How To Use Grey In A Sentence
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You skin looks a bit slack and grey.
Life Without Work
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And its world was a narrow swamp, a grey, nubiferous environment, where it lived its contented, active, idyllic, almost mindless existence.
The Voyage of the Space Beagle
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So, she ran round and round the scaffold with the executioner striking at her, and her grey hair bedabbled with blood; and even when they held her down upon the block she moved her head about to the last, resolved to be no party to her own barbarous murder.
A Child's History of England
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Their clothes had become grey with washing.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was grey with pain, already almost a death mask and beginning to melt invisibly into the charnel of the killing field.
WALL GAMES
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In a corner, shackled and chained, was a grey mass.
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Flat lawns are formed into an abstract pattern that recalls tectonic fractures and fissures in the earth's surface, their edges defined by dark grey concrete retaining walls.
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From his shiny, greasy, biker-looking jeans to his short, greying beard, he was muscle and bone.
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Among the most desolate sandhills you may find in July acres of wax-white pyrola – like lilies of the valley splashed with pink – covering the plains between the lonely ridges of harsh, grey grass.
The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
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He stared at her, his grey eyes lingering on her lips.
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Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
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The fox may grow grey, but never good.
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Inside reminded her of a hotel; maroon carpet, cream walls and bellboys in black and grey suits.
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Ruth Hawkin was sitting at the kitchen table, a forgotten cigarette in the ashtray next to her transformed into three inches of marled grey ash.
A Place of Execution
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Bottlenose dolphins appear uniform grey, but their colouring can be very variable.
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The idea of going grey doesn't bother me, but I'd hate to go bald.
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The habitat suitability selection models were established for nesting of Grey heron(Ardea cinerea)in Zhalong National Nature Reserve.
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He wore a ragged grey beard.
Times, Sunday Times
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Actually, the color of white gold is light grey but it is coated with a layer of rhodium.
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Pumas roam these passes, hunting vast areas for grey fox, upland geese or guanacos, the wild and woolly relative of the llama.
Globe and Mail
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The rough-hewn boards of the boathouse were grey and weathered.
THE MYSTERY OF THE PURPLE PIRATE
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She has a full head of hair and blue eyes that may change (both parents have brown eyes, although she may have her uncle's - ie mine - bluey / greeny / grey eyes when she grows up).
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Nepheline, leucite, idocrase, and meionite have not yet been seen at the peak of Teneriffe; for a reddish-grey lava, which we found on the slope of Monte Verde, and which contains small microscopic crystals, appears to me to be a close mixture of basalt and analcime.
Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1
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The painter decided to grey the sky
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When I try to add a Folder widget, the browse button is greyed out and I can't edit the preset chrome URL, which doesn't lead me anywhere.
Four Experimental Firefox Extensions Worth An Extra Click | Lifehacker Australia
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Under that scale, brown is measured as dark grey, whereas shades of rust and buff are lighter grey.
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The birds include ten species of herons including grey heron Ardea cinerea, goliath heron A. goliath and yellow-billed egret Egretta intermedia, hammerkop Scopus umbretta, four of the six West African species of stork, ducks, five of the six West African species of vulture, hawks, plovers and francolins and black-winged stilt Himantopus himantopus.
Comoé National Park, Côte d'Ivoire
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He was grey and gaunt and we both cried.
Times, Sunday Times
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Its snouty head, patchy grey body and small pedal fins make the dwarf look more like a large dolphin than a baleen whale.
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It's a grey, cold day here in Amsterdam and I have to go and raid the fridge to find something for our belated Saturday brunch.
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Looking out the window, I can see an orange flame of whimsical light skimming the horizon, and hues of blue to grey look down benignly from above.
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What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater.
Times, Sunday Times
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Check out the pincushion hakea with its pointy-tipped nuts like fairy bells; the teak pods that open up like wooden flowers, and the large woody pears with slightly furry grey skin that's very soft to the touch.
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In an age of central heating and renovation Greystones presumably featured as a rare unspoiled habitat.
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It was an overcast day, the light hidden behind grey clouds that smothered the sky and threatened to rain.
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That's a grey area, but the very uncertainty injects a nice frisson into the comedy.
