I have seen one aeroplane swoop down out of the blue to attack a formation of six enemy machines, sending one crashing to earth and dispersing the remainder.

Here came, almost out of the blue sky, a condition that at once taxed their brains, their resource, and their energy, and at the same time rescued them from bankruptcy.

Now, out of the blue, we've got this little girl who is probably younger than most eggs, and we are supposed to give her our neverending support?" "Why in the world not?"

Inexpectation N. inexpectation^, non-expectation; false expectation &c (disappointment) 509; miscalculation &c 481. surprise, sudden burst, thunderclap, blow, shock, start; bolt out of the blue; wonder &c 870; eye opener.

The steep, rocky cliffs, with their sharp, spire-like summits rising almost perpendicularly out of the blue sea, are typical of the desert wastes inland.

They said something to me, kinder than ever came out of the blue vault, and yet they awoke the fever of resistance.

Then out of the blue fell a shining bolt!

I read and spelled out of the Blue Back Speller.

There was a terrific concussion, a black speck up in the heavens, and a ton of metal dropped down out of the blue, smashing one of the cupolas of the forts to pieces.

"It is the end of adolescence," he said; "the end of empty dreams...." He became very still, his hands resting on the table, his eyes staring out of the blue oblong of the window.

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A train of freight cars is passing along a line that comes out of the blue and goes on till it meets the blue again.

Her white jewelled fingers flitted in and out of the blue depths.

Occasionally a big howitzer shell swings lazily out of the blue and drops with a crash or a dull thudaccording to the degree of resistance encounteredamong the crumbling cottages.

With what different impressions had I come to look at Siberian life since I first saw the precipitous coast of Kamchatka looming up out of the blue water of the Pacific!

Am I bound to call every good thing I receive a chance, except an angel come down visibly out of the blue sky and give it to me?

The celestial messenger sailed down to earth out of the blue, and announced in musical tones that the Lord had chosen him to be the guardian of the Holy Grail on Montsalvatch (which some authors believe to have been in Spain), and that it behooved him to set his house in order and obey the voice of God.

And with the thought yet in her mind she looked out of the window in front of her, and saw his slim, supple figure, clad in a white sweater, shoot swiftly down a snow-draped slope ahead of her, like a meteor flashing earthwards out of the blue.