pale-blue

• “Fif­teen years later not a week goes by that I do not think about the fate of the pale-blue robe you gave me to wear on our anniversary vaca­tion by the waves”

  Fictionaut: Paradise Island

• “Yet, as I watched him pulling in good time at the oar, his large, pale-blue eyes seemed almost bovine -- the last man in the world, in my judgment, to have a Berserker fit.”

  CHAPTER XVIII

• “He's quite inoffensive, just a silly ass" is how readers are introduced to Campion, he of the "tow-coloured hair" and "foolish, pale-blue eyes behind tortoiseshell-rimmed spectacles" in "The Crime of Black Dudley" 1929, a serviceable account of murders at a house party.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Queen of Mystery

• “Beyond the historical importance of the collection was the room itself—neo-gothic walnut cases with busts above the shelves under a pale-blue domed ceiling and in the center, an early-American eight-sided table heaving with ferns and more books on fantastic subjects like astronomy and geography.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Bookish Good Looks

• “From behind her back, she pulled out a pale-blue stick and handed me the result of one of those home pregnancy test-kits.”

  Simon & Schuster: Fallin’ Up

• “In the bag there was a bundle wrapped in thin lemon-yellow tissue paper, sealed with a pale-blue oval sticker with gold lettering on it.”

  Archive 2009-09-01

• “Flouting the traditional fashion warning against wearing denim on both top and bottom, the designer likes to pair bright jeans with classic collared shirts in chambray, a lightweight, often pale-blue fabric that is similar to denim.”

  The Wall Street Journal: A Light Touch With Summer Denim

• “Mr. Egremont grants us glimpses of an austerely gorgeous idyll, of untamed forests and wide Masurian lakes, of a "softly lit horizon . . . and the pale-blue East Prussian sky," of ice-sailing regattas and sleigh rides, of marzipan at Christmas.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Eastern Reproaches

• “The pale-blue room looked like any other government office, with 22 customer-service windows and a white SSA seal on the glass door.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Insolvency Looms as States Drain U.S. Disability Fund

• “The article, which describes Gillibrand as "a petite woman with pale-blue eyes and perfectly coiffed blonde hair" who is "essentially folksy and earnest" and "radiates kindness" is also accompanied by a stylish slideshow of the Senator.”

  The Huffington Post: Kirsten Gillibrand Profiled In Stylish Vogue Article (PHOTOS)

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