indigoes

Their invisible barrier boiled and broken, they melt the space between them as lightning screams down indigoes from the sky.

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Behind him, lightning crashes across the stars and indigoes bleed from bruise to red as chemicals cut the sky.

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What is said here is that too many U.S. military trainers, as indigoes (ph) by the Study Group, would undermine the sovereignty of the Iraqi army, therefore undermine the sovereignty of Iraq as a whole.

CNN Transcript Dec 11, 2006 2006

"A study of color" indeed -- a study in wonderful harmonies of vivid blues and opalesque pinks, amethysts and greens, indigoes and lakes, all the gem-like tints breaking up into sparkling fragments every moment, to reset themselves the next instant in

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various

The sky, low and heavy with tumbled cloud, was a study in greys and indigoes; the earth a still, uncharted waste.

The Great Amulet Maud Diver 1906

Denver in 1901, these birds were abundant and as easily approached and studied as are the indigoes of the East.

Birds of the Rockies 1896

The further western altitudes shift their pearline gray to deep blue where the sky is yellowing up behind them; and in the darkening hollows of nearer mornes strange shadows gather with the changing of the light -- dead indigoes, fuliginous purples, rubifications as of scoriae, -- ancient volcanic colors momentarily resurrected by the illusive haze of evening.

Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877