How To Use Grayish In A Sentence
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Looking at the greyish-green sea streaked with white waves was a good antidote, as indeed the grand and infinite was always.
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Inside they found a black-grayish basalt mummiform sarcophagus coated with a layer of earth and potsherds affixed to the lid with plaster.
Czech Egyptologists Open Shaft Tomb, Identify Royal Burial at Abusir
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Stems from twelve to fifteen inches high; leaves lyrate, the terminal lobe round; flowers small, in erect, loose, terminal spikes, or groups; the seeds are small, wrinkled, of a grayish color, and retain their vitality three years.
The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.
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Most artists' canvases are linen (made from flax, Linum usitatissimum), a greyish brown cloth which is strong and hard-wearing.
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The ore is mineralogically martite schist, and the enclosing rocks are grayish, greenish and pinkish siliceous schists, of probable eruptive origin.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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Teeth naturally get duller as we age and certain medications taken as a child, such as tetracycline, can give teeth a grayish hue.
CNN Transcript Feb 14, 2004
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The horn becomes greyish brown, short, strongly downcurved.
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The birds, as well as those of the Nurtung river, are the water-ouzel, the greyish-blue water-chat, the red and black ditto with a white head - top, and the black bird, _durn-durns_ or bird producing that cry occurs, but not in great numbers.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
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A lump of soft, ochrey red-brown ironstone, coated with a thin layer of greyish white substance.
The Land of Midian
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The process is characterized by dirty grayish or ash-gray-colored maculae on the skin of the trunk and limbs.
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Men and women everywhere hawked government-controlled newspapers printed on a grayish, low-grade newsprint no doubt full of comparably dull propaganda.
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A big drop followed, down over rough rock and scree to the Bealach an Fhuarian from where a great greyish-white buttress reared alarmingly.
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There are two dining rooms, both tightly packed, both with mottled greyish-green walls and bizarrely disposed lumps of varnished pine.
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The birds have green/yellow legs and greyish heads.
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He had grayish-black hair and a rugged unshaved look.
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The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
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_Tréhala_ (fig. 2) consists of cocoons of an ovoid or globular form, about 3/4 of an inch in length; their inner surface is composed of a smooth, hard, dusky layer, external to which is a thick, rough, tuberculated coating of a greyish-white colour and earthy appearance.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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For the last few days, the weather had been tolerably cool, and we had not been much troubled with musquitoes; instead, however, we were persecuted severely by a very large greyish kind of horsefly, with a huge proboscis for sucking up the blood.
Journals of expeditions of discovery into Central Australia, and overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound, in the years 1840-1
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Magnfied a dozen times, you can see the city centre and Hillbrow forming a greyish crescent at the bottom.
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There, among the white waxy flowers, she saw a small, snow-white moth with grayish hind wings.
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It was a woman who had a few strands of greyish hair in a style which was short enough to be a man's cut.
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auf dem etwas stockfleckigen Passepartout - stockfleckig was new to me and means with patches caused by mould on textiles, paper, wood - pale, brownish or greyish-black spot with a musty smell - foxed, in fact I had to look up "foxed" too!
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Frequently the caseous clots are not to be seen, and the stool has a clammy look reminding one of glazier's putty, while the color varies from dirty white to pale grayish yellow.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 392, July 7, 1883
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The tube thus disposed is turned from the side of the object of which we wish to take the image, and the time that the chloride of silver takes to become of a greyish slate color will be the time required for the light of the camera to produce a good effect on the iodated silver.
American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype
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Why it wuz dat crawly, kind of grayish, lookin 'sugar us used den.
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Georgia Narratives, Part 2
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The Indians ride bareback on paints (white horses with dark colored markings) and duns (grayish brown horses) with snaffle bridles.
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His skin had an unhealthy greyish tinge.
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With grayish brown fur and a nearly naked tail, the animals rarely grow to more than half a foot long.
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Long, grayish grasses swayed in the gentle wind blowing in from the east.
THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART ONE OF THE EA CYCLE
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There, among the white waxy flowers, she saw a small, snow-white moth with grayish hind wings.
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The saccate volva is attached only near the base of the stem, grayish on the outer surface, and 20-35 mm wide.
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Rewash your clothes at the hottest temperature possible with biological detergent to get rid of any greyish marks.
Times, Sunday Times
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When returned it was a greyish, soupy mess of not-quite reconstituted mushrooms and insipid, unseasoned, unmarinated chicken slices.
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These ancient communities of grayish and straw-yellow stone are as mellow as the fields of stubble after harvest.
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You can use maroon, grayish tones of pinks and whites to achieve the same results.
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Iron is a silvery white or grayish metal that is ductile and malleable.
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Deledda thought that the best Christmas gift she ever got was a moufflon, the shorthaired grayish-brown or russet wild sheep native to Sardinia and Corsica.
Grazia Deledda: Voice of Sardinia
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Note 1: bo or boll weevil or weavil, a grayish weevil, super-family of beetles, that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and bolls. drawing.
Ma Rainey Lyrics
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Its skin was hairless and smooth and covered in miniscule, grayish brown scales.
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Face silvery; antennæ testaceous, black towards the tips, arista full as long as the thorax; thorax with three cupreous stripes; pectus silvery; abdomen with cupreous purple bands and with whitish spots along each side; legs testaceous, tarsi and hind tibiæ black; wings slightly greyish, blackish brown along the costa and about the transverse veins, veins black, fore branch of the præbrachial vein curved inward, discal transverse vein undulating; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Head white, face brilliant silvery; mystax with four bristles; mouth black, short, slender; eyes flat in front; antennæ black, almost as long as the breadth of the head; third joint long, slender, lanceolate; thorax deep black; scutellum reddish tawny; hind tibiæ black, with tawny tips; wings greyish, veins black; discal veinlet and third externo-medial vein forming one straight line, as in the genus
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The jarrah tree has rough grayish brown bark with vertical grooves, which sheds in long strips.
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In the mid-1930s she began to attract attention with pictures consisting of flecks of colour against a greyish or neutral background.
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Thirty grayish white pillars surrounding the building rose so high that I couldn't help but wonder if they'd used magic to set them up.
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The bo or boll weevil or weavil is a grayish weevil, super-family of beetles, that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and bolls. drawing;
Jimmy Reed Lyrics
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During summer and fall large flocks of grayish white merinos could be seen getting a rich living on the brown grasses, the yellow stubble of old grain fields, and the tightly rolled nuts of the bur clover; while in winter and spring, hills and plains with their velvet-like covering of green alfileria offered the best and juiciest of food.
History of California
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Upon entering my MIL's house we noticed a huge bowl on her dining room table with unsavory looking brown water and a slimy kind of grayish white thing floating in it.
George Burns Had It Right - SpouseBUZZ
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The cytisus and buddleia have greyish leaves.
The Education of a Gardener
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Where the sky would be is a uniform grayish blank, which defines both the far horizon (the ridge line) and the uppermost cleft of the rock with one long, graceful curve.
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It is most noticeable as grayish black galls on the ear of the plant.
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Or that, if often reported, grayish or whitish gelatinous substance is not nostoc, and is not spawn if occurring in times unseasonable for spawn.
The Book of the Damned
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A recent job of calcimining had transformed the room from a dirty grayish, white to a soft shade of pink; the old-fashioned furniture had been "done over," and glowed dully in the fading light.
The Pride of Palomar
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The hydrogen ion causes coagulation of surface tissue, which eventually appears as a grayish white area surrounded by erythema. 16 Fluoride ions freely penetrate the skin and continue into deeper tissues, causing cellular death and liquifaction necrosis of soft tissue. 22,15 Neutralization of fluoride ions occurs when fluoride complexes with calcium and other divalent cations in the tissues, forming an insoluble salt.
Hydrofluoric Acid
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The fossiliferous horizons occur in greenish to greyish siltstones and brown to black fissile shales associated with mollusc shells.
