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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Blue
 
  Blue as a whale.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Blue as blue-bell bed.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Blue as cobalt.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Blue as forget-me-nots.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Blue as indigo.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Blue as melancholy.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Blue as October skies.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Blue as the soft azure surface of the southern sea.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Blue as your nose on a cold day.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Blue as the sky in spring.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  10
  Blue as a vein o’er the Madonna’s breast.
            —Robert Browning		  11
  Blue as shimmering steel.
            —H. C. Bunner		  12
  Blue like the sea of a dream.
            —Joseph Conrad		  13
  Waters blue as violet banks.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  14
  A sky as blue as the enamel on the statuettes of Osiris.
            —Théphile Gautier		  15
  Blue like a corpse.
            —Nikolai V. Gogol		  16
  Blue as lips of death.
            —Eugene Lee-Hamilton		  17
  Blue as tint of maiden’s eye.
            —James Haskins		  18
Blue each visage grew,
Just like a pullet’s gizzard.
            —Thomas Hood		  19
  Sky as blue as June.
            —Robert G. Ingersoll		  20
  Blue were her eyes as fairy-flax.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  21
  Lips, as blue as salt-water.
            —Philip Massinger		  22
                Blue
And beautiful, like skies seen through
The sleeping wave.
            —Thomas Moore		  23
  Blue as blazes.
            —John Clay Neal		  24
  Blue as autumn’s skies.
            —Winthrop Mackworth Praed		  25
  Blue … like a patch of fallen April sky.
            —William Marion Reedy		  26
  Blue as the eyes of a saint.
            —Francis S. Saltus		  27
  Blue as bilbery.
            —William Shakespeare		  28
  Blue as the overhanging heaven.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  29
                Blue
As are the violets that hide
Our dewy earth from view.
            —Evaleen Stein		  30
  Blue as plague.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  31
  Blue as heaven’s cloudless canopy.
            —Esaias Tegner		  32
  Blue like an ancient Briton.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  33
  Blue as with the cold.
            —Israel Zangwill		  34
 
 
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