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blues
in
Alas, Babylon
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Not until she straightened did her china-blue eyes begin to discern movement in the hushed gray world around her.†
Chpt 1
She lifted her bright, fiercely blue eyes and added, as if repeating one of the Commandments: "Censorship and thought control can exist only in secrecy and darkness."†
Chpt 2
A flag, three white stars on a blue field, popped out of the cockpit, indicating that a lieutenant general was aboard, and alerting McCoy to provide the courtesies due such rank.†
Chpt 2
Hart looked up and saw three blue Air Force sedans swing up the driveway.†
Chpt 2
Randy listened, fascinated, until he saw three blue sedans turn a corner near wing headquarters.†
Chpt 2
He saw the three blue sedans pull up at Operations.†
Chpt 2
Each year, when he attended the branch Federal Reserve convention in Atlanta, two new suits were tailored, one double-breasted blue, one pin-stripe gray, both designed to minimize, or at least dignify, what he called "my corporation."†
Chpt 3
All Edgar's loans were based on Character, and Character was based on cash balance, worth of unencumbered real estate, ownership of bonds, and blue-chip stocks.†
Chpt 3
Her chestnut hair was disheveled, her eyes, a deep and stirring blue, round in apprehension.†
Chpt 5
High up there, where it was already sunlight, they saw silver arrows speeding and three white contrails boldly slashed across morning's washed blue sky.†
Chpt 5
Pallid flesh showed under blue and yellow checked shorts.†
Chpt 5
On River Road he passed a dozen convicts, white men, clad in their blue denim with the white stripe down the trouser leg.†
Chpt 5
His face was pink and shaven, he was dressed in a new blue suit, white handkerchief peeping from the breast pocket, and he wore a correct dark blue tie.†
Chpt 5
His face was pink and shaven, he was dressed in a new blue suit, white handkerchief peeping from the breast pocket, and he wore a correct dark blue tie.†
Chpt 5
Lib, wearing corduroy jodhpurs and a heavy blue turtleneck sweater, greeted him at the door.†
Chpt 7
The bitter-blue grass had been carefully tended, and the bed was shaded from afternoon's hot sun by a live oak older than Fort Repose.†
Chpt 7
Dan Gunn came out of the bedroom, dressed in Levi's and a blue checked sports shirt.†
Chpt 8
He looked at the big stone, and into it, and a thousand blue and red lights attested to its worth and purity.†
Chpt 8
The ring dropped to the floor, bounced, tinkled, and came to rest on the corner of a blue silk Chinese rug.†
Chpt 8
I never noticed— They looked down at it, its facets blinking at them from the soft blue silk as if it were in a display window.†
Chpt 8
Where his right eye should have been, bulged a blue-black lump large as half an apple.†
Chpt 9
The groom wore his Class A uniform with the bold patch of the First Cavalry Division on his arm and the ribbons of the Korean War and Bronze Star on his chest, along with the blue badge of the combat infantryman.†
Chpt 11
It is called by an Indian word meaning Blue Crab Pool.†
Chpt 12
In this pool there were blue crabs, such as are found only in the ocean, yet the pool is many miles inland, and two hundred miles from the mouth of the St. John, or May.†
Chpt 12
Randy closed the log, grinned, and said, "I've heard of Blue Crab Run but I've never been there.†
Chpt 12
With the south wind blowing hot and steady, they planned to reach Blue Crab Pool before night and be back in Fort Repose by noon the next day, for their speed would double on their return voyage downstream.†
Chpt 12
It would last for months and when it was gone there was an unlimited supply waiting on the shores of Blue Crab Pool.†
Chpt 12
John Garcia just made another run up to Blue Crab Pool and he's dropping off a washtub of crabs here.†
Chpt 13 *
He wore a blue, zippered Air Force flight suit with the eagles of a full colonel on his shoulders.†
Chpt 13

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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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blues
in
Alas, Babylon
(Auto-generated)