"Bleu" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... ii. 104. Omar bin Abd-al-Aziz was governor of the province before he came to the Caliphate. To the note on Zarka, the blue-eyed Yamamite, I may add that Marwan was called Ibn Zarka, son of "la femme au drapeu bleu," such being the sign of a ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 1 • Richard F. Burton
... bought their provisions from a sausage merchant, a baker, and a wine-seller. A piece of blood-pudding, four sous' worth of bread, and a liter of "petit bleu" constituted the provisions, which they carried off in their handkerchiefs. After they had left Bezons they traveled slowly ...
— Selected Writings of Guy de Maupassant • Guy de Maupassant |
