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blae

ADJECTIVE
  1. of bluish-black or grey-blue

How To Use blae In A Sentence

  • As for Edith, she rambled at will among the bushes of the nearest ravine, under the faithful guardianship of Chimo, and hurried back to the camp almost every hour, laden with cloudberries, cranberries, blaeberries, and crowberries, which grew in profusion everywhere. Ungava
  • The great red face took a blae colour -- the tongue protruded from his mouth and the eyes stared wildly. The McBrides A Romance of Arran
  • It comprised mostly subalpine ground with tallish heather, blaeberry, and crowberry, with some patches of short heath.
  • Other names in use in Britain are whinberry, because the plant grows among whins; and blaeberry, ‘blae’ being a north country and Scots word for blue.
  • But they lookit sae blae, and their hearts were sae wae, The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume II. The Songs of Scotland of the past half century
  • And yet the Lord hath sent me to you, and our faithful men about here, crying, Come away to the marriage: Come away, I will renew My contract with you; I will not give you a bill of divorcement, but I will give My Son to you; and your souls that are black and blae, I will make them beautiful. The Covenants And The Covenanters Covenants, Sermons, and Documents of the Covenanted Reformation
  • We followed a little, fast-running irrigation channel most of the way up through forest and watched a woman picking myrtles with a device that looked a bit like a comb on the front of a box you would need very close-set teeth to do the same with Scottish blaeberries. Day 9 – Trient via the Fenetre d’Arpette
  • Are ye to eat your meat by the cheeks of a red fire, and think upon this poor sick lad of mine, biting his finger ends on a blae muir for cauld and hunger? Kidnapped: The Adventures of David Balfour
  • The island on which we had encamped was a small rocky one, covered with short heathery-looking shrubs, among which we found thousands of blaeberries. Hudson Bay
  • When he left the cottage, he did not return to the house, but threaded the little forest of pines, climbing the hill till he came out on its bare crown, where nothing grew but heather and blaeberries. Robert Falconer
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