Sky Color

Sky Color 

1. The colors hanging suspended in midair like huge, floating ostrich plumes —Paul Kuttner
2. The edges of the sky had a yellowish tinge like cheap paper darkening in the sunlight —Ross Macdonald
3. Pale blue sky like some Stuka dive-bomber —Donald Seaman
4. A redness in the sky, like the flame at the back of a vast baker’s oven —Saul Bellow
5. Skies are gray as tarn —Richard Ford
6. Sky blue as winter milk —Joyce Cary
7. The sky changed through several colors and became a soft crumbled gray. It was like walking under the roof of an enormous cave where hidden fires burned low —Ross Macdonald
8. Sky [at dusk] … green as unripe apples —Erich Maria Remarque
9. The sky is gilded with red, as if intoxicated —Cora Sandel
10. Sky … like terra cotta —Saul Bellow
11. Sky so pale blue and clear as a baby’s eye —Joyce Cary
12. Sky the color of oiled steel —T. Coraghessan Boyle
13. The sky was a dome of gray, stretched evenly like parachute silk at full billow —Lael Tucker Wertenbaker
14. The sky was gray as a battleship —Mike Fredman
15. The sky was hard blue, like bright ink —James Stern
16. The sky was the color of dishwater —T. Coraghessan Boyle
17. The sky was yellow as brass —Erich Maria Remarque