Then she sat down on the animal's great cheek, which she had never fancied to be half so broad before, and gently patted his nose with one hand, while she upheld her blue flag with the other.
The blue eyes and the baby smile went up, confidingly, to the young ragamuffin's face.
A great shock had fallen upon her whole nature, as if a thunderbolt she had had presentiment of, burst from a clear blue sky.
At this moment Faith's blue flag waved vehemently over her head.
While she spoke, she had picked up the whip, which had fallen close by, doubled back the lash against the handle, and was tying her blue veil to its tip.
Chapter 13 The sky was deep and blue and bare of clouds.
His deep blue eyes studied her with an unreadable expression.
Ragged blue uniforms clung to their backs, to his.
He was almost upon it when--- A terrible Angel of Death stood before him, wrapped in a cold and deadly light, a flaming blue weapon in its hands.
Fortune, however, seemed determined that of these bitternesses we should not taste; for the next morning, bright and joyous overhead bent the blue unclouded heaven; while the plain lay gleaming at our feet in all the brilliancy of enamel.
The English King said to the Northmen who were with him, "Do you know the stout man who fell from his horse, with the blue kirtle, and beautiful helmet?
Here and there, as we cruised about among the fiords, blue wreaths of smoke rising from some little green nook among the rocks would betray their temporary place of abode; but I never got a near view of a regular settlement.
Far below at our feet, and stretching away on either hand among the mountains, lay the blue waters of the lake.
At night there was a general illumination, to which the "Foam" contributed someblue lights.
Ellen, happily relaxing in a corner of the couch, her eyes watching the letter opening, saw her husband's eyes widen as he stooped to pick up a small blue paper which had fallen from the missive he had just slitted.
Again silence, while the sunset skies slowly faded into the dusky blue of night, and the lights over the distant city grew brighter and brighter.
The September sun was already low, and the light upon the blue hills in the distance was turning slowly to a dusky purple.
A minute later Burns had him stretched upon the blue couch, and had laid his fingers on the bony wrist.
I wonder," Burns said, on the March day when he first came downstairs and dropped into his old favourite place in a corner of the bigblue couch, "whether any other fellow was ever so pampered as I.
I like these things she melts into evenings, like that smokyblue she has on now.
Ellen slipped her hand through his arm and led the way to the big blue couch facing the fireplace.
Jord, isn't my wife something to look at in thatblue frock she's wearing?
Come sit beside me in the Retreat," he invited, using the name he had long ago given to the luxurious blue couch where he was accustomed, since his marriage, to rest and often to catch a needed nap.
But in every line of her smoke-blue silken frock was the most subtle art, as Chester, who had a keen eye for such matters and a fastidious taste, could readily recognize.
There was a heavy curtain of dull blue silk hanging by the door frame, and King noiselessly drew this across.
He sat almost upright among the blue pillows, his arm outstretched along the back of the couch, his long legs comfortably extended.
As he unfolded the blue slip and glanced at it, an astonished whistle leaped to his lips.
Perhaps now--" He broke off, staring across the valley where the lake lay to the distant hills, smoky blue and purple in spite of the clear sunlight which lay upon them.
The excitement increased as the time drew nearer when the big blue seals would be broken, and the wonder seemed to be how any one could have waited twenty years for this to take place.
In his short blue knickers, and with the gaily coloured shirt showing beneath his coat, he looked what he was--a thoroughly manly boy.
The front of each of the padlocks was ornamented with a big circular lump of dark blue sealing-wax, on which the impression of the old gentleman's seal was distinctly visible.
But supposing you got some more blue wax of the same colour--" began Brian.
Indeed, for thousands upon thousands of years those giant fingers of rock had been pointing to the blue sky above, just as they saw them now.
After a short interval the sun disappeared even for these high flyers and the stars gradually began to dot the blueheavens overhead.
It occupies large space and is gayly decorated with pale-blue and white draperies.
As his topknot of blue Is raised as polite as can be--Heigh-ho!
When they get in a little ways you may see the chips flying out of the aperture, though no worker is in sight, and when it is almost done every now and then a blue head will pop out with a beak full of loose wood, which is tossed away.
That was a dark blue object, very unpleasing to behold, sodden with water, and wedged in a crevice of the cliffs.
British colours with a run, and up flew the tricolour in its stead—the red, white, and blue colours of the Republic of the French.
It is said that these "Blue Laws" are not authentic; but if they are not literally true, they are certainly well invented, for most of them can be paralleled and illustrated by laws and regulations of undoubted authenticity.
Claire gathered them in her arms, unconscious of the charming picture which she made, in her simple blue lawn dress, with her glowing face rising over the riot of colour, gathered them in a great handful, and ran swiftly upstairs.
It's not once in a blue moon that one comes across a girl with any originality of thought.
Claire dropped her head on the nearest resting-place she could find, which happened to be Miss Rhodes's blue serge lap, and felt the quick pressure of a hand over the glossy coils.
Pretty frills and a blueribbon bow are as good as a tonic, but will the authorities permit?
