The red rock that he could see at the top of the cliff vanished like a curtain, and he could see figures and blue sky. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

A few yards away, a crewman in a blue jumpsuit climbs to the lip of the crow’s nest, spreads his arms wide, and leaps toward certain death. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Dusty stood off to the side, blowing lazy rings of blue smoke. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

The blue, furry fairy gestured toward the orangutan, and the shackles binding it to the wall fell apart. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

His drink swirls with blue sparkles in a cloudy orange brine. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

She’s still in that ratty blue nightgown that looks left over from her Tunica County days, the gingham ruffle torn at the neck. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

In the wagon was her trash can with the blue bunnies, which my parents had promised she could keep. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Her breath was white as well... but her eyes were blue, her long braid the color of dark honey, her cheeks flushed red from the cold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

He’s confused... rubbing his head... staring up at Frank, tall and thin, and then at Gimpy nearby, massive, hairy, gray-faced Gimpy with bushy eyebrows that almost hide his blue eyes. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

A roar went up from the crowd as a helmetless red-bearded man with a griffin on his shield went down before a big knight in blue armor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Whatever their reasons, they took their considerable earnings, loaded up with provisions in the Paradise Islands off the coast of Oxscini, and set a course for the blue and boundless west. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She’d changed into a ratty Museum of Modern Art T-shirt and her regular marker-colored jeans, her blue plastic hairbrush sticking out of her pocket. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Behind his back he could feel everyone eyeing his blue overalls. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It stretched from wall to wall, floor to ceiling, and into the building in a blue and cloudy blur. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

Then the white-and- blue robes of the chorus singers filled three risers, from high to low. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

The setting sun gilded the terraces on the east bank but cast the west bank into dark blue shadow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The blue smoke from the house chimney hung in flat layers in the purpling ranch-cup. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was too intent to keep track, but, at length, a sort of pinkness invaded the translucent blue skin of her cheek. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

That room on the far right is Mummy’s; there are her pale blue curtains. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

Sentences of astonishing simplicity seemed to me lifeless and drab: ‘The boys ran from the rain... She wanted to sing... The kite rose in the blue.’ Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those big blue eyes and the luminous, infrequent smiles reminded her of someone she couldn’t name. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water turned the consistency of shaved ice in blue sticky syrup. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

Under those bushy eyebrows of his, Grandpa Izzy's eyes are bright blue like the sudden underside of a bird wing. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

I can see his face turning blue, every breath painful. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

Behind the blue curtain half-naked women presented portions of themselves to wax. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

A woman with a blue sweater draped over her shoulders stood behind a counter at the end of the hallway. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

I was thinking about the blue jumper and the hair grip. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind Corporal Nettle’s head was a wide strip of deep blue sky and, etched against it, the ragged black edge of the cellar’s ruined ceiling. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

For an instant I think I see a face, then a splash of blue, but now all I can see is the heart. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were gentle shades of blue and green. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

In her palm w'as a ring of watery blue sapphire, a gift from her mother, who had died many years before. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had blue eyes that stayed wide open all the time, like she was surprised by everything she saw. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

The last had furry wings, and her body was coated with pale blue fuzz. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

There were shoes, as well — satin slippers in the same ice blue — and a mask shaped like a butterfly, embedded with what seemed to be hundreds of tiny diamonds and sapphires. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

I longed for the sparkling blue waters of Lake Tanganyika, the colossal lake where I loved to swim, despite my parents’ warnings about crocodiles. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

Inej turned to run, but her path was blocked by a huge bruiser, his blue velvet coat stretched tight across his big shoulders. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

One, a student in a blue T-shirt, had a sweaty face, and every few seconds he wiped his forehead with his shirt. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

A picture hung on the wall, a childish picture of a boat sailing on blue water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I put pen and pad, inmate rulebook, and blue union diary in my breast pockets, slide my baton through the ring, lock the padlock, and slam the locker door. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Plenty of Jews had blue eyes and blond hair, and many Germans and Austrians, including Adolf Hitler, had dark eyes and hair. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z

But this time she made it blue, since she was using her blue pencil. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

In a moment he was dressed—blue chambray shirt and overalls. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

A slab of concrete, three feet wide and ten feet long, with blue plastic chairs stolen long ago from some classroom. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

And I thought of Ben, too, with his narrow watery blue eyes, his sly idiot’s smile. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She rubs her belly, blue eyes shining brightly as she gives me a big smile. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

And, from the look of the rich blue fabric, it was probably a gift from the Queen of Adarlan. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

It was a deep blue tinged with black around the petals. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Celia lay with her tom, bleeding feet beside her daughter and held her, rocking and rocking her in the blue gypsy dusk until she died. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Foaly tapped a few more keys, and Artemis’s deep blue eyes expanded to the width of the screen. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Its long tables were full of beakers set over low blue flames, heating and cooling apparatuses, glass vials full of powders in varying shades of orange. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

‘Put your hat on,’ my mother said, handing me a stiff wide-brimmed straw-hat with a blue and black band around it. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

McAllister was one particularly snooty voice, but it was clear to everyone that he spoke with the sanction of New York’s blue bloods. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We woke the next morning in Nairobi to blue skies and fresh energy, less zonked by the jet lag and feeling like our happy, regular selves. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

He laughs gently and his blue eyes sparkle. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Their eyes were dark purple, as if the clear blue water of their life source had condensed and thickened inside them. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Wiggly words spell it out in blue chalk. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Each child in the class wore a round circle of blue construction paper on which was written in magic marker: Gr. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

When they finished with the thing, it lay there limp on the ground all shiny blue and red, covered with a slick white film. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The captain’s blue eyes flashed in the shadow beneath his hat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He didn’t need it anymore, for Mama had made him a new suit of clothes—a calico shirt, skin leggings, a set of blue broadcloth britches trimmed with red wool. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A burst of blue light radiates out from Asher in a ring at his attack. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

It’s always in a big, blue ocean that’s too deep for me to see the bottom. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

His eyes were very blue and, although tired, they did not look scared or hunted. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I looked back, all I could see were flashes of green and blue as my father fought the Titan, and the sea itself was torn apart by the two armies. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Ms. Haughty Smile turned her icy blue eyes on him. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

A skylight shows off blue sky and clouds. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

To the Europeans’ confusion, their steel and cloth did not interest the Narragansett, who wanted to swap only for “little bells, blue crystals, and other trinkets to put in the ear or around the neck.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

In all the talk of the Mesarthim so far, no one had seen fit to mention that—if this mural was accurate—they had been blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On opposite pages, she attached blue paper frames with beeswax and slipped in the corresponding watercolor sketches. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Ser Waymar was panting from the effort now, his breath steaming in the moonlight: His blade was white with frost; the Other's danced with pale blue light. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

In her arms was a baby, wrapped in a blue blanket. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The Wonder Dome had been magically transformed into a brilliant blue sky filled with brightly colored hot-air balloons. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

The tops of the pines tickle into a wilderness of blue and white, and all I need now is red. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

There were only two windows topping each sidewall, narrow rectangles of pebbled blue plastic that gave a bit of a death-glow pallor to the faces around me. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

He isn’t one of the cool, stiff Englishmen, but is rather peppery, for he has Scotch blood in him, as one might guess from his bonnie blue eyes. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before me is the butterfly, flapping its blue wings through the current. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

He had seen her take off a man’s hand for stealing from Lucky Strike, and then watched the man bleed out under her cool blue gaze. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z

But it was the roughly braided loop of red, black, and blue leather that made Gregor’s heart stop. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He used gasoline in the lighter and it burned with a frail blue flame and he bent and set the tinder alight and watched the fire climb upward through the wicker of limbs. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Akane clasps her hands together, showing off her yellow and blue nails. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Same sandy hair, red beards, and blue eyes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The water was blue and full of chlorine, and my eyes stung, but I factored the equation and realized I was upside down and all I had to do was right myself and swim up. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

For instance, the greeny-looking clintonia flower bells became beautiful blue berries, but there were so few of those you could search the whole woods and not find enough to string a bracelet. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

His icy blue eyes looked older, somehow—full of worry and responsibility. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Does this mean she doesn't have to wear a big blue T-shirt? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Her shield and armor had been painted red, though the paint was chipped and fading; his own armor was blue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“There just aren’t the same number of bigots in blue states. If they don’t want to be left behind, maybe people in red states should do something about it.” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

An instant later he had yanked his own gun from his hip holster and fired into the mist, the robe, the blue mask. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw nothing but sensed blue, cold blue-green, and he raked at the seatbelt batch, tore his nails loose on one hand. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

The advancing line of blue moves forward, slowly ascending the hill. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

In the spring there would be pale blue violets and primroses, goldilocks, wood anemones, and white Stellaria. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sighed and raised a hand: a blue flame flickered about her fingers for a moment, and then, as she lowered her hand and bent down to touch her chariot, the fire vanished. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Last is a tiny vial of blue liquid. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

The Bluesmen, the lovely ladies in hats, the people who loved his blues guitar-playing had all read the folded paper and were not pleased. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The man was wearing a long navy blue apron and a white turban. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z

White mist divided into wisps of energy, but this kind of energy wasn’t scary like the blue power I’d seen from Kronos. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was thin and dark, and her eyes were as blue and flat as breath mints. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A palace, drawn in blue ink, with flowing script like the script on an Italian menu. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had the blue jeans on today and was pulling the waist out to check out his underpants. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Sleet came into the room with another blue plate, covered with little round pieces of meat. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

As she picked up the package she noticed a red, white, and blue Express Mail envelope sticking halfway out of her mailbox next to the doorway. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

On sunny days the lake still managed to look blue. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He was wearing his sunglasses with the dark blue lenses and a new black cowboy hat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing lipstick, mascara, and a little blush on her cheeks, and her clothes were altogether unlike anything I had ever seen her in: a white T-shirt, blue jeans, and flat black shoes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I balanced the stack of blue life jackets and peeked out from the side. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

The morning was clear and bright, with a few thin, high clouds barely clinging to existence, accidental brush strokes on a blue canvas. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The wide blue of Lake Michigan stretched out in front of us. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

He felt shaky inside: what if there were no traces of her, no lines of sand pressed by her body, no delicate track of her blue shawl trailing into the weeds? Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Other than these small businesses, there are more shingled houses, the same shape and size and in the same state of mild decrepitude, painted mint, or lilac, or powder blue. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He gives me a particularly smug look when she ties the blue ribbon around his neck. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

The sky was painted pale blue and pink—the same color as the lake and the peach trees along its shore. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

The wall behind the counter is half sunset orange, half midnight blue, and there are framed photos of people doing different activities, like rock climbing and surfing. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

And there in their midst was Sansa, dressed in sky- blue silk, with her long auburn hair washed and curled and silver bracelets on her wrists. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

When the swift’s face turned blue, they called the match. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z

Fina scooches in next to me on the squeaky blue seat, and we huddle close so she can whisper her plan. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dust everywhere . . . and out of that emerged this beautiful boy with the bluest eyes I’d ever seen, holding his hand out to help me to my feet. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

Maybe someone was trying to tell me something, what with me missing the train and the blue flyer floating back to me, maybe Deza Malone was right. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

She just said it out of the blue one day: “We should go out.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The day was warm and cloudless, the sky a deep blue. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

His eyes are big and soft and blue, and he desperately needs to be punched in one of them. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The ambulance drivers, dressed in blue, seemed to Gerald to take an awfully long time while they poked and measured and assessed Aunt Queen. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

One was a tall woman in a blue dress who could easily have been Blanca twenty years older. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Gazing ahead at the dark blue sky striated with clouds, Molly reaches up and touches the charms around her neck. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The rounded walls and ceiling are painted a deep, vibrant blue and ornamented with stars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

His fair hair, his blue eyes, his habit of looking you straight in the face with a pleasant air of straightforwardness. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He kept his blues harp in his jacket pocket and rubbed his fingers across the holes every now and again. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The cake a driver delivered the next morning, with “I’m sorry my love” written on it in blue frosting, had a bitter aftertaste, but Aunty Uju kept it in the freezer for months. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

He wore an ancient flat straw hat, blue jeans, both coat and trousers, and heavy shoes of which one sole was loose so that it slapped the ground when he walked. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

They looked very well in their simple suits, Meg’s in silvery drab, with a blue velvet snood, lace frills, and the pearl pin. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re in their heavy blue dresses, with their heads covered in blue kerchiefs. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

On the ragged edge, a neat person had printed in blue ink, “P.A.” and the year the actor, dancer, or musician had graduated. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

When Mom first started taking him for cobalt treatments I imagined sharp blue beams aimed at his stomach. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He joined the children’s choir to be close to music that sounded like the blues his grandfather played. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The blue shadows of late afternoon were menacing now. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Besides, I wanted to keep an eye out for any more signs of the blue light to the north. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Now Florence’s mama hadn’t a particle of taste, and Amy suffered deeply at having to wear a red instead of a blue bonnet, unbecoming gowns, and fussy aprons that did not fit. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Primus was roaring away with a powerful blue flame and already the water in the saucepan was beginning to bubble. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

For music that has been combining elements of both for long enough to have developed its own traditions, listen to any jazz, blues, gospel, Latin dance, or reggae. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z

Her dark hair was brushed out and spiked up, like she’d just stuck her finger in an electrical socket, and her lips were painted a light shade of blue. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

Coming into his presence was like stepping up to a gas heater, to a row of blue fire burning in the dark, wet curve of his eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Before me—like some rolled-out tapestry— was my entire world, beneath a sky as blue as Our Lady’s blessed robes, a contrast to the greening spring that lay abundant everywhere. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Who ever heard of a Lakota with blue eyes and a name like McClean?” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

But in fact I remained a country boy at heart, and there was nothing that lifted my spirits as much as blue skies, the open veld, and green grass. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The edges of his mouth were turning blue. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Our list is: Funny, water; yellow, blue, and Buddha.” When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Kendra recognized the blue one as the downy fountain sprite she had seen in Grandpa’s office. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

The road, finally making up its mind, plummeted down, as if anxious to renew acquaintance with the sparkling blue stream that flowed below. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

His were still gray, hers were still blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

On the near side of the left bank, a wolf posed against the bitter blue sky. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wore a navy blue poplin raincoat over gray sweatpants and white sneakers, looking, at thirty-three, like the type of woman she’d once claimed she would never resemble. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Trotting behind them was a blue- ticked she dog that I always figured was one of Bell’s pups. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

He could feel it everywhere, even in the blue sheets that were stretched tightly across the bed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He looked exhausted: His chin was blue with stubble and there were deep purple shadows under his eyes. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

“The best thing you can do right now is stay out of my way, or else I may be forced to ram that blue rinse straight into that morass you call a brain.” Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

Sketched in blue ink were little men with gigantic sexual parts. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He looks up to see, there in the sky and blocking out the sun completely, the long-lost Lazarus woodpecker, with its wings outspread and its beak pointing upward, nearly piercing the blue of the sky. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

In a flash, done so quickly that she did not realize it until afterward, the one wearing a blue beret grasped her basket, took the tin of corned beef, and ran off. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The man wore a dark hat, and jeans and long jacket washed palest blue with lighter places at knees and elbows. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Three more scowling men, in blue uniforms, pointed them on until they reached their seats— attached wooden chairs on the arena floor ten rows away from the ring. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

A tenth chime, a tenth arrow, and the bonfire turns deepest midnight blue. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The fairies he knew had looked different, smaller but stronger, with fair blue skin and four shimmering wings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

On the right is another white man, balding in a blue suit, sitting at the prosecutor’s desk. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Behind her closed eyelids, she had imagined the skin of her tummy brown instead of blue, decorated with the old woman's exquisite flourishes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

“Their blood is blue, and it can detect really small amounts of bacteria, so scientists use it to test vaccines.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

Swans swam past like elegant ships, and the village was all pastel with patches of blue shadow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Hatsue turned down between strawberry rows and upended her bucket on the compost heap, glanced at the moon so that its blue light caught her face, then returned to the house by a different route. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

He heard a clock ticking and searched for it with his eyes; it was at the head of Mary’s bed, its white dial glowing in the blue darkness. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then he handed me three crepe paper flowers, one red, one white, one blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The few times she happened to be directly in his path he tossed her an indifferent grin and his quizzical blue eyes flicked past and dismissed her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a blue pantsuit, and her hair flowed in swirls down her shoulders. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She looked at him with eyes the blue of the sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

“This family has two little girls with golden curls and big blue eyes.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my bureau were three things of hers that I had taken from her closet after she left: a red, fringed shawl; a blue sweater; and a yellow-flowered cotton dress that was always my favorite. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

The color photographs of the earth are more amazing than anything outside: we live inside a blue chamber, a bubble of air blown by ourselves. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room, like the hallway outside, is blue, though here it is clear where the light is coming from. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There be many such sheets on the lines of Cite Soleil—yellow, pink, and blue. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was better to die like a man; to die like a sailor in blue water no man can object. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

The skies are blue, the grass is green. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

On the far side of it were huge blue things, lumpy but with jagged edges, and some of them with white tops. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z

The blue lights go by real slow, you can see them shining all around the room. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

She rolled over and stretched, blinking up at the blue sky. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

A majestic green mountain sat in harmony with the deepening blue sky, the sun spreading its light for the last time before it set. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z

In a grave voice, his seriousness reflected in his intense blue eyes, he added that “all was not right in our city.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Increasingly wide bands of yellow light were poking through the blue. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

She was sitting on the edge of the bed looking into the mirror, and he was sitting on the old blue armchair in the corner. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Vincent can talk a blue streak, even without drinking, and that drives Gauguin crazy. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The blue sky at thirty thousand feet asks me uncomfortable questions. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z

He stared at me with his one blue eye. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Lupita peeked carefully around the corner of the boxcar door into the brown eyes of a stocky man wearing blue coveralls and a high-crowned blue cap. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Along the banks, leaning out as though to catch their own reflections, were rows of rough stone houses with their shutters painted blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

My picture is tacked to the blue wall along with a license plate. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Now this was all that was left of it, a burnt piece of pale blue stone. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

She might have told him, but looking up she caught a hint of “I told you so” in those blue eyes that silenced her. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

