azure

• And there appeared on his fob a seal cut with a coat of arms highly foliaged--azure with silver chevrons and three leopards' heads gold, which he had discovered to be the Répentigny device. —  The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette
• Their colour is azure, as it was before. —  The Metamorphoses of Ovid Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes and Explanations
• The characters of this letter were of azure, and the contents as follows The King of the Indies, before whom march one hundred elephants, who lives in a palace that shines with one hundred thousand rubies, and who has in his treasury twenty thousand crowns enriched with diamonds to Caliph Haroun-al-Raschid Though the present we send you be inconsiderable, receive it however, as a brother, in consideration of the hearty friendship which we bear for you, and of which we are willing to give you proof. —  The Arabian Nights Their Best-known Tales
• Attached to the bottom of the gas bag is a basket, usually holding four observers, with a parachute for each man, and while in the air they have to work as fast as possible, because their stay in the azure is as short as the energies of Fritz can make it. —  S.O.S. Stand to!
• The women are robed as for balls in silken skirts of every hue--azure, rose, apple-green, violet, and orange. —  A Woman's Impression of the Philippines

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