Gornt looked at him under his shaggy black-gray eyebrows. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Jace glanced toward Luke, who was staring out at the heaving black-gray river. From Wordnik.com. [City of Ashes] Reference
His nose was red and bulbous and his long, black-gray hair matted and wild like his beard. From Wordnik.com. [Tai-Pan]
A wad of black-gray hair would rise and hover for a moment and then drop and scuttle along the sidewalk. From Wordnik.com. [The Work of Poetry : Rachel Zucker : Harriet the Blog : The Poetry Foundation] Reference
Their attorney was a New Yorker, a handsome man with wavy black-gray hair and dark eyes and dark rings under his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Her husband was incredibly nice—black-gray hair, good-looking, a little bit older than me, a rugged face, though a bit fey. From Wordnik.com. [The Double Life is Twice as Good] Reference
The engineer offered a quick smile in return, then glanced at the roof, where three sides were complete, with the black-gray slate tiles spiked in place. From Wordnik.com. [Fall of Angels]
A thin layer of ice covered the window ledge outside the casement, and the engineer watched as one flake, then another, dropped onto the ice, melding with it and turning transparent, the black-gray stone showing through. From Wordnik.com. [Fall of Angels]
The slopes of the hills upon which we stood appeared like the shore, and those distant black-gray spots surrounded by a seeming blue, so wonderfully like islands in the ocean, were the oases of the Ziban, encircled by the great sea of sand, the desert. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, September, 1878] Reference
The reporting party said one of the men was wearing a black-gray zip-up hooded sweatshirt. From Wordnik.com. [Minot Daily News] Reference
And the world was black-gray, and violent, and very cold, with the flying spray freezing to ice in every lodgment. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
Volcanic glass (which makes up the ash) tends to have similar black-gray colors no matter the silica content, particularly small particles. From Wordnik.com. [ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science] Reference
Koehler captured that young man in his elegant photograph, a figure in black-gray water, and presented it in what Koehler called "the classic tradition.". From Wordnik.com. [CourierPostOnline.com - News] Reference
Her spine drooped into an indolent curve, her soft red lips fell apart, her black-gray eyes opened wide as she held out her hand to the young Englishman. From Wordnik.com. [The Sisters-In-Law] Reference
Instead of a horrifying and intimidating ghoul with leathery wings, fur, fangs, and claws, the hybrid is a scrawny, shirtless doofus with long fingernails, black-gray skin, and greasy hair. From Wordnik.com. [DVD Verdict] Reference
Black-robed, black-haired, with black-gray eyes and a grave sad face of ivory pallor, she stood, like one of old Terborch's portraits, a harmony in tones so low as to be but one step removed from monochrome. From Wordnik.com. [The Eye of Osiris] Reference
Nothing could make the great irises of her black-gray eyes look blue, but they shone out, dazzling, under the drooping brim; and if she was, perchance, too warm above, her scant skirt, her thin silk stockings and low patent leather shoes struck the balance like a brilliant paradox. From Wordnik.com. [The Sisters-In-Law] Reference
In the west black-gray clouds rolled up like blankets, shutting out heaven and air; low thunder growled; at five o'clock of a midsummer afternoon it was almost dark; a storm was coming fast, and coolness would come with it, but in the meantime it was hard for a man who felt heat intensely just to get breath. From Wordnik.com. [August First] Reference
The main part of the island is sand, with slabs and tables of polished rock sticking up through it; and in between the rocks grew in thousands most beautiful lilies, their white flowers having a very strong scent of vanilla and their bright light-green leaves looking very lovely on the glistening pale sand among the black-gray rock. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in West Africa] Reference
"buckeyes" rooted their way between the interstices of the black-gray rock. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Mine] Reference
The day had become black-gray. From Wordnik.com. [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference
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