She got a spiky haircut over the weekend, though, with the ends dyed blue. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Then, at the end of the afternoon, the mirage subsided and the horizon became level and blue and clipped as the sun declined. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the new blue sky, bumped her sneaker with mine, and said, “Let her talk. Nothing Arletta Paisley can say could ruin anything.” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

The sword laid the in-truder open to the bone, taking off half his nose and open-ing a gash cheek to cheek under those eyes, eyes, eyes like blue stars burning. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, thin man with sparse black hair, a wide forehead, large blue eyes, and perfect white teeth. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

“The one with the blue dress. The one crossing her legs. Still has the legs, the legs never left her,” he answered, continuing to gaze at her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

He had on a blue suit with wide lapels and a white and blue striped tie, and he wore a gold ring on the little finger of his right hand. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

"There's a great show coming up . . ." It happened so fast that in a second only I and an old lady in a blue polka-dot dress were left. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early morning sky was deep, silky blue and the moon had turned from silver to white. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The trees are bare and black, their branches stretching into the bright blue expanse of sky above them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“You know, girls are really smart,” Jon, a medical student in a blue suit, said at the end of the evening. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He stands proud in a blue gown and mortarboard. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Axel smells the plant pickup on her blue shirt. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Then she started swinging her round and round her head, faster and faster and Amanda was screaming blue murder and the Trunchbull was yelling, "I'll give you pigtails, you little rat!" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Their heads were wrapped with bright red and blue bandanas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In blue waves, incense rolled over the gathered heads. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

The neon lights shed their endless blue- green glow. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a blue shimmer that surrounded her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

This cane Held business appears at first to have just two colors: a too-big blue sky, and a too-much green cane, growing like giant grass. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why this black gulf between him and the world: warm red blood here and cold blue sky there, and never a wholeness, a oneness, a meeting of the two? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a T-shirt and blue jeans, and he was barefoot—as though he’d dressed in a hurry, just put on the first thing that came to hand. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Far to the southeast, along the India-Nepal frontier, colossal thunderheads drifted over the malarial swamps of the Terai, illuminating the heavens with surreal bursts of orange and blue lightning. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I watched the sky go light pink and then red and orange and then dark blue and purple. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

I think of my mom and Decca and Kate, and then I hit the opener, and up goes the door, and out I go into the wild blue yonder. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

He wore a clean blue shirt, overalls, and a leather apron. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

A Western Union man is standing at the cash register in his blue uniform and black-brimmed cap. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The giant blue sky, the fields of po- tatoes and corn, the white houses with red tile roofs, the rocky canyons, the mountains towering overhead. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

To think I know the color blue his eyes are from a black-and-white photograph. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Beyond and above spread an expanse of sky, dark blue as at twilight: rising into the sky was a woman’s shape to the bust, portrayed in tints as dusk and soft as I could combine. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

For a minute Marco didn't say anything, he simply opened his mouth and breathed out a blue, vaporous ring. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His skin is so cold; the pads of his fingers are almost blue. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

The sun reached its apogee and started down the blue sky of early afternoon. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blue powdering of forget-me-nots and fine, fat yellow primroses punctuated the green of the slope as the two children walked up the hill toward the Frobishers’ little mausoleum. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

A bright blue cloth is crumpled on the floor, and a length of string bisects the room. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

A woman with a cute, short haircut and a navy blue suit took our tickets and ushered us out the door. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They are blue. Great murderers, like great men in other walks of activity, have blue eyes.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

In the twilight, both our Artifact and our opponent’s glow with a noticeable blue halo. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The picture on the postcard was of a mountain, blue and rocky and capped with a white cone of snow. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

It’s calmer and clearer and tho you can’t see Noise, if Cillian’s always seems reddish, then Ben’s seems blue or sometimes green. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Nearly everyone was ugly, and would still have been ugly even if dressed otherwise than in the uniform blue overalls. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

The only thing I like about it is that nobody is trying to kill us here and that many of the houses are painted a beautiful blue. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

I watch a mind movie of her taking a stick and drawing a line in the dirt between us under a bright blue sky. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

“You’re asking me the names of the pills? I can’t even remember anymore. One is pink, the other yellow, another light blue.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was her grandmother’s handwriting—swirling loops in dark blue ink. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

Mom liked to say that Dad could talk a blue streak, spinning tales of jobs he’d never had and college degrees he’d never earned. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Charlie Valentine had ordered his chickens thinking they were a special breed that laid blue eggs. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

I think I won’t, but it’s Ben asking with his glasses and wide blue eyes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Although the room was dark, light touched the metal fastenings on a wooden box, a fold of blue cloth on the table, the curve of the woman’s forehead, the creamy lemon of her jacket. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

“Is that a blue wildebeest?” he asks, pointing to the drawing. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Which meant that, three times a week, the sky of the Night Bazaar opened up to allow Urvashi to descend in a celestial blue lotus as big as the museum. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

His blue and yellow eyes traveled from this rite to the rest of the room, where the other guests were attacking one another with conversation. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

When we’re done with the world’s longest conversation on the blue wildebeest, he pats the couch and I sit down next to him. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

The little blue windup mouse Hugo had taken fell from his hand, skidded across the counter, and landed on the floor with a crack. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

And now I will never even see Germany, unless they send me to Ravensbruck—I will never see Berlin, or Cologne, or Dresden—or the Black Forest, the Rhine Valley, the blue Danube. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I felt my mom’s arm circle my shoulders and pull me close as I gazed up at the cloudless blue sky. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

I went up to the glass-enclosed section under the blue light where two nurses were sitting and asked what had happened to Billy. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

“But I look better in blue and I despise purple.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He was awake this time, looking up, out the window and at the smear of stars across the dark blue sky. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

Because it was nearly dusk and suppertime, blue smoke rose from every chimney pot in the village they had left, and in the low places mist began to rise. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

“Only you would get more excited over a blue toilet than the sights of Rome,” moans Gat. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

"I saw blue sky, white clouds, and pine trees above me," Gordievsky remembered. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We sat in her kitchen, sipping coffee from blue enamel tin cups. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

He was scarcely two feet tall and almost twice as wide, and he wore a blue uniform with white belt and gloves, a peaked cap, and a very fierce expression. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ugliness is in the cold blue of his eyes. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

And that’s how I felt as she looked up at me, blue eyes glittering with the tiniest flecks of gold. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His face was sharp and delicate, almost beautiful, with striking blue eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had a pale blue box of pills, but nobody was sick. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

His garb was plain as well: old boots, brown breeches and blue tunic, a woolen mantle of undyed wool, fastened with a wooden clasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The entire underbelly of the Wonder Dome had been transformed into a fluttering flock of birds, soaring across an unbelievably blue sky, swooping through a clay-colored desert landscape. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

He carried she empty bottles and dropped them one by one into the deep blue canal waters. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This here,” the boy whispered when we came to a house with blue shutters. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There was a brief flash of blue light, during which all of our keys and the crystal door itself vanished. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue and clear and pure. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Millions of blue lights twinkled on the ceiling like stars. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Watching the figure etched against the bright blue sky, Cholly felt goose pimples popping along his arms and neck. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the bar a stained glass window of liquor bottles glowed: the blues of English gin, the deep reds of claret and Madeira, the tawny browns of scotch and bourbon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Today I’d paired it with a white Spins & Needles Records T-shirt, blue striped tube socks, and my sequined Chucks. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z

And eventually the dark peeled back layer by layer, and with imperceptible gradations the sky feathered to a delicate pale blue. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

His eyes were fixed on the open stove door, watching the yellow flame change shape and turn to blue and red. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Through a gate topped by razor wire, into a complex of low-slung white buildings with pitched blue roofs. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

His brain delighted at the impossibility of this, at the sheer coincidence that that tiny, serious girl in the blue lehenga now sat opposite him, looking at his sketch pad. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

I thought of the man who turned blue. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He was in his mid-thirties, with perfectly worn denim jeans, a blue plaid shirt, and shaggy light brown hair. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

A woman answers the door, and this must be his mother because her eyes are the same bright-sky blue as Finch’s. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Yes, I like roses,” she said vaguely, and then peering closer at me with her dim blue eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

They were tribesmen dressed in blue, with black rings surrounding their turbans. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I had a blue slush in my hand,” she went on, “the big kind you get at the movies. Strappy heels. It was summer. Do you like pretty shoes?” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Sadhu is getting ready to toss them into the big blue bin. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

“You’re so skinny, I don’t know how you’re not turning blue,” I said as I settled against the cab, sandwich in hand. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

On weekend evenings they gathered around the old upright piano in the club’s parlor and sang for hours as Don Hume tore through jazz tunes, show tunes, blues, and ragtime. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

They hired him anyway and six sheep disappeared right after that, during a dust storm, Pinkie said, but he had a new harmonica and a blue pearl-button cowboy shirt they’d never seen before. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Piece by piece, the sky appears, a put-together line of blue and white. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

They got larger and wider until the giant crumbled in a mountain of blue shards. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There was a creaking on the loft stairs and Jesse was looking down at her, very beautiful and eager in the faint blue moonlight. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

They did not wear many clothes, and the shadows between their sliding muscles were blue on the nut-brown skins. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s light,” Jelly Bones said, giving it a shake before he tossed the blue bag to Train Ear. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And if it hadn’t stopped snowing and the sun hadn’t come out and the sky hadn’t started to blue over the tops of the mountains, I might have said, “Forget it,” and headed back home. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Then it extended the twelve joints of its aerial and spoke past him into the blue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had rolled up the sleeves of his shiny blue jacket, and I noted a zodiac sign tattooed on his wrist. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

The wine of the warlocks had turned them blue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Aloft, floating free beneath the moist, gleaming membrane of bright blue sky, is the rising earth, the only exuberant thing in this part of the cosmos. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Carefully, he rubbed the blue end of the stick along the edge of the paper. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The sky outside was so brightly blue it looked as though it had been enameled. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

The blue door behind the desk'd swung open, showing a tiny bog. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

And then there were the unbelievable blue and yellow eyes laced with the finest tracing of pinkish veins. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were a paler blue than her skin, and it seemed to him that she was trying to fathom him. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Behind her, the headstones fell away and it was all blue sky above the vast grayness of Erie. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Mom and I would go to New Mexico and soak in the miracle of blue flowers and then—and then everything would be okay again. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

Then she used a blue crayon to write on one of the petals: “My family.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Her eyebrows and eyelashes were near invisible, and her eyes a mix of pewter and blue. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

My beautiful new blue bike is really and truly gone. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Everything was still purple, dark blue, and black, yet scarcely a minute remained to the long, quiet night. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their suits are blue, a stark contrast against the steel walls around them. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her blue highlights have faded, and now she has streaks of faded yellowish green in her hair. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

Will the blue fade to black, leaving me in total darkness? Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Curving off to their starboard side was the town of Mykonos - a collection of white stucco buildings with blue roofs, blue windows and blue doors. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

They leave behind the beautiful mountains, the lakes, the clear air and blue skies and the sheep and the goats. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z

Rain poured from the black sky upon the empty door- yard, into the canal and among the blue mountains. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was the great blue American sky, beguiling the grass upward. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every year my birthday cake, my Easter basket, my Christmas candy canes always had to be blue. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

On its further side the woods gathered again, blue and grey under the sullen evening, and marched on southwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She paused outside the phone box to admire the huge cumulus clouds piled against a pale blue sky. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

She had a lovely pale oval madonna face with blue eyes and her hair was light-brown. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Ugwu looked up and saw the planes, gliding low beneath the blue sky like two birds of prey. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are dark and her lips pouty and open; the blue streak accents the contrast of hair and face, and she smiles at me—that’s definitely smiling. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

I am already disturbed by the ash falling from the blue distance down on these streets. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I would draw it blue and heavy with tears. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The Bluesmen agreed that they could sure use a man on blues harp. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Pull back farther still and the curved horizons of the planet revealed themselves—a beautiful ball of green, white, blue, slate, and brown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The pictures were more like road maps colored in blue and red than flesh and bones. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I saw the hatband was missing from her hat, the blue ribbon. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

“But what’s the good of a blue tit or a robin to us? They don’t fly any distance. We need a big bird.” Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

In another life, she might have believed he was coming to rescue her, a shining savior with golden hair and eyes the pale blue of northern glaciers. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Hanging on the wall is a huge blue banner with the crossed swords, gold lettering, and the script Non Nobis Solum. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

At the opposite end stood a massive block of blue ice. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

The whole state depressed him, the blue lines representing highways that intersected towns whose names and destinies were mysteries to him. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rows of colored liquid—green, red, blue—lined the shelf beneath a great mirror. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in his typical school uniform: khaki slacks, blue blazer, button-down shirt, and tastefully striped tie. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Herman E. Calloway was making everybody feel like they had the blues, it looked like Mr. Jimmy’d just wiped some tears from his eyes too. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

Now that I was going to wear red, white, and blue in competitions, I felt even more pressure to elevate my skills and become the best fencer I could. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Number two lived in New New York, five thousand miles across the blue mountains. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sound is off, and for some reason, it’s scarier, watching the silent twirling spiral twisting on the screen, inching across the blue water, coming closer to New Orleans’s shore. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Hameed adjusts the blue fabric of her hijab and pulls papers out of a binder. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

“Welcome to the Jump & Grind,” I say, tapping the guest check pad with the cap end of the blue ballpoint. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

They gave me a new school uniform, light blue, the color of sky. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But we were outnumbered. The train brings tourists. The blue willows bring hummingbears. Everybody should be happy. Only it doesn’t always work out that way.” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Golden wheat flew in every direction, while the blue sky and the mountain lurched absurdly. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I play the first words of Esteban’s story over and over as my father’s song lifts up to my room, as my uncle packs above me, as the blue jay perches in the Ailanthus tree. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

The opposite wall was adorned by an enormous banner with no discernible pattern, a patchwork of slender strips of cloth—mostly red and blue, but some purple, too. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The hood was either black or dark blue, and Roy couldn’t see a speck of light through the heavy fabric. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

When I used to look outside my bedroom window on summer mornings, I saw nothing but corn and blue sky. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I change into the blue shift I packed in the woods outside Madoc’s grounds, despite being so tired that my joints hurt. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Now Mother’s shack is the mere peak of a roof surrounded by a blaze of pinks, blues, oranges. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t like Percy had asked for a blue Coke. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wright just say to Mama right out the blue that she was taking me. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

The sight of Mr. Smith and his wide blue wings transfixed them for a few seconds, as did the woman’s singing and the roses strewn about. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

The commons realized in the same instant as Ned that the blue of the flowers came from sapphires; a gasp went up from a thousand throats. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

It was so completely out of the blue. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

They held out a three-foot long rolled-up parchment copy of the Declaration of Rights, tied with red, white, and blue ribbons. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

She closed the door behind them, her knuckles blue and mottled against the peeling paint, then turned and peered into Harry’s face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

Hardly looking up, Poseidon pointed his trident at the beast and zapped it with blue energy. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

It gives me a twinge of sadness, of missing my mother, to see their colorful petticoats—indigo blue and saffron yellow—and white coifs. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And his grandfather never called the blues harp a harmonica. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Stalls under blue tarp sell fruit and summer dresses and ice-cold rum, and trucks and buses and chickens busily stream by in the granite streets. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

There’s a tattoo of Sagittarius on his left bicep and what looks like a Franz Marc blue horse on his right shoulder that twists all the way up his neck. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Slowly, with heart-racking agony, the air would be sucked from the metal room and his victims would die, turning red, blue, then black. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Today she has on a lace-trimmed beige blouse and a pleated blue skirt. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

Even when I look straight into the milky blue eyes, I can’t find myself anymore. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Papa took his worn blue coveralls off the coat hanger and pulled them over the work clothes he was wearing for his computer repair job; the coveralls looked like something an auto mechanic would wear. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

If that was the case, I might even be able to finish work on my blue emitters. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He had noticed the quality of Leader’s pale blue eyes, how they seemed to have a kind of vision most people didn’t have. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

The humiliation of wearing a uniform, even if it was blue, and deceiving people was tempered by the genuine lift which came of having her own money rather than receiving an allowance like a child. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

She saw only the dark blond hair, a blue dress, and slender hands clinging to the ropes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Under that was the straight, slightly tapering column with its red to purple to blue. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gray of the sky cast a dull reflection on the blue waves, and the sea spray foamed like dirty dishwater. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her blue eyes, the color of faded denim, shine. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

The silver fairy with blue hair changed a snail shell into a beautiful shield. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I blow air into a blue latex glove, making a funny-looking balloon. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

The glass eyes came in shades of green, blue, and light brown, not dark brown or black for African-Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

If I could choose, I’d wear blue jeans with sparkly decals, a blouse with decorated buttons, and a vest! Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The taxi stopped in front of the embassy and the driver pointed to the green, white, and blue flag to make sure that I was at the right place. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Then the blue sky turned black, and Jason saw nothing at all. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Around his forehead he wore a narrow band of gold, set with a single blue jewel. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

And another skimming low over the green blue sea. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m behind the bleachers in back of the third-base dugout with the blue and black suitcases open on the ground. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z

Roberto suggested that I wear blue jeans because most boys wore them in high school, but I did not want to wear the same type of pants I wore to work. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

He had wiry black hair and bright blue eyes. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were precisely the same blue as her mother’s, but they nursed a wisdom and hurt strange to find in so young a girl. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

But Will’s blue eyes stayed fixed on his - annoyingly determined. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Her father was about to have a heart attack, and my memories of her now are tinged with a blue wash of misfortune that hadn’t quite befallen her at the time. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I look up at the blue sky and pray for a sudden storm or a big earthquake. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You know, the city is still on the verge of revolution,” she says, and the light turns blue. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I have the blue beads and my Algonquian words. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

The blue willows spiraled in the brisk, warm wind. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

The leader of the workers brought out a big sign made of blue canvas. A Long Walk to Water 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looking like some young girl, always in blue because Tea Cake told her to wear it. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Sometimes it was snowing; sometimes the long light of early day lay wonderfully gold and blue across the miles of ice; most often it was gray. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Guards forced James Stockdale’s badly healed broken leg into irons and left him until his limbs turned blue. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

“We named you after my favorite color, Neel,” Ma often said, pointing at the horizon where the blue of the sky met the blue of the water. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear, quiet, and the bluest blue she had ever seen. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

