In literature, “misty blue” is often used to evoke a sense of ethereal beauty and quiet mystery by blurring the boundaries between earth and sky. Writers frequently employ the hue to describe vast natural landscapes—a range of misty blue mountains, for instance, which dissolve into the heavens and suggest both distance and dreamlike softness as seen in [1], [2], [3], and [4]. The same gentle, diffuse quality is transferred to depictions of the sky and sea, where the color imparts a calm and introspective atmosphere, as in [5], [6], and [7]. Moreover, “misty blue” is not confined to landscapes; it also colors human features, subtly mirroring moods of introspection and fragile beauty when describing eyes in passages like [8] and [9]. Overall, the recurring use of misty blue across these texts enriches the narrative with layers of atmosphere and delicate emotional nuance.
- [pg 31] of the mountains crested with fringes of dark pine, down to a lonely and desolate valley, shut in by dim and misty blue peaks.
— from Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 by Various
- In the distance the Belmont mountains were a deep, misty blue, and the clouds above them all white and gold.
— from Clematis by Ernest Cobb
- The mountains were a deep, misty blue.
— from Clematis by Ernest Cobb
- The fields were long and low-lying, sloping down to the misty blue rim of sea.
— from Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery
- [Pg 7] into the misty blue of the horizon.
— from Old Quebec: The Fortress of New France by Claude Glennon Bryan
- He stood at the window and looked at the distant pale disk of the moon in the misty blue sky, and thought.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of Short Stories by Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
- Following the wave of his hand Hare saw the sun, a pale-pink globe through a misty blue, rising between the golden crags of the eastern wall.
— from The Heritage of the Desert: A Novel by Zane Grey
- Mary Cecily turned her misty blue eyes on Azalea.
— from Azalea at Sunset Gap by Elia Wilkinson Peattie
- It was a gentle, happy face with misty blue eyes that carried at the moment a serene contentment.
— from Flood Tide by Sara Ware Bassett