I know what was her favourite costume when she was at the age that they make heroines of: it was a
pale blue with a
pale blue bonnet, the white ribbons of which tied aggravatingly beneath the chin, and when questioned about this garb she never admitted that she looked pretty in it, but she did say, with blushes too, that blue was her colour, and then she might smile, as at some memory, and begin to tell us about a man who - but it ended there with another smile which was longer in departing.
Hillocks grow into hills, and hills into mountains, each range overlying its neighbor, until they soar up in the giant chain which raises its spotless and untrodden peaks, white and dazzling, against the
pale blue wintry sky.
The girl was tall and wore a dress of
pale blue print.
Fair is the pine grove and the mountain stream That gathers to the valley far below, The black-winged junks on the dim sea reach, adream, The
pale blue firmament o'er banks of snow.
There was mild protest in his
pale blue eyes, and withal a timid frankness and manliness that quite won me to him.
His face was a fair weakness, his chin retreated, and his hair lay in crisp, almost flaxen curls on his low forehead; his eyes were rather large,
pale blue, and blankly staring.
"And Cecily is a sweet pink, like those mayflowers, and Sara Ray is very
pale blue, and Dan is red and Felix is yellow, like Peter, and Bev is striped."
Carey was a little, shrivelled woman of the same age as her husband, with a face extraordinarily filled with deep wrinkles, and
pale blue eyes.
A young woman with fluffy hair and in a
pale blue dinner-dress was dancing to an unseen audience.
In the centre of this enchanted garden Madame Nilsson, in white cashmere slashed with
pale blue satin, a reticule dangling from a blue girdle, and large yellow braids carefully disposed on each side of her muslin chemisette, listened with downcast eyes to M.
Diana is going to teach me to sing a song called `Nelly in the Hazel Dell.' She's going to give me a picture to put up in my room; it's a perfectly beautiful picture, she says--a lovely lady in a
pale blue silk dress.
It was a fresh, crystal morning, with icicles hanging like dazzling pendants from the trees and a glaze of
pale blue on the surface of the snow.