She is about to protest, but then her watery blue eyes get even more watery. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Marian wore a new powder blue dress, “very smart without being gaudy.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z

Out of the blue I said, “It’s not my fault.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z

They were a strong, bright blue once, just like mine, but sorrow has faded them. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The sea was blue and green and the sun blazing down from an empty blue sky when the Iron Fleet took its second prize, in the waters north and west of Astapor. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

One of Jeanine’s lackeys, a man in a blue collared shirt and sunglasses, drives me back to the Dauntless compound in a sleek silver car, the likes of which I have never seen before. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Her back was thunderhead blue, her rose-tinted breast had the brightness of cloud tops. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

“I must suppose you have a reason for such a question. My dressing gown is of blue satin.” Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’ve been doing morning weights with Dad for about a year—just these little blue plastic ones that tuck under my parents’ bed, but there’s a cumulative effect. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

The instant the long blue line marched into town, the slaves of Richmond were free. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

There was only the heavy sharp blue head and the big eyes and the clicking, thrusting all-swallowing jaws. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was gray, not blue or pretty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

He had the blue kite in his hands; that was the first thing I saw. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I heard a sound like an echo turned inside out, and then Miig, who had been standing still, trying to see, to understand, under the blue smoke of moonlight, finally took a step forward. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

There was a slight fog, too, like a pale blue smoke all around us. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Caesar Flickerman, in his twinkling midnight blue suit, his hair, eyelids, and lips still dyed powder blue, flawlessly guides us through the interview. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The girl was made of all the blues, and little sparks shot out from all her edges, shards of glass falling off and away. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When she was sober she hummed mostly or chanted blues songs, of which she knew many. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And in the very center of the gallery, a spotlight falls through the ceiling onto a pedestal; there, inside a glass cube, glows a small blue stone . All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She snaps on a pair of blue latex gloves, wiggling her fingers to get them comfortably onto her hands. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

It looked like a secret, narrow and bright and alone, glittering in the blue sky. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z

He chattered about everything he saw—the blue sky, the birds, the flies buzzing around the horse’s ears. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The water was a deep blue and sunlight glittered on its looking glass—clear surface. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

For her the color of dog in English is green, but the French word, chien, is light blue. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z

Upstairs, room three is decorated in pale blues and seashells, and the window is opened a few inches so the sea air can come in, even in the cold. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Coach was heading our way in the taxi; if he caught us standing, he would give us the blues. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

It was a Benz, an unusual car in this neighborhood, blue with a thick white stripe bisecting the hood, the roof, and the trunk. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The sky is bright blue like marbles with cloudy eyes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

I was reaching for a puzzle part that was just blue sky when a flash of light filled the bay window. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a party of maybe twenty people, and even at a distance I could see that some of them had on blue uniforms which meant that they were Continentals—the Rebel troops. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her nails were icy blue like her eye shadow. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

Her wrinkly, pale skin blended with her short gray hair, and her dark blue eyes sparkled when she talked. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

All the world was green grass and blue sky and shoulders hot with sunshine. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A clear blue sky cast its light over the oasis.The sand next to the water was marked with animal prints, and the metal chest was still hidden under the grape arbor. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

He didn’t understand why he was thanking the pastor, but he understood his mother was mad and embarrassed and would blame his blues harp for his rudeness. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Now she stood before the dry sink, pumping water into a blue- and-white wash basin which she used for a saucepan. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was green, white, and blue, the colors of the national flag, and it had number n on the back. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

There was a thick red rug on the floor, and he had bought a beautiful cloth of Chinese blue to hang on the side of the wall where the cracks were worst. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She frowns, a slight twist of her mouth, and raises a hand to her neck, her fingers following the whorls of a strange blue tattoo poking out of her collar. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

They are thin-legged and are wearing uniforms—striped pants and tall baseball socks, blue and red jerseys. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Pa’s blue eyes shone down at her, and he said, “Well, Laura, my hair is brown.” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first one in was Six-Fingers, wearing an undershirt and dirty blue shorts and flip-flops. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You look like someone served you blue stew for dinner.” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Laika’s tub of horror was a plastic toddler’s wading pool, blue, and decorated with a frieze of press-formed dolphins, starfish, and bubbles dancing around its outer wall. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z

The only thing that wasn’t blue was her hair—which was the red-brown of cinnamon—and the whites of her eyes. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The flashes of blue on our walk were subliminal reminders of the sea that circled the shops and houses in town. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

All around them the wide, clear morning lay limpid in the hollows and pearly blue in the warm air above. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

At the end of the alley stood a girl with a mass of golden curls, dressed as pretty as a doll in blue satin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

She curtsied, the red and blue gems in her belt sparkling in the sun. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

One blue eye appears in the gap between the door and the jamb. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He kissed her hand, then turned aside, nudging Lazlo with his elbow and loud-whispering, “What a perfectly delightful shade of blue,” as he took his leave. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It’s cheerful—yellow and blue and peach and pink calico, with off-white triangles in the middle of each square. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Her lashes, he recalled, were golden red, her eyes pellucid blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a blue sweater over a button-down, and his hair looks soft. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

My closet consists entirely of white T-shirts and blue jeans. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Billy was three years older than me, tall and skinny with a sandy crew cut and blue eyes. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The envelope was a pale blue gray, small and square, and plastered with colorful stamps that took up one-third of its surface. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

Sean turned, his broad shoulders a wall in the blue uniform, the gold name tag glinting. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

What's not blurry is the bright blue coat, and, if I squint hard enough, a row of minuscule double-breasted silver buttons marching down the front. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

When her son damaged his collarbone, the doctor bandaged the injury so tightly that the child’s fingers turned blue. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

The slim, sad girl who wore a crown of pale blue roses and a white gown spattered with gore could only be Lyanna. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

We saw a distant flash of electric blue, which was followed by a slow deep rumble. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

His blue janitor’s coveralls were ripped between the shoulder blades, as if someone had tried to stab him. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The blue cloth Muff had chosen was so pale it looked white. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

We took the fine saddlebags off the horse and filled them with salves and herbs, blue grass for washing my hair, extra sweaters, dried peaches. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She bit open the plastic wrapper of her icey and sucked the cool blue slush out of it. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

As they got closer to the edge of the beach, Amari noticed that the water never stopped moving, sending huge waves of itself against the sand—first blue, then white, then blue again. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

It showed an artist’s colorful rendering of the new ROC, with huge shopping complexes, smiling people in sunglasses toting oversize shopping bags, a Corporation oil rig shining from the blue water in the background. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Soojin describes the heaps of red, white, and blue decorations her mother has been collecting since Independence Day. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

There was a single powder blue suitcase strapped to the back of his bicycle. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The clear blue sky is the perfect setting for the orange, red, and gold pallet of the gods. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She says this baby is the spitting image of our sister who died, with his wavy black hair, his lovely blue eyes, and the gorgeous eyebrows. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

The next room is more like a hallway: it is wide, but not deep, with blue tile, blue walls, and a blue ceiling, all the same shade. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was as blue as the sky, and it went to the edge of the world. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blue vein in her right temple throbbed. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

But when my mother examined him indoors, he opened up blue eyes at her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Now he speeded up as he smelled the fresher scent and his blue dorsal fin cut the water. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Hugo didn’t know why the old man had kept the blue mouse. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

He used to give me the blues in the ring, so bad, but I still liked him. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

With this in mind, the sight of her bare blue toes curling into the river mud struck him with a deep poignancy. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He's got a blue plastic cast on his left arm from his elbow to his knuckles. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because of course that woman wasn’t wearing a blue dress, she was wearing jeans and a red T-shirt. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

On my back, I catch my breath, my chest rising and falling, and see blue sky and clouds shaped like huge pancakes. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

The sea retreats to the horizon, underlining the sky in a dark band of blue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henrietta’s tumor was the invasive type, and like hospitals nationwide, Hopkins treated all invasive cervical carcinomas with radium, a white radioactive metal that glows an eerie blue. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She sat back down on the bed beside him and wiped the shoes on the hem of the blue dress before she wrapped them up again and put them back in the trunk. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

They barely cry, staying awake and alert, with matching pairs of wide blue eyes. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

High up, small chinks of blue sky showed between the leaves. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

No one else will see her blue eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Emmett’s navy blue SUV pulls up, Axel slides into the back seat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

The women watched the bright blue door on the second-story porch, and they imagined unspeakable scenes between the Night Swan and their husbands or sons. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Nat watched her come without a flicker in his blue eyes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

The curtains are patterned with blue and yellow flowers. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

He saw light sparkle from the old glass in the window, and the rug came alive with blues and warm golden tones. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Ms. Udell counted six blue index cards, shuffled them, and passed them out, along with six fresh copies of the practice part. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

There are several chairs onstage with seats and backs also in dark blue cloth. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here I am in the blue room of Hill House, she said half aloud, although it was real enough, and beyond all question a blue room. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

The faded blue eyes, shrewd in spite of their age, sized up Lombard. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The fog had burned off and the sky was blue. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

It wasn’t the red paint that got him, but the blue. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

She looked at the empty blue lines on the page and tried to imagine them full of words. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

Only this crocodile was bright blue and the size of a three-story house. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

She's wearing jeans and a quilted blue jacket, the same shade of blue that covers a third of her truck. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

A pair of faded blue eyes stare at me. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes, she noticed for the first time, were the same shade of blue as the sky. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I used to watch Keav fuss over her school uniform, pressing and repressing her blue pleated skirt and white shirts so they looked as crisp and new as possible. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I want to ignore it—I try to, staring back into the two luminescent blue eyes in front of me. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

She wore blue jeans and a flannel shirt, even though she was old enough to be Cole’s grandmother. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

She saw the lines the sea wind had etched at the corners of his blue eyes. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What a klutz,” Jeff snorted, and returned to his blue sky. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Ollie's voice softens and so do his eyes, quiet and blue. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

They thanked me with their clear blue eyes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has painted my tongue blue so that we can easily count the number of whitish taste buds inside the circle of the reinforcement. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

For the wedding, Mom wore a traditional African dress—long and formfitting, in shades of blue and purple—and Dad wore a classic dress shirt and pants. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

It may, however, simply have been another bout of deep blue melancholia, the kind that had assailed him off and on for years. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

How did you figure that out, blue eyes? Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

The basin and pot and tub were pale blue. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He grabs the blue dog and heads down the hall. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

For one thing, the furnaces were made differently and the flames that flared through the cracks of the fire chambers were too intense and too blue. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tall and thin, with fierce black eyes and a beak of a nose, the priest was garbed in mottled robes of green and grey and blue, the swirling colors of the Drowned God. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

The police, in blue uniforms, are encircling them and thirty-odd additional migrants who have spent the night among the dead. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And she winks one of those strange blue eyes. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

There was one big blue light that made peoples white shirts especially beautiful. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

It is painted one color, so blue it’s almost black. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

“It sounds kind of like a blue hole.” All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I try to cover that with a swipe from the blue bandana. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z

The ballroom burst with color and energy: Japanese in red silk, Bedouins in red and black, Romanians in red, blue, and yellow. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

I will never forget how Assef’s blue eyes glinted with a light not entirely sane and how he grinned, how he grinned, as he pummeled that poor kid unconscious. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Laura began, snapping on the overly bright overhead light, scaring off whatever shy passion Yoyo, with the blue thread of her writing, had just begun coaxing out of a labyrinth of feelings. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

I struggled into my white bathrobe with the blue cornflowers on it and staggered down to the bathroom. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

The sky’s gone blue: azure, the ocean bluer: cerulean, the trees are swirls of every hella freaking green on earth and bright thick eggy yellow is spilling over everything. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

In the late afternoon, it was purplish blue beneath a flaming golden sun. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

His face is red and turning blue, and his little legs are kicking the air. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He had come a long way to this blue lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

I opened my eyes, saw the blue kite spinning wildly like a tire come loose from a speeding car. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Something beyond the grating and out of Taran’s vision swooped down and the blue eyes disappeared suddenly. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

I notice that some of the factionless I pass are marked with patches of blue dye. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Only trees and more trees and plenty of blue sky. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue places are apparently deep holes in the overlying clouds through which we see clear sky. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Under a brilliant blue sky Wethersfield held far more welcome than on that first foggy dawn. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Wearing a long-sleeved white shirt, blue jeans, and brown shoes, she looked— impossibly—even more striking than when he’d seen her in the coma. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

Red silk and blue flesh sang against each other, the colors seeming to vibrate. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Diego was talking to a short girl, perky with pink glasses and a blue stripe in her blond hair. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

Outside the church, I’m adrift in a sea of anacos and gold beads and blue ponchos; only a few other people are dressed like mestizos. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had watched airplanes lift up and fly off into blue sky as we neared the airport. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He ended up buying Ginny a silk scarf that showed the Golden Gate Bridge stretching across a background of blue sky and green ocean. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z

My daddy listened to the blues back in Alabama on an old scratchy record. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

The outside is cream and blue, and looks like a generic building. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

We were standing on the porch of the little blue house that used to be the Spiritualist Church of Glen Meadows when we heard these awful words. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was navy blue with white leather binding, like half a dozen other suitcases that had just been carried off the train. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

The electric engines were so quiet that one could hear avalanches grumble down immense blue slopes on the far side of chasms twenty miles across. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

Then the unbelievable bright loveliness of the English Channel, a shimmering infinite lamé cloth of silver and blue. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

Then, trembling, I change into my favorite blue dress and brush my hair back into a braid. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

She shut the closet door and leaned against it, dressed in skinny jeans and a dolman sleeved indigo blue top that showed her belly button. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

“Everyone please disperse,” shouted a broad-shouldered man in a crisp blue coat and a sleek, freshly powdered wig. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mark burned on her forehead in blinding blue light. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

“Take the breast,” she says, her blue eyes bugging out at me. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

By the twenty-ninth day, Liyana’s papers had proper headings, and her navy blue uniform had lost its bright gleam, its sharp pleat. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

Marlena tears off the gift wrap, revealing a blue velvet box. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Ned studied the shape of his jaw, the eyes like blue ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I look at slides, planaria worms in section with their triangular heads and cross- eyes, bacteria colored with vivid dyes, hot pinks, violent purples, radiant blues. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Those are Cool Papa’s blues people. He meant them for me!” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Then the screen glowed in bright, wide Technicolor, the lion roared, and the title of the excess flashed on the screen before his miraculous blue and yellow eyes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

At first it had been green, but time had turned it blue and very soft. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The only wrong I have done is to take shoes to the children in Colliers whose bare feet are blue from the cruel blasts of winter,” Fannie said. Fannie Never Flinched 2016-11-21T00:00:00Z

V scrambled to the window, where she could just make out the chameleon, tossing his two blue suitcases into the back of his pickup truck. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Papa figured the original owner must have been an important man because behind the rear seat of the car he found a blue necktie. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He had astonishingly blue eyes, like pale sapphires. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

He knew they were shining through the windows of rooms, that they were the red, blue, and yellow lights that twinkled from trees in places where families created and kept memories, where they celebrated love. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

Then he opened the letter and read it again and folded it again and put it in his blue shirt pocket. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

Even the colors were crisp: vivid blue sky, deep green fields, leaves in every sharp shade that nature can bestow. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

The light blue contrasted nicely with my dark brown hair. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Some of his permanent teeth had already come—but they were small and blue like he had been eating blackberries. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Out he went, his blue and ivory feet crushing the wet salad of the lawn. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Posters were up all over the walls, mostly of bands, plus dozens of Polaroids that had been stuck to the wall with bright blue tape. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The blue steps leading to the porch were faded into a watery gray. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the open sea, with the land blue in his eyes and the sea green in his hand, he wept. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

The corners of her smile, turned up in delight, were as neat as the tips of a crescent moon, and her brows were bright against the blue of her skin, as cinnamon as her hair. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I counted the few blue willows in the hills. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

I got Dad his knife with the carved bone handle and the blade of blue German steel, and he gave me a pipe wrench, and we went looking for Demon. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

There were almost as many red ballots as blue, but the sergeant left only ten red ones and made up the difference with blue ones. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wondered why all the dollies were white with blue eyes and none of them looked like me. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It was the first thing she had noticed about him: the piercing blue eyes, and the way he had of seeming to see beyond what was obvious. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

He reaches out, his gloved hand gently touching my face, his blue eyes dark, serious. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

I type in, “Today is Monday. It is cold,” then push a blue button on the machine. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

This one’s painted in darkly pearlescent greens, blues, and blacks. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

He took the tightly folded rectangle from the notepad and set it on the table, and judging by the little bits of cartoony blue and gray, it looked like Batman, but I wasn't sure. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

My cotton trousers cling to my thighs and my laded blue shirt has become embarrassingly transparent. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inés asked, as she turned on the stove and put a black iron skillet over the bright blue flame. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

If only Anya’s eyes were blue like the sea or green like an emerald. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

He wore a blue serge suit and a white necktie stained with orange juice. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z

To the east, the sky showed a lake of clear blue into which the sun would rise. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I leaned out and looked down and saw only the blue crevasse walls disappearing down together into blackness. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He knew why a black eye was blue and why blood was red. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I beat up your brother,” I said out of the blue. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Green, blue, red, black, yellow, purple, orange: The colors seem to glow. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

On my left a blue tick hound lay tom and bleeding. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

With that precaution they tried to postpone the necessity of having to eat macaws, whose blue flesh had a harsh and musky taste. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

The sky was curved, like the inside of a huge glass ball, very dark blue with the sprinkles of bright stars. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Then he put a peaked blue cap on, and Velcroed a patch to the breast pocket of his jacket. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The shock of the moment is registering on his face, you can see his struggle to remain emotionless, but his blue eyes show the alarm I've seen so often in prey. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

They gave her blue pollen and yellow pollen they gave her turquoise beads they gave her prayer sticks. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

It was the scholar who always carries a fan; her breath shook its blue feathers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I picture it spinning back at the Chancellor’s party, green and blue in their pale world. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The motel’s sign looked like a big blue birdhouse. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

It was presumed that we black boys took their nakedness for granted, that it startled us no more than a blue vase or a red rug. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He watched us as we approached, his eyes as blue as the sky. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wore stolen blue cavalry trousers and a three-foot sword, and the clothes he wore he had not taken off for a week. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He’s black and blue with angry red scabs that have a tendency to break open and bleed. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

