In the above mentioned exceptional cases there is formed a small quantity of peroxide which adheres to the anode as a blackish-gray deposit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 441, June 14, 1884.] Reference

Mr. Schryhart kicked out his well-rounded legs, adjusted his soft-roll collar, and smoothed his short, crisp, wiry, now blackish-gray mustache.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Titan] Reference

The obverse (front) has lilac-gray toning and the reverse (back) has much blackish-gray color along with considerable brownish-russet and some lilac tones.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Greatest World Coin Auction: The Millennia Collection (Part 1)- an Overview & Famous Pieces : Coin Collecting News] Reference

Behind the clear skies was a band of deep, dark, blackish-gray clouds.    From Wordnik.com.  [IdahoStatesman.com News Updates] Reference

It consisted of a vast stratification of blackish-gray slate, unvaried in its whole height by a single change of shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Pair of Blue Eyes] Reference

The tarantulas were just big hairy spiders, of a blackish-gray color, about as big as toads, and mighty ugly-looking things.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of a Common Soldier of Army Life in the Civil War, 1861-1865] Reference

The bark is fluted and blackish-gray in youth, and it breaks up into irregular plates, which on old trees frequently are five inches or more in thickness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Life on the Rockies] Reference

The Japanese cook pottered softly about in the square stone basement of the blockhouse, while, up above, his master sat at a table with his eyes fixed on a small mountain of blackish-gray rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rapids] Reference

When, therefore, a lamb was born with a black face and blackish-gray legs, it was cherished as a curiosity; and when, in time, it developed a splendid pair of horns, it became the handsomest ram in all the valley, and a source of great pride to its owner.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life] Reference

A clear limpid blue, a short fragment of a rainbow rising out of the light emerald-green sea, and stretching straight across the faded brown and dull green land with the little white houses, on to the blackish-gray cloud which flowed out into mist and against which the bright colors shone dazzlingly.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Dreams] Reference

The altered color here is evidently a consequence of the large development, in Ferindonald and Strathpeffer, of the ichthyolitic members of the Old Red, existing chiefly as fetid bituminous breccias and dark-colored sandstones: the boulder-clay of the locality forms the dressings, not of red, but of blackish-gray rocks; and, as almost everywhere else in Scotland, its trail lies to the east of the strata, from which it was detached in the character of an impalpable mud by the age-protracted grindings of the denuding agent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland] Reference

A blackish-gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 4. (of 7): Babylon The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.] Reference