We could see the ocean down a cactus draw, stone-blue and still. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)
I remember the color, the stone-blue that turned to glass-green inside the necked bottle of the barrel. ❋ Peter Heller (2010)
His eyes were stone-blue and expressionless, the kind of eyes that looked through the glass at guinea-pigs dying of clinically induced cancer. ❋ Hall, Adam (1968)
The garden of the villa was a plot of land reaching down to a parapet lapped by the still stone-blue waters of the lake. ❋ Perceval Gibbon (1902)
The Scottish foreman-shipwright in the yard office looked up from his standing-desk, lifting, to the light of the open door a red monkey-face comically fringed with coppery whiskers, and stared at him ferociously with little stone-blue eyes. ❋ Perceval Gibbon (1902)
In that little stone-blue volume, "War is Kind," and in the earlier ❋ Unknown (1900)
Already he saw himself installed in charming bachelor's apartments, the walls covered with rough stone-blue paper forming an admirable background for small plaster casts of Assyrian _bas-reliefs_ and photogravures of Velasquez portraits. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
His imagination was forever covering the white walls with rough stone-blue paper, and placing screens, divans, and window-seats in different parts of the cold bare room. ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
The walls were covered with rough stone-blue paper, forming an admirable background to small plaster casts of Assyrian ❋ Frank Norris (1886)
The rim of the cup, rising high and densely wooded round the placid stone-blue water, has a sort of natural artificiality. ❋ Henry James (1879)
It is said to be of extraordinary depth; and though stone-blue water seems at first a very innocent substitute for boiling lava, it has a sinister look which betrays its dangerous antecedents. ❋ Henry James (1879)
Charlotte was nine-and-twenty years of age; with clear and telling stone-blue eyes, firm but not unsweet lips, slightly hollowed cheeks, and ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Charlotte was nine-and-twenty years of age; with clear and telling stone-blue eyes, firm but not unsweet lips, slightly hollowed cheeks, and a jaw that certainly tended to be square. ❋ George Meredith (1868)
Mr. Samuel Dockwrath was a little man, with sandy hair, a pale face, and stone-blue eyes. ❋ Anthony Trollope (1848)
"A washerwoman's stone-blue bag among her soapsuds -- stony enough." ❋ Edward Howard (1820)
