Word: blue
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Fond are her eyes of blue...
Mocks its blue waves with its ne'er-ending moan...
...story is spacious enough to accommodate all the club boats, and each club has a range of rests for itself. The upper story will eventually be partitioned for dressing-rooms. And now the crews are commencing work which will decide whether the handkerchiefs at the front shall be light blue or crimson, dark blue or orange and black. Two races are expected before the season closes; one of them to be for the graduates' cup. This prize, by permission of the donors, is to be offered in the future for club races. It is a great improvement that coxswains...
...told all that, and it has no immediate interest for us. Suffice it to say that many of the spectators received the impression that her catcher and pitcher won the two games for Yale, and that, with the exception of those positions, the Magenta field was superior to the Blue. - Nassau (Princeton...
...that sometimes a terrible abyss is bridged over by a reach of hard drifted snow, so solid that one can walk over it, for the most part, in security; so thin that a stroke of the alpenstock will pierce it, leaving an opening through which may be discerned the blue vacancy beneath. Herbert Spencer drives his staff through the thin stratum of drifted words, of consolidated forms of thought, of congealed tradition which we have felt to be so solid beneath our feet, and bids us look and see the fathomless depths of the unknowable above which we stand...