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Word: blue (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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Usage:

JUDGING from the number of examinations held during the present week, the instructors wish to begin the new year by turning over the leaves of blue-books...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...winners Woodward (capt.), Adams, and Rockwell played well, and for '82 Leatherbee, Thatcher, and Manning. It is hoped another game can be arranged between these two teams; but let '82 take warning at this game, and be out to practise more regularly, or she may be beaten by a blue of a lighter shade than the Adams blue, which she would not, perhaps, appreciate...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMAN FOOT-BALL. | 11/8/1878 | See Source »

...Whose blue you've stolen from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BROOK. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...Freshman was drowsing over his book one night, when suddenly his door was thrown open, and in walked two strangers. They were queer companions: for one was a tramp, old, seedy, blue-nosed, and weather-beaten; and the other was a full-blown Sophomore in all the glory of cane, harlequin suit, and shirt embroidered with little pink turtles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN'S VISITORS. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

...ship dashed through the waters blue...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE STORM. | 10/25/1878 | See Source »

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