"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 |