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The greyish green gritstone had undergone the action of deep-seated reducing heat fluid during its rock-forming process.
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The food, reduced by the action of the gastric juice to a grayish, soupy mass, called _chyme_ (kime), escapes through that jealously guarded door, the pylorus.
Hygienic Physiology : with Special Reference to the Use of Alcoholic Drinks and Narcotics
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Females are greyish-brown, with less marked socks but they also have a dark stripe on their forelegs.
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She glanced down upon a freckled face of the complexion described as pasty, a pair of greyish-blue eyes, and
Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir
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In 1885, W.A. Burpee offered an "Extra Early A.leaume," which he described as "stem very short, leaves long, _entire_ or _very little lobated_, of a grayish-green color, forming a close protection to the head, which is large, fine grained and pure white.
The Cauliflower
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The prevailing greyish dun distances were relieved by colour, by small spots of cheerful intimacy in patches of cultivation the more precious for being sustained in such arduous circumstances.
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Color A moderate to grayish or light grayish yellowish brown or olive brown.
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Black, with cinereous tomentum; antennæ rather stout; legs piceous; wings greyish; veins black; radial and cubital veins thick; radial vein extending to the fork of the subapical.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The only thing that dislodged was her navy blue Swiss polka dot skirt which dropped over her upside down head revealing a tattered pair of grayish cotton underpants and some nylons that were tied in knots behind her knee.
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In fact, the lower Hamstead Member is difficult to distinguish from the Bembridgc Marls Member in that both are greyish laminated muds.
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Looking at the greyish-green sea streaked with white waves was a good antidote, as indeed the grand and infinite was always.
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Take the case of the coastal California gnatcatcher, a diminutive, grayish blue songbird with a home range limited to coastal southern California and northwestern Baja California, Mexico.
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The rays of the sun were now spreading, smokelike and greyish-yellow, over the silver river.
Through Russia
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The fur of hutias is generally brownish or greyish in colouration.
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It wasn't the normal, dark, towering building, but a tall, skinny, grayish color that looked like it had rotted from the inside.
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A refective meter will tend to underexposue; and give you grey snow; a greyish beach;
Grat.uito.us
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These standard color designation names such as deep yellow and dark grayish yellow are hereafter printed in boldface.
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His face changed color to a kind of grayish purple, and his hands clenched slowly at his sides.
Pagan Passions
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The contents may be hard and friable, soft and cheesy, or even fluid, of a grayish, whitish or yellowish color, and with or without a fetid odor; the mass consisting of fat-drops, epidermic cells, cholesterin, and sometimes hairs.
Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine
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Bill of drake blackish, of duck greyish.
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Pocock (1933), for example, described it as 'Uniformly blackish brown above and on the limbs and tail; with a grey patch above the eye and grey on the upper half of the cheeks; the sides of the muzzle, back of the ears, chin, and forepart of the throat white, but the hinder part of the throat, the breast, and the belly either a dusky greyish brown, or clean white'.
That’s no mystery carnivore (part II)… it’s a giant squirrel!
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Clue: large? tree of eurasia and north africa having greyish canescent leaves and grey bark.
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It was an Arctic wolf, with greyish-white fur and yellow eyes.
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Is it the thin grayish covering, or is it the twelve to fifteen inch layer of blubber which surrounds his body?
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The sky took on a grayish hue and the temperature fell but after a few minutes conditions were back to normal.
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The Iberian species, however, has a distinctly spotted coat of grayish fur with tints ranging from yellow to rusty orange, a flared ruff framing its face, black ear tufts and tail tips, and long hind legs.
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His long, grayish hair was woven and braided about a huge horned headdress, and his midnight blue and evergreen robes were embroidered in silver.
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Barely a few dwarf plants could now be noticed, like those on the wild heaths of Scotland; then came the first tract of grayish sand and flint, with here and there a lentisk tree and brambles.