I don't suppose any one has ever noticed the shabby school-mistress in her shabby blue serge.
Janet Willoughby sent Claire a picture postcard, all white snow and strong shadow, and dazzling blue sky, and little black figures pirouetting on one leg with the other raised perilously in the rear.
Each one wore a blue serge skirt and a white blouse, and carried herself with an air of dogmatic assurance, as who should say: "I know better than any one else, and when I speak let no dog bark!
Gladys rolled adoring blue eyes, and sped on her mission.
You looked quite an attractive little girl in your pretty blue dress, and men like to talk to attractive little girls.
The memory of each separate gown rose before her, looking distractingly dainty and becoming; she saw a vision of herself as she might have been, and faced a future bounded by eternal blue serge.
Mary Rhodes asked blightingly as Claire opened a cardboard box which had arrived by the morning delivery, and displayed a blue muslin dress inset with lace.
I had just concluded this operation when Tommy and our visitor reappeared--the latter looking rather comic in a grey jersey, a pair of white flannel trousers, and an old dark blue cricketing blazer and cap.
I was looking into a square gravel-covered yard, in the centre of which a man in blue overalls was cleaning the mud off a small motor car.
Even the man with the auburn beard had kept on looking away from his steering to favour me with quick glances out of his hard blue eyes.
The proprietor had a large selection of what he called "West End Misfits," amongst which were several tweeds and blue serge suits big enough even for my somewhat unreasonable proportions.
McMurtrie, who had taken a shallow blue saucepan out of the bag and was filling it with hot water, looked up with a smile.
He glanced at me with his keen blue eyes, and the light of the lamp shining on his face showed up its square dogged lines of strength and purpose.
She held out her hands to me, her lips smiling, her blueeyes just on the verge of tears.
My friend with the hoarse voice and the blue jersey was still hanging around, looking rather thirsty and exhausted after his strenuous day's work of watching over the dinghy.
Von Brünig turned on him with an angry gleam in his blue eyes.
I watched the sun rise over the river, and gradually climb up into a sky of pale blue and lemon that gave promise of another radiantly fine day.
I took him at his word, and for perhaps a couple of minutes we sat there in silence while the blue wreaths of smoke slowly mounted and circled round us.
The sun shone down from a blue sky flecked here and there with fleecy white clouds, and on each side of the road the hedges and trees were just beginning to break into an almost shrill green.
At right hand, if eyes follow glistening trail many Li (miles) by and by see blue of ocean of an unexplainable vastness.
The walls and carpets are of the blue of the sky; the chairs, dressing-table and couch upon which I lie are all of a whiteness; the Mieng about me is again blue.
Miss Sterling opens lips; no sound come out and her blue eyes with tears fill up.
Yes truly I do love big blue letter the very best of all.
One day I very bold and say: "Miss Sterling you very much love big blue letter?
Newman keep anger, no write letter, now write much blue letter and say all time, "Come back, Come back?
Today beautiful gift come from Honorable betrothed one messenger bring to me largeblue No.
Miss Sterling all time get very big letter, very large character on cover, color blue; when big blue letter not come, O then Miss Sterling too sad.
She put the mirror back in its hiding-place and went to the door and looked out across the ripening cornfields and the more distant prairie to the blue foothills behind which the sun was sinking.
By the afternoon they had left the foothills behind in the blue distance, and were ambling slowly, wearily, over the parched prairie, miles and miles away from any human habitation.
It was the girl who answered, without lifting the thick blue gauze veil that hid her face.
The money was found in Charlie's box, and if he denied his guilt until he was blue in the face, I wouldn't believe him.
There was an expression of curious satisfaction in the Sergeant's clear blue eyes.
The elderly gentleman in clerical attire and blue goggles appeared to be sleepy or ill, or to be so well accustomed to travelling that the arrival at a new stopping-place had no interest for him.
She watched the crane, wondering how long it would remain motionless in that position, and as she watched, a waft of smoke from her fire drifted towards the bird, which rose into the air and flapped lazily away into the blue gloom.
He held out his blue and swollen hands to help the soldier policeman to mount.
Captain Johnson took a blue paper from his pocket, which crackled as he unfolded it.
Hardly a ripple showed itself upon the clear blue water, but the sails blew gently out as the breeze came over the wooded banks.
So some twilight, when your roses Are all blown, and it is June, You will turn your blue eyes seaward, Through the white dusk of the moon.
When ripe it is permeated by a blue mould, and resembles in flavour, appearance and consistency a rich old Stilton.
It is a small, rather soft, white cheese, abundantly veined with a greenish-blue mould and weighs between 4 and 5 lb.
They wore coats of blue or brown cloth with brass buttons, the coat-tails almost touching the heels.
The cushions upon which we sat were covered with beautiful dark-blue crepe relieved here and there by branches of maple leaves, the rich October coloring making a striking but exquisite contrast with the more sombre background.
Fareedie wore a dark blue velvet frock with a frill of lace around the neck, and on her feet were little red Turkish slippers.
