blue-bag

Two years ago, Chicago gave up the ghost on blue-bag recycling after more than a decade of failure.

Chicago Recycling FAIL: $1 Million In Unused Blue Carts Sit In A Warehouse, Only One Third Of Chicagoans Have Them 2010

The reason why there had been space for this tete-a-tete can only be known by looking into the back kitchen, where Totty had been discovered rubbing a stray blue-bag against her nose, and in the same moment allowing some liberal indigo drops to fall on her afternoon pinafore.

Adam Bede 2004

If the walls are very yellow, blue the water slightly by squeezing in it a flannel blue-bag.

The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home Mrs. F.L. Gillette

TERLAN (a merry little squire, who takes business and pleasure alike with imperturbable placidity of temper, and who always uses a double-handed rod for mayfly fishing): The same to you, old blue-bag.

Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler William Senior

However, I have felt no inconvenience from any of the stings, in spite of being without the blue-bag.

A Yeoman's Letters Third Edition P. T. Ross

The most elaborate explanations on Sylvia's part failed to solve the mystery, and she kept on reiterating, "Why blue-bag?" in tones of baffled curiosity, while Sylvia lay back in her chair and sighed, and raised her eyebrows and stared hopelessly at the corner of the ceiling.

More about Pixie George de Horne Vaizey 1887

She could walk about the house in the dark and put her hand on the blue-bag and the list of last week's washing.

More about Pixie George de Horne Vaizey 1887

His face was not improved by the blue-bag, and his expression was that of a hunted animal.

A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884

Them wasps, their sting is very sharp, and even my lady's blue-bag did not remove them at once.

A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884

Lady Jane left the room, and returned with a blue-bag, which she applied to James's swollen hand and cheek.

A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls L. T. Meade 1884