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Lord George professed that he had observed the same thing; but then, as he whispered into Mr. Nappie's ear, Mr. Greystock was particularly known as a bashful man.
The Eustace Diamonds
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The European badger (_Meles taxus_ or _M. meles_) is from 25 in. to 29 in. long, with a tail of about 8 in.; the general hue of the fur is grey above and black on the under parts; the head is white, with a black stripe on each side.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"
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He's maybe late forties, early fifties, bookish, greying, bespectacled, wispy - perhaps an academic.
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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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The death of the melanocyte stem cells causes the onset of greying.
Times, Sunday Times
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All these art works depict a scatter- brained character called Bip, who is traditionally dressed in sailor suit and a grey top hat decorated with a red flower.
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135 There is a grey area between ornament and decoration where one or other strives to compensate for poverty of form.
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Puddings are a small pleasure in a sea of grey days, one of those things that make it bearable.
The Sun
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The white guy was closer to sixty than to fifty, and his shaggy white-blond hair was shot with grey, and he'd given up trying to hide the bald spot on top.
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Monday, August 3 Yesterday was grey and humid with the heat finally broken by an afternoon thundershower.
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In any kind of breeze they smoke like a forest fire, sending clouds of grey dust over the moored yachts and into harbourside streets.
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She is wearing her school uniform of dark blue blazer, grey skirt, white shirt, school tie and blue jumper.
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He is of a medium build and has short grey receding hair and a moustache.
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The Alphamale, Ultraphenomenon, Greyraven, Ms. Mage … these guys are icons, bigger than the flesh and blood beneath the body-armors.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » Joel’s Review Forum
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And behold, he shrivelled and withered under their eyes, and became a small handful of grey dust and glass powder.
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Their shape could not be clearly defined as their outline seemed blurred in a haze of grey smoke surrounding them, but they seemed human shaped.
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He wore a ragged grey beard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The mottling does not have the classic red and grey colours of gley soils, typically formed in waterlogged soils.
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We had attended Morning Chant and were now seated for breakfast, disheartened but not surprised that the early Greys had already taken the bacon, and it remained only in exquisite odor.
Excerpt: Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde
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She is fearsome and patrician, with steely grey hair and rock-solid ideals.
Times, Sunday Times
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She was a tall thin woman who had gone grey early.
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The Mediterranean at this particular spot is any colour except blue, the predominant hue being dirty grey.
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It enjoys a quiet position near the centre of this pleasant village, just off the A19 Selby Road, little more than a hop, skip and a stagger away from the popular Greyhound pub.
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We watched the building vanish under a mantle of thick grey smoke as the fire swiftly moved through it.
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Mature male gorillas have silver-grey hairs on their backs.
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The shirt is complemented by anthracite grey shorts, and white socks with redcurrant pinstripes and an anthracite band with Arsenal printed on the calf.
Archive 2009-09-01
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Caps are 12.5 oz. wool blend and have buckram-backed front panels, pre-curved visors, and grey undervisors.
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Logwood is not only used for dyeing blacks and greys as the principal colouring matter, but is also used as a shading colour along with cutch, fustic, quercitron, etc., in dyeing olives, browns, etc., and among the recipes given in this section examples of its use in this direction will be found.
The Dyeing of Cotton Fabrics A Practical Handbook for the Dyer and Student
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White, metallics and other washed out colours, (such as grey and khaki) dominated the collection.
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The Makah were renowned whale hunters and stratigraphic unit V yielded the remains of at least 67 animals, mainly humpbacks and greys.
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The last pack remembered was killed about thirty-five years ago; and within these ten years one solitary greyhen was sprung by some beagles in beating for a hare.
The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
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Each day, in visibility of over 30 metres, we encounter black and white-tipped reef and grey sharks, large pelagics like dogtoothed tuna and many of the four hundred other species of fish which inhabit these waters.
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His black cloak had seen service; the waistcoat of grey plaid bore yet stronger marks of having encountered more than one campaign; his third piece of dress was an absolute veteran compared to the others; his shoes were so loaded with mud as showed his journey must have been pedestrian; and a grey maud, which fluttered around his wasted limbs, completed such an equipment as, since
Count Robert of Paris
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For instance, layer a crewneck periwinkle short-sleeved t-shirt over my long sleeve grey heather t , allowing the bottom of the grey heather to extend below the hem of the periwinkle to create an easy, layered look.
