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Examples
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My love begins in my biologic self, grows with my growth, takes its hues from visioned sunsets in corn-flower skies, its grace from swaying rivers of grain seen in dreams.
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I saw her body stiffen, her corn-flower eyes distend and darken, her red lips part; and her women bent to each other, whispering, while the murmur of the crowd swelled.
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He usually wore a coat of corn-flower blue; his rotund and portly person was still further set off by a clean white waistcoat, and a gold chain and seals which dangled over that broad expanse.
Father Goriot 2003
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He had left off wearing the corn-flower blue coat, and was sumptuously arrayed, summer as well as winter, in a coarse chestnut-brown coat, a plush waistcoat, and doeskin breeches.
Father Goriot 2003
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In the sharp folds of the steep mountain slopes to the north-east, the shadows were pure corn-flower blue.
The Plumed Serpent 2003
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Andrew Ryan: Tall, Nova Scotia Irish, sandy-going-gray hair, corn-flower eyes.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Andrew Ryan: Tall, Nova Scotia Irish, sandy-going-gray hair, corn-flower eyes.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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Andrew Ryan: Tall, Nova Scotia Irish, sandy-going-gray hair, corn-flower eyes.
206 BONES Kathy Reichs 1990
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There were the bronzed Tommies in khaki, the snappy, dashing poilus in their uniforms of corn-flower blue, veterans hardened in a score of battles from Ypres to Verdun.
Army Boys in the French Trenches Or, Hand to Hand Fighting with the Enemy Homer Randall
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"Joe" -- fear and worry leaped to the lovely corn-flower eyes,
Green Valley Katharine Reynolds
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