He took up the twig and twirled it, admiring the yellowish-grey velvet of its budding catkins.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Silver Spoon] Reference

In their faces Wexford had seen that same dusty parched look, yellowish-grey drawn features, blue eyes bleached a haggard grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Guilty Thing Surprised]

But beyond that again there was something he had never seen the like of - a great yellowish-grey thing, flat as a calm sea, and stretching for miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Horse and His Boy]

Thus she reflected as she watched the landscape slip past: yellowish-grey flats, or stone-strewn paddocks tufted with clumps of brown grass, all of which she had seen too often before to pay much heed to them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way Home] Reference

The sheets, when thoroughly dried, are of a uniform yellowish-grey colour, and of the characteristic colloidal consistency; they possess a perfectly smooth surface, and are free from internal blisters or cracks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise] Reference

This would be the treatment and colouring for greyish-brown or yellowish-grey smooth, dry-looking rocks, sandstones, etc.; and by a little alteration of tint and treatment in places, would imitate the various slates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference

Chillness was still in the air, the land grey, clouds yellowish-grey and watery.    From Wordnik.com.  [Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation] Reference

Its rich robe of yellowish-grey, mixed with green, adds to the attraction of its presence.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference

Further, a yellowish-grey animal on a yellowish-grey landscape is invisible till it moves.    From Wordnik.com.  [Johnny Bear And Other Stories from Lives of the Hunted] Reference

They were large and grey, thickly covered by yellowish-grey and cinnamon-coloured feathers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tales of the Wilderness] Reference

The base is ragged and unhealthy, and on it a yellowish-grey slough resembling wash-leather may be seen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

It has assumed a yellowish-grey colour and is nearly opaque, so that the vessel appears to sail in clay mud.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II] Reference

Rabbit grey or brown, with a yellowish-grey tinge, more or less rufous on the head, neck, shoulder and sides of body.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

Pale yellowish-grey, with transverse tawny or blackish bands which encircle the body, and extend downwards on to the legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

Light yellowish-grey, rather deeper in a line along the back; the hair brown; extremities blackish; chin, threat and breast white.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

He is not large, is yellowish-grey in colour, has pointed ears and small, keen eyes, and holds his tail erect, not hanging down like the wolf's.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference

For he began to go down now of an afternoon into the little old town -- not smelless, but most quaint -- all yellowish-grey, with rosy-tiled roofs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tatterdemalion] Reference

The bark on a tree of this size is from three-quarters of an inch to an inch and a half in thickness, smooth, spongy, and of a yellowish-grey colour.    From Wordnik.com.  [Head Hunters of the Amazon: Seven Years of Exploration and Adventure] Reference

Her thin hair was of a yellowish-grey tint, her eyes pale blue, and there was a sunburnt redness on her cheeks, but the face had a faded and weary look.    From Wordnik.com.  [Far Away and Long Ago] Reference

It is of a greenish-brown, variegated with streaks of green and white, the under surface being of a yellowish-grey, tinged with pink, and the legs banded.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America] Reference

The surface of the ulcer is uneven, pale and flabby, and is covered with a yellowish-grey discharge, with here and there feeble granulations showing through.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manual of Surgery Volume Second: Extremities—Head—Neck. Sixth Edition.] Reference

The Ocelot is about equal in size to the last-named, and equally prized for its beautiful skin, which is clouded with an admixture of spots and stripes upon a ground of yellowish-grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Quadrupeds, What They Are and Where Found A Book of Zoology for Boys] Reference

The late December sun was already giving warning of his approaching rising by cold yellowish-grey streaks in the sky as Pollux and his companion entered the gate, which had long since been opened for the workmen.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

The whole place had a tone of yellowish-grey grime all over it, save where, in the centre of the room, on a rough double post, shaped like the guillotine, a scarlet cap of Liberty gave a note of lurid colour to the dismal surroundings.    From Wordnik.com.  [I Will Repay] Reference

Round the four walls, the plaster of which was visible in parts where the dirty yellowish-grey paper was torn away, there were several stands covered with old cardboard boxes, parcels and discarded patterns under a thick coating of dust.    From Wordnik.com.  [L'Assommoir] Reference

General colour grey or fulvous above; limbs outside grizzled grey; feet yellowish-grey; in some cases the nape, shoulders, and upper parts of back are vivid light ferruginous or golden fulvous, sometimes extending downwards on to the base of the tail.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference

Mark looked up in time to see an old gentleman advance to the door of the pew in front of them -- a formidable-looking old gentleman, with a sallow face, long iron-grey locks, full grey eyes, a hook-nose, and prominent teeth under a yellowish-grey moustache and beard.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Giant's Robe] Reference

"Above earthy brown or chestnut brown; lips, sides of head, chin, throat, and upper part of breast white, tinged with yellowish-grey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon] Reference