Thick, stone-grey scales covered the rest, pale as death on its underbelly. From Wordnik.com. [Chosen Of The Gods]
He by no means understood the relationship that existed between his friend and this girl of the stone-grey eyes and stern, red lips. From Wordnik.com. [Maurice Guest] Reference
Her face was in shadow, but his was not, and she could see that fires were lighted in the stone-grey eyes that banished all its masklike impassivity and brought a wonderful beauty into it. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
You had to make your own deductions from a pair of stone-grey eyes, a mouth close-lipped without being cold, and a manner not wanting in indications of arrogance that yet pleased by a certain careless grace and sureness. From Wordnik.com. [Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa] Reference
And I got out my stone-grey paint and set about the house. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderers] Reference
In my judgment the house ought to be stone-grey, with doors and window-frames and verge-boards white. From Wordnik.com. [Wanderers] Reference
Colors associated with this card are red-violet, silver-white, translucent pink-brown, and stone-grey brown. From Wordnik.com. [Holidailies 2009] Reference
You look through the glass, and find yourself looking into a deep sea-pool, with low stone-grey rocks studded with sea-anemones in full bloom. From Wordnik.com. [Brothers of Pity and Other Tales of Beasts and Men] Reference
A point of land projected into the water, with towers and pinnacles of a small stone-grey town, with a cypress avenue leading from the station. From Wordnik.com. [Jenny: A Novel] Reference
It was built in a Boston suburban taste of twenty years ago, with a lofty mansard-roof, and it was painted the stone-grey colour which was once esteemed for being so quiet. From Wordnik.com. [Annie Kilburn : a Novel] Reference
At any rate, as has been well said of them, Western daring and Eastern craft look out alike from the alert features and clear parchment skin and through the strange stone-grey eyes of the Chitpavan. From Wordnik.com. [Indian Unrest] Reference
It was October weather; the stone-grey sky was full of larks, the leaden mirror of the Thames brightened with autumnal foliage, and the fallen leaves of the chestnuts chirped under the composer's footing. From Wordnik.com. [The Wrong Box] Reference
Oh! for the spring out there, with the sprouting vegetation on the immense plain and the firm, severe lines of the encircling mountains, which man has robbed of their woods, to build stone-grey cities on the spurs and plant olive groves on the slopes. From Wordnik.com. [Jenny: A Novel] Reference
The eggs are sometimes three, sometimes four in number, of a greenish stone-grey, freckled, chiefly at the larger end, with dusky and a few black hair-like streaks, which are not always present; they vary also in the amount of dusky freckling at the larger end. From Wordnik.com. [The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1] Reference
The stone-grey roses by the desert's rim. From Wordnik.com. [Georgian Poetry 1918-19] Reference
Sky, stone-grey. From Wordnik.com. [Japanese Prints] Reference
Nordland is a boundless stone-grey waste, as it was in primæval times before man began to build, but in the midst of this there are also countless natural treasures; it has a sun and a summer glory, whose day is not twelve hours only, but an uninterrupted period of three months, during which, in many places, one must wear a mask as protection against the swarms of mosquitoes; but, on the other hand, the night is a time of darkness and horror, lasting nine months. From Wordnik.com. [The Visionary Pictures From Nordland] Reference
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