Five Weeks in a Balloon
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Head blue in front, sides of the face cupreous-purple; mouth, antennæ, and tarsi black; arista snow-white; thorax with two almost contiguous darker stripes; abdomen æneous green, with the exception of the petiole, which is very thick; wings slightly greyish, costal half black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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To the right of them sprang up the slim fraxinella, the centranthus draped with snowy blossoms, and the greyish hounds-tongue, in each of whose tiny flowercups gleamed a dewdrop.
La faute de l'Abbe Mouret
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I am very fond of her dark grayish purple coat.
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Now, for Chapalaberta meat aficionados from the Frozen Tundra who think a good steak should bark at them when placed on the grill, I must point out that Bubba stated the beef should be "greyish" not "green" which is not good.
The big chapala beef beef
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Their underwings are a dusky grayish to brownish-white.
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Twenty-two samples for radiolarian research were collected from the grayish black, thin-bedded limestone and siliceous limestone of the Baoqing Member and the Mcishan Member.
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Finer and more ornamental varieties of volcanic stone were introduced from a distance, such as the _peperino_ or grayish-green tufa of the Alban Hills, the _Lapis Albanus_ of the ancients, with its glittering particles of mica interspersed throughout its mass; the hard basaltine lava from a quarry near the tomb of Cæcilia Metella, on the Appian Way, and from the bed of the
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood
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Often times, the landscapes are bleak in the grayish washed out world of factories or barren landscapes of the indigenous lifeforms.
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Head blue in front, sides of the face cupreous-purple; mouth, antennæ, and tarsi black; arista snow-white; thorax with two almost contiguous darker stripes; abdomen æneous green, with the exception of the petiole, which is very thick; wings slightly greyish, costal half black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Emperor penguin chicks have a grayish down coat with dark wing and tail feathers, but this odd bird is all white.
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Their thick winter coats are heavy with water, making dark and drear their dry shades of greyish-brown hair.
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After a month they became verrucose and some areas quickly acquired a marbled aspect with grayish coloration.
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Iron is a silvery white or grayish metal that is ductile and malleable.
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If you have flowers that fail to open and are covered with a grayish-brown fuzzy mold, or if you have pink ‘water spots’ on the petals, you have botrytis.
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-- The back and top of the head are greyish-yellowish, the hairs being leaden grey at the base, passing into yellow, the sub-terminal part being brown, with a minute dark point; the upper surface of the parachute is almost wholly black, with a greyish-white border; under surface yellow; the belly greyish-ashy; feet black; limbs and tail concolorous with the body, the latter very bushy.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Between the white limestone and the greyish pink limestone is a thin bed of clay.
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Is it the thin grayish covering, or is it the twelve to fifteen inch layer of blubber which surrounds his body?
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The new species is distinguished from all congeners by having a melanistic color pattern, with head and dorsum of the body mostly dark-brown to black; absence of postocular stripe; venter grayish-brown, with dark rounded blotches outlining two lateral stripes which become gradually paler towards the posterior region of the belly, disappearing after midbody.
Archive 2008-02-01
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With treatment, these spots often turn slightly darker and "grayish", after which they become "crusty" and simply flake off in
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It was grayish and easy to break apart; feathery to the touch and had a sour smell to it.
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It was lined with buildings made of grayish-orange Cotswold limestone, tourist facilities mostly - china shops, map stores, tearooms.
BABYCAKES
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He hadn't been married a year before all the seven were shady; the colors ran into each other till even Sundays became a kind of grayish drab.
The Combined Maze
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In the W. Atlantic, the largest grunt is Haemulon album, the margate, greyish in general colour and an important food fish.
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All that could be seen were their long, grayish necks and broad backs that could seat ten people.
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He has short hair, and when the police nabbed him, he was dressed in blue track pants and a greyish jersey.
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His skin is pale and greyish, and his hands painfully contorted by years of rheumatoid arthritis.
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When infected flowers or leaves are plucked, a grayish-white cloud of fungal spores can usually be seen.
