The fog had closed in again, thick yellow-grey in the weak daylight. From Wordnik.com. [A Funeral In Blue]
Now, from out of the ripped-open side of the mountain, a chthonic blood oozed, yellow-grey, viscous, steaming hot. From Wordnik.com. [Asimov's Science Fiction]
Save for two in the middle of the street, they were all precisely the same — yellow-grey boxes with slate tents on top. From Wordnik.com. [The Years] Reference
The clothes were different, of course, but there was something familiar about those red-rimmed eyes and that revoltingly sticky-looking, yellow-grey moustache. From Wordnik.com. [The White Cottage Mystery]
Its most recent transformation had been also the most radical, so that little could now be seen of the original shiny yellow-grey bricks for glossier expanses of plate glass. From Wordnik.com. [PROOF]
She found the shop and ate her ice-cream sitting on a bench outside, but by the time she had finished the insistent breeze had whipped up into a chill wind, and the sky was a curious yellow-grey colour. From Wordnik.com. [Consultant Care]
Hester looked sideways at him in the hansom as they moved through the streets muffled by fog, passing from the thick, yellow-grey density which caught in the throat, and out into a paler, thinner patch where the light broke through and she could see the black lattice of branches above. From Wordnik.com. [A Funeral In Blue]
Doncaster took the weather that would have smiled on poor Guy F. Kris and I almost missed the first race owing to the programme's early start in the short daylight, but watched the second under the bright yellow-grey sky that itself brought out smiles, good humour, and the favourites as winners. From Wordnik.com. [Second Wind]
They took the new road along by the Tiber; the yellow-grey river rolled between the green slopes. From Wordnik.com. [Jenny: A Novel] Reference
But he laughed enigmatically, with a sliding motion of his yellow-grey eyes, and went to take off his coat. From Wordnik.com. [Adolf] Reference
The ovate buds, located in the axils of 1-7 branched thorns, arc arranged in spirals on the yellow-grey shoots. From Wordnik.com. [Article Source] Reference
They had come to the white gate that led between the shrubberies and the grass-plot with the yellow-grey stone house behind it. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Waddington of Wyck] Reference
When they had gone he sat down to the old bureau, took out a sheaf of papers, some white and new, others yellow-grey with age, and yet others which were sheets of the ancient papyrus. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension] Reference
Then a storm rolled in and we swam in the surf under the rain, with a magical yellow-grey sky above us and a strange calmness in the water even as powerful gusts skimmed over its surface. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Some of them were dressed in the heavy woollen garments usually worn by German merchant seamen, but half a dozen of them were wearing the yellow-grey canvas trousers of the New Caledonian convict. From Wordnik.com. [Rídan The Devil And Other Stories 1899] Reference
Nevertheless the timid red, or sickly yellow-grey, brick of the existing houses is pleasingly veiled by ivy and Virginia creeper, while no shop front obtrudes derogatory suggestion of retail trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Far Horizon] Reference
Seated next to him was a lady with large healthy shoulders, displayed with splendid liberality; beyond her a husband, red-cheeked, with drooping, yellow-grey moustache and a bald head; beyond him again two men whom he had known at Eton. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Pharisees] Reference
A yellow-grey beard clustered closely round a short chin, and when perchance the sealskin cap was absent yellow-grey hair of a similar hue completed the circle, standing up as high from his brow as fell the beard downward from his chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Slave of the Lamp] Reference
By the death-grin of the face the gleaming fangs were revealed; and the body, the long yellow-grey body, rested, or seemed to rest, upon short, malformed legs, whilst one long limp arm, the right, hung down straightly in the preservative. From Wordnik.com. [The Devil Doctor] Reference
The yellow-grey crumbling walls were green in places with wrinkled harts-tongues, and were topped with sweet-williams and spreading house - leek and stone-crop and wild-flowers whose delicious sweetness made for the drowsy repose of perfect summer. From Wordnik.com. [The Man] Reference
You see where they camped and the river they looked at -- a gentle-running, sapphire stream with yellow-grey stones showing across it, not much more than a hundred yards across when we saw it -- and the big double masonry wall beyond it which they battered and scaled. From Wordnik.com. [From Edinburgh to India & Burmah] Reference
His yellow-grey eyes were horizontal. From Wordnik.com. [VDARE.com: Blog Articles » Print » Norman Finkelstein’s Amazing Jawline] Reference
Untidy yellow-grey hair -- unbecoming clothes -- those depressing art greens!. From Wordnik.com. [One Two Buckle My Shoe]
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