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She seemed to be permeated with a sense of the instability and uncertainty of all things, and never appeared able to recover from her surprise that she, 'Rory Bean, a mastiff of most ancient lineage and of the bluest blood, should not be able to walk about in safety wherever she pleased even in the streets of the metropolis. "I recollect we once lost her in London.
It is finest just when the hepaticas are at their bluest on the warm hillsides; and, one sunny afternoon of a spring journey along the north branch of the Susquehanna river, I did not know which of the two conspicuous ornaments of the deeply wooded bank made me most anxious to jump from the too swiftly moving train.
For a moment a horrid suspicion filled the mind of Captain Baster. . . . But no: it was impossible a child in whose veins flowed some of the bluest blood in England. Besides, her slender arms could never have thrown the stones as straight and hard as that.
A wonder of a sight, sahib! Blue water blue water bluest ever I saw, who have seen lake water in the Hills! And all the ships belching black smoke, and throwing up pure white foam and the last ship so far behind that only masts and smoke were visible above the sky-line but more, we knew, behind that again, and yet more coming!
Far out at sea the water is as blue as the bluest cornflower, and as clear as the clearest crystal; but it is very deep, too deep for any cable to fathom, and if many steeples were piled on the top of one another they would not reach from the bed of the sea to the surface of the water. It is down there that the Mermen live.
"He is a jolly nuisance," says Mr. Browne. "He hasn't got much soul, if you mean that," says Roger "'A primrose by a river's brim, A yellow primrose is to him And it is nothing more." "That is such utter nonsense," says Dulce, tilting her pretty nose and casting a slighting glance at her fiancé from eyes that are "The greenest of things blue, The bluest of things gray."
Through the same State, also, the Western meadow-larks kept us company, and I shall never again think of "bleeding Kansas," but of smiling Kansas, the home of the bluest of blossoms and the sweetest of singers. The latter half of the way through the smiling State was golden with yellow daisies in equal abundance, and beside them many other flowers.
She hesitated again, and then said, turning her bluest glance on him: "I am going to be quite frank with you, Mr. Amherst. Mr. Tredegar repeated to me what you said to him last night, and I think he was annoyed that you were unwilling to give any proof of the charges you made." "Charges? Ah," Amherst exclaimed, with a start of recollection, "he means my refusing to say who told me that Dr.
"Well, he did just the same thing with me," rejoined Darrin. "You just keep your eye on me, Dan! Do you see me shaking? Do you hear my voice falter? See me burning any blue lights? "Perhaps, Dave, you don't take the whole business as much to heart as I do," continued Dan Dalzell almost tremulously. "Why, Great Scott, if they drop me at the Naval Academy, I'll be the bluest fellow you ever saw!
"Behold how great a matter a little fire kindleth!" the moralizing bystander of the period might have observed, as he took note of the electrical condition of the political atmosphere of York, and, indeed, of the whole Province the result of the indiscretion of one man, and the partisan frolic of half a dozen lads, who had inherited, with the bluest of Tory blood, the prejudices of their fathers.
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