As you open a window and stare at a stone-gray sky. From Wordnik.com. [American Poetry, 1922 A Miscellany] Reference
It was not green or bright but stone-gray and dreary. From Wordnik.com. [Witches' Brew]
I watched my step as I crossed the space from gently bobbing shuttle to stone-gray quay. From Wordnik.com. [Analog Science Fiction and Fact]
"Especially when one has not delivered?" she asked mildly, the stone-gray eyes raking over me. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Chaos]
The view from the plane is breathtaking: deep-blue lakes, dark-green fields, dun-colored deserts, stone-gray mountains, and the entire countryside peppered with whitewashed, red-roofed houses. From Wordnik.com. [Yitzhak Rabin - Nobel Lecture] Reference
I could fancy him in his new town house, struggling through some endless dinner party -- his cynical, stone-gray eyes sweeping up and down the table, his lips curled in that habitual sneer, his mind, perhaps, gone back to the red-and-blue room in Chelsea, where he had been wont to stand astride before the black mantel, bellowing indecencies into the ears of witty modernists. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
She shot a glance at him with her honest, stone-gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
He could feel rather than see the steady kindness that was in her stone-gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
He could feel her honest stone-gray eyes, probing his soul for motives in the darkness. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
In time, too, Fulton's hungry stone-gray face of the last weeks would fade from my memory. From Wordnik.com. [We Three] Reference
Her face also is long and pointed, basically stone-gray, but the snout and lower jaw are jet black. From Wordnik.com. [The New Yorker] Reference
Scarcely pausing, she swept him with a pair of stone-gray eyes, made mischievous for the moment with merriment. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
Lady Dawn of the portrait he exempted, not the Lady Dawn who had mocked him in passing with her steady stone-gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
The case before us is of a stone-gray color, with a black stripe along the middle, and with rings of the same color round each opening. From Wordnik.com. [Our Common Insects A Popular Account of the Insects of Our Fields, Forests, Gardens and Houses] Reference
He had the feeling that behind his back the face had changed from the profile position in which it had been painted, so that the steady stone-gray eyes were challenging his attention. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
He felt that, were he to do what his instinctive sense of justice had first urged -- go to Lady Dawn and tell her that her husband had cared for her -- the painted face would be no longer turned away and the stone-gray eyes no longer averted. From Wordnik.com. [The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel] Reference
And as he did so it struck him, aggravating his sense of sinister repetition, that she had on the same rings and bracelets as on that former occasion, and that she wore stone-gray silk too -- a long traveling sacque, lined and bordered with soft fur. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance] Reference
On a recent Saturday morning, as hundreds of anxious students lined up for the test outside the stately stone-gray facade of Brooklyn Tech, parents and students attributed the racial disparities to a lack of private tutoring, subpar middle schools that do not expose students to test material, transportation problems, cultural differences and a simple lack of motivation on the part of some students. From Wordnik.com. [Educational Equity, Politics & Policy in Texas] Reference
A light showed in his stone-gray eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Queed] Reference
With stone-gray eyes that weep and weep. From Wordnik.com. [Poems] Reference
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