blue ruin
Example Sentences
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Others offer country cheese, soft and white, with rolls, while in a shanty beside the road hot coffee and "blue ruin" are dealt out to thirsty souls by a ponderous mulatto woman.
From Due South or Cuba Past and Present by Ballou, Maturin Murray
The inspired person who chose to call a coffin an "eternity box" and whisky "blue ruin" was too innocent to sneer.
From The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour by Runciman, James
Fold, wrinkle, and void shrieked their history with a hundred tongues, invoking earthquake, eclipse, and blue ruin.
From Penrod by Tarkington, Booth
They saw blue ruin without our financial help.
From The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II by Hendrick, Burton Jesse
Of course, old Carfew would howl blue ruin at the mere idea.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
