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BLUE SKY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The sky as viewed during daylight
Example:
he shot an arrow into the blue
Synonyms:
blue; blue air; blue sky; wild blue yonder
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("blue sky" is a kind of...):
sky (the atmosphere and outer space as viewed from the earth)
Context examples:
When we were able to stagger to our feet we saw far off in the deep blue sky one dark spot where the lump of basalt was speeding upon its way.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So they went to the water together, and just then there were some of the small fleecy clouds in the blue sky, which are called little lambs, and they were reflected in the water, whereupon the peasants cried: We already see the sheep down below!
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
I swear, he cried, by the sun, and by the blue sky of heaven, and by the fire of love that burns my heart, that if you grant my prayer, while they exist you shall never behold me again.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The kitchen, the butler's pantry, the servants' hall, the entrance hall, were equally alive; and the saloons were only left void and still when the blue sky and halcyon sunshine of the genial spring weather called their occupants out into the grounds.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
All this I shall some day write at fuller length, and amidst these more stirring days I would tenderly sketch in these lovely summer evenings, when with the deep blue sky above us we lay in good comradeship among the long grasses by the wood and marveled at the strange fowl that swept over us and the quaint new creatures which crept from their burrows to watch us, while above us the boughs of the bushes were heavy with luscious fruit, and below us strange and lovely flowers peeped at us from among the herbage; or those long moonlit nights when we lay out upon the shimmering surface of the great lake and watched with wonder and awe the huge circles rippling out from the sudden splash of some fantastic monster; or the greenish gleam, far down in the deep water, of some strange creature upon the confines of darkness.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Instead of subsiding as night drew on, it seemed to augment its rush and deepen its roar: the trees blew steadfastly one way, never writhing round, and scarcely tossing back their boughs once in an hour; so continuous was the strain bending their branchy heads northward—the clouds drifted from pole to pole, fast following, mass on mass: no glimpse of blue sky had been visible that July day.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
It was a solemn place, for the walls were so gigantic and the slit of blue sky so narrow and so obscured by a double fringe of verdure, that only a dim and shadowy light penetrated to the bottom.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As we limped homewards, sadly mauled and discomfited, we saw them for a long time flying at a great height against the deep blue sky above our heads, soaring round and round, no bigger than wood-pigeons, with their eyes no doubt still following our progress.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
