The bark is reddish-grey, and may be partly hidden by brown, grey and green patches of lichen. From Wordnik.com. [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference
It was a large reddish-grey stone building, pretty old, I should say, and surrounded by a graveyard. From Wordnik.com. [Bullets & Billets] Reference
He had a beard that reached to his middle, and but little hair, of a reddish-grey colour, on his head. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Enterprise and Adventure Being an Excitement to Reading. for Young People. a New and Condensed Edition.] Reference
Al-Madinah are large and heavy, of a reddish-grey colour, and celebrated for cooling water, a property not possessed by those of. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
The partly neutralised 2° Bé. solution of this product yielded a reddish-grey coloured leather, the qualities of which were very similar to that yielded by Neradol D. 3. From Wordnik.com. [Synthetic Tannins] Reference
The grin was partly masked by masses of reddish-grey beard and whiskers; a perfect jungle of a beard, such as is sometimes grown by white men living in the jungles; but the eyes above the snub nose had nothing about them in the least wild or outlandish. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
The Brechin one corresponds with the Irish ones, and is built in sixty irregular courses, of blocks of reddish-grey sandstone, dressed to the curve, but squared at neither top nor bottom; within, string-courses divide it into seven storeys, the topmost lighted by four largish apertures facing the cardinal points. From Wordnik.com. [Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys] Reference
Analysis of this product, using the shake method, gives a tannin content of 16.2 per cent; tanning experiments demonstrated that the time of tannage, using a 2° Bé. solution, was the same as that required by Neradol D, and yielded a leather, the surface of which was reddish-grey, the inner layers being white, but which is otherwise very similar to Neradol D tanned leather. From Wordnik.com. [Synthetic Tannins] Reference
Two brown, rich-hued, bright-faced youths; reddish-grey mantles around them; white-silver brooches in their mantles over their breasts; a bright-hilted sword under their waists; purple sandals they wore; as sweet as strings of lutes when long sustained in players 'hands was the voice and song of one of the men, so that enough of delight it was to the host to listen to the sound of his voice. From Wordnik.com. [The Ancient Irish Epic Tale Táin Bó Cúalnge] Reference
The rock lowest down in the series is dark reddish-grey syenite. From Wordnik.com. [A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and its tributaries And of the Discovery of Lakes Shirwa and Nyassa, 1858-1864] Reference
A pallid little sun like a toy balloon hung low in the reddish-grey sky. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
His complexion had become reddish-grey, and he was absolutely unrecognizable. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of China] Reference
Not far from the road stood a weather-beaten old barn of reddish-grey brick and tile. From Wordnik.com. [Jude the Obscure] Reference
Lapham shut his lips so that the short, reddish-grey beard stuck straight out on them. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference
The German's face turned a reddish-grey, and Nicol Hendry, with all his courage, was not feeling particularly well. From Wordnik.com. [The Mummy and Miss Nitocris A Phantasy of the Fourth Dimension] Reference
He has a square, bold chin, only partially concealed by the short reddish-grey beard, growing to the edges of his firmly closing lips. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise of Silas Lapham] Reference
The graceful birds, with black rings round their reddish-grey necks, flew confidingly to her, and took the corn that she playfully laid between her lips. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
He was a short, broad-shouldered man with reddish-grey hair, stiff, bristly whiskers and moustache of the same hue, sharp blue eyes, and a nose decidedly upturned. From Wordnik.com. [The Purple Land] Reference
They walked with rifles carried at charge, timidly looking about and were just going to stop to talk over their situation, when they noticed the reddish-grey cloaks and the bayonets. From Wordnik.com. [The Shield] Reference
Colour of fur varies, the basal half of the hair always dark greyish black, dark brown or black; the extremities varying from light grey to light reddish-grey, dark reddish-brown and black. From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
The colouring is a uniform reddish-grey above fading into buff or white below, he said, adding the animal is generally found in drier parts of Punjab, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Central India. From Wordnik.com. [Daily News & Analysis] Reference
Thence the road climbed, between low, reddish-grey spurs, to the narrow pass, barred by a formidable gate, that swung open at command, with a screech of rusty hinges, as if in querulous protest against intrusion. From Wordnik.com. [Far to Seek A Romance of England and India] Reference
The wide expanse before us unfolded a panorama of hills that sank lower and lower toward the west, where the salt lagoons of the coast could be clearly discerned as silver streaks in the reddish-grey mist of the evening. From Wordnik.com. [Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) A Record of Five Years' Exploration Among the Tribes of the Western Sierra Madre; In the Tierra Caliente of Tepic and Jalisco; and Among the Tarascos of Michoacan] Reference
It’s easy to spot because they are real white in a sea of reddish-grey. (. From Wordnik.com. [Midtown Lunch 2009 in One Gigantic Photo | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan] Reference
I have seen some of light reddish-grey, and others much darker than any jackal; "and he speaks of another" nearly as red as an Irish setter. ". From Wordnik.com. [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference
The hen is a dull reddish-grey bird. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
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