His lips were a bluish color.
For a moment as he was rearranging his cloak Pierre opened his eyes and saw the same penthouse roofs, posts, and yard, but now they were all bluish, lit up, and glittering with frost or dew.
Those from Archangel are more silky and of a smoky bluish colour and are the most valuable.
The best are the pale bluish greys, and are chiefly used for ladies' coats, stoles, muffs and hats.
It is believed that the bluish colour of many clays and limestones is referable to the presence of finely divided pyrites, and it is known that certain deposits of blue mud now forming around continental shores owe their colour, in part, to disseminated iron sulphide.