Word: blue
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Decked with a necktie blue...
...stranger there, so he was obliged to buy a compass, in order to "know where he was when he was lost." We started on Hanfield Avenue, turned up Victory Street and ascended Mount Garfield, where we could see the charming city Chelsea below us, and in the distance the blue air of Boston. The great questions to be solved were these : Do the blue waves lick the ocean? Is Chelsea built on terraces formed by fish bones from Tafts or by the sea? We thought so. After this solution the instructor was all broke up, and said he wanted...
...there is one thing I hate more than another, - I say thing, as the word seems most appropriate, - it is a blue-coat, a peeler, a cop. I know not by what name that noble enforcer of the laws, that preserver of the country's peace, is best known to you; but never mind its name, perhaps it has none, the label may have dropped off. I was never well acquainted with these queer specimens until I came to college, but there I found the true article, the Cambridgeport peeler; this very fascinating individual interrupted, one Sunday afternoon, a quiet...
...Blue-coat did not recognize me, and so much the better. I told uncle I would attend to him, and I rather think I did. Instructions had been given the coachman to have the pony and mule ready at four the next morning, but I told Pat I would attend to them myself. The pony was an easy riding animal, but the mule was a perfect terror, and the most severe bit could not begin to hold him. Determined to have some fun with the detective, I put on the mule the bridle with the snaffle-bit, and, after assuring...
With the beautiful eyes of blue...