All 30 Uses
blues
in
Nation, by Terry Pratchett
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- For a moment his eye caught the little blue bead tied to his wrist; it would keep him safe on the journey home.†
Chpt 1. *
- He'd be like mihei gawi, the little blue hermit crab, scuttling from his shell to a new one once a year, easy prey for any passing squid.†
Chpt 1.
- It was a big bird, with shiny blue-black feathers and a white chest, and little white feathers covering its legs.†
Chpt 1.
- And now the little blue hermit crab was out of its shell and scuttling across the sand, looking for a new shell, and there wasn't one.†
Chpt 2.
- As for the picture, he thought it might be some kind of magic or charm, like the blue bead.†
Chpt 3.
- He watched as a brown liquid was poured into a blue-and-white bowl.†
Chpt 3.
- It was half a world of blue sea, but it was stitched together with seams of little marks, tiny dots that her father had called island chains.†
Chpt 4.
- He glanced at the blue bead on his wrist.†
Chpt 4.
- Then he looked down at the little blue bead on his wrist.†
Chpt 4.
- He was the blue hermit crab, hurrying from one shell to another, and the big shell he had thought he could see had been taken away.†
Chpt 4.
- The blue jade stone?†
Chpt 4.
- When a faint breeze blew it over the fire, the flames burned blue for a moment.†
Chpt 5.
- Then they magically knew things, like how to hold babies the right way up and how to go "Ooozeewididwidwden?" without the baby screaming until its little face went blue.†
Chpt 5.
- And this is me, seeing all that horizon, Daphne thought, looking at the wash of blue that stretched all the way to the end of the world.†
Chpt 6.
- "I'm the little blue hermit crab," said Mau under his breath.†
Chpt 6.
- The wave had really pounded through here; he could see deep blue water beyond the gap.†
Chpt 7.
- The sunlight shone blue through the waves above, but below Mau it was green, shading to black.†
Chpt 7.
- This was the world, all of it, just this silent blue ball of soft light, and the shark and Mau, without a knife.†
Chpt 7.
- It had seemed so warm in the blue bubble.†
Chpt 7.
- His lips were blue.†
Chpt 8.
- Once more Mrs. Gurgle's dark little eyes looked into Daphne's face as if it were clear water—and there Daphne was, on the stairs in her nightdress with the blue flowers on it, hugging her knees and staring in horror at the little coffin on top of the big one, and sobbing because the little boy would be buried all alone in a box instead of with his mother, and would be so frightened.†
Chpt 8.
- One day a large blue butterfly, blown from one of the islands, landed on the deck.†
Chpt 11.
- He called himself the little blue hermit crab, scuttling across the sand in search of a new shell, but now he looks at the sky and knows that no shell will ever be big enough, ever.†
Chpt 15.
- On Mau's left wrist was a little blue hermit crab.†
Chpt 15.
- "But the sky is still blue!" said the girl.†
Chpt Toda
- The boy looked through the eyepiece and backed away quickly, staring at the clear blue sky.†
Chpt Toda
- A blue hermit crab, sir.†
Chpt Toda
- Because you liked my blue Jupiter.†
Chpt Toda
- Because there are stars and blue hermit crabs.†
Chpt Toda
- Blue Jupiter It's my favorite viewing, when the orbit is right, which means it's in the eastern sky late in the day.†
Chpt A.N.
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.