Kinda brownish-grey carpety looking stuff, just like he described. From Wordnik.com. [It's America's Birthday!] Reference
When the protein is isolate from the starches of the flour, it is brownish-grey, tough and rubbery. From Wordnik.com. [What is gluten? | Baking Bites] Reference
The dried leather was brownish-grey in colour, possessed soft and full feel and good tensile strength. From Wordnik.com. [Synthetic Tannins] Reference
The levels in Gears of War feel like dead environments meant to convey destruction, but ultimately feeling like shiny brownish-grey movie sets that the game was reenacted on. From Wordnik.com. [Flixnjoystix.com! » FlixnJoystix Presents: Metaldy’s Meanderings! A Few Reasons Why…Videogame Graphics Are Overrated!] Reference
This might actually give more warmth to the paste instead of just throwing it in with the chicken broth, like I did, consequently not making the resulting colour look very appetizing brownish-grey. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-05-01] Reference
Only an occasional chimney-pot, higher than its fellows, made a note of glowing orange where it pierced the slant of the evening sun: To Blanche's left there showed a pale gleam from the Thames between the house-backs of brownish-grey brick; to her right roof-tops and fantastic cowls were patterned in a flat purple tone against the luminous sky. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
The plume, visible in brownish-grey, is approximately 400 km long. From Wordnik.com. [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference
A crouching, fluffy, brownish-grey cat was stealing up the side of the fence. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
The black and white, and the brownish-grey water wagtails are remarkably tame. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868] Reference
Chimney swifts are typically dark brownish-gray with a lighter brownish-grey throat. From Wordnik.com. [News for InsideNova.com] Reference
The State-House is, in every way, a noble building, constructed of brownish-grey granite, in Grecian style. From Wordnik.com. [A Journey in the Seaboard Slave States; With Remarks on Their Economy] Reference
Again, the Alpine wolves are smaller than the French, and of a brownish-grey colour; while those of Italy and. From Wordnik.com. [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference
Dull brownish-grey above, with a dark mesial line, paler below; a large white spot under the throat; chest and front of fore-legs dark brown; female paler. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
Kinloch writes: "The prevailing colour is brownish-grey, varying in shade on the back, where it is darkest, so as to give the animal a mottled or brindled appearance.". From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
As I was standing outside, about to take my leave, casting my eyes on the ground, I saw beneath the bench close to the door a long brownish-grey thing lying quite still. From Wordnik.com. [A Boy's Voyage Round the World] Reference
The clouds of steam thickened, detonations followed, and at each one a brownish-grey cloud rose out of the mountain, whirled slowly upwards, and joined the grey clouds in the sky. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference
At the foot of it stand three brownish-grey hen-houses, and here the white motif is carried out by the farmer's Leghorns, stalking and scratching incessantly up and down the wall. From Wordnik.com. [Try Anything Twice] Reference
Hair long, coarse, and of a dusky or brownish-grey, and marked with interrupted transverse bands or spots in rows, two obliquely transverse black lines on the neck; the snout, throat, and neck are white; the tail tinged with black. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
General colour brownish-grey, beneath paler; belly white; a short beard of stiffish brown hair; the horns of the male are sub-triangular, rather compressed laterally and rounded posteriorly, deeply sulcated, curving outward and backward from the skull; points divergent. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
One day Caleb caught sight of an odd-looking, brownish-grey object out in the middle of the turnip-field, and as he looked it rose up two or three feet into the air, then dropped back again, and this curious movement was repeated at intervals of two or three minutes until he went to see what the thing was. From Wordnik.com. [A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs] Reference
The violinist's tall, thin, loping figure was tightly buttoned into a brownish-grey frock-coat suit; he wore a rather broad-brimmed, grey, velvety hat; in his buttonhole was a white flower; his cloth-topped boots were of patent leather; his tie was bunched out at the ends over a soft white-linen shirt -- altogether quite a dandy!. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond] Reference
They passed the leafless gardens of the Tuileries on one side, and the great inner Courts of the Louvre, with their purple mansard roofs and their high chimneys on the other, and saw for a second the river, dull jade green, and the plane trees splotched with brown and cream color along the quais, before they were lost in the narrow brownish-grey streets of the old quarters. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
The tooth lay in the bowl, brownish-grey and bloody-rooted and very much smaller than he’d imagined it. From Wordnik.com. [Her Fearful Symmetry] Reference
A dark speckled brownish-grey, nearly black on the hind-quarters, edged down the inside with reddish-yellow; the throat, belly, and legs lighter grey. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
A tanning experiment, and a piece of pelt immersed in the solution was tanned through in a few days; the resultant leather being rather firm, springy, and slightly hard, and the colour was a light brownish-grey. From Wordnik.com. [Synthetic Tannins] Reference
A low-rigged vessel, such as a felucca, would indeed find complete shelter in either of the two westernmost creeks -- the easternmost had only three feet of water in it when we visited it; but the shores on either side consisted only of a brownish-grey fetid mud, of a consistency little thicker than pea-soup; and the facilities for embarking slaves were so utterly wanting that we felt sure we need not trouble ourselves at any future time about either of these creeks. From Wordnik.com. [The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron] Reference
They unslung their rifles, seated themselves in the warm sun amid a deep thicket of alpine roses, and remained silent and busy with pencil and paper for a while -- two inconspicuous, brownish-grey figures, cuddled close among the greyish rocks, with nothing of military insignia about their dress or their round grey wool caps to differentiate them from sportsmen -- wary stalkers of chamois or red deer -- except that under their unbelted tunics automatics and cartridge belts made perceptible bunches. From Wordnik.com. [Barbarians] Reference
The man evidently understood me, for he shouted a few -- to me quite unintelligible -- words, whereupon one of the paddlers about the centre of the canoe laid in his paddle for a few moments, did something dexterous with a spear and a brownish-grey object the size of a man's head, and a minute later my lips were glued to a luscious cocoa-nut, the extremity of which had been deftly struck off with the blade of the spear, disclosing the white-lined hollow of the cup within brimming with a full pint or more of the delicious "milk," which I swallowed to the last drop. From Wordnik.com. [A Middy of the Slave Squadron A West African Story] Reference
General colour, brownish-grey. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
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