Red Room: Deborah Lindquist: Bring Your Summer Wardrobe into Fall -- the Green Way
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A grey and black tomcat went missing on Friday, February 28.
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White particularly favours the combination of yellow, dark blue and grey.
Times, Sunday Times
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His face was ashen, a yellowish grey color that spoke of death.
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He's got this really comfy grey ergonomic chair with a nice footrest and good back support.
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This time, though, old and new mesh perfectly, all hard greys and ashy blacks, and we believe.
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Ivaric raced down to the stables, shouted at a groom to saddle his grey horse Maila, and smiled as he saw his father sitting in a shady arbour at one end of the courtyard, looking thoughtful.
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Silver is a white grey metal which is softer than gold, platinum and titanium.
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Two giants, flush-faced, with greying hair, were locked in each other's arms.
Chapter 4
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The trinkets they were wearing around their necks and wrists gave off a glimmer in the dim light - the sky had turned into a mass of sullen grey threatening a persistent downpour.
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This throat membrane usually covers the tonsils and is a dirty grey colour.
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If only grey will do for you, make it charcoal and add texture.
Times, Sunday Times
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Obsessively monitoring lines and wrinkles, swollen ankles and grey hairs, they are haunted by feelings of self-hatred and inadequacy.
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The profile that passed the window was of the sort called aquiline, after the beak of the eagle; but he rather suggested a grey and venerable eagle; an eagle in repose; an eagle that has long folded its wings.
The Complete Father Brown
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He remembers his first governess, Miss Arkell, a grey-haired lady with traces of beard upon her large flat face and a black dress of what he calls bombasine.
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The September rain beat down on the roof incessantly, and the grey, cloudy skies made the whole situation depressing.
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Still more profound a touch is that where Ottima, daring her lover to the "one thing that must be done; you know what thing: Come in and help to carry," says, with affected lightsomeness, "This dusty pane might serve for looking-glass," and simultaneously exclaims, as she throws them rejectingly from her nervous fingers, "Three, four -- four grey hairs!" then with an almost sublime coquetry of horror turns abruptly to Sebald, saying with a voice striving vainly to be blithe --
Life of Robert Browning
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We suppose they are radio antennas beaming away their signal into the low grey sky.
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That expenditure our sons will incur just on their motorcycles and mobile phones," the turbaned, grey-bearded Mr. Singh says.
On Punjab's Farms, 'Everybody Has No Jobs'
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In the darkened operations room below decks, grey overalled officers and sailors watched an approaching blip on their radar screens.
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One day, Karzai wore the grey karakul hat from the north, the next day the black and white silk turban from his Pathan homeland in the south.
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Though the guzzling gumshoes of the 30's and 40's evolved from those eloquent pipe-smoking dandies, they have as much in common as rotgut rye and Earl Grey tea.
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But we maun a 'live the day, and have our dinner; and there's Vich lan Vohr has packed his dorlach, and Mr. Waverley's wearied wi' majoring yonder afore the muckle pier-glass; and that grey auld stoor carle, the Baron o 'Bradwardine that shot young
Waverley
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The American replied in a similar playful ferocity — the two warriors made a little tournament for us there on the plains before Jaffa, in the which diachylon, being a little worsted, challenged his adversary to a race, and fled away on his grey, the
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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He was only partially dressed; his face had the peculiar bulginess of the hard drinker; his eyes were watery and shifty, and several days 'growth of beard, with patchy grey and black spots, gave a stucco effect to his countenance.
The Cow Puncher
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When I open a beer, I do not want to be reminded of grey-suited, gimlet-eyed executives bludgeoning satire into an early grave.
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So if you intend to paint a cold, bleak, winter scene, the grey would be an ideal choice.
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Materials and finishes - epoxy resin floors, simple plastered walls, steel, precast concrete and waxed oak - are austere, and colours muted: gun-metal grey and white counterpoised to the warmth of wood.
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I was greeted by grey bleakness and a scratchy woolen blanket and a hard wooden floor.
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It produces a greyscale image and can refresh in about a second - far too slow to display moving images.
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These predominantly greywacke mountains are higher than others in the region.
Richmond temperate forests
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Then Danlo touched the tabletop and it vibrated up into a pearl-grey.
