But perhaps there is none more beautiful than the golden-yellow, with blackish-grey head and tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Illustrated London Reading Book] Reference

It's an ashen hour of night, blackish-grey and almost readable like undisturbed pages of burnt manuscript.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Crimson Petal and The White by Michel Faber] Reference

A press release sent to media outlets by Barrows states several "vital statistics" of the "Bigfoot" body, including that it is nearly eight feet tall, weighs over five hundred pounds and has blackish-grey eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [August 14th, 2008] Reference

Halfway through third week the Sebrights sported fully feathered wings, Kayley had a tiny comb and a few snow-white wing and leg feathers, Julianna had black tail feathers, distinct but tiny, sticking straight up, and the Silkies 'down was even fluffier, especially on their large blackish-grey feet.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Chicken Chronicles] Reference

They are of a blackish-grey above, and a lighter hue beneath.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

Yes, I can see plainly now -- blackish-grey, and shiny as if slimy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Cat's Paw The Story of a Strange Cruise] Reference

Any subsequent attempt results in a blackish-grey screen & it will not proceed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Discussions: Message List - root] Reference

Nearer and nearer it came, and it was of a blackish-grey colour with more than one dark hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghost Stories of an Antiquary Part 2: More Ghost Stories] Reference

The general colour is a blackish-grey, with part of the lower jaw, and throat, and belly white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Old Jack] Reference

A face, covered with a fine coating of blackish-grey dust, popped up out of the bottom of the trench.    From Wordnik.com.  [No Man's Land] Reference

The body is brown, with the under parts white; the face is of a blackish-grey, approaching to white about the lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

As he spoke he scraped off with long sweeps the white, soapy foam, which came away darkened with tiny swathes of blackish-grey stubble.    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Mahdi's Grasp] Reference

Max had not had time to speak, as the tall, aquiline-looking man, with keen eyes and closely-cut blackish-grey hair, turned and walked on before them into the dining-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Boys or the Chiefs of the Clan Mackhai] Reference

They vary in colour; but many are symmetrically coloured, being white with a streak along the spine, and with the ears and certain marks about the head of a blackish-grey tint.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

The adult bird, with its blackish-grey head, white belly and eerie, moaning cry, was once very common in Bermuda, numbering about a million before Spanish explorers discovered the islands in the early 1500s.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Herald | HeraldOnline.com - Front] Reference

This, too, was most brilliant to the eye; and from it endless dazzling coruscations darted up and played about, but for a much shorter period; and in place of the ruddy glow of the metal, which rapidly cooled down to look like silver, this last melting grew sombre and stony, ending by looking of a blackish-grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon Boys A Tale of the North Shore] Reference

But the most remarkable difference is in the ears and tail; I have examined many fresh English rabbits, and the large collection of skins in the British Museum from various countries, and all have the upper surface of the tail and the tips of the ears clothed with blackish-grey fur; and this is given in most works as one of the specific characters of the rabbit.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

Sure enough the opening was found, and the boat once more lowered to investigate and find that the coral-reef still spread out like a barrier, but the coral insects were dead, and as they investigated farther it was to find that there was not a single shell-fish of any kind living in the shoal water, nor any trace of life, but on the highest part of the bleached white coral there were a few blocks of blackish-grey vesicular or cindery-looking stone.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mother Carey's Chicken Her Voyage to the Unknown Isle] Reference

But here we meet with a singular circumstance: in June, 1861, I examined two of these rabbits recently sent to the Zoological Gardens, and their tails and ears were coloured as just described; but when one of their dead bodies was sent to me in February, 1865, the ears were plainly edged, and the upper surface of the tail was covered, with blackish-grey fur, and the whole body was much less red; so that under the English climate this individual rabbit had recovered the proper colour of its fur in rather less than four years!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

"It is characterised by the colour of the lower parts, which are a blackish-grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

The upper parts are blackish-grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Outline of Science, Vol. 1 (of 4) A Plain Story Simply Told] Reference