"Dark blue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... surprise, his powers began to fail prematurely. Just then a storm of wind and sleet came down from the heights above, and broke with bitter fury in his face. He struggled against it vigorously for a time till he gained a point whence he saw the dark blue sea lashing on the cliffs below. He looked up at the pass which was almost hid by the driving sleet. A feeling of regret and self-condemnation at having so readily given in to Grady was mingled with a strong sense of the duty that he had to discharge as he once more breasted the steep. The ...
— Post Haste • R.M. Ballantyne
... Mrs. Billing, "and that is sure to bring in a handsome sum—unless there are liabilities and debts. I've always admired that Crown Derby tea service—dark blue and gold." ...
— The Road to Mandalay - A Tale of Burma • B. M. Croker
... told me that they had just fitted up the Naguadavick stations with Bain's chemical revolving disc. This disc is charged with a salt of potash, which, when the electric spark passes through it, is changed to Prussian blue. Your dispatch is noiselessly written in dark blue dots ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 2, Issue 12, October, 1858 • Various
... final picture I have of Albert I, King of the Belgians—a tall young man, very fair and blue-eyed, in the dark blue uniform of a lieutenant-general of his army, wearing no orders or decorations, standing bareheaded in the wind and pointing out to me the direction in which I should go to find the general who ...
— Kings, Queens And Pawns - An American Woman at the Front • Mary Roberts Rinehart
... to examine each overcoat critically. One was black, the other brown, and third a dark blue. Matt rather ...
— Young Auctioneers - The Polishing of a Rolling Stone • Edward Stratemeyer
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