THE BROKEN GOD
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A mighty swipe had knocked the plump grey catnip mouse out of the bag and Ackroyd leaped for it with a hunting cry.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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One of GB s frontmen is DJ Danger Mouse, famous for his Grey Album, wherein he mashed up the Beatles 'White Album with Jay-Z's Black Album.
Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives
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The suspect is described as a 30-year old black male, 5ft 6ins tall, wearing a grey beanie hat, dark quilted flat jacket, black gloves, dark jeans and white trainers.
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This impression is reinforced by the panoramic curve of the back wall, which, even though it is painted a uniform dark grey, suggests a cyclorama or stage backdrop.
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The piece is illustrated with images that demonstrate the austere intensity of his work since then, exquisite abstract interiors and still lifes executed in his preferred palette of white, grey, light ochre and sienna.
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Britain's great graffiti artist comments anonymously from the depths of his grey hoodie.
Times, Sunday Times
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We begin by modifying the photo to create an image which is amenable to analysis: calculations of box dimension require a completely black and white image - no greyscale is allowed.
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So, ditch those dowdy greys and dip a toe in the new blues.
Times, Sunday Times
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It will see standard grey household waste bins being emptied fortnightly instead of weekly, while new green wheeled bins for garden waste are collected on alternate weeks from 60,000 homes in the city.
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Her back was tabby: from above or the back, she was a pretty tabby kitten, in grey and cream.
ON CATS
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Well, the combination of grey suit and peroxide hair has decided it for me.
The Sun
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Winter blues At this time of year I yearn for something to light up the grey.
Times, Sunday Times
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Blue whale of Antarrct has plunged to less than 1% of the original abundance. West Pacific grey whale hovers on the edge of extinction with just over 100 remaining.
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He was estimated to have won £100,000 in his career but his love of a flutter on greyhounds bankrupted him.
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I rode a beautiful grey horse around the set.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because of its strong enhancing effect it leaves a noticeable magenta colour bias in the more neutral hues or tones (the whites and greys).
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Some have a forlorn and battered remnant of a house or two, but they are mostly mere grey areas of flattened stone.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is less about hard and dark greys and more about the smokier greys like dove grey.
Interior Design Patterns from Hand
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His brown hair is flecked with grey and he has more shiny gold buttons than anyone else.
Times, Sunday Times
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From the great shingle bank that runs south along the shoreline you can look out over the cold grey North Sea.
Times, Sunday Times
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Six chickens, two ducks, a cow, and a fuzzy grey gosling named Molly also came with the house.
Exit the Actress
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The young birds of the family can be picked out by their pale head and the grey flecks on their back.
Times, Sunday Times
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There were the black, the white, the brindle, the grey and the grisly, the rough and the smooth, the crop-eared and the lop-eared, the gaunt and the grim.
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The subject is arranged around the city/country axis - half the plays are twitchy, snippy, morally grey urban comedies, and the other half are la-la land everything-is-nice-in-the-countryside pastorals.
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With no lineouts, no meaningful scrums and all players having to be greyhounds, it's a hybrid of rugby union.
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She blushed at the thoughts running through her mind after surveying him fully still clad in his charcoal grey dress pants that accented his derrière perfectly.
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The home is compact and stunning, with gorgeous xeriscape landscaping, and the most high-tech green materials and sustainable systems available, including a greywater recycling system, green roof, solar panels, and even a spot to plug in your electric vehicle for charging!
PREFAB FRIDAY: Zero-Energy MkLotus debuts! | Inhabitat
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But the greylag population is increasing at a faster rate.
Times, Sunday Times
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Not an imaginary scene, but a view of Philip's serpentine garden at Greystones, winding into the distance.
THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
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Anyway, dark grey and white walls, starched white linen.
Times, Sunday Times
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Lake Taupo looked windswept and the volcanoes were obscured by low grey cloud.
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If the police were chasing the grey car, it was highly irresponsible, what with it being rush hour.
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Both men looked away from the steady gaze, unable to meet the frosty, hard look in those grey eyes.
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Whereas if only she had been dishonest, and therefore commonplace, she would either have chucked her given word to the devil, or the deep grey sea over which she stood, and cleared for her own happiness and a marriage licence; or kept her word in one sense while making deedy little plans of triangular pattern for future reference.