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These contrasted with the areas of deep yellow broom blossoms and the shiny greyish green leaves of the marram grass.
Country diary: Nairn Dunes
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But I recall a grayish morning along Arno and a meeting with Messer
The God of Love
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23 I have adopted the word leaden as expressive of the idea implied in the original word, viz. grey or greyish blue; hence, dulled, dimmed.
The Koran (Al-Qur'an)
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They all seemed perplexingly afflicted with the same strange disease as Henrietta, an illness that gave them an oily and grayish appearance almost like a fish.
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Head reddish; antennæ testaceous at the base; thorax testaceous in front; wings greyish, blackish-brown along the costa, and with three subcostal blackish-brown patches, the third continued along the veins towards the hind border.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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These greyish, shallow erosions in the surface of the tongue and cheeks are inflamed and painful, especially when you eat hot, spicy food.
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The C. deceptive should have pale pinkish spore print, adnate to decurrent gills about the same colour of the cap, which should be pale brown or greyish with incurved margins.
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Dark grayish smoke smothered the scene and the eerie green fire ate away at the hole in front of him.
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And as they watched in amazement, Lanyon's skin started taking on a greyish tint, and her hands, raised to ward off the basilisk, froze in place.
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Her grayish brown hair was pulled back in a bun at the nape of her neck and her green eyes stared outside.
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The back of its leaves is covered with grayish-white tomenta.
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Pheffer claimed that during the search he went into Rice's bedroom, and in a closet, he found three attaché suitcases, Samsonite, kind of grayish, kind of bluish, gray color that had wires sticking out of all three of them.
Conflicting dynamite testimony by police detailed to Nebraska Supreme Court raises doubt in 1971 Black Panther case
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The roof above is concrete struts with glass tiled pavement slabs forming hundreds of mini-skylights that let in a certain amount of greyish London light…
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As well as the characteristic white ring around the eye, they usually have green plumage with white, yellow or greyish underparts.
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His eyes were a grayish blue and his hair bright blonde, sandy rather.
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When we come to reported falls of gelatinous substances, I'd like it to be noticed how often they are described as whitish or grayish.
The Book of the Damned
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The cloth of the flag should be either of xanthic or of greyish blue colour and on top of the flag post, there should either be a spearhead or a Khanda (a straight dagger with convex side edges leading to slanting top edges ending in a vertex).
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Legends of the discovery of glass have someone sitting on the sand beside last night's fire picking up a pitted, opaque greyish stone and discovering its hardness and translucence.
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The color of the siderite is grayish-white when cleaned, but in most instances it is a dull to iridescent reddish-brown because of alteration to iron oxides on the crystal surfaces.
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Antennæ ferruginous, third joint short, conical, arista bare; pectus slightly covered with cinereous tomentum; legs testaceous, with a few very indistinct blackish marks; fore femora black, testaceous towards the base; fore tibiæ black; fore tarsi snow-white, black at the base; hind tarsi whitish; wings greyish, with two almost obsolete brownish bands; discal transverse vein parted by less than its length from the border and by about four times its length from the præbrachial transverse.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The grayish-blue, partly gemmy cordierite, when first discovered in the early twentieth century, was mistakenly reported as corundum.
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-- "Fur above sooty black without any ferruginous smear, beneath lighter coloured; whiskers long, silvery grey; some parts of legs and feet greyish, clothed with adpressed hairs; claws short, whitish; ears large, round, naked; outer margin lying on a level with the fur of the head and neck, the ears being thus concealed posteriorly; tail tetragonal, tapering, shorter than head and body.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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A white or grayish powdery / moldy growth appears on the foliage, new shoots and buds.
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Overhanging the corner of the shed was an ancient apple tree, with greyish mossy growths on its trunk and branches.
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Dark clouds were gathering on the horizon, a grayish-purple that barely stood out against the blue-black of the night sky.
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Adult hornworms are huge grayish brown moths with wingspans of up to five inches.
