"Navy blue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... then a Chinese laundry, still open, steamy and stifling, smelling folded and vaguely yellow. All these depressed him; reaching Sixth Avenue he stopped at a corner cigar store and emerged feeling better—the cigar store was cheerful, humanity in a navy blue mist, buying ...
— The Beautiful and Damned • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... universal tactics. On looking over her wardrobe after her day at the Hornblower farm, Persis had been appalled by its manifest shortcomings. The black mohair, held to the light, betrayed an unmistakable greenish tinge. The navy blue was long since out of style. As for the wine-colored henrietta, it had never been becoming. The material had been presented Persis by a customer who had unexpectedly gone into mourning, and she had made it up and worn it with much the emotion of an old-time penitent in his hair-cloth ...
— Other People's Business - The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale • Harriet L. Smith
... from his pocket a small box, and taking out a piece of paper, he took from it a button to which adhered a piece of navy blue stuff. ...
— Serge Panine • Georges Ohnet
... most baffling shade of color that shone brown in darker shadows and yet in full light glinted as if subtly suggesting gold. Jimmy, who had a natural sense for color, pondered over this and decided that the tailormade would be of navy blue and that therefore violets would be the correct thing in the flower line to ...
— Mixed Faces • Roy Norton
... they were collected each morning by ambulances for the different Hospitals), and ask him to be kind enough to furnish a Bon pour un bain (a bath pass)! When I first went to the Bureau at the gare and saw this Commandant in his elegant tight-fitting navy blue uniform, with pointed grey beard and general air of importance, I felt that to ask him for a "bath ticket" was quite the last thing on earth! He saw my hesitation, and in the most natural manner in the world said with a bow, "Mademoiselle has probably come for ...
— Fanny Goes to War • Pat Beauchamp
... serge, navy blue, with two pockets. With it went a middy blouse, with white lacings at the neck, and white ...
— Clematis • Bertha B. Cobb
... suit of navy blue— I've brought him to the show Because he looks so very nice, He'll ...
— Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 • Edward William Cole
... girl admitted, "but I rarely notice men, and that I remember this one so distinctly and think of him surprises me. He was tall and broad shouldered and dressed in a navy blue business suit, and I think probably he was the handsomest man I have ever seen, though I cannot tell why I think so. His hair and eyes were brown, his hair almost black, it was so dark, and a trifle curly. His eyes were clear and honest looking, with a touch ...
— The Daughter of a Republican • Bernie Babcock
... said a nice navy blue was always useful. I'd rather have had a Cambridge blue myself. Mother says navy blue's so ladylike. Don't you ...
— The Limit • Ada Leverson |
