It started as resentment, but ended in a slate-gray loneliness. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
His slate-gray eyes with jetty pupils, which were miniatures of. From Wordnik.com. [Camp and Trail A Story of the Maine Woods] Reference
He was watching the hoop slowly cut through a slate-gray plain. From Wordnik.com. [Tides Of Light]
There was a look in his slate-gray gaze she'd never seen before. From Wordnik.com. [Alone]
Beyond it, water sparkled slate-gray and silver in the autumn sun. From Wordnik.com. [THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK] Reference
In color it was a light blue on top, a whitish slate-gray underneath. From Wordnik.com. [The Lives of Felix Gunderson] Reference
ANTHONY PEYSER was slow climbing out of the slate-gray Mercedes sedan. From Wordnik.com. [When the Wind Blows]
Suit of same style in slate-gray, with buttons and pockets of cobalt blue. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
Sarah says, crossing her legs under the skirt of her sleek slate-gray suit. From Wordnik.com. [Courting Trouble]
It fades away into a distance utterly black to most, slate-gray to Lenie Clarke. From Wordnik.com. [Starfish] Reference
It had stopped raining by now but there was still a heavy slate-gray cloud cover. From Wordnik.com. [Moosburg Online: Stalag VII A (Oral history: Livingstone)] Reference
His slate-gray eyes, a shade lighter than Tombstone's, revealed no trace of emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Nuke Zone]
There was a storm passing to the north, clouds like a slate-gray wall above the hills. From Wordnik.com. [2005]
Once there, the wind helped, easing the slate-gray bulk of the submarine up to the pier. From Wordnik.com. [The Cardinal of the Kremlin]
Dark slate-gray above, creamy white below, it banked and curved at the end of its lunge. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
An oval face, slate-gray hair, a small clipped mustache with some white in with the gray. From Wordnik.com. [The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza]
The maypole dancers are in dull-green, dull-violet, and dull-blue, bronze, and slate-gray. From Wordnik.com. [Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People] Reference
I loved that slate-gray Jaguar with its flaming-red interior and coal-black convertible top. From Wordnik.com. [Love Brought Me Back] Reference
Solinari and Lunitari darted in and out of the clouds, the only luminaries in a slate-gray sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Dark Queen]
Anna drove to Port Gibson under a slate-gray sky that appeared to weigh as much as slate itself. From Wordnik.com. [Hunting Season]
Outside there was only the promise of sunrise, a slate-gray light that was a match for his mood. From Wordnik.com. [Haven]
She was wearing slate-gray brushed-denim jeans and a green velour top, and now she added her navy blazer. From Wordnik.com. [The Burglar Who Studied Spinoza]
The slate-gray sea far below offered no points of reference, and yet the bird knew exactly where it was going. From Wordnik.com. [Unnatural Selection] Reference
Under a slate-gray sky, Williams casually strolled to who knows where without being stopped by a single passerby. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - Six years later, Williams thrilled he chose Yankees over Red Sox] Reference
We've been married 24 years and the slate-gray Subaru Forester we bought last week marks our marriage's third car. From Wordnik.com. [Life on Four Wheels] Reference
These were clean, almost picturesque, set against the backdrop of slate-gray mountains, green fields, and blue sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Irda]
DAYLIGHT HAD DIMMED TO A slate-gray smudge on the western horizon by the time they landed at City Airport in London. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Madonna] Reference
As the boat travels farther inland, the water narrows and the rocky cliffs rise up on each side, slate-gray and rugged. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference
All he could see was the slag heap, a slate-gray mountain of tailings, waste from the coal mine, mostly shale and sandstone. From Wordnik.com. ['Fall of Giants'] Reference
I was wearing Combination four of my carefully constructed capsule wardrobe: a slate-gray Joseph skirt suit with a deep purple sweater. From Wordnik.com. [The Little Lady Agency and the Prince] Reference
Nearby, heard but unseen, Mercy Creek gushed through a narrows in slate-gray bedrock before tumbling one hundred feet into a small pool. From Wordnik.com. [Mercy Falls] Reference
Kurt Cobain's body was discovered at his Seattle home, about 5,000 people gathered under a slate-gray Seattle sky for a candlelight vigil. From Wordnik.com. [The Fallout Of The Burnout] Reference
It's a city on the edge of the desert, surrounded by jagged, slate-gray mountains. From Wordnik.com. [Redskins Insider Podcast -- The Washington Post] Reference
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