was a bit disappointed. Was that it? No abuse like Lord Byron had endured? Not that I was wishing that upon myself. It was just that a blue between my parents, albeit a raging, foul, bile-spitting hate fest, was not exactly Charles Dickens.

It was applied methodically, carefully, resolutely, as in the fashion of a Satin-bird with charcoal, desiccated wood or blue from laundry-bags.

Lord Lyttelton's Life by Dr Johnson […] which a whole tribe of Blues, with Mrs Montagu at their Head, have Vowed to execrate and revenge […]

He is a true blue.

"No, just get over here. You need to try this one!" she exclaimed as she cheesed up a chunk of bread with one of our blues.

Blues are made via the introduction of molds from the genus Penicillum roqueforti, which are normally added to the milk toward the beginning of the cheesemaking process.

Improvising freely, he entered the stage with a karaoke set and introduced himself as a 'Bohemian street performer', before launching into a series of clubstyle gags and one-liners, promising 'a bit of blue for the Dads'[…]

Fuzz grinned and nodded at the stage. 'Bit of blue for the lads.' […] The stage was dimly lit, and populated by Nubian slaves and harem girls in artfully draped deshabille.

It blows, it snows, And blues your nose, My toes are all frost bitten The weather would Quite starve the crows, Or freeze the part you sit on.

The dawn is wanly blueing.

Michael: As a member of the Blue Man Group?[…] Tobias: Oh, no, no, I’m not in the group yet. No, I’m afraid I just blue myself.

It was years since Ken had flogged her up, but blueing with him still made her ache.

So far as I can see, there’s nothing to prevent you from drawing a cheque for fifty thousand and blueing the lot.

They was willing to blue the lot and have nothing left when they got home except debts on the never-never.

Have you heard any news / Of that chap in the Blues / Was it Prosser, or Pyecroft, or Pimm?

This Blue shows the remarkable, sleek bodyline of the breed.