He was big and broad and growing every day, with his mother's coloring, the fair skin, red-brown hair, and blue eyes of the Hillys of Riverrun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I wore bleached blue jeans, a generic striped green-and-white shirt, and white sneakers. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

As he was doing so, a car screeched to a stop a few feet up the road from the growing crowd, and Moss recognized the blue Toyota. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

And beyond that a mile and a mile, and a million million miles, all in the empty blue. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sun shining down through the fog, burning a hot blue hole in the sky. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The morning of the demonstration the sky dawned pale blue, with easy rolling clouds. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

“Remember when I saw you in the blue camel hotel?” Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

I see the eight of us in the Annex as if we were a patch of blue sky surrounded by menacing black clouds. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

She is dressed in a stomacher of gold and a skirt of blue, a circlet of berries in her loose hair. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He smelled like perfume and his striped blue shirt was very fresh and clean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Across the room, something blue catches my attention. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

He would hail the blue sky and shout out his praise for the grasses and bushes. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The air now drove out of the southeast, broken overhead into blue patches. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Iceman was the same size and shape as a Coke machine, with blue eyes and hair so blond it was almost white. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

One blue eye stared up from a pink shard. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he saw a blue flicker down below, and strained to bring the barrel over to it. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on the beach the white and blue canoes that came from Nayarit were drawn up, canoes preserved for generations by a hard shell-like waterproof plaster whose making was a secret of the fishing people. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then, out of the blue, he asks, “Do I bug you, or what?” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

A piercing blue eye had looked out of the mirror fragment, and then help had come. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

It smells like chlorine, and the water is extra blue so it looks cleaner than it is. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

As I grew, I longed to wear the uniforms I saw the big girls wearing when they arrived each day: shalwar kamiz—a long deep blue tunic and loose white pants—and white headscarf. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The moon was full and so bright that the trees cast long blue shadows along the ground; the unearthly glow glittered like diamond dust on the freshly fallen snow. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z

Slowly the white wings of the boat moved against the blue cool limit of the sky. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

Klaus, meanwhile, had his pajamas removed by the other white-faced woman, and was hurriedly stuffed into a blue sailor suit that itched and made him look like a toddler. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z

I wish you could’ve seen my acres in the spring, all green frizz creeping along the prairie, or in late summer, when the flax turned the fields deep sea blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

When the sky began to turn a deep blue, Timothy roused himself and looked around. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had a hard time warming up to him, with those icy blue eyes and that careful reserve, like he was calculating every word before he said it. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

The captain turns his gaze to the girl with blue hair, waiting for her contribution. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

A wave surges up, dark blue, leaping from the sea like a whale. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

There was the green of the headlands, the white, red-roofed villas, patches of forest, and the ocean very blue with the tide out and the water curling far out along the beach. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

I was asking Dad how many fans it took to make something move from being side- stream to mainstream when Kat reappeared brandishing a plastic bottle of blue liquid. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s the kind of month where you’re grateful for every single glimpse of the sun, or any sign of blue sky above the clouds, because you’re not sure that they’re there anymore. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

And the very young children couldn’t make up their minds whether to watch the man circled in blue on the roof or the bits of red flashing around on the ground. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Taylor’s on the floor, too, in a butterfly yoga pose, and Morgan’s planted stiffly in a plastic blue chair. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

I could live there all alone, she thought, slowing the car to look down the winding garden path to the small blue front door with, perfectly, a white cat on the step. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

Under the touch of his hands, Jonas had found himself suddenly in a place that was completely alien: hot and windswept under a vast blue sky. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z

The compartment in the railway carriage was dimly lit by one blue light overhead. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

When he points, I train my camera on the knotty dead trunks of Japanese maples and the cherry and ginkgo trees—gnarled limbs reaching toward blue sky. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

They claimed that blond hair and blue eyes distinguished the “purest” Aryans. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

We still have the old couch, but there is a new blue sheet covering the cigarette burns. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were bright blue, eyes that in this frustration seemed bolting and nearly mad. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Upon it rested a slender crystal glass filled with a thick blue liquid: shade of the evening, the wine of warlocks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Her thin arms, under the skimpy jumper, were blue with cold. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

“Georgia station is closed,” he said finally, scratching his scalp beneath his blue cap. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

I’m not sure what was going on with me the first time, except I’ve noticed that, sometimes, when we’re zooming along and it’s all blue skies, we can suddenly hit a bump in the road. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Through the louver in the roof, above the thin wisps of issuing smoke, the sky showed pale and blue. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She scrubbed her body, stood with a splash, and dried off with her fuzzy blue towel. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He could see it still: a crown of winter roses, blue as frost. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Four poultice rooms line the wall, holding the promise of healing from red clay, oakwood charcoal, amethyst gem, and blue onyx. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

“For Emily Dickinson. Maybe this blue whale is my letter to the world.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

She took in the gleaming tower of an office building, the blue sky reflected off its sides. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

We then dug up large, round tuber roots called kaumbu and carved them into wheels, using blue gum poles as axles. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z

I try not to look at the way his sunburn makes his eyes so blue. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I hated her clothes—the blue pastel cardigan, the white blouse with the collar that lay flat over the cardigan, the homemade flat, cotton skirt she wore when everybody else was wearing flared skirts. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the dirty lenses, the eyes were a piercing, brilliant blue. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

He’s in swimming trunks, she in a long blue coat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

I make the theater really bright, and then I make a really narrow spotlight, I make everything bright blue, I make it orange. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

It was painted a deep clear blue, and on its flat top was the blue dot of the lead. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

I stare at it long enough to make sense of the shapes on it, the blue stretches of water and the multicolored pieces of land. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Her stiff gray hair caught the lamplight, glinting like stainless steel, and the blue hawk she had inherited from Lord Roke spread his wings briefly on the bracket by the door. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Without the bugs, the background was a nice blue, a respectable shimmering blue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

A spiral of faded blue ink curls up the left side of her neck—a tattoo of some kind. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

One girl had been in such a hurry, the blue ribbon she was meant to wear in her hair was still rolled up in her pocket. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a swirling blue blur, like an underwater scene. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

A little blue donkey piñata does not appear. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

He stilled, and when he’d looked back at her, his blue eyes had been bright with hate. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

The officers, in navy blue uniforms, walk straight up to him. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her outline was a pale blue, so Ophie decided to approach her and see if she knew where to find Clara. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

The air blues with evening as we enter the little ruin. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment Salmakia came in through the back door, landing her dragonfly on the table in a shimmer of electric blue. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

And then they saw her face—suffused with blood, with blue lips and starting eyes. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

Someone had set up their own little camp, using bright blue pool rafts as mattresses. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

He studies the ornate balconies like a burglar, gazes through the blue panes of stained glass until he spots her with the Spaniard, naked and sharing a cigarette. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Following the fixed line, I meandered through a vertical maze of crystalline blue stalagmites. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I wait a long time till the girl in the blue dress comes in for the tray. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

I pulled off a couple blue willow twirls and gave them to Duuzuu. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

One ear is pierced all the way to the top, and she has a tiny blue nose stud she got last summer. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

Along the wall behind the lanes, I catch sight of exercise equipment and the rectangles of turquoise blue from individual lap pools. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Would she miss the rolling blue hills of Virginias Piedmont, or fall in love with the great expanse of the Chesapeake Bay and the many rivers, inlets, and wetlands that embroidered the Virginia coast? Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

“Look,” Betonie said, pointing east to Mount Taylor towering dark blue with the last twilight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

That, I could have protested until I was blue in the face. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I was in a zone, concert mode, even if I was only in the front seat of my mother’s blue Honda Civic. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

And his left cheek was a kind of zombie blue. Orbiting Jupiter 2015-10-06T00:00:00Z

Underneath the heavy black lines I could see neat blue handwriting. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

The ceiling, which was twice as high as the ceiling in our house, was painted blue like the sky, and there were clouds and angels. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

The salt wood burned orange and blue in the fire’s heart and he sat watching it a long time. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

Soon the stark battlements of Elsinore rose against the blue sky. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

His blue overalls seemed to be steaming in the heat. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

He carried a long horn of bright metal from which dangled a flag of blue and gold. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

Genie was thinking he could maybe hide under that blue sheet, and he could tel! that Ernie probably wanted to do the same. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

One day a nurse with wavy yellow hair and blue eye makeup was chewing on something. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Hepatica then, still another color maybe besides white and pink and blue and lavender? Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

His brilliant blue eyes were as dark as the sea, and carried its same loneliness. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

To the left is the small bathroom; with the light shining on it, we can see that the tub and tiles are all powder blue. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

His knights pulled him out before he drowned, but not before his lips turned blue and his skin as pale as milk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And I have on this blue macrame belt that, when I tied it around my waist, had ends hanging almost to the floor. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The beams bounce off his fingernails, five hard blue shields. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I thought about it, and I had the revelation that if I was testing out a blue pen, I’d probably write the word “blue.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Trying," Kenzi followed, holding the blue ball up, as if she could look into it and see the day's behavior. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z

The sky was blue overhead now, and the sunlight was bright. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I see you laughing and joking on the stairs of your own house with some pretty girl in a blue dress, her holding your arm like she owned it. I saw you, Wash Fuller.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

A man approached her, in a uniform like a policeman’s, but tan not blue, and without the badge. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“This is probably hollow. It must have contained whatever that blue stuff in your arm is. What happened after you were shot?” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

The morning sky was clear blue, the grass damp and dew streaked. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

The tobacco ignited and glowed, and the lover’s head was enveloped in clouds of blue smoke. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the corner of my eye, I could only see a hint of him—eyes as incandescently blue as the heart of fire, a briar of dark hair dewed with lagoon water. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ivy used to have a dress just like this one, except it was a smoky blue color, like a thundercloud about to burst open. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

He pushes his way to a window, sticks out his arm, waves, shouts good-bye, his blue eyes bright with danger. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was back in the days when nearly every boat on the Bay was under sail, before hard blue crabs brought in much money. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then with a slight rasp of his canvas skin, he turns his head to me, and his blue button eyes rotate slightly, like binoculars seeking focus. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The sheriff, satisfied, squints at the blue sky. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He saw bright pearls rise from the depths, bubbles swimming on the mirror, sky blue reflected in them. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dunno, miss. But Matt, he said it. He be saying they got blue yonder, and he be getting you some.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She selected a jade one in the shape of a viper, paid for it, and handed the blue velvet box to Jule. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

She held up the small blue bottle of Mouse-Maker and she said, "Now for a little medicine! Hold his nose to make him open his mouth!" The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Arthur looks around the train, and his tired, hurt blue eyes look up at me. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

On the front was a picture of a beautiful blue lake surrounded by tall evergreens. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

They were all colors of blue—powdery sky blue, dark night blue, shimmering with almost black iridescent light, and mountain blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Right across the street was a blond lady in a blue shirt, standing by the window, stirring something in a bowl in her kitchen. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The wooden floor, the light blue walls, the peaked ceiling, the yellowed lace curtains around the window — these were all a part of my childhood. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

There was a bursting, tearing movement of people around me, dark figures in a blue glow. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her lips, faintly moist in the hazy blue light, were parted and he saw the furtive glints of her white teeth. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She pulls out a bolt of blue chambray. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The blue veins on his neck stood out, and his pointing finger almost touched her nose. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

The one wearing green is using a computer, and the one in blue is talking on the phone. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She sees it all—the red scratch on the underside of Kat’s wrist as Kat hands her the Meg Gillian book, the brown and blue shine of the cover. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

Hurriedly, he flicked his cigarette into a spittoon and, with twin eddies of blue smoke jutting from his black nostrils, shouted hoarsely, “Jack, I betcha two bits you can’t make it!” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I don't know that I've ever seen such a clear sky, blue and piercing, sharp in a way I didn't know the sky could be. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

On The Today Show, a host discussed the rumors about the president and a stained blue dress; even more salacious stories circulated about a cigar and where it might have been placed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Another is painted in red, white, and blue stripes with La Casita written across the side, and a third has Kebab Express in green block letters. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

With his blue eyes only inches from hers, he shouted, “WHAT DO YOU KNOW?” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

Guarino snaps on the switch that sets the huge machine humming, red and blue lights blinking on and off. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a crisp, blue day that made me feel as I walked across the quadrangle that out near Rass the crabs were beginning to move. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her blue eyes seemed to grow larger, brighter; and suddenly two tears rolled down her cheeks. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The senora is up already, wearing her blue checked apron. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The image in the mirror was Jack, but ten times worse—dark blue and seemingly made out of cracked ice. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

In other parts of the hospital chalky people with aged, blue lips were dying on time. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Blue Moon Biver Standing outside leaning against a light blue convertible car is The Mac. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

She has a short blue bob haircut and wears a black blazer with jeans, but her eyes are what startle me. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

He wore the Continental uniform of buff and blue. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Thick black smoke climbed furiously into the cloudless blue sky, hot and windless. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Everybody did, we all looked up at the blue sky that didn’t have cloud the first in it. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It was a blue piece of paper, which I guess made it all-fired important. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The dead man rose to his feet, blue eyes shining in that gashed and swollen face. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Both felt better by the time they had a blue one and closed the notebook. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Dumbledore’s blue eyes swept over the students before he smiled once more. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

The color in Our Lady of the Fighter Pilots’ shawl was pale blue that changed hues in the flickering of the beeswax candles. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opens his closet and pulls out a dark blue blazer. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Almost like a mental hiccup, as they watch my brother gulp the quenching blue liquid. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Oh, the deep blue eyes framed by thick lashes that stared straight into a little girl’s heart and the perfect miniature hands extended, appealingly asking, “Please, won’t you be my mama?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“She. The old woman who makened the colors. She said there be blue yonder.” Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a perfect blue, but everywhere else you looked, snow had covered rooftops, parked cars, and driveways. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z

He was wearing a black tie and his old blue seaman’s suit. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

It’s big with pale-yellow walls that have really pretty watercolor paintings and a comfy blue sofa. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

The lamassus didn't need to be told twice, and as we got closer to the cloud, their bodies began to glow with a soft blue aura. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

As for Neeley, his round blue eyes rolled back and forth following the little swinging rod until he hypnotized himself into unconsciousness. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her blue coat was spread out, and it covered them both like wide wings, covered even the chair my brother was sitting in. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

It’s Mrs. Murphy, holding a navy blue velvet dress on a hanger. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

The light in the tent is twilight blue. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

I pulled the blue flyer out of my pocket and opened my suitcase back up. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

His eyes were blue pollen his mouth was blue pollen his neck was too There were pinches of blue pollen at his joints. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

She still had her other clothes on, jeans and a blue sweatshirt — her hair was short, she’d defied fashion as usual — so I recognized her at once. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face reddens, And a blue vein Deepens on his neck — Four, five, six . Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Did you know that when you were born you had a blue spot right above your little butt? A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

The boy's face was blue and the dirk nowhere to be seen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the lights were turned off, and the blues dancing started, she wanted to be in his arms in a dark corner, but he said, “Let’s go outside and talk.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma’s earrings of the day were blue, yellow, and black-and-white feathers hanging down from gold studs. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

She handed me a blue book with gilt-edged pages. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

The women liked a long blue gown for me, and it was stunning, but it seemed like a typical choice for such an event—too traditional, too safe. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

They were blue, and in the wrong places. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

The VIP booth is lined with red and blue lightbulbs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

It isn’t hard to figure out what he’s going to wear, because his entire wardrobe is blue jeans and different variations of the same button-down shirt. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

The Owner stopped his toe-tapping just long enough to nudge a powder blue suitcase farther under the countertop. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

My teeth are chattering in my head, the tips of my fingers are white with a tinge of blue. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I pumped milk from my breasts so that I wouldn’t leak and put on my best dress, light blue with a cummerbund and a V cut. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

“The blue tarp is gone. You fixed the hole.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

They kept Liam in the bedroom at the other end of the hall, in a room painted a soft blue. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

She wears a tailored blue suit with a white ruffled blouse and low heels and a pretty pin at her neck. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Am I right? You seen some of those Mohawks. Eyes bluer than the sky, eh?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

The streets glistened with fresh snow and the sky was a blameless blue. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

There is a group of blue balloons, huddled together like nervous middle schoolers. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

“Are your eyes blue like hers? Is your hair blond like hers? Is your skin white like hers?” One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the holiday season neared, my dad seemed finally to shake his blues. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

In addition to the brick-colored final coat there were others: dabs of green to control redness, pinks to add blush, blues above the eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

There are more Dauntless in the room, Dauntless without blue armbands—loyal Dauntless. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

As she spoke, she didn’t look at us but out the window at the bright blue day. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

One of them is wearing a fully inflated blue balloon. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

From what she had seen, the small gringo city was a pretty one, even if it had no blue ocean bay like Ensenada. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

In the distance, under the artificial sunlight of Elysium, the Isles of the Blest glittered like emeralds in a sparkling blue lake. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Now I want to hear more about Jamie. Were his eyes as blue as you remembered?” Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

When she looks up at him, his soft blue eyes are bright in the afternoon sunlight that shines through the windows, illuminating the speckles of sawdust in the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

My swollen cheek aches—it’s probably ten different shades of blue and purple right now. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

She recognized him by his bright blue eyes, his air of command, and the black gun he held in one hand. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Again the judge studied the doorman's battered face: the scars; the bashed-in nose; the hard, blue eyes under those taped spectacles. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m just watching the hazy blue and listening to traffic that seems very far away. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Will saw its eyes; blue, deeper and bluer than any human eyes, a blue that burned like ice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

They were probably brown, but people with dark hair sometimes had blue eyes. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Above them a city of white stone towers — so tall she could not see their rooftops — rose to the blue sky. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The silent Crow helped Angela with her coat and nodded approval of her blue velvet dress with white collar and cuffs. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Union army had never caught him in action—he was a river ghost to the boys in blue uniforms. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

In a different corner was another stack of clothes—silks of bright red and blue and purple and green. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a hand-embroidered blue dress, her brown hair in a big pompadour, and had on a little blue hat with white bird wings—the same hat Aunt Loma tried to buy that time. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

