"Out of the blue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... returned the young man, warmly. "I verily believe that I have a genius for getting on the wrong side of things. If I should wager you that I am alive at this moment there would be a bolt out of the blue before the money could ...
— The Gates of Chance • Van Tassel Sutphen
... A great bird came out of the blue, and sailed on slow wing over the hollow and ravine. He knew instinctively that it was the bald eagle of the night before, drawn back with a fascination it could not resist to the place where it had been frightened so badly. But it did not alight. Keeping at ...
— The Eyes of the Woods - A story of the Ancient Wilderness • Joseph A. Altsheler
... dear, you said our engagement was broken. I didn't believe you meant it. I couldn't. I was hurt when you returned my note unopened, but I watched and waited every hour of every day for a word. The news of your engagement to Bivens came as a bolt out of the blue sky. I refuse to accept such an act as final. You did it out of pique. You don't mean it. You can't ...
— The Root of Evil • Thomas Dixon
... of any note we came to, as day broke out of the blue fog which rose from the swampy forest, was Holland River Bridge, an extraordinary structure, half bridge, half road, over a swamp created by that river in times long gone by; a level tract of marsh and wild rice ...
— Canada and the Canadians - Volume I • Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle
... watched hour after hour since first New York had risen out of the blue indistinctness of the landfall. With the daylight he ...
— The War in the Air • Herbert George Wells
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