blue
noun
the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nanometers.
bluely
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a word derived from
blue.
Example Sentences
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I thought how fine a scene might be played on a stage like this; if I were a ghost, how bluely I would glimmer at the windows, how whimperingly chatter in the wind.
From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Martin Ross
The Sailor sighs as sinks his native shore, As all its lessening turrets bluely fade; He climbs the mast to feast his eye once more, And busy Fancy fondly lends her aid.
From Poems by Samuel Rogers
I see her hovering feet More bluely veined, more whitely sweet Than those of sea-born Venus when she rose From out her cradle shell.
From Romance of Roman Villas (The Renaissance) by Elizabeth W. (Elizabeth Williams) Champney
At sunset, in the city, the air grew cooler, a salt breeze came up the harbor from the ocean, tossing bluely outside.
From Anne by Constance Fenimore Woolson
Far to the northwest rise bluely the three peaks of Monadnock.
From John Greenleaf Whittier His Life, Genius, and Writings by W. Sloane Kennedy
