blue-velvet

The meeting is held in the actual room where CDC officials brief the press, complete with the blue-velvet backdrop and CDC logo.

The Curious Case of the Calamitous Cannabis 2009

Scott says enthusiastically, waving to the betta as he navigates his way through the fake aquatic plants in our fishbowl, his long tail an iridescent blue that coordinates perfectly with my subtly milk-stained blue-velvet couch, the one a friend thought I was crazy to get when I knew I was having a kid.

Louise Sloan: Single Mom, Serial Killer 2008

I pictured a flight across the Kalahari to German Africa, the crackling, parching days, the wonderful blue-velvet nights.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 2005

She turned just as Sara undid the clasp of her own blue-velvet cloak and swept it from her shoulders.

The Seduction Of Sara Hawkins, Karen 2001

It earned the name of "private" because of a pair of blue-velvet curtains that could be drawn across the entrance to conceal the diners within, but so seldom were that there was a hint of dust along the top edges of the heavy velvet bands that tied them back to either side.

The Serpent's Shadow Lackey, Mercedes 2001

The old lady was agitated now; her fingertips silently tapped the blue-velvet cover of the book in her lap.

Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982

At the house, a stony-faced Amarda led him into a small, overly furnished, stuffily hot room where her grandmother, today in a light-green silk sari, sat reading from a book with a blue-velvet cover and gilded pages.

Kahawa Westlake, Donald E. 1982

For the little, pearl-studded bracelet that lay in a blue-velvet case in the breast-pocket of Ivan's coat was, considering the boy's inexperience, in astonishingly appropriate taste; and well calculated to recall him to the mind of the girl of whom he had dreamed through nine long months.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

I pictured a flight across the Kalahari to German Africa, the crackling, parching days, the wonderful blue-velvet nights.

The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper 1915

I pictured a flight across the Kalahari to German Africa, the crackling, parching days, the wonderful blue-velvet nights.

The Thirty-Nine Steps 1915