Leonie of the Jungle
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Do you recognize that man in the grey suit?
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The Park is an important breeding area for the pinkbacked pelican Pelecanus rufescens, white pelican P. onocrotalus, African fish-eagle Haliaeetus vocifer, Caspian tern Hydroprogne caspia, goliath heron Ardea goliath, rufous-bellied heron Butorides rufiventris, yellowbilled stork Mycteria ibis, pygmy goose Nettapus auritus, collared pratincole Glareola pratincola and greyrumped swallow Pseudohirondo griseopyga.
Greater St Lucia Wetland Park, South Africa
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A cast-iron open fireplace with a pale grey marble mantel provides a focal point.
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A grey mental gloom settles over them with clockwork regularity as soon as the days draw in and the mornings get darker.
Stay Well This Winter
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Josh pulled the collar of his grey marl coat up to shield his neck from the onslaught of bitter winds.
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Whiteside is described as 5ft 6in tall, slim, with short hair which is balding on top and going grey on sides, a sallow complexion and brown eyes.
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Of these the grey is the most numerous kind; but as I shall have occasion to speak of the large wolves hearafter, I shall say no more of them at present, but direct your attention to the second and very different species, the _prairie wolves_.
Popular Adventure Tales
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He didn't look at her but she caught a glimpse of his misty grey eyes, they seemed far away.
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The pearly grey colour and rough texture forms an expressive contrast with the smooth white render.
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He now has a pot belly while his Afro haircut of the 1980s has been replaced by a short-cropped style and his beard has gone from black to grey.
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Below Greyabbey, I watched the oystercatchers breaking cockle shells on the rocks.
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We smiled at each other through a grey fug of cigarette smoke.
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The elderly Thaumaturge, dressed all in grey samite, lifted Ullanoth's right hand, which had been partially covered by her gown.
IRONCROWN MOON: PART TWO OF THE BOREAL MOON TALE
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It is then that, stripped for a brief moment of our armour of complacency and self-esteem, we see ourselves as we are -- frightful chumps in a world where nothing goes right; a grey world in which, hoping to click, we merely get the raspberry; where, animated by the best intentions, we nevertheless succeed in perpetrating the scaliest bloomers and landing our loved ones neck-deep in the gumbo.
Jill the Reckless
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Both of them draped their cloaks around themselves and mounted their horses as she galloped up on her grey charger.
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Sinai, grey granite dyked with decaying porphyritic trap, and everywhere veined with white and various-coloured quartzes.
The Land of Midian
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There are very slight grey flecks over the ears.
Times, Sunday Times
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And Sir George Grey will advise the grant of Her Majesty's gracious pardon
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This balding, grey-haired man with the deeply lined face was way too old to have been my classmate.
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Max's even more dismal New York is cast in jumbled patterns of black, white and grey, until Mary sends Max a bright red pom-pom which he wears atop his yarmulke.
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After a few days, the sought after botrytis-infected grape can rot further by the action of another fungus into a gooey grey lump.
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Through the windows you stepped into two small rooms with rush grey walls and red tiled floors.
Ford Madox Ford
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A woman dressed in a grey babygro reads a story about a man and his imaginary children which features a mildly disturbing maternal death.
Richard III; Lullaby; Hundreds & Thousands – review
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Well, we just type Greyhounds in the search engine and… blimey!
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The crosspieces were circular and made of black stone, shot through with veins of grey.
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She had a wide, laughing mouth, searching grey eyes and the kind of peachy complexion most New York women would kill for.
Black Blade
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She appeared totally misplaced, sitting amongst all the people in their grey suits.
GYPSY MASALA
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Although terns are closely related to seagulls, sharing a general black-and-grey pattern of plumage with their cousins, they have slim silvery bodies and deeply forked tails.
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The cat with its grey coat seemed to have been stupid enough to smuggle into my inner wears.
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His dark-gold hair, damp and draggled, hung into his eyes, which were dilated and sunk into violet pools; his blank beautiful face was grey and sweating, his entire frame racked with shivering.
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And ever the river was growing rougher and ruder; ever its backbone was beginning to puiver and flounder like a whale underfoot, with its liquescent body of cold, grey, murky water bursting with increasing frequency from its shell of ice, and lapping hungrily at our feet.
