They are black spots against the greenish-grey sky. From Wordnik.com. [WIL WHEATON dot NET: 1.5: November 2003 Archives] Reference
Above these twinkled a sparkling pair of small greenish-grey eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Ralph Rashleigh] Reference
It swells, distends, turns colors — first a greenish-grey, then a curious violet. From Wordnik.com. [Death's Noisy Herald] Reference
The creature was female; her greenish-grey breasts drooped over a lightly-haired stomach. From Wordnik.com. [Forest of Forgetfulness] Reference
It was as if a wall stood up between them and the sky, a greenish-grey, trembling, shimmering wall. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Dawn Treader]
His jaws snapped, and his cold greenish-grey eyes flashed, as he gave another curt bow of dismissal. From Wordnik.com. [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference
A wise warrior once told me: 'Respect your brother M'Lak, no matter what shade of greenish-grey he may be'. From Wordnik.com. [Review | Space Captain Smith by Toby Frost] Reference
However, we learned that if you add too much, it makes the bread a frightful greenish-grey color on the inside. From Wordnik.com. [Tigers & Strawberries » Split Pea Soup: It’s Ugly] Reference
The (formerly) white leather seats were split and tattered, and had turned an ugly greenish-grey with age and mold. From Wordnik.com. [Music To My Sorrow]
Eventually the sisters each paw out beds in the soft, greenish-grey clay beside me, and wait for something to happen. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
A very dark, greenish-grey paper covers the walls; the curtains, the carpet, and the doors are in the same slightly sombre shades. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference
Ah, there was the valley — a greenish-grey stretch of colour — still looking placid and serene, as though it had not much missed him. From Wordnik.com. [A Changed Man] Reference
Shu -- Indigenous life-form to shu, a greenish-grey lizard-like creature that is 2 feet long when grown, mostly land-based but can also swim. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2004-08-08] Reference
He goes on to describe how the bears 'fur rippled in waves as they trotted off away from him, large brown lumps in a flat, greenish-grey world. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
A light and pleasing blue, with a greenish-grey cast by day, it possesses little depth or richness, and is far excelled in beauty by a good aluminous cobalt. From Wordnik.com. [Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists] Reference
A fungoid growth -- a unique one, of greenish-grey colour -- developed from spontaneous impregnation, and decolourized the liquid, which originally was of a yellowish - brown. From Wordnik.com. [The Harvard Classics Volume 38 Scientific Papers (Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology)] Reference
Her eyes were especially attractive, greenish-grey eyes fringed by long black lashes under curved dark brows contrasting with the warm auburn tint of the hair that showed under her sunhat. From Wordnik.com. [The Jungle Girl] Reference
But the process of deterioration continued, the nose began to lose its shape, one hand was turning greenish-grey, the eyes were sinking in their sockets and the ears were becoming crumpled. From Wordnik.com. [John Gray on humanity's quest for immortality] Reference
Her face was small and thin and inclined to be sallow, and beneath upward-slanting brows, to which art had undoubtedly added something, glimmered a pair of greenish-grey eyes, clear like rain. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Far End] Reference
He was bald enough to keep what hair he still owned cut very close to his scalp; his long and clever face had a firm mouth and greenish-grey eyes that, Sophia insisted, saw clear through to the soul. From Wordnik.com. [TOO MANY MURDERS] Reference
The greenish-grey patches are probably seas and lakes. From Wordnik.com. [A Trip to Venus] Reference
Sporadic greenish-grey hairs were scattered about his chin. From Wordnik.com. [South Wind] Reference
Their colour is greenish-grey, and their oval form is pleasing to the eye. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2] Reference
Also on my to-do list (but in no way comparable to a greenish-grey veggie). From Wordnik.com. [Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch] Reference
He pulled out a piece of paper -- it was the greenish-grey piece we'd wrapped the Turk and chains in. From Wordnik.com. [New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune] Reference
He pulled out a piece of paper – it was the greenish-grey piece we'd wrapped the Turk and chains in. From Wordnik.com. [New Treasure Seekers] Reference
She looked at the visitor with an inquisitive glance as she entered the room, and approached him softly, with her light, greenish-grey eyes fixed upon his face. From Wordnik.com. [Run to Earth A Novel] Reference
Her eyes were light -- a greenish-grey flecked with gold -- but they were very bright with dark lashes and themselves appeared quite dark when she was moved or excited. From Wordnik.com. [The Privet Hedge] Reference
A fungoid growtha unique one, of greenish-grey colourdeveloped from spontaneous impregnation, and decolorized the liquid, which originally was of a yellowish-brown. From Wordnik.com. [I. The Physiological Theory Of Fermentation. On the Relations Existing Between Oxygen and Yeast] Reference
They are fairly glossy, one being very much elongated, of a greenish-grey ground, with long longitudinal dashes of dark brown, as unlike Minivets 'eggs as they can possibly be. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
The wrapper is of plain greenish-grey paper. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry] Reference
A greenish-grey uniform and carried a rifle. From Wordnik.com. [Our Casualty, and Other Stories 1918] Reference
One, two, three, four, she counted, looking up at the greenish-grey stone. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
The runway, disconcertingly, was greenish-grey, not tarmac, and was made of flattened, consolidated earth, overgrown with grass. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wind]
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