When Central Park looks like nothing but a landing pad and there’s so much blue between my body and the ground. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z

Propped on the table I found a long, businesslike letter from the summer school and a thin blue letter on leftover Yale stationery, addressed to me in Buddy Willard's lucid hand. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Some of the purples blushed faintly pink, others were tinted pale blue, but there was no other color. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

An eight-pointed star was tattooed upon her brow in a shade of blue that matched her gown, its sharp lines extending to her hairline. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And anyhow, I’d be with Samira, who I knew scared them whenever she glared through her blue glasses and flipped her long braids like a whip. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

And Con could not remember if he had ever seen a sky so blue: robin’s egg blue, smooth as glossy porcelain, untouched by clouds. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I squeezed past a group of women examining the eggplants and made my way up to the blue crates filled with tomatoes, jalapenos, and radishes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

A dragonfly, a brilliant blue jewel, darted up and paused over the lily pads, then swung up and away. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slathered a blue sky on the top of the canvas, leaving gobs of paint as he worked. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing another one of his loose-fitting tunics, this one navy blue, with black bottoms. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

But on that winter morning in Room 5, it had come at me straight out of the blue. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Windows overlooked the trees outside and the deep blue mountains beyond. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

It was a little girl and she had on a real pretty blue dress and big, yellow wings and something tied around her head. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue one-piece is good for swimming but not pretty. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was murder and intrigue and Ferris wheels in the desert, and a house full of swans, a sapphire blue river, and a chest full of gold doubloons—we’ll get to all that. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

Julia touches red again, then blue, and there, suddenly, is the purple of a ripe grape. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z

“There’s a blue one over on Elizabeth,” Ira said. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man was dressed in a bright blue Windbreaker and was fidgeting with the sweat-stained Toronto Blue Jays baseball cap he held in his hands. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

And when I get one eye at the edge of the bricks to see if I’m being followed, I catch a flash of a policeman’s dark blue hat with the gold around its brim. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

The landing capsule was still in the planning stages, but there was a lot of backdrop to be painted: midnight blue with silver stars and Earth glowing in the distance. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z

“The blue one. Momma had to throw it away. Khalil’s blood...” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Reynie had sat beneath the blue helmet, just in case it might work. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He held a blue ribbon in one hand and a Geiger counter in the other. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

She found Thalia’s eyes distracting: electric blue, intense and alert, so much like Jason’s. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

He had this look on his face, the same disappointed look he had when I told him about how Fatty Bolger had replaced my bicycle’s seat with blue truck nuts. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

There is blood on my dress, little dots of it sinking into the blue sky. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

At exasperatingly frequent intervals, the path was broken by steep, thickly bouldered streams, frozen solid and ribbed with blue ice, which could only be negotiated in a crablike crouch. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z

He stood before her in his dark blue double-breasted suit, fresh white shirt with the soft turned-down collar and a polka-dot bow tie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue giant propped his white flag against a tree and began absently playing on the playground. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

He's got a blue swordfish tattooed on one shoulder. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

She sniffed them and blew on them before she matched the plants with the stones, putting a sprig of blue-gray mountain sage with the blue stone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

He had great big freckled hands and fiery red hair and twinkly blue eyes. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

A powerfully built welterweight with a Marine Corps emblem tattooed in blue on one massive bronze forearm jumped lightly to his feet. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

As he spoke, Bast’s eyes grew paler, until they were the pure blue of a clear noontime sky. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The water has gone deep black and the sky has gone ink blue. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Walton’s blue car speeds away, past the church, past the garbage, and off to her own little land of sunshine. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

His face is painted with blue woad, and his body is dark with the geometric tattoos unique to his people. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Dead silence was around him, and over all hung a clear blue sky, as the Sun rode up from the East. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Magdalena hands Jesus her blue bag of bread. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

Her hair was down, and she pulled the blue robe tight around her. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

The warm, dark air of the spring morning swirled the blue layers of smoke in the room. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“I think she just mixed up what you said. She’s always doing that. T. Ray will tell her, ‘Iron my two shirts,’ and she’ll iron the blue shirts.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes followed the leather tree trunks up and the leather turnt to blue jeans, then the blue jeans turnt into a calico shirt stretched ’crost the wide back of a giant man. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

They could force a confession out of her in no time, the guilt was right there staring out of those big blue eyes. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

He stopped the ball mill, washed out the color gun and filled it with blue mass. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Smoke was seeping through the branches in white and yellow wisps, the patch of blue sky overhead turned to the color of a storm cloud, and then the smoke billowed round him. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

It shows the Golden Gate Bridge, stretched over the bright blue water. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

“I had an idea that you’d feel blue—your last night on the job—so I came to take you home. Surprised?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

As soon as we turned into the entrance, 165 Wayne spotted the blue tents along Joeys street. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Augustus wore a black suit, narrow lapels, perfectly tailored, over a light blue dress shirt and a thin black tie. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

I stared out the window into deep blue water. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

The maid leads him into a grand drawing room, its ceilings aswirl with plaster flourishes, its walls painted a delicate eggshell blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Two blue jays in the sycamore tree called loudly. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has black curly hair and blue eyes like Mam and she waves her little hands and chirps like any little bird in the trees along Classon Avenue. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

At first only Dicey was looking back at her, into pale blue eyes that blinked behind plastic-framed glasses sitting high up on her nose. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a powder blue dress and had a wrap of white fur. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

They decided to save the blue M&M’s in Calder’s box and keep it under his bed. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

Tipping his head toward them, the hat’s brim slashed a shadow across his face, dividing it diagonally, leaving a single crystal blue eye, half a nose, and a split grin visible. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

August said, “You know what? You think too much. It would do you a world of good to stop thinking and just go with your feelings once in a blue moon.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The mole by Abuela’s mouth is also blue, a vanishing blue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun crossed the cold blue sky and then moved down to the southwest, gilding the clouds and tinting the vapor around the mountain every shade of cream and scarlet, of apricot and orange. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Oliver made a face as he shrugged on his puffy blue jacket and laced up his gym sneakers, shoes his sisters described as “disgusting” and “foul.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

"I'm grateful, my prince," he said, but Bran saw pity in his pale blue eyes, mingled perhaps with a little gladness that the cripple was, after all, not his son. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They both had curling, brown hair that grew low upon their foreheads, ruddy faces, and bright blue eyes. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A dark blue number nine in the corner. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

We aren’t going to the river though, we won’t see the little cupolas on the buildings down that way, white with blue and gold trim, such chaste gaiety. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

The hard, blue sky had blanched and in the east there was a white moon. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Great blue clouds of smoke billowed from the exhaust. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

He shaded sleep-filled eyes, gazed out across the Southern lines to the blue hills to the east. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then I glanced up and saw a pair of kites, red with long blue tails, soaring in the sky. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

He could see the blue sky and the gutters roll by up above. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

We were breaking the front door when Mom appeared next to me, in her big blue parka. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

I was well repaid by the love and adoration I saw in the wide blue eyes of my three little sisters. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above her, the sky was an empty unnerving blue. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

Montez in a blue army uniform, trudging along toward battle with an old rifled musket, shoulders slumped. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

With his tousled blond hair and blue eyes, he might’ve been Jason’s brother on the mortal side as well as the godly side. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

The rubakha was simple linen, dyed blue, with a black belt around his waist. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Above the desk, on a calendar, a smiling blond girl, in a baton twirler’s shiny blue suit with white boots to her knees, had her arms flung around the neck of a palomino horse. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the blue twilight, he reaches out and touches my hair, then takes me in his arms and lightly presses his lips to mine. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind lifted a layer of icy flakes revealing the dead blue face of a woman, probably in her twenties. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

He takes off his thick-rimmed glasses, fitted by a Calcutta optometrist, polishes the lenses with the cotton handkerchief he always keeps in his pocket, A for Ashoke embroidered by his mother in light blue thread. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He could remember her blue velvet rocker, the cracks on her knuckles, her gentle cheeks the color of dark chocolate. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z

The center of their attention was a scythe in royal blue whose robe contained what appeared to be diamonds. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Dressed in blue and gray suits, they climb out, waving American flags, to thunderous applause. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was a vision in a white starched blouse and navy blue skirt. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The world burst into brilliance as the sun’s rim appeared, and then they were flying through blue sky and clear air, fresh and sweet and moist. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I waited near the fence gate for it to leave again and jumped in the back, squeezing in between two piles of wooden crates under a blue tarp. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

She reminded herself naggingly that she was in Hill House, but even the blue room meant only, right now, the bed with the blue coverlet and the blue quilt. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z

These golden surfaces were encrusted with countless jewels—blue, purple, and red—which, in the flickering candlelight, seemed to pulse with a life their own. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

We found her blue and shivering with cold. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

Lillian said, her fine blue eyes set in a kind of stare. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was there on the last Wednesday afternoon of May, a cool and blue day, when Mrs. Sidman came in with an envelope and handed it to Mrs. Baker. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Those who cared about such things tended to express their allegiance by wearing either Tar Heel powder blue, or Wolf Pack red, two colors that managed to look good on no one. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z

There were little boys dressed in white shirts and blue ties, and high school girls wearing lovely red velvet dresses with white shoes. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Funny how that blue was always there, even when the rest of the earth was screaming and breaking into pieces. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

At about four that afternoon, after weeks of blue skies, dark clouds rolled over the desert. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was fine linen dyed a deep, royal blue, too nice for traveling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a green and blue striped button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up, and black jeans. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

As we descend, blue and green and purple and red lights dance over the walls, shifting between colors with each second. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

Night had recently fallen, and the sky remained a deep blue, staining the snow piled upon the panes of the windows. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, in the distance beyond the shanties, past a long mound of rubbish, we could glimpse the sparkling blue ocean. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z

The water below is a deep, rippling blue; the sky above is pale and pretty and cloudless. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Rigel was a blue star, smaller than Betelgeuse, Dad said, but even brighter. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Navy blue, printed with hundreds of tiny hot dogs. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

He came out of Liverpool Street tube station just after four-fifteen that afternoon, still wearing his school clothes: dark blue jacket, gray trousers, striped tie. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The sky overhead with grey and lilac and blue and white. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

We could see them wheeling black against the blue sky and dropping lower and lower with each circling. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because Skid and Aaron always tell me it’s too girly. I just like blue and yellow together.” From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The play is at the Eaton’s Auditorium; the stage has blue curtains with black velvet horizontal stripes on them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I’m still wearing the black sweater and old blue jeans and sneakers and gloves, and suddenly my feet hurt, and somehow I’ve made it all the way to Centerville, which is the next town over. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Beyond the arc of the harbor, a flotilla of Red Navy ships patrolled the shore—a sash of crimson in the deep blue sea. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

He repeated the steps of his plan, his eyes on the window left ajar, as the sheer blue curtains swayed. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

And I realize this guy isn’t wearing the ugly blue and yellow shirt that the clerks here always wear. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

This compression also makes much of the ice blue. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

It was known, furthermore, that he had voted blue at his father-in-law’s direction. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

One was older, with a blue headscarf so faded it was practically gray. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

Zeus, the Lord of the Gods, wore a dark blue pinstriped suit. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Ma curses under her breath and fishes inside her purse for several seconds before pulling out a small blue book. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

His hair was like two black ropes, and round his arm was a lovely silver bracelet with blue stones in it. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside were long rows of blue teleportation booths. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

He had colored one pink and one blue. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw that the muddy fingerprints stopped before they reached the blue. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

In a blues song, somebody’s sad about something. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

On the way to the river are the old dormitories, used for something else now, with their fairy-tale turrets, painted white and gold and blue. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

“First off, they don’t like red. They like yellow and purple—and blue the best.” Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Archie turned away from Brother Jacques and watched the ambulance making its careful progress out of the athletic field, the rotating blue light casting emergency flashings all over the place. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In women, the labia turn blue, livid, and protrusive, and there may be massive vaginal bleeding. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“We don’t play the blues,” Train Ear said. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

There was a big photograph on the front of a very good-looking wizard with wavy blond hair and bright blue eyes. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

The top edges of the lenses cut his eyes in half, and they look like blue suns on a warped horizon. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

I saw the sun blaze upon the new blue overalls as the man appeared around the cabin. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The gel’s only an inch deep, and I can see baby blue rooftops peeking out across the next intersection. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

I traced a blue hand, a woman combing her hair, a cat stretching. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

She walks over to her desk and opens a blue folder. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

They also had one pair of blue jeans that they switched off on; some days Rufus wore them and some days Cody rolled the legs up and put them on. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Plymouth looked like an angular blue animal in a zoo asking to be fed. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Sacramento, the blue Easter morning seemed always to rhyme with the gospel account of the three Marys wending their way through a garden to discover an empty tomb. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Looked up at Teresa and her enormous blue eyes, heavy with sadness—just as much for him as for Chuck, he was sure of it. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

More than anything, it was the blue dolphins that took me back home. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

He set out a pair of dark blue jeans and a black V-neck on his desk, hoping the simple colors would be nice enough to make it seem like he tried. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

An officer stood in front of them, a slender man with a blue cap that somehow looked both rakish- and sloppy on his head. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

Golden curls fall over his eyes, and the collar of his pale blue doublet is open, showing a heavy silver torque at his throat. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“We Martians are telepathic,” said the cold blue mask. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

About fifteen miles away, heading out of Logan, in the opposite direction, was a blue 1999 Saturn sedan. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

“Lord, I never seen blue hair on a black woman before or since. Leroy say you look like a cracker from outer space.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

"I used to pretend I was a Cub Scout. I always wanted to be a Cub Scout. I'd see them at the park in their blue uniforms." Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

When I hear laughter, I look up to see Susan Chang—the only other half-Asian girl in our school—clutching a blue and gold ribbon like she’s afraid she might lose it. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The dress of the young man who now stepped out on to the terrace was Indian; but his plaited hair was straw-coloured, his eyes a pale blue, and his skin a white skin, bronzed. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

And Mother was wearing a pair of shorts made out of denim and a light blue bikini top and she was smoking cigarettes called Consulate which were mint flavor. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was precisely the way a clever violinist would have used his bow; and the music came pouring out and filled the whole blue sky around them with magic melodies. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Before I have a chance to reply, Elizabeth, still in her bright red, white, and blue outfit, walks up with an older boy who is a taller, skinnier version of her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

But it was a bright blue, cloudless day. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

When he asks what color I want, I tell him blue like the sky. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

It was as vast and blue as the oceans on the movie screens of my childhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The moonlight was white on the roof next door and the sky was a gentle summer blue. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

A red pile, a blue, brown, white, yellow. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

The lid to the manhole was now completely removed, making the half-moon above him a round disk of blue afternoon sky. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

The starlit heaven reminded me of a large blue umbrella, outspread and with the handle broken off. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even if my eyes are bluer than Joanna’s and bluer than Michelena’s and bluer than that lady’s you saw, suppose there is somebody way off somewhere with bluer eyes than mine? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come now, my dear,” she said, patting my hand, “try and make the effort. Put on this charming blue. Think of Maxim. You must come down for his sake.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Since they were going to be the last blue emitters made for some time, the price was high, and my share was slightly over a talent and a half. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

The blue and green houses were brown then, and filled to overflowing with new arrivals. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Anyway thats the dream and I got a headake and a big lump on my head and black and blue marks all over. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

This time the blue tick hound heard the noise. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every day, that old man would tell him, “Take Gladiola out and run her to the blue marker.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Actually a quartet of them, although the other three stood back, allowing the one in the royal blue to be the point man. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

The Argo II sailed down the Adriatic, a beautiful glittering expanse of blue; but Hazel couldn’t appreciate it, thanks to the constant rolling of the ship. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Mom answered the door at 8:05 to Mr. Bridges, a short round man in a blue suit, and Coach Warner, who was wearing a Lake Windsor High pullover. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

I mix the chicken up with a little mayo and my secret weapon—blue cheese dressing. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The baby was pink and wrinkly but absolutely beautiful, with big blue eyes, soft wisps of blond hair, and the tiniest fingernails I had ever seen. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

He makes adjustments to the flood of Prussian blue paper himself, responding to her arrangements, surrounding replicas of ancient Egyptian temples with columns of curving bookshelves. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

They stood about eight feet tall, for one thing, and wore only blue jeans, probably because their enormous chests were already shag-carpeted with thick brown fur. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

They are in the second row, white blouses starched, blue skirts almost purple from ironing. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun was shining brightly out of a soft blue sky and the day was calm. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

He almost reached for his blues harp but let it stay in his pocket. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It gushed out a billow of blue flame, then another, then turned and rolled in the fire, wriggling and crushing it into the dirt. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes and saw a fishing village, the blue sea beyond, a swath of rolling green hills, and a cloudless sky. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

“No. Wait,” announced Father as he pulled a small blue book from his back pocket to give Shirley. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was lying at the bottom of a deep dark pit upon a pallet of warm wet straw and at the top of the pit he could see the cold blue of the distant sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

To the place where whirling darkness started its journey along the edges of the rocks along the places of the gentle wind along the edges of blue clouds along the edges of clear water. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

The sky curves overhead, like the interior of a great blue bowl. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

I stroked his smooth head as I leaned back to stare at the blue sky, still smiling, while trying to catch my breath. Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z

Then he remembered the same eyes under a blue cap in the precinct on the day of the cashew-nut incident. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Esme opened her eyes to see the lead scythe—the one in blue—standing over her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Yet when she is asked about migrants, she stops knitting a blue shawl and stiffens; her demeanor turns cold. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The Greeks had an old saying, too: “Red beard and blue eyes portend the Devil.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Walking in sandals on the edge of the blue Aegean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And in an instant the slave appeared leading by the hand a square, rather tall figure, clothed in clean blue cotton coat and trousers. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

The aroma of food is appealing again, but Lourdes is afraid of its temptations, of straying too far from the blue liquid, from the pitchers of cleansing ice water. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He tilts his chin down, his blue eyes locking onto mine with urgency. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

I hear his voice, see his blue eye and brown eye, and suddenly I think of something. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And yet there was the pressure of that great blue army behind him, building like water behind a cracking dam. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then she’d dressed me in the most ridiculous dress — deep blue, frilly and off the shoulders, with French tags I couldn’t read — a dress more suitable for a runway than Forks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

