Navy uniform, informally

Usage examples of blues.

Wool dyes best in a slightly acid bath, and this may be taken advantage of in dyeing the yellows and blues of this group by adding a small quantity of acetic acid.

The men will be adequately recompensed by the reds and blues and silver streaks we have introduced into the gray tusche of their lives.

Cerryl forced his senses onto the road, even as Teras sent forth a line of Gallosian cavalry to pursue the blues, who swung around the curve in the road that brought it more eastward.

And the following spring and summer would only bring more difficulty with the blues and their near-mythical commander.

I take a force through that underbrush without a road, the blues will take out most of my lancers before I can even see or sense them.

The paving stones looked normal enough, and the low stone walls were set back more than ten cubits from the edge of the paving stones, The walls were just a shade less than two cubits high, hardly tall enough to harbor the invisible knives that the blues had placed in more wooded areas.

The blues knifed through the remaining Gallosian horse, and sunlight glittered on their blades, blades that rose and fell with swiftness.

Eliasar inspected the barracks, the ones we took over from the blues, every six-day.

Gately would do Blues, which had to be injected, only when no oral narcs were to be got and he was face to face with early Withdrawal.

LXXXIX The Captain-Commander of Mirror Lancers sees a figure in shimmering merchanter blues and angles across the wide corridor before the vacant Great Hall of the Palace of Eternal Light, his steps gauged so that his path intercepts that of the shorter man.

CXXI The trim and muscular man who wears shimmercloth blues, with a deep-blue slash across each sleeve of his tunic, steps into the second office on the second floor of the clan building.

His blues should not be remarked, for most know that the dwelling belongs to a trader.

The cathedral domes were bright with colored swirls of mosaic tiles in rich reds, purples, and blues, and bristled with golden spires.

Behind the bar a stained glass window of liquor bottles glowed: the blues of English gin, the deep reds of claret and Madeira, the tawny browns of scotch and bourbon.

In addition to the brick-colored final coat there were others: dabs of green to control redness, pinks to add blush, blues above the eyes.