There were men from the country in blue coats and short trousers, and women with bodices and square white head-dresses, who carried the largest umbrellas you have ever seen, blue or green, or purple with bright borders around them.
Mipáyuk ang binunalan, He turned black and blue where he was whipped.
Nagngitungitu sa kalawum ang dágat, The sea is deep blue due to its depth.
Most types of the imbaw are similar in shape, color, and size to the American quahog, but with more pronounced ridges and no blue on the inside of the shell.
Whilst the travelling cook took his box and proceeded to the kitchen to prepare his entertainment, without heeding the growlings of the servants, the gentleman in the blue cloak made a trial of the liquor, which stood in a pewter tankard.
The blood mounted to the young nobleman's cheeks, and he cast a threatening look at the tapster; but his senior, in the blue cloak, caught him by the arm.
Were I to compare any of you with my idea of the king," continued Lady Inge "it would be this gentleman;" and her calm blue eyes rested searchingly on Drost Peter.
Who I am I dare not say," replied the other; in whom the king now thought he recognised the blue knight of the tournament.
They could never be so infatuated," observed a tall man, enveloped in a large blue cloak.
Every eye followed him with amazement, and a deathlike stillness prevailed until he was no longer visible; and when they then turned to look for the blue knight, he too had disappeared.
All looked in astonishment towards the spot whence the voice proceeded, where stood a tall and elegant knight, in steel-blue mail, with closed visor, and displaying a magnificent dagger in his outstretched hand.
An elderly personage, with a firm, warlike bearing, and in a large cloak of English blue cloth, seemed likewise to be an individual of some note.
Danebrog flag, in the hands of a tall knight, clad in steel blue harness, and with open visor.
She wore the same darkblue jacket, plaited kirtle, and light blue apron, in which Skirmen had first seen her, when he assisted in liberating her from Hegness.
Long dark brown braided tresses fell over her nut-brown neck and shoulders; she wore a dark blue knitted jacket, a linen petticoat of the same colour, with many plaits, and a light blue apron.
Yes, for there rose the blue peaks of the Guadarrama chain, which he knew well.
Her blue eyes sparkled with intelligence and mirth, her full lips seemed formed for quick, gay repartee, she was always kind and cheer ful in her manner even to the most insignificant.
How well his satin clothes and velvet cloak became him, how beautifully the white puffs were relieved against the deep blue of his dress!
Light streamed from the blue sky through the tree-tops, and the golden sunbeams shimmered and danced over the branches, trunks and ground, as if they had been prisoned in the woods and could never find their way out.
It seemed as if a gloomy multitude of heavy thunderclouds had gathered over the still, blue arm of the sea.
It seemed as if the morning sunlight strove to check the smoke from the smouldering wood, in order to mount freely into the blue sky.
As he was left free to choose, he instantly selected the clothes a nobleman had ordered for his son, and which, from head to foot, were blue on one side and yellow on the other.
Two blue and yellow cockatoos and several parrots swung screaming in brass hoops before the open window, and Coello's coal-black negro crept about, cleaning the floor of the spacious apartment, though it was already noon.
These raise their dripping heads from among their leafy banks, fair Ticinus, blue Addua, swift Athesis, slow Mincius, and Timavus with his nine mouths.
Not yet had bright day with herald beams struck the waves of the Ionian main; the light of dawn shimmered on the waters and the straying brilliance flickered over the deep blue sea.
Its legs are of Tyrian purple; swifter than those of the Zephyrs are its wings of flower-like blue dappled with rich gold.
He paints the bright roses red, the hyacinths blue and the sweet violets purple.
Tethys affords them a cradle and soothes in her bosom their infant sobs; the rosy light of her foster-children irradiates her dark blue plains.
An old man plays the bagpipes In a gold and silver wood; Queens, their eyes blue like the ice, Are dancing in a crowd.
Besides, there was a Danish police force that presented a brave appearance on dress occasions in uniforms of pale blue and white, with high hats crowned by bright red pompoms.
Jon's blue eyes had been watching his detectors, even while his ears had been listening to Jak's explanations.
About two hundred miles past the eastern shore of the ocean, they saw the blue of mountains in the decreasing distance.
Jon winced as he began taking off his shirt, and Jak crammed his fist into his mouth to keep from crying out as he saw the great, angry red welts and the terrible black-and-blue splotches on Jon's torso.
There he found his brother desperately trying to warm their mother's unsuited body, now growing blue from that terrible cold.
Blue and yellow ribands dangled from broad beaver hats, and there were rosettes of the true-blue mingled with yellow at buttonholes; and there was fun on the line of march.
Tell me, what opens heaven more flamingly to heart and mind, than the voice of a woman, pouring clear accordant notes to the blue night sky, that grows light blue to the moon?
She looked at the scene fronting her under a blue sky with slow flocks of clouds: "How I like this!
The melancholy of his words threw a somber hue about him, and she began to think with mournfulness of those firm thin lips fronting misfortune: those sunken blue eyes under its shadow.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "blue" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
