Be durable (anag) — wife-murderer

Usage examples of bluebeard.

Admittedly, the tales I had heard of Bluebeard warred with the image of the elegant gentleman sitting before me, but I could not discount my belief that he would soon grow tired of Lorel and that death would befall her as had his previous wives.

Charles, with Bluebeard on his left and La Hire on his right, comes from the vestry, where he has been disrobing.

Anne often threatened to leave her, and go to a boarding-house, of which there were plenty in the place, yet, after all, to live with her sister, and drive out in the carriage with the footman and coachman in mourning, and the lozenge on the panels, with the Bluebeard and Shacabac arms quartered on it, was far more respectable, and so the lovely sisters continued to dwell together.

Besides being an exceedingly spacious and dismal brick building, with a dismal iron railing in front, and long, dismal, thin windows, with little panes of glass, it looked out into the churchyard, where, time out of mind, between two yew-trees, one of which is cut into the form of a peacock, while the other represents a dumb-waiter, it looked into the churchyard where the monument of the late Bluebeard was placed over the family vault.

The vault door was open, and there in the moonlight stood Bluebeard, exactly as he was represented in the picture, in his yeomanry dress, his face frightfully pale, and his great blue beard curling over his chest, as awful as Mr.

As he concluded, with a loud bang the door of the vault flew open, and there in blue light stood Bluebeard in his blue uniform, waving his blue sword, and flashing his blue eyes round about!

Then his inscrutable black eyes looked right into the harried eyes of Harry Bluebeard Trigg, and into the wide blue eyes of Christopher Robin, where each was hidden in the underbrush.

Lord Bluebeard, I will be forced to believe you to be a murderer and a madman.

I did so shakily, rubbing my strained knuckles and watching Bluebeard as he leaned against his desk, one calfskin-booted leg crossing the other.

The manservant brutally twisted my arms in their sockets, and together he and Bluebeard threw me back into my chair.

Despite what Bluebeard had done to me, my sister would see me and know instantly that I had come for her.

Anne, who hated her step-mother and could not live at home, was fain to accompany her sister to the town where the Bluebeards have had for many years a very large, genteel, old-fashioned house.

In the very center of Bluebeard, page 150 -- and I think you're conscious of its being in the middle of the book because later you have Rabo say that Circe will not read his autobiography in progress if he gets past 150 pages -- there is a list of all the abstract expressionists who committed suicide.

I have now returned to this typewriter from the vicinity of the swimming pool, where I asked Celeste and her friends in and around that public teenage athletic facility, if they knew who Bluebeard was.

I wrote an introduction to a special Franklin Library edition of Bluebeard that just came this morning -- that's how it happened to be open.