Then he takes over, using a blue pen.

He studied the infant, feeling the utter reality of the child, though it was drawn with nothing more than a blue pen.

Granger opened his desk drawer and took out the "safe" blue pen.

A random topic is distributed, and students have 30 minutes to write an essay using a black or blue pen.

I took blue and red felt-tipped pens and went across to the diagram on the wall.

I was happy to learn that Barthes, like me, prefers blue pens.

I use a blue pen, if you don't mind.

For his efforts, he won a blue pen.

In the previous example provided, prime refers to the repeated perception of the blue pen as the distractor.

Freedom of the press does not protect the writer from an editor's knife and blue pen.