All 7 Uses

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Queen of Attolia
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Attolia watched as his lips flushed blue, and then he fainted, his head dropping forward to his chest, his dark hair covering his face.†
Chpt 3
You could hardly be dragged home from there without risking a rain of thunderbolts, and now that you've been safe from being disturbed all day, you're blue with cold.†
Chpt 6
The sky was pink and blue with the dawn, and the air was still.†
Chpt 8
They waited through the day, those who could sleeping, the rest watching the blue sky for the first sign of clouds.†
Chpt 13
All of them were colored the celestial blue and yellow of Attolia's army.†
Chpt 13
The sun had risen over the mountains and the sky was changing from gray to blue.†
Chpt 18
Attolia's throne room was blue and white and gold instead of the more somber red and black and gold of Eddis's.†
Chpt 20 *

Definitions:

(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.