Blue Point

He thrust in the blue-point of his pocket-knife to test the constitution of the stuff. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was a gorgeous cat, a five-month-old blue-point Siamese with eyes like blue laser beams: thus, his name. ❋ Jack Canfield (2008)

Nick had a dozen blue-point oysters, the dish the restaurant is most famous for. ❋ Kalyn Denny (2006)

In the midst of duck-hunting camps with wide, screened-in porches and adjacent boathouses was the tiny vegetable farm and blue-point crab business of Woodrow Reed. ❋ James Lee Burke (2002)

We earnestly discuss blue-point oysters and caviare, which, if you "know the man," you can get sent fresh on the Vienna Express from ❋ Betty Keays-Young [Editor] Salmon (1890)

However, my third, a husky blue-point Siamese mix, was holding out, and I was afraid he might never like it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Shoot the slopes in the morning, take in the Boston Pops that evening and stop for an nice al fresco lunch of lobster and blue-point oysters on your way in between. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Russe -- whatever that is -- ninety cents; German asparagus, a single helping, one dollar and forty cents; blue-point oysters, fifty cents; fifty cents for clams; Gorgonzola cheese, fifty cents a portion; and, in a land where peaches and figs grow anywhere and everywhere, seventy-five cents for an order of brandied peaches and fifty cents for an order of spiced figs. Even seasoned New Yorkers have been known to breathe hard on receiving a check for a full meal at certain restaurants in Los Angeles and San Francisco. ❋ John T. McCutcheon (1910)

We ate boiled shrimp and blue-point crabs in a ramshackle, screened-in restaurant by the bay, and in the mauve twilight the water looked flat and gray, rippled in places by a slight breeze, like wrinkles in a skim of paint, and in the west the distant islands of sawgrass were edged with the sun’s last red glow on the horizon. ❋ James Lee Burke (1988)