A slow, soaking rain fell from a lead-colored sky. From Wordnik.com. [Fateful Journeys] Reference
Pale or lead-colored nails indicate melancholy people. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
On the floor of the cage was a dull, lead-colored disk. From Wordnik.com. [Step into Chaos]
It looked like a dull ocean of lead-colored little billows; vast, dead, immovable. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Bridge] Reference
Apart from another distant mutter of thunder, the lead-colored day was very quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Thin Air] Reference
Caris halted and turned to face the wizard in the lead-colored shadows of the lane. From Wordnik.com. [The Silent Tower]
One evening the sun sank in a mass of dull lead-colored clouds and a sharp wind sprang up. From Wordnik.com. [Five Thousand Miles Underground Or, the Mystery of the Centre of the Earth] Reference
The sea gently knocked at the ramparts of the Portuguese citadel, mustard - and lead-colored after centuries of wear. From Wordnik.com. [India’s New Face] Reference
Even down here in relative shelter, it riffled the lead-colored waters of a vast pool of seepage that lay before their feet. From Wordnik.com. [The Silicon Mage]
It was boiling up all over its lead-colored surface. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes in the Hawaiian Islands and California] Reference
She ventured to the lead-colored dwelling of Mrs. Dave Dyer. From Wordnik.com. [Main Street] Reference
The sun had disappeared, and a lead-colored twilight settled down. From Wordnik.com. [South Sea Tales] Reference
The sun had disappeared, and a lead-colored twilight had settled down. From Wordnik.com. [The House of Mapuhi] Reference
There it lay outside his door, the same land, the same lead-colored miles. From Wordnik.com. [O Pioneers!] Reference
In the west a copper glow, ridged with lead-colored clouds, marked where the sun had set. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Plainsmen] Reference
White with color decorations, or brown or lead-colored without decorations, diminutive in size. From Wordnik.com. [Illustrated Catalogue Of The Collections Obtained From The Indians Of New Mexico And Arizona In 1879 Second Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1880-81, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1883, pages 307-428] Reference
The common had a lead-colored fence, and gravel paths, which ran across it from corner to corner. From Wordnik.com. [What Katy Did at School] Reference
As he drew near me, I knew him better; and he wore a lead-colored cloak, and was riding an iron-gray horse. From Wordnik.com. [Autobiography of Rev. Thomas W. Henry, of the A. M. E. Church] Reference
It has a long, thick, deep lead-colored fur, intermingled with long hairs, invariably white at the top, forming. From Wordnik.com. [Astoria, or, anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains] Reference
The stream was not yet frozen, and its lead-colored waters took a black tint between banks whitened by the snow. From Wordnik.com. [Marie; a story of Russian love] Reference
"Look at those big, isolated clumps of building rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-colored sea.". From Wordnik.com. [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes] Reference
He appeared again almost immediately, dragging behind him a small lead-colored canoe which Dan recognized the moment he saw it. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Trapper] Reference
As the base shade, she used Saturate Eye Colour in Ciggy, followed by Asphalt on the lid, which is a matte lead-colored shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The latest WWD Headlines] Reference
Twice he went out to look at the sky, and the second time he saw banks of lead-colored clouds forming on the northwestern horizon. From Wordnik.com. [Crowded Out o' Crofield or, The Boy who made his Way] Reference
Katy the other, and the three passed between some lead-colored posts, and took one of the diagonal paths which led across the common. From Wordnik.com. [What Katy Did at School] Reference
It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-colored waters. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick: or, the White Whale] Reference
He was a little, truculent-looking man, and his face at present was red with a flush that sat unnaturally on a normally lead-colored face. From Wordnik.com. [Something New] Reference
A gray sky and with a lead-colored water foreground. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Project Gutenberg Writings of Charles Dudley Warner] Reference
The clouds were lead-colored and low. From Wordnik.com. [Death of a Hawker]
It is lead-colored above, and lighter beneath. From Wordnik.com. [Nature's Serial Story] Reference
Aplomado is the Spanish word for lead-colored. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Echo BETA] Reference
A lead-colored water foreground. From Wordnik.com. [Baddeck, and That Sort of Thing] Reference
"Leaden"; gray and heavy, lead-colored. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 The Guide] Reference
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