It was a big house, round, as were all the Munchkin houses, and painted
blue, which is the distinctive color of the Munchkin Country of Oz.
The poor soldier fell without injury on the moist ground, and the
blue light went on burning, but of what use was that to him?
There were neat fences at the sides of the road, painted a dainty
blue color, and beyond them were fields of grain and vegetables in abundance.
The Honourable Samuel Slumkey, of Slumkey Hall, was the
Blue candidate; and Horatio Fizkin, Esq., of Fizkin Lodge, near Eatanswill, had been prevailed upon by his friends to stand forward on the Buff interest.
The
Blue Light scorns the labour-saving arts of modern pharmacy.
It passes directly beneath the
Blue Place of Seven Skulls.
The
blue lines shifted and changed a trifle and stared expectantly at the silent woods and fields before them.
The schooners moored to the quay are trim and neat, the little town along the bay is white and urbane, and the flamboyants, scarlet against the
blue sky, flaunt their colour like a cry of passion.
In this moment of imminent peril, a Pierced-nose chief, named
Blue John by the whites, offered to approach secretly with a small, but chosen band, through a defile which led to the encampment of the enemy, and, by a sudden onset, to drive off the horses.
Hard is the path from A to Z, And puzzling to a curly head, Yet leads to Books--Green,
Blue, and Red.
Before Rostov had decided what to do with him, the officer cried, "I surrender!" He hurriedly but vainly tried to get his foot out of the stirrup and did not remove his frightened
blue eyes from Rostov's face.
Between their trunks one saw glimpses of yellow harvest fields, gleams of golden sand-hills, and bits of
blue sea.
