Back brown-grey, ventral side light grey; harsh and shaggy fur. From Wordnik.com. [11. Rodent pests] Reference
Because of the flour they have a sort of brown-grey color to them. From Wordnik.com. [Presto Pasta Night - Soba Noodle Salad] Reference
And it was, it was that oddly purply brown-grey that you get from dried grapevine twined into wreaths. From Wordnik.com. [mrissa: Why nobody puts me in charge of marketing children's clothes.] Reference
Freefalling, the brown-grey mist stuck to her like spiderwebs and she couldn't get away from the creature. From Wordnik.com. [Moonheart]
There was a rare, thunderous snowstorm here before Christmas and the sidewalks are still piled with brown-grey slush, black ice. From Wordnik.com. [blog: January 2009] Reference
Nothing, for instance, was growing — it was an expanse of brown-grey earth, craggy as an acne scar, baked and sun-dried and barren. From Wordnik.com. [That Pesky Question of Foreign Domination | ATTACKERMAN] Reference
The pictures taken on the ground show an apparently empty brown-grey, solid building, but nothing that seems to indicate it is being used for nuclear purposes. From Wordnik.com. [the cia video] Reference
The common tern chicks are nearly as big as their parents - though they still beg for wriggling silver fish - and have exchanged their speckled down for mottled brown-grey feathers and rakish charcoal caps above white foreheads. From Wordnik.com. [High summer] Reference
The long-billed vulture is of a uniform brown-grey colour. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Indian Hills] Reference
It was a narrow place between high blank brown-grey walls. From Wordnik.com. [New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune] Reference
There are enough overmuscled, gritty space marines in brown-grey hallways. From Wordnik.com. [Joystiq] Reference
You could spread it lightly with Marmite to give that brown-grey colour to some of the buildings. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
The color of the head is brown-grey; getting darker towards the tail, and brighter on the lower body. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests] Reference
In a minute she drew herself together and moved softly, a fleecy brown-grey shadow, a few paces forward. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
He is described as being 183 cm (6 feet) tall of medium build, with short brown-grey hair and green eyes. From Wordnik.com. [ireland.com Breaking News] Reference
He has a little rat-gnawn, brown-grey beard, moustaches, high cheek-bones, hollow cheeks, small fiery eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Plays of John Galsworthy] Reference
For down below, with her big fore-feet against the rock, stood another big brown-grey bulk -- the she-bear. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of Space and Time] Reference
For her, the crude brown-grey landscape rose and fell with the motion of the hammock, and jarred with the exotic memories he evoked. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land] Reference
The background of the whole thought is an irregular cloud of deep depression, heavily marked by the dull brown-grey of selfishness and the livid hue of fear. From Wordnik.com. [Thought-Forms] Reference
They discovered unsuspected elements of power in his thin, tight mouth, in the direct, cold glances of his brown-grey eyes, in the very way he carried his head and wore his hat. From Wordnik.com. [The Market-Place] Reference
Not only have we here a large stain of the dull brown-grey of selfishness, but there is also a considerable difference in the form, though it appears to possess equal definiteness of outline. From Wordnik.com. [Thought-Forms] Reference
I believe this is about what he said, and we understood that he wanted us to come and see his mother, and that he would give Alice something pretty, and then see us safe out of the horrible brown-grey country. From Wordnik.com. [New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune] Reference
It was a strange sort of place over the river; all the streets were narrow, and the houses and the pavements and the people's clothes and the mud in the road all seemed the same sort of dull colour -- a sort of brown-grey it was. From Wordnik.com. [New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune] Reference
It was a strange sort of place over the river; all the streets were narrow, and the houses and the pavements and the people's clothes and the mud in the road all seemed the same sort of dull colour – a sort of brown-grey it was. From Wordnik.com. [New Treasure Seekers] Reference
After one hour and thirty-five minutes (= seven miles) the Mukhbir anchored, in twelve fathoms of water, a couple of hundred yards off the fort and its dependent group of brown-grey mud buildings, half concealed by the luxuriant palms. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian — Volume 1] Reference
The dull hard brown-grey of selfishness shows itself very decidedly among the carmine of love, and thus we see that the affection which is indicated is closely connected with satisfaction at favours already received, and with a lively anticipation of others to come in the near future. From Wordnik.com. [Thought-Forms] Reference
His only definite sensations are despair and the sense of his personal loss, and these declare themselves in regular bands of brown-grey and leaden grey, while the very curious downward protrusion, which actually descends into the grave and enfolds the coffin, is an expression of strong selfish desire to draw the dead man back into physical life. From Wordnik.com. [Thought-Forms] Reference
(almost burnt sienna) shows avarice; hard dull brown-grey is a sign of selfishness -- a colour which is indeed painfully common; deep heavy grey signifies depression, while a livid pale grey is associated with fear; grey-green is a signal of deceit, while brownish-green (usually flecked with points and flashes of scarlet) betokens jealousy. From Wordnik.com. [Thought-Forms] Reference
A full clear carmine means a strong healthy affection of normal type; if stained heavily with brown-grey, a selfish and grasping feeling is indicated, while pure pale rose marks that absolutely unselfish love which is possible only to high natures; it passes from the dull crimson of animal love to the most exquisite shades of delicate rose, like the early flushes of the dawning, as the love becomes purified from all selfish elements, and flows out in wider and wider circles of generous impersonal tenderness and compassion to all who are in need. From Wordnik.com. [Thought-Forms] Reference
Sea, brown-grey. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese Prints] Reference
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