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Rewash your clothes at the hottest temperature possible with biological detergent to get rid of any greyish marks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The effect is greyish blue in the sunlight and reddish purple in the incandescent lamp light.
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The = gills = are close, free, narrow, white, then grayish white, the edge finely toothed or fimbriate.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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The baryta is a heavy grayish porous substance prepared by carefully igniting the nitrate of barium; and of this each retort having the above dimensions holds about 125 lb.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887
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Like the Lower Old Red Sandstones of Cromarty and Moray, the red arenaceous strata occur in thick beds, separated from each other by bands of a grayish-colored stratified clay, on the planes of which I could trace with great distinctness ripple markings; but in vain did I explore their numerous folds for the plates, scales, and fucoid impressions which abound in the gray argillaceous beds of the shores of the Moray and Cromarty Friths.
The Cruise of the Betsey or, A Summer Ramble Among the Fossiliferous Deposits of the Hebrides. With Rambles of a Geologist or, Ten Thousand Miles Over the Fossiliferous Deposits of Scotland
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This is seen as a greyish-white accumulation of material which grows and obstructs blood flow.
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These small grayish black pellets are called clinker.
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The ovate crenate leaves, which measure from an inch or even less, to one inch and a half in length by about half the length in breadth, are leathery, dark green above, grayish above.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 417, December 29, 1883
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The foliage is a striking greyish-green with purple undertones and the small, pretty flowers are vivid pink.
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The grayish-blue, partly gemmy cordierite, when first discovered in the early twentieth century, was mistakenly reported as corundum.
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The stone was a greyish colour.
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The other bird, called a nun or waxbill, is about the size of a thrush, grayish in color, with a waxy red bill.
V. Up the River of Tapirs
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S. suis grows on blood agar as small, greyish and mucoid colonies with a zone of alpha-haemolysis and is optochin resistant.
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At room temperature, sodium carbonate is an odorless, grayish-white powder which is hygroscopic.
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They have already mown the hay in part; and the billowy tracts of greyish green, where no flowers are now in bloom, supply a restful groundwork to those brilliant patches of diapered fioriture.
New Italian sketches
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Men and women everywhere hawked government-controlled newspapers printed on a grayish, low-grade newsprint no doubt full of comparably dull propaganda.
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The numerous branching, erect stems and the almost square, toothed, grayish-green leaves are covered with a down from which the common name hoarhound is derived.
Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses
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The bartender, a older woman, her weight gathering about her midsection like a water buoy, crow's feet and high greyish-black hair coiffed for the morning rush of mariners and toughs, nodded politely, pointing.
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It bears small, rather insignificant flowers with a collar of white-veined deeply toothed bracts above impressive prickly glaucous greyish-green leaves.
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Bossban Soergg the Hutt was a grayish, heaving, flaccid lump of flesh and muscle only another Hutt could possibly find attractive.
The Cat is a Metaphor
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Note 1: bo or boll weevil or weavil, a grayish weevil, super-family of beetles, that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and bolls. drawing
Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee
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I hate them to disturb me, but I am sure they won't keep hovering around me tirelessly. Nonetheless I get a sense that my unconscious thought has fluttered its grayish-black thin wings.
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I hate them to disturb me, but I am sure they won't keep hovering around me tirelessly. Nonetheless I get a sense that my unconscious thought has fluttered its grayish-black thin wings.
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A disease of grasses appearing as grayish-white or pinkish patches after heavy snow has melted and caused by fungi that thrive at low temperatures.
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The irruption has included both bright red males and greenish or greyish females and juveniles.
Times, Sunday Times
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Displayed predominantly in gridded series, the photographs were printed slightly dark, so that the whites have a grayish tonality.
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Two weeks later, the greyish-green larvae with short, black, hairy spines begin to appear as they make a communal feeding web on the top of the aster.
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Kit put a Sacagawea dollar in the donation box before she approached the sisters, who, though on the small side, managed to loom like holy skyscrapers in their grayish-blue habits.
Slice Of Cherry
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The droppings of these millions of birds and animals and the accumulating bodies of the dead have decayed and made a kind of grayish powder.
