"Blue devil" Quotes from Famous Books
... it was this sign. If the name of this miserable little country tavern had been anything suitable to itself and the place, if it had been called The Plough and Harrow, The Gray Horse, or even The Blue Devil, I think I should have been glad to see it. A village inn might have been a point of interest to me, but Central Hotel in this mournful settlement of small farmers ... — The House of Martha • Frank R. Stockton
... chanson? Vell, sair, I shall sing to frighten avay de littel blue devil; vill you I shall sing de ... — She Would Be a Soldier - The Plains of Chippewa • Mordecai Manuel Noah
... in the over-emotion of his self-centered passion, so terribly driven to prove to himself something vague yet all-powerful, illusive yet imperious, divined what these Blue Devil soldiers had been through. His mind was more than telepathic. Almost it seemed that souls were bared to him. These soldiers, quiet, intent, made up a grim group of men. They seemed slow, thoughtful, plodding, ... — The Desert of Wheat • Zane Grey |