Through Russia
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Ma Dubois is in her late seventies: old and wrinkled with a blue frock, a Brillo pad of wiry grey hair and a pair of thick horn-rimmed glasses.
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Hunted nearly to extinction, the shy, greenish-grey jewfish made a comeback in these waters when laws to protect them were passed in 1990.
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Use grey-blues, taupes, khakis, subtle grey-browns, smokey subtle grey-purples.
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The four greys are both carriage and riding horses - Heloise, Marta, Tayten, and Nerid.
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The sky hung low, a cloudy canvas with swirls of dark purple and stormy greys.
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The film presents a straightforward choice between good and evil, with no shades of grey.
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When the bike ride was fairly flat it stayed in the grey zone.
The Sun
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It was a very dull and grey colour behind the gold.
Times, Sunday Times
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Dirty grey curls covered his head, and his complexion was off-white, like lard.
TOY SHOP
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Thorax and pectus tawny, the former globose, with a black dorsal spot; abdomen tawny at the base; anterior legs testaceous, hind femora spinose beneath; wings grey, darker at the tips; stigma and veins black; halteres testaceous, with piceous tips.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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Outside, the once splendid Nevski Prospekt (St. Petersburg's O'Connell Street) is in need of a lick of paint and seems to be trying desperately to become European, but its people are grey and wan.
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You see them muttering together in corners, their skin grey and baggy and their unbrushed hair matted with Playdoh.
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Her hair was grey and her face orange and purple and mauve.
Times, Sunday Times
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Please send a copy of this letter to Mr Grey.
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The brigadier was a thick-set, soldierly looking man, fit as a fiddle in spite of the grey hairs which mingled with his brown moustache, and his eyes lit up as he saw his two sons still safe and well.
With Haig on the Somme
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How grey and narrow the arts world will seem without his gadfly brilliance.
Times, Sunday Times
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One wore a sweatshirt and jeans, while the other wore jeans and an orange and grey t-shirt.
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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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From no point of view could the West look so lovely as from that lattice with the garland of jessamine round it, whose white stars and green leaves seemed now but grey pencil outlines - graceful in form, but colourless in tint - against the gold incarnadined of a summer evening - against the fire-tinged blue of an August sky, at eight o'clock p.m.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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The sun, not yet obscured, was picking out its fuscous shape with dazzling light, and marking its front with grey stripes running right down to the horizon.
Boyhood
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The night-light was still on, but the sky outside had already faded to a pre-dawn grey.
NIGHT SISTERS
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His brown hair is flecked with grey and he has more shiny gold buttons than anyone else.
Times, Sunday Times
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The grey squirrel is brash, bold and better designed than the indigenous model.
Times, Sunday Times
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Neil Armstrong went tumbling down the ladder and fell to the lunar surface in a cloud of grey dust.
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Then that golden coach, pulled by eight grey horses.
Times, Sunday Times
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Big sodden bales sat in the small high-hedged fresh-cut fields, a pigeon clapped in the alders and misty rain filled a steel grey sky.
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Fox stared stonily ahead, watching the grey of false dawn filter into the star-studded sky, ever aware of the orange glow behind him.
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When I do get a seizure aura, it is this: the world goes greyscale.
Tew's Day!
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A widow of several years, she wears a green, yellow and orange headscarf, from which black and grey curls poke out.
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What lawns deserve is grey water, that basinful of (cooled) soapy washing-up water, the sluiced out teapot, the diverted bathwater.
Times, Sunday Times
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August 24, 2009 at 11:28 am hee hee. ai had to go bak and reed taht agin. taht is purty funnee. ***waves grey floofy paw inna way ober der across the us way***
TONIGHT - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
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The other big man and the white-headed boy sat and looked off across a little bit of cornfield where an old grey stook of last year's fodder formed a sagging cone at the edge of the woods.
Cold Mountain
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Bad scrambled eggs are beyond the pale: insipid, pale lemon yellow fading to a bilious grey - granular, curdling or lying in a puddle of whey-like liquid.
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The female is paler and lacks the grey crown, white cheeks, black bib and eye stripe and chestnut brown nape, but has a straw coloured stripe behind the eye.