35 Metaphors for blues

Casper Blue might be a daring air pilot, but with his companion a perfect greenhorn in all that pertained to the art, he would be more or less handicapped.

Then again, the fact that Casper Blue once upon a time had been a daring birdman had something to do with this interest on the part of Frank and his cousin, because there is always a certain fellow feeling between those who are engaged in the same dangerous pursuits.

" "Didn't Larry tell us that this same Casper Blue had once been an actor before he took to the air for a living?" asked Frank.

She decided instantly that blue was a prettier colour than yellow.

But in the Wandle, at Carshalton and Beddington, the May-fly is not found; and the little blues are the constant, and, when well imitated, killing flies on this water; to which may be joined a dark alder-fly, and a red evening fly.

And said that blue became my darling best.

The blue of ocean, the white of Etna, the gray of Taorminathis is the scene.

"...Blue was the sky, And blue the rice-pool water lay Holding the sky; Blue was the robe she wore that day.

The Blue and the Gray; or, War Is hell.

If more and more dust particles are allowed to enter, the blue becomes paler, and gradually changes to the colourless illumination of the ordinary air.

On the far right, blue in the haze, was a continuous range of lofty bluffs.

Her brow is like the snaw-drift, Her throat is like the swan, Her face it is the fairest That e'er the sun shone on; That e'er the sun shone on, And dark blue is her ee;

The blue is his official badge.

Blue, the colour of the sky, became a symbol of celestial holiness; green passed into the language as indicating a freshness verging upon unintelligence.

"Old John Blue (Belew?) was my white folks.

But this Woodpecker has the red of the head much brighter than a Bluebird's breast, and shows purer white as he flies, in large spaces on his back and wings; though his blue is not so brightit is what we call blue-black, very dark and glossy, like polished steel.

"Blue is a cool thing, like water, or ice clinking in your glass," he would say, "and red's hot and sizzly, like the fire.

When he wishes to make an offering to the Great Spirit, he takes a scarlet blanket, and paints a circle of blue in the centre, (blue is an emblem of peace,) and puts ten bells, or silver brooches to it.

Pale blue veiled in chiffon is another grateful combination.

And blue was always your color; it went with your eyes so exactly.

High was his comb, and coral-red withal, In dents embattled like a castle wall; 50 His bill was raven-black, and shone like jet; Blue were his legs, and orient were his feet; White were his nails, like silver to behold, His body glittering like the burnish'd gold.

From Megara the Bay of Salamis becomes Saronic Gulf, and after an hour or two of its unspeakable beauty we cross over to Corinth and find, if possible, that the blues of the Gulf of Corinth are even more sapphire, that its purples are even more amethyst, that its greens are more emerald than the blues and purples and greens of Salamis.

BOY BLUE (Little) is the subject of a poem in Eugene Field's Little Book of Western Verse.

Pure blue were the heavens, and the same hue of pure contentment was in the heart of Mariana.

Of a sudden the world had become infinitesimally small for him, and all he could see was the soft shimmer of Joanne's hair in the sun, the wonder of her face, the marvellous blue of her eyesand all he could hear was the sweet thrill of her voice when she spoke to him or old Donald, and when, now and then, soft laughter trembled on her lips in the sheer joy of the life that had dawned anew for her this day.

35 Metaphors for  blues