A greyish-green covered truck was just rounding a bend. From Wordnik.com. [Surviving With Wolves]
Those greyish-green eyes complement a fair complexion and charming looks. From Wordnik.com. [New Bollywood Actress Sneha Ullal looks like Aishwarya Rai] Reference
Radauthal, Harz, where patches of pale greyish-green bastite are embedded in a darker-coloured serpentine. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference
In summer the foliage is greyish-green; later it is almost a bright or clear green, the latter being its present colour. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
I pick my way on to the flat plain of the marsh, and on through the foot-deep, salt marsh grasses and greyish-green sea purslane. From Wordnik.com. [Country diary: Holme Dunes, Norfolk] Reference
Grandpere had said to me, 'Watch out for the vertdegris,' meaning the soldiers in their greyish-green uniforms, but I wasn't worried, I was happy. From Wordnik.com. [Surviving With Wolves]
Its soft dull or greyish-green rosettes are in marked contrast with the rigid and shining sempervivums, in the company of which it is frequently placed. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
They were greyish-green, heavily carunculated, and with curious white patches here and there on their bodies where the skin was shiny and lacking in pigment. From Wordnik.com. [My Family and Other Animals]
The plant grows to a height of nearly 2ft., is of dark greyish-green colour, from being thickly covered with short, stiff hairs, on every part, including the calyx. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The leaves are of varying sizes, oval, lance-shaped, and short-stalked, distinctly veined and slightly wrinkled, sharp but finely toothed, of a dark shining green colour on the upper and a greyish-green on the under side. From Wordnik.com. [Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.] Reference
The bark or skin of the stem is greyish-green, and the ribs, of which there are from a dozen to eighteen, are thickly covered with clusters of whitish wool and spines, the latter rose-tinted, and radiating in all directions. From Wordnik.com. [Cactus Culture for Amateurs Being Descriptions of the Various Cactuses Grown in This Country, With Full and Practical Instructions for Their Successful Cultivation] Reference
It is of a dull, glaucous, or greyish-green aspect, and invested with a greasy mealiness which when touched exhales a very odious and enduring smell like that of stale salt fish, this being particularly attractive to dogs, though swine refuse the plant. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
All he saw now in his mind was a tangle of greyish-green uniforms. From Wordnik.com. [Menschen im Krieg. English] Reference
The border is in gold, the filling in silver, thread on a greyish-green velvet. From Wordnik.com. [Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery] Reference
The prevailing colour of the water is greyish-green, passing into deep-blue, and perpetually shifting in tint. From Wordnik.com. [Pages from a Journal with Other Papers] Reference
When one has sailed along the lifeless, greyish-green shores of Malekula, Vao is like a sunbeam breaking through the mist. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference
Through the shimmering haze of noon, a small, square tower now became visible, thrusting upward through the greyish-green foliage. From Wordnik.com. [Casanova's Homecoming] Reference
Anemones, large as plates, royal blue and greyish-green, and each bristling with thousands of independent activities, embossed snow-white blocks. From Wordnik.com. [Tropic Days] Reference
It commonly sits immoveable on an open mountain slope, visible at a great distance, from the strong contrast of its white colour with the greyish-green ground. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference
Here were flats of hay, greyish-green, blue in parts -- but with none of that moist and emerald velvet which would have flashed upon the burnside meadows at home. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
The hills came down to the sea in slopes of grey-green, the shore was a soft brown, and the rocks lay in dark patches on the beach, separated from the greyish-green of the sea by the white line of the breakers. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference
The Princess was a woman of about forty-five, small and delicate, with a shrivelled skin and disagreeable, greyish-green eyes, the expression of which contradicted the unnaturally suave look of the rest of her face. From Wordnik.com. [Childhood] Reference
A vast disc of silver grey, streaked and dotted with lines and points of dazzling lights, and more than half covered with vast, glimmering, greyish-green expanses, seemed to form the floor of the tremendous gulf beneath them. From Wordnik.com. [A Honeymoon in Space] Reference
But we made her listen to the slow thud of the axe out in the wood, and even as we looked the figure of a man passed across the glade, black against the greyish-green of the grass, on which a thick rise of dew was catching the starlight. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
Contrary to the usual custom, which appeared to favour white marble as a building material, the palace was built throughout of massive blocks of greyish-green granite, so accurately joined together that the joints were almost indistinguishable. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru] Reference
Near the gateway, on the edge of the trodden ground, grows a tall, stout, bushy plant, like a shrub, with pale greyish-green leaves, much lobed and divided: the top of each branch in August is thick with small whitish-green flowers tipped with brown. From Wordnik.com. [Round About a Great Estate] Reference
And all along these random gashes in the mucky clay were men, feet and legs huge from clotting after clotting of clay, men with greyish-green faces scarred by lines of strain and fear and boredom as the hillside was scarred out of all semblance by the trenches and the shell-holes. From Wordnik.com. [One Man's Initiation—1917] Reference
Grey rain-clouds hung on the high mountains in the interior, the sun shone faintly through the misty atmosphere, the greyish-blue sea and the greyish-green shore, with the brown boulders on the beach, formed a study in grey, whose hypnotic effect was increased by a warm, weary wind. From Wordnik.com. [Two Years with the Natives in the Western Pacific] Reference
A woman of about forty-five, small and delicate, with a shrivelled skin and disagreeable, greyish-green eyes, the expression of which contradicted the unnaturally suave look of the rest of her face. From Wordnik.com. [Childhood] Reference
Ya mean 'cuz he's not greyish-green?. From Wordnik.com. [McCain Campaign Accuses Obama Of Playing "Race Card"] Reference
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