blue devils
Example Sentences
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The “blue devils” then gather at the town’s crossroads, spitting fake blood, to terrify the children of their neighbors, or of visitors from the island’s nearby capital of Port of Spain.
From The New Yorker
“I’m well, but you sound like you’ve got a bit of the blue devils!”
From Time
The blue devils were drawn up in formation in the middle of a big meadow cupped within hills.
From Project Gutenberg
Archibald, duke of Argyle, was haunted by blue phantoms—the origin of our epithet for melancholy, "blue devils."
From Project Gutenberg
When an old woman talks of witches, ghosts, or blue devils, we naturally make an allowance for bad education, or the imbicility of intellect, occasioned by age.
From Project Gutenberg
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