Birdseye Views of Far Lands
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Vertex bluish-purple; face and pectus silvery; antennæ testaceous, arista about half the length of the body; fourth and fifth segments of the abdomen deep black with a cupreous band on the hind border of each segment, tip blue; legs and halteres testaceous; wings greyish, paler along the hind border, tips black, fore branch of the præbrachial vein slightly curved inward, discal transverse vein slightly undulating.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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With their attractive greyish green foliage they are perfect for sunny beds and patio tubs.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scars on her face and neck are still scabrous, crusted with blood and grayish pus.
THE SAVAGE GIRL
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These grayish black mushrooms look like small, delicate, paper-thin, crinkled leaves.
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Still another variety, greyish-black and generally associated with hæmatite iron ore, is called emery, and, when ground in different degrees of fineness, is so well known by its general use as a polishing medium as to need no description.
The Chemistry, Properties and Tests of Precious Stones
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Majesty had been with them all along -- a four-foot, irregular sphere of grayish-white nerve matter and intricately wrinkled cortex dependent for movement on borrowed backs and legs -- and was now peering at them out of the only pair of eyes in the termitary as though in doubt as to what to do first with his helpless-seeming captives.
The Raid on the Termites
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Colour: Grayish to blue colour. White under belly.
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Somewhat doglike in appearance, he had greyish-brown fur, a short, boxy muzzle, and a tiny stub of a tail, but also had long, pointy ears, a small button nose, and royal blue hair on his head.
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The habit of the shrub is densely bushy, and the foliage has a greyish green colour from its downiness.
Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
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The Western Scrub-Jay has blue upperparts, a grayish-brown back, and light underparts.
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This monomorphic species is identified by its overall greyish colour, white forehead, orange-red eyes surrounded by black and its orangish or chestnut-coloured belly and undertail coverts.
Mystery bird: Ethiopian catbird, Parophasma galinieri
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A white or grayish powdery / moldy growth appears on the foliage, new shoots and buds.
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The player, which can be wall mounted, placed on a 25-degree stand or placed flat, has a grayish woodgrain design.
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As I walked along the concrete sidewalk snowflakes began to fall from the grayish sky.
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Beige it is — upholstered, carpeted, and painted in brownish, grayish, yellowish hues.
Future Schlock
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The new species is distinguished from all congeners by having a melanistic color pattern, with head and dorsum of the body mostly dark-brown to black; absence of postocular stripe; venter grayish-brown, with dark rounded blotches outlining two lateral stripes which become gradually paler towards the posterior region of the belly, disappearing after midbody.
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The blue tint of the bharals makes them almost invisible against the background of blue-grayish rock that is typical within their habitat.
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Anyone else, or nearly anyone, should have shuddered inwardly, had they the awareness necessary to perceive the dark portent forecast by the neatly typed black ink letters, those svelte and innocent creatures, who stood modestly without calling attention to themselves, against the background of an unnoisy grayish sheet of fine paper.
The Pulse-Soldier
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Overhanging the corner of the shed was an ancient apple tree, with greyish mossy growths on its trunk and branches.
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The = gills = are grayish white, then tinged with flesh color, slightly sinuate, the longer ones somewhat broader in the middle (ventricose), rather distant, and quite thick as seen in cross section, the center of the gill (trama) presenting parallel threads.
Studies of American Fungi. Mushrooms, Edible, Poisonous, etc.
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As the shark passed by, shafts of sunlight dappled its long, greyish-brown flanks.
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The stalk was grayish-brown, kind of moldy looking.
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In his youth he greedily fills his soul with everything he can lay his hands on and at the age of thirty all that remains of it is a kind of grayish rubbish.
Personal Recollections of Anton Pavlovitch Chekhov
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We bought Chinese food for the first and last time from one of those walk-in joints with the pictures of the food above the register that never look like the grayish beige slop they boxed up for you.