When she was sure of the blue line of flame, she finished her sewing and started in on the last preparations for dinner. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

The background was sky blue, like her shirt. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In his blue overalls that hung limp over his skinny little body he was like a blue-and-yellow rag doll. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Armistead came up to the stone wall, and the blue boys were falling back. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

But instead his walls were this pale blue, and his bedspread was white-and-yellow striped. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

The girl looked about sixteen, with choppy black hair and startling blue eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

“Yeah,” I say, while Bob finds his blue Sharpie. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Thick around a tall trellis, a vine that had been simply green when he arrived the day before was now profuse with opened blue and white morning glories. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z

A moment later, Samar’s mother stepped out of the blue house, her keys jangling, a briefcase over her shoulder. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

No matter where you go in this big blue world, I’ll find you.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

At this, Constance’s pudgy, rosy cheeks grew redder still, so that her wispy blond hair seemed almost white in contrast, and her pale blue eyes shone bright as stars. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Over against the building, a large blue pipe ran up on an angle from the ground. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

We’re inside a plane with an open door, and a three-dimensional man is giving me the thumbs-up to jump into the open blue sky. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Traced the turned-up nose, poked the glassy blue eyeballs, twisted the yellow hair. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s an outbreak of forest tent caterpillars, the biggest in years: this is what fills him with glee, makes his eyes of a gnome shine in his head like blue- gray buttons. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The woman in black with blue hair is talking into the phone, a pink frosting line under her nose. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Then, suddenly, the wind fell and the sky turned bright blue. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

By noon, the sun was high in the blue sky. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z

When the police knocked on the door of the blue house, Samar’s parents opened it and answered questions. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The jacket of his blue serge suit was open, revealing a heavy gold chain linked between his vest pockets as he moved toward me with a noiseless tread. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

She looked at Dill for a second with huge, blue eyes filling with tears. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

Farther up on the green stood a tall brown Victorian house, quiet in the sunlight, all covered with scrolls and rococo, its windows made of blue and pink and yellow and green colored glass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her whole dress is pale blue tulle, light as air, with straps crossed neatly between her shoulder blades. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z

The dress was simple, light blue with plain lines, like nothing she had worn before. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The longer I stared at the eye, the more I thought it was really blue. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

When she died, it came completely out of the blue, and none of us understood what it meant until it was too late. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

We could grow flowers in the garden and talk to songbirds and walk on the beach under perfect blue skies. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

Across the circle is a blue door that doesn’t belong there. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Above it floated a human heart, swollen and blue with corruption, yet still alive. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

When she finally did sleep, her dreams were filled with archaic words and long-forgotten faces, with Wyrdmarks that glowed blue, with the king, and with a dead army summoned from the realms of Hell. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

As I gazed numbly at the sky, it seemed to have turned a preterpaturally pale shade of blue, bleached of all but the faintest remnant of color. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

I start at the end of the line and choose a brassiere and matching underpants, blue gray with a little lace along the edge. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

And there had even been one of those old powder blue suitcases, a St. Anthony’s, which ought to make the old man happy. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

Under the blue bandanna he wore around his throat, the skin was still milky and tender. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“So blue,” I reply before breaking into a laugh. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Through the holes in her hand, the blood in her veins was blue. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Henry’s pulling him and kissing him, sandy hair on a pink bedspread, long lashes and long legs and blue eyes, elegant hands pinning his wrists to the mattress. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

The aircraft’s final pass pulled all the litter of their lunch out into the field, brown crusts and brown paper fluttering in the blue smoke like the devil’s confetti. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

I therefore did my damnedest to ignore my histrionic imagination and grimly followed Rob into the eerie blue labyrinth. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z

And now, out of the blue, she invited me to go and visit her in Kenya, where her parents had just bought a farm. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

A blue button-sized bruise was visible on the other arm, where the boy had yanked out the intravenous tube before fleeing the hospital. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her blue eyes held mine for a second. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

But my eyes are cornflower blue, like Mother’s. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Instead, it floated right on top of the water, surrounded on all sides by clear blue sea. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

"This is the prettiest blue," Mabel says, admiring the Persian rug between our beds, worn enough to show its age but still soft underfoot. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

I looked up at the thin swirls of clouds high in the blue Arizona sky. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

Many soldiers quit the war right then and there, convinced that this endless wave of blue is unbeatable. Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever 2012-08-01T00:00:00Z

"Hie crows came in the blue dusk, with the evening stars. " A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To Harry’s intense embarrassment, he suddenly realized that Dumbledore’s bright blue eyes looked rather watery, and stared hastily at his own knees. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

I realized he had a long, light tan sweater on, with a white collar showing underneath, and blue jeans. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Her mom’s in a pink Minnie Mouse number and her dad’s is plain navy blue. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Going over to my dogs, I glanced to where the blue hound was. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The wind blew at her and, like an image on cold water, she rippled, silk standing out from her frail body in tatters of blue rain. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cat’s free paws were stiffened, ready to grab anything to restore balance, its mouth wide, its eyes blue streaks of horror. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sees her in her baby blue shirt and big hat. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

All faction clothing is represented in the group before me: black Candor pants paired with black Dauntless shirts, yellow dresses with blue sweatshirts over them. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

And yet, even as he thought of all these things, he noticed somehow that the sky was a lovely shade of blue and that one cloud had the shape of a sailing ship. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z

In my last letter I casually asked if the young lady in the blue outfit in the foreground of your religious picture was Mary Magdalene, the sinner. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Just sat there, watching me, one hand drumming the upholstery, the other twirling turquoise blue prayer beads. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

The one picture I had seen of her as a young woman showed her in a shimmering blue dress, her dark hair framing her face, a fragile grace holding her in the studio photographer’s chair. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Perilee had said it would look like the ocean, all bloomed out in blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Her hair was cut, and she was wearing the blue cap. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

She drew a few thoughtful puffs, sending up wreaths of blue smoke, then began. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

Tufts of sea oats waved gently in the breeze, and the blue sky was smeared with white clouds to match our outfits. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z

The eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg are blue and gigantic--their retinas are one yard high. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

“Great turnout,” he says, stroking his blue tie. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

She gave the green pencil and one can label to Poppy, and she herself took the blue pencil and smoothed out the other can label on the table. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

We raced out of town in the spitting dark, vague blue outlines of cottages giving way to sloping fields, then charged up the ridge, sheets of water streaming over our feet, making the path treacherous. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

His eyes looked so sincere and so blue that I just had to go along with it. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

And to the east of us, behind the river, a rising rumple of dark green hills folded on each other like a great old tablecloth, receding to pale hazy blue. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every petal of blue lupin is edged with white, so that a field of lupins is more blue than you can imagine. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

In his room, Ben packed his gym shoes and trunks into a blue zippered bag that had the Marine Corps seal stamped in white on the outside. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had no idea how old it was, I never did, with babies—for all I knew it could talk a blue streak and had twenty teeth behind its pursed, pink lips. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

For a moment she thought he meant time for the next toast, and then she realized he meant time to steal the afikoman, the matzoh wrapped in the blue embroidered cloth. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gnarled lumps of red arteries and blue veins gave Percy some footholds when he had to climb, but the going was slow. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

In one corner of the room was a dressing table with a blue- and-white-striped skirt flounced around it. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

If that man can produce little blue fire women and that woman there melt into a pillar, how natural if normal Martians think we produce our rocket ship with our minds.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

The plane, which was flying along in otherwise unremarkable fashion, literally fell out of the clear blue sky and crashed to the ground. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

She pulls out a light blue denim shirt with snaps on the pockets. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

New blue sheets for the bed, new gauzy white curtains. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

She also makes an amazing strawberry-rhubarb pie that won a blue ribbon at the county fair a few years back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

The moon bathed us all in cool blue light as we awaited Samar’s nightly visit. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

The thought cheered him, and he scanned the horizon for any sign of her, but found nothing but the blue air and the sharp rock in every direction he looked. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

I study the soldier's face: blue eyes; tan skin; nice, defined jaw. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

The wide lapels of her blue, A-line dress smelled of lavender. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

It darted for the blue sky, a long white contrail flowing out behind it. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had blond hair and blue eyes like his little brother, and his features were so regular, they looked like they had been laid out with a ruler. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at her out of a world of clean comfort. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was white and would be wearing a blue blazer. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

You would think hospital sheets would be white, but these were blue. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

“If he was with us, he’d be with us. Instead of looking for the blues.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Jorge was fourteen years older than she and wore round steel glasses that shrank his blue eyes. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was more clouds than blue, and JoJo’s calf was red. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some days her lips were blue with cold by the time she waded back to them with her catch wriggling on her tines. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The blue man rode the merry-go-round to the tootling music. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

Trip traced his fingers along the blue painted edge of the locker door. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Floating above it, I looked down and saw me, a brown girl in a blue dress surrounded by green-gray water. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The girl glared up at him with eyes the blue of sky. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

He is looking into the pool, which is blue and empty. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I put on my one change of clothes, a blue dress with yellow daisies. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Autumn is full on here and the sky is bright blue. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

Because her blue coat is ruined, covered in blood. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

We chased him down on the stage and knocked over a lot of the props, but we finally got the beautiful blue robe on him. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“My pillow. The blue one. The only thing I brought out of the house.” Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

When I glanced back as we rode along, usually they were looking at each other, not at the fall leaves or the distant blue mountains. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The sky is a dark blue, so I know I must’ve slept the day away. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

All around us, the room was splattered and streaked with red, yellow, and blue. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Under pale blue skies, he drove along the base of high, sheer basalt cliffs. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

A liquid blue sky stands out against the snow-tipped peaks of the Sierra Nevada. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

“I had a chile, my massa’s chile for shure. She be as pretty as the dawn—blond hair, blue eyes, and skin the color of weak tea.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was staring at the car in the garage; a strip of metal ran around its blue body like a necklace. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

They were being led by a man who wore a vest of chain mail over a quilted blue jacket. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z

“I would have written the blue fire off to rumor if you hadn’t been here to confirm it.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And he didn’t know whether or not it was always a little blue. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walk into the roar of the river and the blue glow of the Pit, which is emptier now than I have ever seen it before. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

The horseshoe left his arm and carried up into the blue air. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

The sun is high in the blue sky, and the dark water shines right into our eyes, forcing the two of us to squint. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

He checked the blue Oldsmobile into the hotel garage and then, in the lobby, he checked himself in and was assigned a twelfth-floor room, to which a bellman accompanied him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about six feet tall, even with several inches of slouch, his light brown skin dry and weathered like alligator, his eyes sea green at the center, with deep blue edges. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

She looks up, peering as though she is searching for the stars hidden behind the blue sky dotted with fluffy white clouds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He put on a pair of blue jeans, and we’d just locked him in the bathroom when the girl appeared—came out of her room. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re all togged out in blue and white jerseys and white shorts and proper football boots. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His cough moves through the air back into our room where the light is almost blue, the white winter sun painting it. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

A little more than a year after McCandless's death he regards the world through wary blue eyes. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

Barry had worked for three hours on those flames, mixing orange and red and yellow with a bit of blue until they looked like they would burn your fingers if you touched them. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z

And there he had fried chicken, julienne potatoes, hot biscuits and honey, and a piece of pineapple pie and blue cheese. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Between the lights and the ever-present blue ghosts of the Columbian Guard, the fair achieved another milestone: For the first time Chicagoans could stroll at night in perfect safety. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The water was desolate, the sky was cloudless, deep blue, and the wind was steady, strong, and dry. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Anyone in Texas would think I had gone crazy once I started talking about blue snow. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was one of those great June days when the sky is completely blue and the sun is shining but it isn’t so hot that you wish you were on the beach instead. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Oscar, wearing the blue robe, is sitting reading, his feet propped up on the platform. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

He keeps his wedding ring in a blue velvet box with tight springs. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He slung a blue nylon backpack off his handlebars and tossed it to me. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

He had the same wavy, brown hair and blue eyes, the same physical alertness, but none of the good humor Matt was used to seeing in the bodyguards face. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the town, supper fires sent up blue smoke, and here and there was the red glare of torchlight and campfire. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z

Then she pulls up her shirt and reaches inside to roll that sticky blue stuff on. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z

Near another wagon stood a group of men in blue uniforms. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I was wearing a blue shirt and black pants and a black jacket. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Friends came to visit, dressed in yellow paper gowns, their hands covered by blue synthetic-rubber gloves and their faces hidden behind paper masks. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

They’ll watch with open mouths as the breeze ripples over my blue dress and the sunlight shines on the lace trim; I’ll look like an angel. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

One girl, Mary Lou Finney, said the most peculiar things, like out of the blue she would say, “Omnipotent!” or “Beef brain!” Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z

I look left—there’s the dining room, painted blue, overlooked by a television, full of circular tables, separated from the hall by that glass with the square wire mesh in it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Or one of those gray cats that people call blue, even though gray and blue are different colors. Sunny 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

He wears tattered clothes in different colors—a black T-shirt with a torn Abnegation jacket over it, blue jeans mended with red thread, brown boots. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Richardson stood on the tree lawn, clutching the neck of her pale blue robe closed. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She was big boned and solid, with intense blue eyes, a generous mouth, and soothing hands with short fingernails. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

She just waltzed in on her expressive, blue, highly arched bare feet. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

It was the country—all trees and grass and a little bit of blue sea in the distance, and something that looked like Margate in the background. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She tried to catch it, but it flew away to the window where the blue sky was waiting for it. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He was cordial, but his blue eyes held a brightness that filled Lazlo with dread. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He takes a deep breath, smiling with those blue eyes. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The sky was an intense blue with a hot, flat sun high overhead—he thought it might be noon but could not think of what day it was—and there was absolutely no wind. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was wearing perfectly pressed khakis and a red polo shirt under a deep blue sports coat—relaxed authority was what her stepmother called the look. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

He was holding the blue rice bowl with the white rabbit painted on it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

The water became bluer, darker, as the tub filled higher. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Then I made my way to the hillside where the new grove of blue willows had been planted, the ones Connor’s father had said needed more water. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

Aunt Docia’s dress was a sprigged print, dark blue, with sprigs of red flowers and green leaves thick upon it. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why, very nice, pretty—a blue dress and a little coat, pink but tight about the waist.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The ocean, as blue as a peacock’s breast, appeared in two shades, depending on the depth of the water. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her face is the blue of death, framed by a floating mat of hair. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z

The jewel tones shift from ocean blues to cobalts and magentas, from crimson reds to sunflower yellows. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

Then his eyes open, unmistakably blue in the brown mud and green leaves. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Clad in a cloud-gray kirtle and a hood as blue as the sky. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was another long day's march before they glimpsed the towers of Harrenhal in the distance, hard beside the blue waters of the lake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

I used toilet soap for the first time, not the blue detergent that I had washed with for so many years at home. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m enjoying the embarrassed look on Lara’s face when those blue eyes find me. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

I was picturing myself driving down a dirt road, clouds in the blue sky, U2 playing in the background. Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z

Then comes Mama in her blue hospital scrubs—she got called away from work because of me again. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She searches for the right word to follow the blue of blue. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

After all these years, Ivy recognized his laughing blue eyes. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He has blue eyes the color of fresh toilet water and a dozen or so freckles flung across his face. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

As we rode on, the day grew more chill, the sky’s blue more hardened with silver. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“I suppose,” he drawled, turning those brilliant blue eyes on Celaena, “that it will be difficult for Lady Lillian and I as well. Perhaps more so.” Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jim Bowie said, “How come you got a white ribbon and Travis got a blue one?” The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

“Did you find it in a blue vase?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

But as it turned out, I was able to ask an expert, the person who had actually designed that very ramp and the killing machinery behind the blue door. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

Each candle changed subdy as it was put in place; its flame rose thinner and higher, taking on a golden- white tinge instead of the cold, threatening blue. The Dark is Rising 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

At that moment Dad scooted outside the pony pen and grabbed something out of sight, and when he returned he handed me a new round-nosed shovel with a nice blue bow tied around the handle. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

It was all of that blue fairy dust and magical-wand stuff. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

Standing beside her is a short man wearing an olive T-shirt and expensive blue jeans. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

There were thin scars around his eyebrows, and two crossed blue scars on the bridge of his battered nose. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Over all the sky was blue, and the sun of afternoon glowed upon the hill and cast long green shadows beneath the trees. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Longstreet got up quickly and put on die old blue robe and the carpet slippers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze the trigger and the paintball hits the camera, spraying blue paint across the lens. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat with Sanaubar all day as the sky went from bright blue to purple. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Neeley had a boxful of “miggies,” small brown and blue speckled marbles made of clay which cost a penny for twenty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The puddle reflects A blue skv, some clouds, And the goat’s tongue Darting in and out. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Lemoncello wore a bright red and blue Revolutionary War outfit with a ruffled collar and a cape. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

On the wall over his pillow, Mandela had carefully hung a pair of light blue shorts and a jersey of the same color: his old Fugees uniform. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

He glared out at the gathering crowd with fierce blue eyes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

We entered a hallway where a bare dim bulb shed faint blue light against green walls. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

They were glowing a brilliant blue, with red eyes. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

Dustfinger avoided her eyes and ran his finger along a blue river winding its way through the green and pale brown of the map. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I dip the roller into the tray and cover the yellow with blue. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Animals took shape: yellow giraffes, blue lions, pink antelopes, lilac panthers cavorting in crystal substance. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

This pain is different, less like a stab and more like a crackle, crackling in my brain, spotting my vision with different colors, blue, green, red. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Sparkling blue water catches sunlight through the glass roof and walls, heating up the space inside. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

An old-fashioned cop with a fine red face and a frosty blue eye leaned in toward me. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned his wrist to the sun coming through the blue curtains into his room. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bedroom with blue curtains and yellow wasps that worried the windowpanes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind him, a boy dressed in a loose, sapphire blue pirhan-tumban followed. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

It was a student of Aunt Ifeoma’s, in a tight pair of blue jeans. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Eric smiles, and in the blue light, his smile looks wicked, like it was cut into his face with a knife. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

She raised an eyebrow over one icy blue eye. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom she took off the blue evening dress. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

And she was wearing a shirt that was bright orange and navy blue, the same colors as the jackets of the teenaged boys they’d seen before. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

