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Literary notes about light blue (AI summary)

Literary authors have often employed light blue to evoke a sense of delicate beauty, calm, and even ethereal wonder. It appears in vivid natural descriptions—a river’s surface shining in light blue, reflecting a sky dotted with clouds ([1])—while simultaneously imbuing characters with a subtle yet arresting quality, as seen in depictions of light blue eyes that convey both innocence and mystery ([2], [3], [4]). The hue also surfaces in sartorial details, lending an air of refinement to dresses, uniforms, and accessories, as noted in sparkling descriptions of light blue silk and embroidered garments ([5], [6], [7]). Beyond mere physical description, light blue often carries associations with the heavens and distant, ephemeral domains, contributing layers of symbolism to the narrative ([8], [9]).
  1. The river is a shining, spangled, surface of light blue and white, reflecting the sky sprinkled with fleecy clouds.
    — from A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs: The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 by George McKinnon Wrong
  2. Her features were small and delicate, the forehead well shaped, the eyes singularly bright, and of a light blue, under finely marked eyebrows.
    — from Darkness and Dawn; Or, Scenes in the Days of Nero. An Historic Tale by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
  3. And the Curate looked at her with dull, light blue eyes, which were dazzled and abashed, not made expressive and eloquent by feeling.
    — from Ombra by Mrs. (Margaret) Oliphant
  4. His figure is slender and erect, his face boyish and his eyes a light blue.
    — from The Old World and Its Ways Describing a Tour Around the World and Journeys Through Europe by William Jennings Bryan
  5. And so, I shall wear my light blue dress this evening; blond powder will go with it exactly.
    — from Monsieur, Madame, and Bébé — Complete by Gustave Droz
  6. He is in full dress, looking very smart in the light blue Bavarian uniform with its red cuff-facings.
    — from The Diary of a French Private: War-Imprisonment, 1914-1915 by Gaston Riou
  7. Her dress was of light blue, with square-cut neck, filled in with creamy white lace.
    — from Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner FolksA Picture of New England Home Life by Charles Felton Pidgin
  8. The spectral phenomenon now begins at one side with light blue and passes into indigo and violet, with uncoloured darkness in the centre.
    — from Man or Matter Introduction to a Spiritual Understanding of Nature on the Basis of Goethe's Method of Training Observation and Thought by Ernst Lehrs
  9. Most assuredly not!—White and light blue—the colours of the heavens.
    — from Romantic Canada by Victoria Hayward

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