His lips were lead-coloured and trembling; he was indeed trembling all over.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

Elric followed the navigator's gaze but saw only the same lead-coloured sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fortress of the Pearl]

"Look yonder!" cried Carleton, and he pointed to the line of the horizon, which had hitherto been of grey, lead-coloured vapour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference

In the bed of the river, near the sea, is a mine of silver; the ore is in very small particles, like lead-coloured sand, intermixed with mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa] Reference

Melancholy persons are distinguished by their pale or lead-coloured nails; and choleric martial men, delighting in war, have red and spotted nails.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mysteries of All Nations Rise and Progress of Superstition, Laws Against and Trials of Witches, Ancient and Modern Delusions Together With Strange Customs, Fables, and Tales] Reference

Then, without a word he held out the watch and chain to his friend, and lifted the fingers which had fumbled with the watch-case to his lead-coloured lips.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Day's Daughters] Reference

Till a lead-coloured fog gathered up from the deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2] Reference

'It's a lead-coloured steamer, and the sea's lead-coloured.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Diversity of Creatures] Reference

The swollen lead-coloured under lip trembled with a shameful whine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Our Mutual Friend] Reference

They had also head-dresses of white or lead-coloured cloth, shaped like.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Cook His Life, Voyages, and Discoveries] Reference

But over the end of the street the lead-coloured sky was rifted a little.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pit] Reference

It is true of other things besides those lead-coloured, monotonous skies.    From Wordnik.com.  [Selections from the Letters of Geraldine Endsor Jewsbury to Jane Welsh Carlyle] Reference

'There now!' said Uriah, looking flabby and lead-coloured in the moonlight.    From Wordnik.com.  [David Copperfield]

Looking back, they could see the little lead-coloured stern-wheeler, with the gleam of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Desert Drama Being The Tragedy Of The "Korosko"] Reference

He followed it to the edge of the water, and gazed out over the dim lead-coloured sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alec Forbes of Howglen] Reference

It was snowing intermittently and the sky, seen from the high window, was lead-coloured.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Warren's Daughter A Story of the Woman's Movement] Reference

The lead-coloured ocean, heaving with foam-topped waves, was around us bounded by the horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter the Whaler] Reference

To the superstitious it is a creature of evil omen in its fulvous, black and lead-coloured livery of death.    From Wordnik.com.  [Barbarians] Reference

It is worth recalling to mind that blue or lead-coloured marks have occasionally appeared on the white cattle of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.] Reference

The chill, lead-coloured dawn was faintly struggling on the horizon with the black, gloomy night, when Le Bossu rose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 442 Volume 17, New Series, June 19, 1852] Reference

At length daylight broke, but when we looked out over the tumbling, lead-coloured ocean, not a sail could we discern.    From Wordnik.com.  [Will Weatherhelm The Yarn of an Old Sailor] Reference

The river was not yet frozen, and its lead-coloured waves looked almost black contrasted with its banks white with snow.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughter of the Commandant] Reference

"Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes]

All are equally obscured -- from a thick veil of lead-coloured cloud, at the sun's setting, drawn over the canopy of the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Death Shot A Story Retold] Reference

Mr. Grewgious saw a lead-coloured face in the easy-chair, and on its surface dreadful starting drops or bubbles, as if of steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mystery of Edwin Drood] Reference

As to the Duchess, her large face was hidden behind a thick screen of lead-coloured tissue, and I could judge nothing of her feelings.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Car of Destiny] Reference

It was a cloudy, sultry afternoon; the seamen were lazily lounging about the decks, or vacantly gazing over into the lead-coloured waters.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick, or, the whale] Reference

Claude stood by watching until the sailors shot one sack, longer by half a foot than the other four, into a lead-coloured chasm in the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [One of Ours] Reference

For several miles before they reached Milton, they saw a deep lead-coloured cloud hanging over the horizon in the direction in which it lay.    From Wordnik.com.  [North and South] Reference

The moment, however, his black bill was opened, and his lead-coloured throat became expanded in a song, you forgot all about the dull hue of his plumage.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Desert Home The Adventures of a Lost Family in the Wilderness] Reference

It was already closing down, and gave promise of favouring us: a layer of lead-coloured clouds covered the sky, and we knew there could be no moon before midnight.    From Wordnik.com.  [The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse] Reference

The sky is hid in its lead-coloured pall.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harry] Reference