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Silver-leafed artemisia varieties, lamb's ears and herbs, such as lavender, contribute grayish-silver foliage that are both handsome and aromatic.
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Most artists' canvases are linen (made from flax, Linum usitatissimum), a greyish brown cloth which is strong and hard-wearing.
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The foliage has a greyish underside and the hips are elongated and elegant.
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Wood grain PVC is considerably easier on the eye but after a decade the pigment will migrate and turn a greyish colour.
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Is it the thin grayish covering, or is it the twelve to fifteen inch layer of blubber which surrounds his body?
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* Fruit of the sapodilla tree (Achras sapota); size of a small apple, rough-grained, yellow to greyish pulp.
On Eating Apples
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Her vague, scratchy, grayish images look kind of like piles of bent wire already, and they might be more interesting in three dimensions.
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Between the white limestone and the greyish pink limestone is a thin bed of clay.
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Females are drabber, with subtle iridescence on overall grayish-brown bodies, spotted flanks, and a white teardrop surrounding each eye.
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We tromped back inside, scuffing our feet to clean the greyish sludge off our once nice-looking black shoes.
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Powdery mildew causes a grayish white fuzz on new leaves and flower buds.
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* Fruit of the sapodilla tree (Achras sapota); size of a small apple, rough-grained, yellow to greyish pulp.
On Eating Apples
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Note 1: bo or boll weevil or weavil, a grayish weevil, super-family of beetles that infests the cotton plant and feeds on the squares and bolls. drawing
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There is also a scarcity of rock, — though, in the neighborhood of Bijou, I observed a kind of grayish sandstone, exposed to view in the beds of ravines; and, directly opposite Chabonard's camp, the action of the waters had formed a steep wall, some thirty or forty feet high, which disclosed a large bed of sandstone and slate, with earthy limestone.
ROCKY MOUNTAIN LIFE
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-- Ears short, oval, triangular; tragus short, rounded at tip; membrane attached to base of outer toe; all toes short; membrane over the arms very hairy, some cross-lines of hair on the interfemoral membrane; fur long, deep fuscous brown at base, chestnut at the tip; beneath greyish brown.
Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
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Head black above, testaceous beneath; antennæ testaceous; abdomen with four broad abbreviated piceous bands; legs tawny, hind tibiæ black with a tawny apical mark, hind tarsi black towards the base; wings greyish, slightly lurid towards the base, blackish-brown about the exterior part of the costa, veins black, tawny towards the base; halteres testaceous, tawny towards the tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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We bought Chinese food for the first and last time from one of those walk-in joints with the pictures of the food above the register that never look like the grayish beige slop they boxed up for you.
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All bristletails are carrot-shaped, somewhat flattened, and covered with grayish scales.
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The Neotropical otter has short, dense, sleek pelage, which is described as a lustrous grayish-brown.
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Outside, the pavement was littered with peeling strips of grayish-white gunk that had sloughed from its sides like dead skin.
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His brown eyes were locked on the mysterious old lady as she pulled out another grayish sack, put her bony hand inside of it, and pulled out a handful of pure, snow-white powder.
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a man with greyish hair
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Note: possum, opossum, any of a family (Didelphidae) of American marsupials that usually have a pointed snout and prehensile tail; especially: a common omnivorous largely nocturnal and arboreal mammal (Didelphis virginiana) of North America having grayish to blackish fur with white on the cheeks;
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Mouth yellow; thorax with four stripes of slightly gilded tomentum; tip of the abdomen with cinereous tomentum; legs whitish, hind femora towards the tips and hind tibiæ black; wings greyish, veins and stigma black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Vertex luteous; third joint of the antennæ conical; arista plumose; disk of the thorax and a dot on each side of the tip of the abdomen deep black; tarsi piceous; wings slightly greyish; veins black, discal transverse vein straight, parted by about half its length from the border and by twice its length from the præbrachial transverse.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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The star lot will be an exquisitely minimalist, grayish-blue glazed vase from the southern Song dynasty (1127-1279).
Asian Art Soars in London
