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Frieda brought her four graham crackers on a saucer and some milk in a blue-and-white Shirley Temple cup.†
Chpt 2 *
The big, the special, the loving gift was always a big, blue-eyed Baby Doll.†
Chpt 2
Adults, older girls, shops, magazines, newspapers, window signs—all the world had agreed that a blue-eyed, yellow-haired, pink-skinned doll was what every girl child treasured.†
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Traced the turned-up nose, poked the glassy blue eyeballs, twisted the yellow hair.†
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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.†
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No young girl had stared at the tiny Christmas tree and remembered when she had decorated it, or wondered if that blue ball was going to hold, or if HE would ever come back to see it.†
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Pretty blue eyes.†
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Big blue pretty eyes.†
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Alice has blue eyes.†
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Jerry has blue eyes.†
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They run with their blue eyes.†
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Four blue eyes.†
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Four pretty blue eyes.†
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Blue-sky eyes.†
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Blue—like Mrs. Forrest's blue blouse eyes.†
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Blue—like Mrs. Forrest's blue blouse eyes.†
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Each night, without fail, she prayed for blue eyes.†
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Blue eyes.†
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Blond hair in gentle disarray, blue eyes looking at her out of a world of clean comfort.†
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Even before the door was opened to her tapping, she could hear Poland singing—her voice sweet and hard, like new strawberries: I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf Blues in my bedroom Cause I'm sleepin' by myself "Hi, dumplin'.†
Chpt 2
Even before the door was opened to her tapping, she could hear Poland singing—her voice sweet and hard, like new strawberries: I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf Blues in my bedroom Cause I'm sleepin' by myself "Hi, dumplin'.†
Chpt 2
Even before the door was opened to her tapping, she could hear Poland singing—her voice sweet and hard, like new strawberries: I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf Blues in my bedroom Cause I'm sleepin' by myself "Hi, dumplin'.†
Chpt 2
Even before the door was opened to her tapping, she could hear Poland singing—her voice sweet and hard, like new strawberries: I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf Blues in my bedroom Cause I'm sleepin' by myself "Hi, dumplin'.†
Chpt 2
Even before the door was opened to her tapping, she could hear Poland singing—her voice sweet and hard, like new strawberries: I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf I got blues in my mealbarrel Blues up on the shelf Blues in my bedroom Cause I'm sleepin' by myself "Hi, dumplin'.†
Chpt 2
When she was sober she hummed mostly or chanted blues songs, of which she knew many.†
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They are in the second row, white blouses starched, blue skirts almost purple from ironing.†
Chpt 3
He belonged to the former group—he wore white shirts and blue trousers; his hair was cut as close to his scalp as possible to avoid any suggestion of wool, the part was etched into his hair by the barber.†
Chpt 3
The light made them shine like blue ice.†
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The blue eyes in the black face held her.†
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The cat's free paws were stiffened, ready to grab anything to restore balance, its mouth wide, its eyes blue streaks of horror.†
Chpt 3
He pointed to the radiator, where the cat lay, its blue eyes closed, leaving only an empty, black, and helpless face.†
Chpt 3
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.†
Chpt 4
This sky was always blue.†
Chpt 4
There on the tiny railed stoop sat Pecola in a light red sweater and blue cotton dress.†
Chpt 4
In that young and growing Ohio town whose side streets, even, were paved with concrete, which sat on the edge of a calm blue lake, which boasted an affinity with Oberlin, the underground railroad station, just thirteen miles away, this melting pot on the lip of America facing the cold but receptive Canada—What could go wrong?†
Chpt 4
The child's pink nightie, the stacks of white pillow slips edged with embroidery, the sheets with top hems picked out with blue cornflowers.†
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Her big blue hair bow had come undone, and the sundown breeze was picking it up and fluttering it about her head.†
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Old Blue was too drunk too often these days to make sense.†
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Besides, Cholly doubted if he could reveal his shame to Blue.†
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He would have to lie a little to tell Blue, Blue the woman-killer.†
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He would have to lie a little to tell Blue, Blue the woman-killer.†
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He was happier than he had ever remembered being, except that time with Blue and the watermelon.†
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Only they would know how to connect the heart of a red watermelon to the asafetida bag to the muscadine to the flashlight on his behind to the fists of money to the lemonade in a Mason jar to a man called Blue and come up with what all of that meant in joy, in pain, in anger, in love, and give it its final and pervading ache of freedom.†
Chpt 4
I want them blue.†
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A little black girl who wanted to rise up out of the pit of her blackness and see the world with blue eyes.†
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Blue eyes.†
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New, blue eyes, she said.†
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I'd like a pair of new blue eyes.†
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But I gave her those blue eyes she wanted.†
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I gave her the blue, blue, two blue eyes.†
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(1) (blues as in: sings the blues)
a style of music that originated among African Americans at the beginning of the 20th century; has a "soulful" or melancholy sound from repeated use of blue notes

Blue notes are notes that are sung or played slightly lower than they would be in the major scale—especially the flattened third, fifth, and seventh degrees.
(2) (blues as in: feeling the blues)
feelings of sadness or depression
(3) (meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus)
"Blues" more commonly describes shades of the color.

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