All 19 Uses
blues
in
The Thief, by Turner
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- Like the magus, they were dressed in dark blue tunics that flared at the waist over their trousers.†
Chpt 2
- It was dark blue and short-sleeved.†
Chpt 2
- The sun was just rising over the hills, the sky was blue and clear, but the hollow in which the town sat was still dark.†
Chpt 3
- "I'm a lot more important than anyone else here," I told the blue sky above me.†
Chpt 3
- It was dark blue on the outside, like the magus's, and was lined with a creamy gold color like a barley field before harvesting.†
Chpt 4
- He was blue and white with clouds and sometimes black and spangled with stars, and when the sun set, he was beautiful indeed.†
Chpt 5
- They aren't blue.†
Chpt 7
- I sat and watched my hands turn blue.†
Chpt 7
- The mountains were black against the pink and blue evening sky.†
Chpt 7
- I dug my hands into the pockets of the blue trousers the magus had given me.†
Chpt 8
- I SLEPT THROUGH THE DAY with sunlight and blue sky filtering through my closed eyelids.†
Chpt 9
- It was deep blue and had a pattern like running water woven into it.†
Chpt 9
- I closed my eyes as I heard the rustle of cloth behind me, wondering if it was the midnight blue gown with the water pattern as Oceanus checked to see if I had left any dirt.†
Chpt 9
- But I looked closer at the letters carved in the side of it and saw the sun glint off something blue at the bottom of the carving.†
Chpt 10
- I peered down the hole bored from top to bottom, then flipped it over and, looking closely, could see where the water had worn the stone smooth and uncovered a few blue flecks of the gem inside.†
Chpt 10
- Things were muddled and awful for a long time, and when I opened my eyes again, I was lying on my back and the sky over me was perfectly blue.†
Chpt 11
- The blue was all I could see.†
Chpt 11
- The blue sky above me turned to red and then to black.†
Chpt 11
- The sapphire hidden in the stone caught the light, and the carved letters seemed to hover, bright blue, in the air.†
Chpt 12 *
Definitions:
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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 notesBlue 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.
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(2)
(blues as in: feeling the blues) feelings of sadness or depression
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(3)
(meaning too common or too rare to warrant focus) "Blues" more commonly describes shades of the color.