I pull a candle close to me and push the soft wax at the top of it into the blue flame. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z

Chess stuffed it into the pocket of his windbreaker—his dark green windbreaker, which looked out of place in the midst of so many people wearing navy blue and orange. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

The shift of Ruby’s knees was a kind of blue poetry, and when you’re that close to someone, you don’t see their movements so much as you feel the compression of air between you. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

An old embroidered blue rug covered in geometrical white shapes wound down its length, and the razor-thin windows lining both its sides offered only strips of Lkossa’s pale morning light. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

The day I did, her nails were midnight blue, each with a fake diamond. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Distant white clouds against a shock of blue sky? 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The counselor, a short, red-haired woman, with blue eyes that bulged slightly from a thin face, had asked me what I had wanted to do in life. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black and blue became brown as she watched. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

The old blue hopelessness invades my sleep and I’m crossing the river, looking back at the faces of children begging for food, “Cadeaux! Cadeaux!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every ulcer blossomed like a firework, deep red, yellow, green, and blue hues pulsing with Humbaba's cries. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z

The bolting look came into his blue eyes. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

I was uncertain if this referred to Bud or to a literal blue jay, or if, perhaps, we were heading into the territory of senile dementia. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

This is not the blue white light of day but a yellow electric light. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

To this, she added a medal of the Blessed Mother, a small blue bird feather, a broken blade from a penknife and a sprig of some herb. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The doll’s lace-trimmed blue silk dress, pink hair bow, black patent leather slippers and white silk socks duplicated exactly the clothes of the beautiful Mary. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

He longed for quiet—to be able to stand by a blue pool in the evening, and lob a pebble into the water, and watch the circles of ripples spread slow on the sober surface. Beowulf: A New Telling 1968-01-01T00:00:00Z

I have on my blue jeans and a T-shirt that says I’M IRISH. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

I squint down at my feet and see that my metal plate is surrounded by blue waves that lap up over my boots. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Seeing my precautions in the cool blue light of early morning, I was a little embarrassed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

“I went to a county fair one time where they had a baking contest. They gave big blue ribbons for first prize. Did they ever have a fair like that in Manifest?” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

“It doesn’t matter if he doesn’t have the count,” the man in the blue cap repeated. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

A sweater woven from green and blue and gray strands of kitten-soft wool. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

He still does not wake up, but his respiration is down to eighteen per minute, almost normal, and his color has come up from blue to white. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

On the maps, waterfalls are the blue lines going through brown contour lines drawn closely together, thereby indicating a steep incline or cliff. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did you run out of blue or something?” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Not exactly beautiful, but her blue eyes and pert snub nose gave her a catlike quality that contrasted with her robust, athletic movements. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the clear blue of her eyes from where I sat some thirty feet away. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

His eyes flashed open, clear and so blue, but it was only for an instant. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Rooster Jim and I rode along quietly as the night sky softened from navy blue to faded denim to pink. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

It was pale blue silk with tiny pink flowers, ankle length and sleeveless, with a low, scooped neck. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

The dress with the polka dots fits me and Delsa looks pretty in the blue dress. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

But perhaps, the commerçant decided, looking Mother up and down, avoiding her rigid blue gaze, perhaps he had room for the white woman. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

She's watching me, and her blue eyes look like they were pulled out of a doll—unmoving, always smiling. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

There was no spiral of lazy blue smoke twisting from the rock chimney, no white leghorn hen chasing a June bug, no horse or cow standing with head down and tail switching. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears a white Tshirt and a pair of small blue running shorts. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

Which means he had disguised himself as a soldier, and we caught him near San Diego, the only city that requires everyone to wear those blue pins. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The tears went slowly down his cheek and the fire made them take on the colors of blue and green and red. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dimming hurries in then, wearing a brand-new navy blue suit, a fresh white shirt, and a red vest and tie. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

The crate next to it bore the same address but was filled with machine parts—including, he noted, a red helmet and a blue one. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were a human blue again, his smile warm and charming. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

If I do a stupid magic trick with him at the talent show, it will just remind everybody about why I was disqualified and why I had my blue ribbon ripped away. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

His fingernails, too, are blue, an indigo blue. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Pulsing blue lights lined the runway, which ran up the center of the hangar to a massive pair of armored doors at the far end. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Inside the door, a small blue hawk was perching on a bracket. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

Today, the sky was so blue, Piper didn’t see how it could work. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Peers into the courtyard where knots of people eat and talk in the blue smoke. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

About that time, over in Logan, a woman named Terryl Warner pulled up in a blue minivan outside a gymnastics center called Air- Bound. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

In the staff parking lot, Jule looked around and found the bartender’s little blue sedan, unlocked. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

His uncle was sharp-featured and gaunt as a mountain crag, but there was always a hint of laughter in his blue- grey eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a navy blue jogging outfit with winged Reeboks. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

There’s a spread of snacks ready on the kitchen table, with bright blue paper plates and napkins. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z

One blue shade drifted to the edge of the pit and knelt to drink. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

The sky was a merciless blue, without a wisp of cloud in sight. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Aru ran just as blue plumes of poison spiraled into the air. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

I look up at the blue sky and I can’t help but think of Grandpa. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

A community college there was holding a college fair, and Blackburn set up a table in a hallway, draping it with the University of Virginia’s blue and orange flag. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

He let the blanket fall and his blue denim shirt spot, while the rain took on more solid drops. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

She loves these pj’s best, because the monkeys float in blue flannel space. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The blanket, again, blue and gold and soft. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

A noise must have startled her, because she twitched and turned into a blue bird. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

“Maybe from Newport or Narragansett or maybe from farther south. And I wondered about it because it was the only blue sail I’d ever seen.” Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

Shoji is covered up to his waist in a blue blanket. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

My favorite is the close-up shot of tiled calligraphy in blue and white. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Thatcher fixed her stained-glass blue eyes on that pillock and pointed out that the enemy cruiser'd been zigzagging in and out of the zone all day. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

Stan Smith, tall, lanky and powerfully built, with blond hair and blue eyes, was one of the world’s greatest serve-and-volley players. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The blue glow of the flat-screen TV in front of us ricochets off her eyes as she turns back to it. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

He was all aglow in the powder-blue uniform of the Austrian Hussars, complete with shining silver chamberpot for the head, waving a blue plume. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They marched on, followed by the Fort Peck Livery and Sale Barn wagon, all decked out in red, white, and blue bunting. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Doctors—I think the doctors are in white coats and the nurses are in blue, right?—stride by holding clipboards. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Not to the bees. Bees see the white as blue. Bees like blue best.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

And left patterned trails of bumpy goose- flesh on his body, like flat chalk on a blackboard, like a swathe of breeze in a paddyfield, like jet streaks in a blue church-sky. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sits there on the floor, all these tears in his big blue eyes. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

The baby was whimpering, its legs mottled blue with cold. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

We talk about it at dinner: “A lady bought ten and a half yards of a beautiful blue calico, and I saved the extra half yard for you,” she’ll say. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

I flick on the projector and flood the dark blue sheet with a spectacular swirled sea of stars. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

Put them in little plastic bags and threw them in a cooler with some blue ice and a couple of apples and bananas. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Her eyes had again sought out her old friend the blue bathmat, across the room. Franny and Zooey 1961-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her eyes are the lightest glacier blue; I use mostly white when I draw them. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

His lips are blue, but he’s not even shivering. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

“As you recall,” Mrs. Weidenbach said, “my bread-and-butter pickles have taken the blue ribbon every year since the fair recommenced after the Great War.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Every school day, before Jack put on his navy blue uniform and walked to his public school, his mother insisted he eat a big breakfast. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You have five minutes to reach the blue door before the poison will kick in.” Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

I wore a white shirt and blue woolen shorts. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

He started the car, and slowly we pulled away from all the spirits resting in that little blue house. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z

Walls, ceiling, and everything else except a bureau and a writing desk, were pink or blue or white. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

Very far away, the sky and the water met, and there was a darker blue line. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

That soft, empty look in their still blue eyes. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

“In a tin in my overcoat pocket. Also a blue enamel pillbox. And my cigarettes. Will you go get them for me?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She herself was in the dining room, pinning pattern pieces on a length of dark blue serge. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

Commanding them was Ser Patrek of King’s Mountain, clad in his knightly raiment of white and blue and silver, his cloak a spatter of five-pointed stars. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her lips turned dark blue, but speckled with starry glitter. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes were brighter in the morning light; more blues, sharper browns. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Eventually we pulled up in front of a beautiful blue house surrounded by tall trees. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dad reached into his pocket and pulled out his favorite jackknife, the one with the horn handle and the blade of blue German steel that we’d used for Demon Hunting. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If they were good, a small blue flame would still be burning at the bottom of the glass when they slammed it down on the bar. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fred and George rounded off the evening with a display of Filibuster fireworks; they filled the kitchen with red and blue stars that bounced from ceiling to wall for at least half an hour. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

My dad on the couch and the summer ahead of me like a big blue train I’m chasing. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lord Asriel had seen the billion-strong flocks of blue starlings that wheeled at sunset around the palace of the Emperor K’ang-Po, but he had never seen so vast a multitude in all his life. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She felt startled to see her secretly famous banana seller standing off to the right, wearing a bulky blue sweater much too large for him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And standing there during the blue pastel moments before dawn, Joe harbored feelings he hadn’t had since he was a kid. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

I saw no traces of blood-stained clothes; she wore a crisp white blouse, a blue cardigan sweater, and a blue-green pleated skirt. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

In here, the lines of light cast a faint blue hue against our skin. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Henry’s blue serge Sunday pants were creased to painful sharpness, his tan jacket smelled of cleaning fluid; Jean Louise recognized Jem’s light-blue necktie. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

I pulled out a few different things, colorful Polo shirts, blue jeans, khakis, sweaters, but I didn’t feel comfortable in none of it. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Up and up I go, four, five, six branches, and I’ve never seen the sky so blue, blue between green needles, hiding me. Muffled 2020-10-27T00:00:00Z

He tried to get that image of the blue ocean back in his mind, but he couldn't picture it for some reason. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

She had pressed roses from the blue cross-stitch counterpane on her cheek. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

She takes the back of my arm in one hand and runs the other over the blue patch that’s spreading beneath my skin. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

I caught a number of small sharks, blue sharks for the most part, but some makos too. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Joe’s blue eyes turned a little watery; he rubbed first one of them, and then the other, in a most uncongenial and uncomfortable manner, with the round knob on the top of the poker. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

Grace doesn’t think she’s ever seen such a blue sky before. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

Her blue uniform shirt stretches over her big chest and two buttons look like they will pop. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Purple mountains reaching towards angelfeather clouds; a falcon soaring in a calm blue sky; God combing His sunshine fingers through green pastures straight out of the Psalms. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I want is to comb my fingers through his tousled brown hair, to cup my hand around the blue horse on his neck, to press my lips against his like Sophia did. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z

Henry wasn’t looking at any of us but at the wall above our heads, his blue eyes round and glassy. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

I recited the times tables myself, until finally Red looked away from the tree and turned his piercing blue eyes on me. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Except this,” said a police officer, coming out of Jake’s bedroom, holding a blue booklet in his gloved hand. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z

When she found a place she got comfortable, spreading her blue shawl on the ground after she had cleared the area of pebbles and little sticks and made sure no ants were disturbed. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

And beautiful blue skies filled with puffy white clouds. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

We don’t know why we prefer the blue decks, but we’re pretty sure at that point that they are a better bet. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

Very pretty, in a snub-nosed, good-natured way; dark hair, freckles, light blue eyes. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

You came through for me even when I was blue. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

He pointed to his head, which was covered with a blue bandanna. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

I covered him with my blue raincoat and wiped his hair away from his eyes. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

He doesn’t have any clothes, apparently, because he’s in a dark blue robe, which smells intensely of body odor. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Jacques-Paul leaned against the hood of a beat-up blue Impala playing with a yo-yo. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

The sky was almost clear, with small, fluffy bits of clouds moving across the blue, and he shrugged his shoulders to ease the stiffness. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead of taking a nap after she made the lunches, she started sewing a cloak using the fabric from one of her blue dresses. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

“She even bought me this beautiful set of Samsonite—powder blue, all matching. Because she’d had to borrow old, broken-down suitcases from relatives, and that made her feel so bad and worthless.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

One side of the sky was completely blue and the other was filled with stagnant clouds. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Jo bore up very well till the last flutter of blue ribbon vanished, when she retired to her refuge, the garret, and cried till she couldn’t cry any more. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

The expression on his face was ugly, calculating, and there was something of triumph too in his light blue eyes. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

He could look out his bedroom window and imagine the blue and gray armies crawling across the land. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sky blue, lake blue, sailor blue, aqua blue—you name a blue. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was a robin’s-egg blue, and Coraline could see trees and, beyond the trees, green hills, which faded on the horizon into purples and grays. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Coraline went back into her bedroom and put on her blue dressing gown and her slippers. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Margo’s blue blue eyes blinked and she looked impossibly beautiful right then, her jeans wet against her legs, her face shining in the gray light. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

He had the hot, blue eyes usually associated with heavy drinking and loose living. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

She was still armored in her blue steel, though she had taken off her helm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

And she saw the frank relief on the pilot’s face turn to bewilderment and apprehension as he was increasingly surrounded by blue uniforms and the stripes and badges of the Royal Air Force. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z

They were young, beautiful nymphs in shimmering blue gowns, their glossy black curls pinned up with silver and gold brooches. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

My blue hat is out on the ice of the creek. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

The skin around Marlena’s eye has turned an impressive blue, but at least her face has kept its shape—mine is pulpy and mashed, the bruises overlaid with oozing wounds. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Red and blue stripes, and purple circles with numbers in them. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

“Dear mountains! my own beautiful lake! how do you welcome your wanderer? Your summits are clear; the sky and lake are blue and placid. Is this to prognosticate peace, or to mock at my unhappiness?” Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z

I think of flying on swings through bright blue skies and away from words like dumb and freak and loser. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Cascading bolts of blue lightning erupted in the space between us, and their spiderweb tines enveloped us both, as if a surge of power were passing from his avatar into mine. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

His cheeks were fat and his mother’s blue eyes shone the same as they do now. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They wore little blue suits with snap-on bow ties, and their Sunday shoes made a terrific racket on the floor. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She flapped to the pine tree where the blue jays had nested, landed, and lost her balance. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z

They are white and pale blue and dull green, and they draw me to them by some strange magnetism. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

This foot was covered with a blue and gray Argyle sock, and Mrs Whatsit sat there, wriggling her toes, contentedly finishing her sandwich before scrambling to her feet. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had one blue pair and one green pair, so my legs, when I took my pants off, were covered with blue and green spots. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

They were clad in matching lambs-wool doublets, silver-grey with dark blue trim. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Deeper still, we came to Throughbottom, a room like a cathedral, so big that neither Auri’s blue light nor my red one reached the highest peaks of the ceiling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

About two minutes pass, and a young man wearing chinos and a blue dress shirt with a loud tie comes out of a corridor and walks right over to Alicia. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The women jumping one after another from the cliff, their beautiful silk dresses billowing in the air—pink, red, green, blue . . . indeed, like flowers falling.” A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z

Then a brilliant arc of blue light shot from the rooftop of one of the tallest buildings. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

She strides in, her hair fashioned into a tower made of blond strands and blue flowers. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

He had a large pink face, not much neck, small, watery blue eyes, and thick blond hair that lay smoothly on his thick, fat head. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

As the collar of the average Western worker made its journey from blue to white over the course of the last century, the value of the persuasive arts for career advancement has grown in proportion. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z

Clayton said, “We could go to Washington Square Park. They play the blues down there.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Oh dear, yes. Oh yes, Mr. Jankowski. You’ve been talking a blue streak since we left the lunchroom. Just talking my ear off.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Tom’s face was so dark and his eyes so blue. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

One seemed asleep; the other, with crossed legs and arms behind his head, leaned back against a broken rock and sent from his mouth long wisps and little rings of thin blue smoke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

He opened the drawer and pulled out the blue mechanical mouse, which he unwrapped carefully. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z

I felt so blue and miserable I wanted to crawl into a plastic cover and die. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He has bright blue eyes, dirt on his face, and a beat-up old cap on, and at this moment, I think he might be the most beautiful boy I’ve ever seen. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

He had nice pale blue eyes and a reddish complexion. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

At school we make Easter eggs out of construction paper, pink and purple and blue, and stick them onto the windows. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Deep blue swirled among lighter shades, like ocean draped in sky. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

Seaplanes circle and dive, skimming across Lake Union’s blue surface. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain could see nothing but smoke, the blue mounds bobbing in front of him, clang of ramrods, grunts, a high gaunt wail. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has a very primitive hairdo and wears mostly the same three shirts and blue jeans or one skirt over and over. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

And through the blue layer of water, I see a milky substance leaching out of the wounds on my skin. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

She has big, blue, wide-open eyes and looks as if she is always surprised. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

Stacks of bunk beds, a chalkboard, bright blue cabinets that stretched from floor to ceiling, large windows boarded up with plywood, and strange square discolorations on the wall, where posters must have once hung. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Curses and sex stories sounded round the clock and blue smoke choked the air. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The last time I opened them I looked up and saw Mong was sitting up by the big boulders—straight down from the blue vacation house he used to stay at with his dad. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Jethro frowned and stared at the blue patches above him without comment. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was wearing a workman’s cap, my blue overalls, and my glasses. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In our town, trash is separated, with blue cans for recycling and green for anything from the yard. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

He saw a receding wash of gray and blue fading in a haze toward the setting sun, like something oriental on a dinner plate. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

A streak of it right out of your own blue heaven. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

Behind the mourners from school days’ past sat the throng of people who had heard and loved his electric blues guitar licks. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My social studies teacher, Mrs. Dorothy Taylor, was a small, thin woman with short, curly hair and light blue eyes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

The rain has ended, not even the soft spritz remains, just sky that is blue and a breeze that is soft. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

His flesh was a ripe violet-blue, his lips and nails bluer still, so dark they were almost black. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

He hoped he played baseball, because these high glory days of summer were baseball days if any days were baseball days, with blue skies, warm seas, and high clouds lazy above the ocean horizon. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Their hearts must have lifted a little when they arrived at the entrance gate with its decorative blue propellers! A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

