Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "ice-blue".
In pale, ice-blue silk and ostrich plumes, she was as lovely now as in the portrait Gainsborough had painted when she was twenty and a newlywed duchess.
Her full lips had pulled back from her teeth, endowing her with a strangely wolflike appearance, and her ice-blue eyes burned with an almost feral intensity.
Queen Filfaeril smiled warmly and scanned the chessboard with her ice-blue eyes.
A few men, abjuring sleep, sat on their packs and talked softly- Some British horses, their pickets loosened from the wet ground, broke free and, scared by the ice-blue streaks of far lightning, galloped madly through the bivouacs.
Then, a lurid blaze began to flicker behind his ice-blue eyes, and a brickish color surged into his face.
Siri was dressed in a short ice-blue dress of shiny doupioni silk, with a matching shawl.
He was a slender blond-haired man, perhaps fifty, rather delicate of build with ice-blue eyes behind gold-rimmed aviator glasses.
The yeti looked up from his eating only occasionally, as if his whole universe resided in that bamboo pipe full of rice, yet I could tell that behind those ice-blue eyes the creature was counting, figuring, rationing the supplies we had brought.
His ice-blue eyes, clear evidence of his eldin blood, glared with a ferocity that stilled the breath in many throats.
Her own skimpy homespun skirts and heavy shoes looked like an ambulatory gray column under that rainbow assortment: pink ruffles, like cream stained by floating strawberries, a flounce of green gauze the precise shade of young spring leaves, heaps of ice-blue satin and mandarin-yellow silk.
Helene had changed into a gleaming ice-blue house-coat, and for a moment he stood just inside the door admiring her, oblivious of his weariness and of the cold wet snow that had accumulated at the back of his collar and around his ankles.
Since nothing was left of the memory but those words, `he's no one,' Salamander could assume the memory image of a tall old man with ice-blue eyes and white hair was just another dream come to walk the day.
He had his father's ice-blue eyes and his mother's straw-colored hair.
Like the trows, they favored silver for adornment, and as for apparel, they chose only white silk and gauze and cloth-of-silver, ice-blue or sea-gray.
She looked almost as washed-out as her clothes, and stringy blond hair hung uncared for about a sharp, gaunt face with striking ice-blue eyes.