blae
Americanadjective
adjective
Etymology
Origin of blae
1150–1200; Middle English (north) bla < Old Norse blā blackish blue; see blue
Example Sentences
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How do you this blae eastlin wind, That's like to blaw a body blind?
From Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Burns, Robert
I’ve seen ’s hae days to fricht us a’, The Pentlands poothered weel wi’ snaw, The ways half-smoored wi’ liquid thaw, An’ half-congealin’, The snell an’ scowtherin’ norther blaw Frae blae Brunteelan’.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 14 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
How do you this blae eastlin wind, That’s like to blaw a body blind?
From The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham by Burns, Robert
The great red face took a blae colour—the tongue protruded from his mouth and the eyes stared wildly.
From The McBrides A Romance of Arran by Sillars, John
There is neither tree nor bush, the sky is grey, the earth buff, the air blae and windy, and clouds of coarse granitic dust sweep across the prairie and smother the settlement.
From A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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