"Blue devils" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... blue devils in blue hell," said Syme, "contributed to my blue funk! But the worst devil was you and your ...
— The Man Who Was Thursday - A Nightmare • G. K. Chesterton
... in that house—not to be accounted for by mere creature comforts—that made it easier to fight off the blue devils of loneliness and took away a little of the reminder's stings when some tantalizing shape appeared in his tobacco clouds. Every morning he was awakened by her voice at the piano, a few minutes of scales and then one song, always a true matin song, full of hope and ...
— The House of Toys • Henry Russell Miller
... canker-worm Will feed upon the fairest, freshest cheek, As well as further drain the wither'd form: Care, like a housekeeper, brings every week His bills in, and however we may storm, They must be paid: though six days smoothly run, The seventh will bring blue devils or a dun. ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron |
