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  • My love begins in my biologic self, grows with my growth, takes its hues from visioned sunsets in corn-flower skies, its grace from swaying rivers of grain seen in dreams.

    The Kempton-Wace Letters 2010

  • I saw her body stiffen, her corn-flower eyes distend and darken, her red lips part; and her women bent to each other, whispering, while the murmur of the crowd swelled.

    Dwellers in the Mirage 2004

  • He usually wore a coat of corn-flower blue; his rotund and portly person was still further set off by a clean white waistcoat, and a gold chain and seals which dangled over that broad expanse.

    Father Goriot 2003

  • He had left off wearing the corn-flower blue coat, and was sumptuously arrayed, summer as well as winter, in a coarse chestnut-brown coat, a plush waistcoat, and doeskin breeches.

    Father Goriot 2003

  • In the sharp folds of the steep mountain slopes to the north-east, the shadows were pure corn-flower blue.

    The Plumed Serpent 2003

  • Andrew Ryan: Tall, Nova Scotia Irish, sandy-going-gray hair, corn-flower eyes.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Andrew Ryan: Tall, Nova Scotia Irish, sandy-going-gray hair, corn-flower eyes.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • Andrew Ryan: Tall, Nova Scotia Irish, sandy-going-gray hair, corn-flower eyes.

    206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990

  • There were the bronzed Tommies in khaki, the snappy, dashing poilus in their uniforms of corn-flower blue, veterans hardened in a score of battles from Ypres to Verdun.

    Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy Homer Randall

  • "Joe" -- fear and worry leaped to the lovely corn-flower eyes,

    Green Valley Katharine Reynolds

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