blue-rock

The Brooklyn-based tribe of neo-classical blue-rock noodlers are sure to make good on their name.

Week ahead: Raheem DeVaughn visits Kimmel; Endless Boogie to boogie endlessly at Black Cat 2010

Here the amount of green surface, and the number of birds, especially the blue-rock and the insect-impaling “butcher,” whose nests were in the thin forest of thorn-trees, argue that water is not far off.

The Land of Midian 2003

He was Palumbo the drummer (whose prior conviction had been for smuggling butterfly eggs in the hollow of his bass), and in order to drum with the Giant Panda one had not only to be versed in the blue-rock tradition but had to have musicological knowledge and polyrhythmic aptitudes so as to help weave those esoteric and eclectic textures in which the Giant Panda specialized.

Another Roadside Attraction Robbins, Tom 1971

The pigeons were very tame, and presently a beautiful blue-rock came up confidently, and began to eat.

The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Sarah Grand

When blue-rock pigeons descend by thousands in the market-place to profit by an over-turned sack of grain, visitors marvel at their irridescent necks and breasts -- but a beauteous peacock appearing on the scene attracts an admiration amounting to monopoly.

East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Frederic Courtland Penfield 1888

That is to say, a company had bought the privilege of taking from the mine 5,000,000 carloads of blue-rock, for a sum down and a royalty.

Following the Equator Mark Twain 1872

That is to say, a company had bought the privilege of taking from the mine 5,000,000 carloads of blue-rock, for a sum down and a royalty.

Following the Equator, Part 7 Mark Twain 1872

Without doubt the carrier is entitled to rank first in the pigeon family, with the exception, perhaps, of the blue-rock pigeons.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

Without doubt the carrier is entitled to rank first in the pigeon family, with the exception, perhaps, of the blue-rock pigeons.

The Book of Household Management Isabella Mary 1861

Here the amount of green surface, and the number of birds, especially the blue-rock and the insect-impaling "butcher," whose nests were in the thin forest of thorn-trees, argue that water is not far off.

The Land of Midian — Volume 2 Richard Francis Burton 1855