ultra-marine

The Post Office is a tidier-looking structure, tarted up in an eye-catching shade of ultra-marine blue with an oh-so-subtly highlighted accent trim – which is beguiling – to be sure.

West Hollywood Post Office…69′er zip gets spruced up! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008

Then, presently, a long ultra-marine vista down the turgid stream of one of the channels of traffic, and

First Men in the Moon Herbert George 2006

She would, no doubt, describe it as "an ultra-marine tone, similar to the underside of a Navajo hummingbird's wing during a roseate sunset in the desert"; it is, nonetheless, purple.

Reader reviews of Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman. 2001

Under the crystalline azure of a summer sky, the water of the harbor had an intensity of color rarely seen, except in the pictures of the most ultra-marine painters.

Acadia or, A Month with the Blue Noses Frederic S. Cozzens

_ -- Churning all day through a sea of ultra-marine hue, with a brilliant sun overhead and a fair breeze behind.

The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde" George Davidson

The lagoon, here deep, here shallow, presented, according to its depth or shallowness, the colours of ultra-marine or sky.

The Blue Lagoon: a romance 1907

He turned his head away almost in anger when he saw that the beautiful brown wainscoting was being painted an ultra-marine blue.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

A new sense was opened up in her, and she felt somehow that the ultra-marine blue was not right, that the over-mantel had been spoiled, that the new walnut table was too noticeable, and that the American rocking-chair looked very common.

The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897

He turned his head away almost in anger when he saw that the beautiful brown wainscoting was being painted an ultra-marine blue.

The Pomp of the Lavilettes, Volume 1 Gilbert Parker 1897

A new sense was opened up in her, and she felt somehow that the ultra-marine blue was not right, that the over-mantel had been spoiled, that the new walnut table was too noticeable, and that the American rocking-chair looked very common.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897