Another agricultural adage says: "No tempest, good July, lest corn come off bluely.

But the other eye they set in the butt of the hilt, and it gleamed there bluely.

His cheeks and chin were clean shaven, the close-cut beard showing bluely under the coarse skin.

The woodman laves his brow, Where shrouded monks and vestals came With many a sacred vow; And bluely gleams thy sainted spring Beneath the sunny tree; Then let no heart its sadness bring, When Nature is with thee.

When the e is preceded by a vowel, it is sometimes omitted; as in duly, truly, awful, argument; but much more frequently retained; as in dueness, trueness, blueness, bluely, rueful, dueful, shoeless, eyeless.

Mrs. Errol, sensibly wrapped in a large motoring coat, was maintaining a cheery conversation with the rector, who looked cold and hungry and smiled bluely at everything she said.