Asia Minor -- an olive-gray powder fell at Shanghai. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Damned] Reference
His reward, and my redemption for the errors of the day before, came wrapped in olive-gray feathers. From Wordnik.com. [Young Guns] Reference
Both eyestalks had retracted as far as they could, giving the native's eyes the appearance of resting directly on the cap-like upper portion of its olive-gray body. From Wordnik.com. [Sliding Scales]
It's faded from it's original sage green to a kind of olive-gray sheen, and the kids have grafitti'd it with several marker streaks that we haven't been able to get out. From Wordnik.com. [The Future of Broadband, the Demise of the Couch] Reference
Its color is a dark olive-gray above, with a red breast. From Wordnik.com. [Friends in Feathers and Fur, and Other Neighbors For Young Folks] Reference
The rock was coarsely crystalline, and gray, or olive-gray in color. From Wordnik.com. [In Indian Mexico (1908)] Reference
The hind legs are very indistinctly marbled on an olive-gray ground. From Wordnik.com. [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference
The bill is dark gray and the legs and feet are olive-gray to brownish-gray. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The bill and facial skin are a dark olive-gray and the legs and feet are grayish. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The unwonted union of blue eyes with that olive-gray skin gave a tinge of wayward shyness to her girlish beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman Who Did] Reference
There was nothing but the hills and a sky growing pale with heat and the patches of olive-gray sagebrush in the distance. From Wordnik.com. [Way of the Lawless] Reference
MR. KARAYILAN is a garrulous man, portly but fit, mustachioed and nattily dressed in the handmade olive-gray uniform that the party's fighters wear. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Upper parts olive-gray or Quaker color all over, smooth and shiny; wings tinged with bright cinnamon, and most of the tail-feathers black, with large white spots at the ends. From Wordnik.com. [Citizen Bird Scenes from Bird-Life in Plain English for Beginners] Reference
The finished paper is thick, almost like cardboard, with an olive-gray color accented by fine threads of red, blue and purple from any awards and decorations the ex-soldiers add. From Wordnik.com. [Kentucky.com: Homepage] Reference
Keep in mind any carryover cooking that could happen during the pureeing, especially when dealing with green vegetables, which can quickly go from bright green to a sad olive-gray. From Wordnik.com. [Serious Eats] Reference
The bird is in plain view before me, and I may watch him either with or without my glass; he has a short, conical bill; his upper parts are gray or olive-gray; cervical patch of a greenish tinge; under parts whitish, spotted with dusk or brown. From Wordnik.com. [Birds of the Rockies] Reference
"Well, I'll think it over, but ---- Oh, look here, I'm going to have a porch made out of fresh saplings, outside of my room, and it 'll overlook the hills, and it' ll have outdoor cots with olive-gray army blankets over them, and when you wake up in the morning you'll see the hills in the first sunlight.". From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference
A foot in height, a sort of olive-gray color, and a round tail twice the length of the body. From Wordnik.com. [The Wonder Island Boys: Treasures of the Island] Reference
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