All 14 Uses
blues
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A Vampire's Assistant
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- He was exactly as I remembered: a few years older than me and very thin, with long yellow-green hair, narrow eyes, and strangely webbed fingers and toes; his body was covered in green, gold, yellow, and blue scales.†
Chpt 8
- They were the small, blue-hooded people that Steve and I had seen the night of the show, the ones who helped sell sweets and toys to the crowd and assisted with the acts.†
Chpt 12
- I'd forgotten about those strange blue-hooded helpers.†
Chpt 12
- The blue-hooded people passed by silently.†
Chpt 12
- He wasn't very tall; he just looked big in comparison to the blue-hoods.†
Chpt 12
- The blue-hoods and the man with the torch walked farther into the campsite, all the way to the back, where they found a large clear spot.†
Chpt 12
- Then the blue-hoods began putting up a tent — they must have been carrying the equipment underneath their capes — while the larger man headed for Mr. Tall's van.†
Chpt 12
- The small guys in the blue-hooded capes?†
Chpt 13
- What I do know is, ever since, I've gone out of my way to be polite to the small, silent people in the dark blue capes.†
Chpt 13
- Are you telling me those dwarfs in blue capes are elves?†
Chpt 14
- I figured the fox, chicken, and rabbits would easily feed six or seven of the blue-hoods.†
Chpt 15
- I'd tried talking to a couple of the silent blue-hooded creatures, but none of them looked at me when I spoke.†
Chpt 17 *
- The shirt was light green, the pants were dark purple, and the jacket was blue and gold.†
Chpt 23
- The tiny man — if it was a man — in the blue-hooded robe rubbed his stomach with his hands.†
Chpt 26
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.