They have dark-grey feathers with small white spots. From Wordnik.com. [5 Chicken] Reference
'Yes?' said a calm young man in a dark-grey flannel suit. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
And she pointed to a little dark-grey bird up in the branches. From Wordnik.com. [The Yellow Fairy Book] Reference
After a few seconds, the surface becomes a uniform dark-grey one. From Wordnik.com. [The Brain, A Decoded Enigma] Reference
A great dark-grey horse was brought to Aragorn, and he mounted it. From Wordnik.com. [The Lord of the Rings]
He was a grey-haired, serious man of fifty, dressed in a dark-grey suit. From Wordnik.com. [In Spite of Their Declaration of Bombs] Reference
There was a dark-grey dress laid out on the bed which fitted more or less. From Wordnik.com. [The Breaking Wave]
I do not wear anything when the days are dark-grey, I rather go around black. From Wordnik.com. [In Which I Am Feeling Goth] Reference
The dark-grey locks that had peeped from under her red hood, now waved a snaky mane. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-12-01] Reference
Through the trees I could perceive that it was a big dark-grey monkey, which we had alarmed. From Wordnik.com. [In the Amazon Jungle Adventures in Remote Parts of the Upper Amazon River, Including a Sojourn Among Cannibal Indians] Reference
But for its dark-grey clothing it might almost have been the statue on some sepulchral monument. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
When he came to the sea, the water was a dark-grey colour, and it was heaving against the shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Green Fairy Book] Reference
And when he came to the sea, it was quite dark-grey, and the water heaved up from below, and smelt putrid. From Wordnik.com. [Household Tales] Reference
Globular, oval, and sausage-shaped dollops of dark-grey mud were twirling and rolling on the fringe of listless wavelets. From Wordnik.com. [My Tropic Isle] Reference
There was a half-moon shining, enough to make a little light in the world, not enough to show her up in her dark-grey coat. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Chatterley's Lover] Reference
The sun was still shining, but the small round white clouds were expanding into bigger round clouds with dark-grey centres. From Wordnik.com. [Rat Race]
His dark-grey flannel suit was baggy and in the lapel of it he wore three neat discs of egg yolk, like the Legion of Honour. From Wordnik.com. [Funeral In Berlin]
Dillon ignored him and walked over the wet cindery ground to the dark-grey body bags ranged side by side in a neat, military row. From Wordnik.com. [Civvies]
A stinking, sticky, dark-grey to black paste, it's everything homeowners, hospitals and industries put down their toilets and drains. From Wordnik.com. [Andrew Kimbrell: The Obama Organic Family Garden: Swimming in Sludge?] Reference
He came at once, his sports jacket changed for a dark-grey, almost black suit, which he had perhaps bought new for Auntie Bee's funeral. From Wordnik.com. [Piranha to Scurfy & Other Stories]
Rushing across, he gripped it and found it was the arm and sleeve of a man, terminating with a handsome cuff and a smart dark-grey glove. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Father Brown] Reference
The only orderly thing about him was his immaculate dark-grey pinstripe suit, his dazzling white shirt and a perfectly knotted Guards tie. From Wordnik.com. [A Place of Execution]
Huge blocks of dark-grey granite formed the walls. From Wordnik.com. [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference
The mostly dark-grey pigs have tusks that continuously grow. From Wordnik.com. Reference
A dark-grey dripping wall rose up suddenly and blotted out the view. From Wordnik.com. [Three Soldiers] Reference
"Meet a young gent in dark-grey soot and brown billycock hat?" panted. From Wordnik.com. [The Queen's Scarlet The Adventures and Misadventures of Sir Richard Frayne] Reference
The dark-grey eyes flashed, and then looked steadily at those of the fishy blue. From Wordnik.com. ["Chinkie's Flat" 1904] Reference
On the fifteenth day there appeared to the south and east a low, dark-grey cloud. From Wordnik.com. ["The Gallant, Good Riou", and Jack Renton 1901] Reference
He is dressed in dark-grey woollen clothing, and wears brown boots reaching to the knee. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Escombe A Tale of Adventure in Peru] Reference
Anything mean, anything sneaky, could not live in the steady light of those dark-grey eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Fifty-Two Stories For Girls] Reference
His city clothes were loose dark-grey flannels, a soft collar, an orange tie, and a soft black hat. From Wordnik.com. [Mr. Standfast] Reference
A dull dark-grey fog hung from the sky, and without much obscuring the earth altogether hid the sun. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Wingfold, Curate V3] Reference
At the next, nothing was to be seen from the whaler save an incline of green water and a canopy of dark-grey sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Submarine Hunters A Story of the Naval Patrol Work in the Great War] Reference
He always wore, even in the country, black or dark-grey clothes, which indeed constituted for him a kind of uniform. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography] Reference
It shone almost like silver, and beyond was the house standing like a dim dark-grey patch between us and the forest. From Wordnik.com. [The Dew of Their Youth] Reference
She put on a cool, dark-grey linen coat and skirt, and a shady hat, and then she started off for the mile walk to Dorycote. From Wordnik.com. [Good Old Anna] Reference
Voices were still calling in inhuman agitation through the dark-grey air, spectres were running along the darkness between the train. From Wordnik.com. [Women in Love] Reference
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