- a blue day.
-  a blue family.
-  a blue flame.
-  a blue movie.
-  a dark gloomy day.
-  a disconsolate winter landscape.
-  a dispirited and resigned expression on her face.
-  a gloomy silence.
-  a juicy scandal.
-  a naughty wink.
-  a ragged blue line.
-  a risque story.
-  a week of rainy depressing weather.
-  an aristocratic family.
-  aristocratic bearing.
-  aristocratic Bostonians.
-  aristocratic features.
-  aristocratic government.
-  blue blood.
-  blue haze of tobacco smoke.
-  blue jokes.
-  blue language.
-  blue laws.
-  depressed by the loss of his job.
-  downcast after his defeat.
-  feeling discouraged and downhearted.
-  foul-mouthed and blasphemous.
-  gloomy at the thought of what he had to face.
-  gloomy predictions.
-  grim rainy weather.
-  he had eyes of bright blue.
-  he shot an arrow into the blue.
-  he skips asterisks and gives you the gamy details.
-  lonely and blue in a strange city.
-  naughty words.
-  October's bright blue weather.
-  of gentle blood.
-  patrician landholders of the American South.
-  patrician tastes.
-  profane words.
-  puritanic distaste for alcohol.
-  racy anecdotes.
-  she was anything but puritanical in her behavior.
-  she was wearing blue.
-  spicy gossip.
-  the blue-blooded aristocracy.
-  the dark days of the war.
-  the darkening mood.
-  the first dismal dispiriting days of November.
-  the Union army was a vast blue.
-  took a grim view of the economy.