Amid the slate-colored stones was an occasional ivory shine.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dancer's Luck]

Various are the names required to distinguish the little slate-colored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [August, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference

Daisy Gravers, indicating several slate-colored birds about the size of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Girl Scouts' Good Turn] Reference

White Snow-Birds, to distinguish them from the others, which are slate-colored.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859] Reference

Brilliant white clouds with slate-colored bottoms coasted through a deep blue sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here Comes Another Lesson] Reference

Out the bedroom window a pair of slate-colored juncos flap and flutter at a feeder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memory Wall] Reference

He added to that blue/black hose, and a slate-colored cloak that was lined with fur.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Apropos of Nothing] Reference

The common gull has a pure white breast, a slate-colored back, and black-tipped wings.    From Wordnik.com.  [Friends and Helpers] Reference

The wind was in the east, and the sunrise watery and streaked with slate-colored bands.    From Wordnik.com.  [Montlivet] Reference

Rose Ranch took quick but unerring aim at the crouching, slate-colored body on the boulder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference

The slate-colored cloud seemed to shut out everything behind the flying wagons like a curtain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nan Sherwood at Rose Ranch] Reference

A thick gray pseudopod reached across the river, emerging from the slate-colored moving mountain.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hour of the Gate]

The body is robust and covered upon the back with slate-colored feathers bordered with ashen gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference

Levin said to himself, noticing a wet, slate-colored aspen leaf moving beside a blade of young grass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anna Karenina] Reference

These slate-colored clouds, edged with pallid light, foredoomed the continuance of the peaceful summer afternoon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ruth Fielding Down East Or, The Hermit of Beach Plum Point] Reference

Beneath it was a fitted slate-colored suit with a mandarin collar, the stiff points of which pressed into her neck.    From Wordnik.com.  [City of Ashes] Reference

The Chinese Minister wore a slate-colored, figured silk, his official hat being of black velvet with a red silk crown.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 1, No. 19, March 18, 1897 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls] Reference

The sun broke from behind lowering, slate-colored clouds and its sweet, warm columns of light shafted down on the city.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stormblade]

As soon as the disc harrowing was finished, a bank of slate-colored clouds moved in and it began to rain, cold and steady.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dirty Life] Reference

The slate-colored sky overhead spilled thin skeins of flurries, and the wind sent them skating along the street like ghost-snakes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lark And The Wren]

At this small distance the huge mammal looked like a cigar-shaped piece of smooth, shiny slate-colored India-rubber -- no longer black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Swept Out to Sea Clint Webb Among the Whalers] Reference

From the porthole in her cabin, she could glimpse a bit of railing and then the gray sea behind it, the same hue as the slate-colored sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wayward Muse] Reference

China has a grotesque house, painted in imitation of octagonal slate-colored bricks, covered with a pagoda-roof full of curves and points.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878] Reference

The rain runs from his stringy, slate-colored hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference

Slate-colored skin, slate-colored eyes behind silver spectacles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference

Outside the river was streaked blue and silver and slate-colored.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Soldiers] Reference

Thin slate-colored fingers fumble nervously over the title backs.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago] Reference

But the slate-colored dust from the unpaved streets of that section of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helen of the Old House] Reference

One was slate-colored like clay, the other brownish red like baked earth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bride of Dreams] Reference

Barren slate-colored mountains shut off their view at a distance of a few miles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giants on the Earth] Reference

Even the slate-colored snow-bird, a seed-eater, comes and nibbles it occasionally.    From Wordnik.com.  [Birds and Bees, Sharp Eyes and Other Papers] Reference

As she drew near, a slim slate-colored bird gave a harsh laugh as he flew up from the bushes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tale of Miss Kitty Cat Slumber-Town Tales] Reference

We could see her for an hour, like a bit of a slate-colored island with white gulls sitting on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [It, and Other Stories] Reference