Sure enough, it was filled with flat cardboard in the shop’s signature blue. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

A second technician gauges Werner’s eye color against a chromatic scale on which sixty or so shades of blue are displayed. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She closed her eyes, and tried to make her mind go blank and blue, like a wide, cloudless sky. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z

It had been mailed in Barcelona, but the envelope was addressed in conventional blue ink by an official hand and it had the innocent and impersonal look of hostile messages. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z

I wrapped it up in green tissue paper, tied a bright blue grosgrain ribbon in a bow around it, and slid it into a Fabric Barn bag. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I search those pieces, the borrowed blues, reds, and violets, blended with glimmering flesh. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z

In my mind I see the face of Hamlet, his blue eyes reflecting my image like a watery glass. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z

That was why every Christmas she sent a dozen pairs, glittering with yellow and pink plastic beads, sequins, and turquoise blue flowers. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

A single blue current of electricity snakes up the door closest to me before fizzling out. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

Against the tumble of her deep golden hair, the soft blue of her gown was a reflection of the deep blue of her eyes. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

But I was not really listening to Papa; I was thinking of the man in the blue jeans, the dead man. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

“A section of wall. A boulder. A doorway. A sewer entrance. But it would have the mark of Daedalus on it. A Greek A, glowing in blue.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She grinned, watching the blue sparks of fairy magic seal her wounds. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z

He looked into the blue sky, at the shattered trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

We were assigned a list of colors to study, not the hues, but the words themselves—“red,” “blue,” “green,” “black,” “orange,” “purple,” “white.” Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Those same blue eyes that used to meet mine and then flit away at school. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Behind them, a mile or so away, mountains rose up to a sharp blue sky. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

There was a flare of livid lightnings: forks of blue flame springing up from the tower and from the encircling hills into the sullen clouds. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

But since Haymitch is going to be the victor, we get to see one full exchange between him and Caesar Flickerman, who looks exactly as he always does in his twinkling midnight blue suit. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Auk XX zipped up the launch pole, accelerating a hundred feet in an instant, climbing to two hundred feet, three hundred feet, hurtling vigorously toward the blue spring sky. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

But I could see us, Lucas back from Vietnam and me, throwing out in the field on a blue summer day. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

He was tall, and he wore an uncommonly fine dark blue silk tunic embroidered with white-capped waves, but his hair was as short as a guard’s. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Instead, her hair hung in lovely dark braids all about her face, and she wore a smart blue jumper and sandals. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

He had light brown dreadlocks tied in a bunch with a hank of yarn, and intense blue eyes that shone like high beams. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Great lumps of blue rock were scattered around, and dead trees stood everywhere like skeletons. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam gazed at the floor, focusing on a small splatter of blue paint that looked as if the sky had bled and no one had cleaned it up in time. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

His eyes, as he looked at the Tillermans, might have been gray or blue, Dicey couldn’t decide which. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

I swallow and return my attention to our fountain as it huffs blue smoke and embers. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

Laura went to her and, soon enough, a string of negotiations followed: “Do you want this one, sweetheart? The yellow or the blue or the red? Which do you want?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The kitchen was empty and dark, save for a faint blue hazy light that seeped through a window from the winter sky. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He jammed his hands into the pockets of his tight blue slacks, watching the cars cruise past. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lean my head back and look up at the dark blue all around. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Her mother refused to buy them for her, preferring instead to buy white socks, navy blue school underpants, four gray blouses, and a dark gray skirt. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

The eggcup is white china with a blue stripe. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her eyes wandered over the blackened debris until they caught on something bright nearly lost among the ashes, something small and brilliant blue. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

They wear light blue coveralls that the detention center has provided them. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky over Manhattan was gray with soot in a halo of blue and a shroud of black. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

The grainy rocks, the swaying pines, the cascade of stubborn blue mussels, the water splashing up green and streaming back white—they were all the same, as if the frock coats had never been there. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She wears jeans, tan-colored boots, and a blue shirt with the Vacant Taxis badge embroidered on the pocket. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z

He wore a pale blue, long-sleeved shirt and faded blue jeans. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As the shape drew closer, into the pale wash of the dock lights, I recognized the blue dinghy and the spindly silhouette of my sister at the helm. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

Laugh, Joffrey, she prayed as the Juice ran down her face and the front of her blue silk gown. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

In a stage whisper, the old man asked, “Whyever is she blue?” Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

I wrapped the blue floral cape around me. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Red and blue clouds floated across his eyelids. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was wearing the top half of a blue bathing suit and a Hawaiian-style wraparound skirt. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z

There will be Sarahs sea, blue and gray and green, hanging on the wall. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z

There was time to notice the clouds in a blue sky, the reddish-brown dust at my feet. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Because in his bonus room hangs a framed autographed Michael Jordan jersey—the baby blue one, from when he was in college; very rare, valued at nearly two thousand dollars. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

Until I returned to Cuba, I never realized how many blues exist. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The backyards of these houses fell away in green slopes down to a strip of sand, and then the blue Lake Erie, lapping all the way to Canada. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was the only man Esteban had ever met who polished his fingernails and put blue eyewash in his eyes. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then they could see the drifts of snow outdoors and the great trees standing bare and black, making thin blue shadows on the white snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw that the sword which Frodo still held unsheathed was glittering with blue flame; and he saw that though the sky behind was now dark, still the window in the tower was glowing red. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

She was dressed in a long, flowing blue gown, and she stood on the homed moon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sea was printed in blue, with pink islands like La Gonave. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

All I see is fuzzy blue because my eyes are blurring everything together. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He might not have a gutbucket cry or a round-the-corner-and-back-again bend, but he couldn’t let go of the blues any more than he could let go of Cool Papa. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

It was blue when the sun hit it one way, and purple when the sun hit it another way, and sometimes yellow or green. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

A team of Cyclopes was placing the domed roof on a new temple, using a blue whale as a crane. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The question, coming out of the blue, takes my grandfather off guard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

Professor Trelawney swept over to him holding a dustpan and brush and said, “One of the blue ones, then, dear, if you wouldn’t mind...thank you....” Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

She took in the gleaming tower of an office building, the blue sky reflected off its sides. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

He remembered the bright artificial blue of the swimming pool into which the boy called Turville had made him dive. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

There will surely always be people with straight hair and blue eyes, as there have been for all history. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Tonight Judge Tanner wore no robe and was dressed in blue jeans and a sweater. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

Dressed in blue jeans and a pink button-down shirt, he looked across the breadth of his swimming pool at a spectacular water view. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Bulging blue veins webbed the backs of his hands. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

A song she sang, ‘Night comes, and colors fade away; sky fades, for blue can never stay Startled by the familiar lullaby, Kira murmured the words with him. “ Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Long dark hair and blue eyes you could drown in, and he had. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

But her husband was not so easily deceived—he had noticed the unusual intensity in the blue eyes. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The figure fell and crumpled among the blue flowers of the mountain-side, but now there was a gentle breeze at this height too and the parachute flopped and banged and pulled. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

At the trader’s, Deydey paid off the winter’s debt and bought a length of blue broadcloth for Mama to sew into a dress. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

The smoke of hearthfires lingered blue over the slate roofs of little towns among those hills, a pleasant sight in the vast sameness of the sea. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

He slipped a blue silk tunic over his head and straightened the prongs of his beard with his fingers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

The blue clothing was easy to see against the green grass. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Except her outfit did not look like a school uniform—or at least that blue jumper didn’t. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He still saw the wight in his dreams, dead Othor with the burning blue eyes and the cold black hands, but that was the last thing Sam needed to be reminded of. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Clasping her hands together, she closed those gray-blue eyes and ducked her head down and all I could see then was the big mass of wavy brown hair and the little blue hat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The dead arms are crossed, the features are stiff and blue, as if frozen. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lingered by the window as long as I could, afraid that if I left the blue would disappear again. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

And now the thoughts rush in: adjusting the blue prints, prepping the trailer bed, lounging on the finished deck with my friends while sipping lemonade from fancy glasses. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

Suddenly his elbow, knocking against the inkpot, upset it, and the chair and the desk and the quill pen and his own best clothes were covered with great spreading stains of blue ink. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

She smiled for what felt like the first time in a long while, and then she and her friends all walked out together into the dark blue Brooklyn morning. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

She put her faded blue bathrobe over her slip. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z

We threw on our dress gray uniforms, including the gray wool pants that scraped every blade of hair off our legs and dark blue cotton shirts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Bob draws Candy’s blue dot, making a perfect circle and then coloring it in. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Jacob stared at the sky, fading from royal blue to indigo above the black buds of an ash. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

She turned her face up to the blue sky and studied it. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The sun fell golden and blue over the streets. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Then all of a sudden, out of the blue, Noodles decided to break down how, over the last few days, with all the time to himself, he figured out why he loved comics so much. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

The walls are painted pale cream, the carpet is light blue, and sitting in the middle is a black Steinway baby grand piano. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Then a hand grabbed her left arm and another seized her right and she was soaring between two fairies—a slender albino with black eyes and a blue, furry fairy. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing tan shorts and a dark blue shirt. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Baxter ran out of her room, curlers in her hair, wearing a light blue velour robe. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

The blue lights in the sky had stopped so at first I didn’t understand what the problem was. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Sometimes the sea was quiet and blue as well, but most days it churned dark gray-green, with spumes of white blown and dissolved in the air. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

I think I had a fever, though I had no thermometer to find out, and my ankle swelled very large and looked bad—blue on one side and bright red on the other. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

Workmen had patched up the house in a temporary way, covering the windows with plywood and draping the leaky roof with sheets of heavy blue plastic. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

When I grew older, I used kira-kira to describe everything I liked: the beautiful blue sky, puppies, kittens, butterflies, colored Kleenex. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Silver jets in a blue church sky, like moths in a beam of light. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Elaine looked straight in her blue eyes, but Lancelot stopped as if he had been shot “So.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was gawking at two sea serpents—thirty-foot-long monsters with glowing blue scales and jaws that could have bitten a whale shark in half. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

It was blue and white, with wave designs on the sides and a trident painted on the front. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Instead I turn to where her blue coat sits folded neatly on a table. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Mom is in her new red, white, and blue two-piece suit, a matching handbag stiff on her elbow. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The next morning Wab made sure we each ate a bowl of lukewarm mush in the cold hour before the sky started shedding layers into a lighter blue. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

An elderly man in a blue blazer scampers out of the darkness. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z

A dignified little man in a bright blue tuxedo climbed through the ropes and pulled down a microphone from the tangle of wires and blazing lights over the ring. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had on a blue striped head rag and a dirty faded old feed-sack dress that blew in the wind against her knobby legs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

And then I spotted a plain white envelope with my name, Zoe Washington, and my address handwritten in neat, blue print. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

Finally, a middle-aged woman in a blue plaid shirtwaist dress stepped forward. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The aquamarines near the shoreline, the azures of deeper waters, the eggshell blues beneath by grandmother’s eyes, the fragile indigos tracking her hands. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, he would have flown in the opposite direction, up, into the deep, bright blue sky. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z

I went downstairs and picked up a pale blue envelope from the dining room table and scrawled on the back, in large, painstaking letters: I am going for a long walk. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Joe blinked away some beer fuzz that was making blue streaks across his eyeballs, and remarked, “You don’t even know what all this is about, do you?” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They walked a short way with nothing to see but the hedgerows, the wide blue sky overhead and the swishing, frock-coated figure ahead. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

Her hair hung down her back, smooth and wavy, so dark it shone with blue highlights in the sun. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Come with us,” said the scythe in blue, “and I promise you from this moment on, your life will be everything you’ve ever dreamed it could be.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z

Mercy had said no word, but now as she folded the blue shawl and laid it quietly on top of the trunk, Rachel found courage for her only protest. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z

Then come Team Andromeda, in hues of green and gold, and Team Winter Dragons, in ice-colored blue. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Emma seemed to be following a man a few paces ahead of them in a dark blue jacket—not that that was unusual, since so many in the crowd were wearing dark blue or orange. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z

“Don’t pester her too much,” Lydia advised, her eyes under hoods of bright blue shadow, her hair teased into a chestnut-colored globe surrounding a face that suddenly seemed too small for all that hair. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The worst o’ it, before we ever knew he’d died he rose pale with them blue eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Big blue fin making the whoosh as a giant fish circles my boat. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

So I guessed that even though it was blue—even farther down the rainbow than yellow—it was at least the equivalent of a red. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The sun was crystalline white in the clear, blue sky, but still there was the darkness of shadows in this sacred spot. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Up above, clouds will billow out of nowhere into dark monstrosities, pregnant with malevolent intent, and a clear blue sky is like a magnifying glass for a punishing sun. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

The night is black and blue and purple like an ugly bruise. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

My mom has fine, red hair and eyes that are pale, pale, pale blue. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z

Her pale arms, bare almost to the shoulder, were thin and wrinkled, with faint blue veins and a few purple scabs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

I caught a glimpse of the other side of the room, and was unsurprised to find that it was awash in the blue light of the open laptop. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Their paint of blue, maroon, and yellow, so rich when we began this journey, is now faded and chipped. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Turn right where flowers big as dinner plates grow strangely blue. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The woman in the blue dress was speaking again. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rows of blue runway lights stretched out along the valley floor behind us, delineating Og’s private landing strip. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z

Wear the new blue dress because he meant to marry her right from the train. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

I asked her to read the bottom of my foot, but all she told me was that I had a lot of callouses and she liked my blue sparkly nail polish. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

“Oh, not there — we’re going to the City Square,” she explained, shaking out the clothes to reveal a pair of blue velvet breeches and a matching jacket. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Once we got to Brother's Barbershop and Pet Store, there was a blue and white sign on the door, sorry we're closed. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z

His nostrils flared when he spoke, which made it really hard not to stare up his nose, and his eyes were two different colors— one brown, one blue—like an alley cat’s. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

And then it starts to tilt a little bit, and then it heads up with the fire beneath it, and up, and suddenly it’s hurtling through the blue, flying faster than Audubon could ever imagine. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

No one wore a uniform of blue, like hers. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The world spun black and mist and blue as Cain grabbed her and shoved her against the clock tower once more, her face smashing into the stone. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Aphros looked like his brother, except he was blue instead of green and much, much bigger. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The house across the street has a half-sunken roof covered in a blue plastic thing. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

I know she’s right, so I pull off the red shirt I was wearing and put on the blue one instead. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

Mona’s blue eye was icy as she gazed at her, unblinking, and Taisin felt utterly exposed, as though Mona were peeling back layer upon layer of her defenses and examining each one. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

I flipped up the collar of my blue parka and continued down 125th Street, but rushed my step a little bit more. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

Renly was handsome as Robot had been handsome; long of limb and broad of shoulder, with the same coal-black hair, fine and straight, the same deep blue eyes, the same easy smile. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Their blue cloaks rose snapping from their shoulders, caught in the sudden gust of wind that came howling through the open door. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

I saw the dim blue night light at the other end of the ward, and took a deep breath. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

Horace Danver got up to speak, and I saw a flash of skin as he sauntered down the aisle in his blue flannel shirt. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z

Our shirts can only be red, white, or blue. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

Root drew a house of three stories with gables and a peaked roof, in red brick, buff sandstone, blue granite, and black slate; Burnham refined the drawings and guided construction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

The picture was in light blue and you could write over it. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Billy Pilgrim padded downstairs on his blue and ivory feet. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

He took his blues harp out of his pocket. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

"It's just a thing. Like, some people are gay. Some people have blue eyes." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z

Even at this late hour, in the quarter-light, it glows a majestic blue. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

At dose hand, the bril-liant blue armor looked rather less splendid; everywhere it showed scars, the dents of mace and warhammer, the long gouges left by swords, chips in the enameled breastplate and helm. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

On her forehead was a small dark blue jewel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Hunger and soreness from running, climbing, wailing on his blues harp, and plain old not-eating. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

My eyes tested on a beat-up blue car. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes sparkled playfully—sometimes green or blue or amber. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

A piece the exact shade of blue as the tiny spot of sky miles and miles above my head. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

Just big wide fields of grass and a blank blue sky. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

We drove past the museum and parked right next to this basketball court filled with huge blue and red steel arcs that imagined the path of a bouncing ball. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

She was wearing a short plaid skirt, black stockings, and a pale blue sweater that looked as soft as a baby blanket. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

As the day drew to a close and the stars began to shine in the dark blue sky, Taisin was determined to keep going. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Her eyes flare, hot blue against the shriveled white of her skin. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

No matter how fast it was sung, “Sunshine” wanted to be happy but underneath felt blue. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

“Dad has blue eyes, too, Mama,” Karen said. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Saint Sarah waves us over with blue T-shirts in her hands. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

The Quarter-Stars were pink, the Stripes were a fiendish, blue- green colour. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Luckily, Ms. Byrd wasn’t there to catch them sneaking in after a day of playing the blues in the park. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

Dark blue pony beads hung down a swatch of fringe, and Fishtail touched them carefully and lovingly as he stepped quietly along. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

A whole bunch of police cars come onto the freeway, blue and red lights flashing, and they use that lane that’s just for emergencies to zoom by all the stopped cars. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z

He wore a blue cloak, bluer than the sky. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z

Dauntless soldiers with blue armbands stand on the sidewalk outside, carrying guns I’ve never seen before, guns with narrow, blue beams of light streaming from above their barrels. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Because of the terrorists, I’ve lost it. Can’t hold a job. Even when my cough is better, closed spaces, blue skies...make me anxious.” Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

She is tucked into a pretty blue frock with a big flounce in the back. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

Soon the cameras were rolling in front of the living room fireplace, with Koppel in his crisp blue suit and Morrie in his shaggy gray sweater. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Immediately Holmes deployed his tools of seduction, his soothing voice and touch and frank blue gaze. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

He wants to know if we’d keep an eye on the horse with our dog Lucky while he goes to the pub, he’s blue mouldy for a pint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“It’s advanced. His teeth are turning blue. Don’t worry; it’s not contagious. But you’d best find this boy something with vitamins before his organs shut down completely. He’s malnourished. He could turn at any point.” Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

In back of his eyes a tiny sharp incredibly bright blue light flashed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z