At one end stood a great fireplace, in which a
blue log was blazing with a
blue flame, and over the fire hung four kettles in a row, all bubbling and steaming at a great rate.
The sheets were made of
blue cloth, and Dorothy slept soundly in them till morning, with Toto curled up on the
blue rug beside her.
The meal was hastily despatched; each of the gentlemen's hats was decorated with an enormous
blue favour, made up by the fair hands of Mrs.
All night in the
Blue Light Drug Store he waited at his duties for chance news of the tragedy, but none came.
"I escaped from the
Blue Place of Seven Skulls," Bradley reminded her.
The warriors turned to their leader, as if to read his opinion of this unlucky omen; but the countenance of
Blue John remained unchanged, and they continued to press forward.
Now news had been brought to Robin Hood how that Little John, instead of doing his bidding, had passed by duty for pleasure, and so had stopped overnight with merry company at the
Blue Boar Inn, instead of going straight to Ancaster.
They looked like a flock of blue-birds, all being in sailor rig, with
blue ribbon enough flying from the seven hats to have set up a milliner.
The high, deep,
blue sky arched over Misselthwaite as well as over the moor, and she kept lifting her face and looking up into it, trying to imagine what it would be like to lie down on one of the little snow-white clouds and float about.
Then, other days, I think pink and
blue and gold and purple and rainbow thoughts all the time."
At last she was able to take her eyes from the surf and gaze at the sea-horizon of deepest peacock-blue and piled with cloud-masses, at the curve of the beach south to the jagged point of rocks, and at the rugged
blue mountains seen across soft low hills, landward, up Carmel Valley.
Mat treated the objection with great contempt, and averred in reply, that he made the slaves black in order to obtain a striking effect of contrast, and that, could he have derived a similar advantage from making his heroine
blue,
blue she should have been.