Ash Gray

She'd been talking about it for days, the babies so soft, so sweet and innocent, covered in ash-gray down. ❋ Chris Belden (2011)

I wondered if her fuzzy ash-gray hair with an unnatural lavender tint would dissolve in rain like the cotton candy being sold on the corner. ❋ Paula Ray (2011)

The sparse ash-gray straight hair that grew back was embarrassing. ❋ Jack Canfield (2010)

Harri scuffed at the ash-gray residue left by the powder. ❋ Matt Dennison (2010)

One time my mother had filled a bathtub with bits and pieces of the ocean: a collage of ash-gray barnacles lined up like toy soldiers, a small flock of ghost crabs that hoisted themselves across the tub with weary ticktock steps, old men in their shells. ❋ Leslie Jamison (2010)

Bhavani Puri, a bridal-wear designer, wore an ash-gray hooded sweat shirt painted with sadhus, or Hindu holy men, as she described her views on the intersection of religion, fashion and Indian culture. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was a stunning cat with his large frame, ash-gray coat, camel-colored belly, and bold black stripes. ❋ Jack Canfield (2009)

ACROSS THE HIGHWAY, at an open-air watermelon stand, a man wearing black jeans and unpolished black hobnailed boots and wideband suspenders and a Grateful Dead T-shirt, the fabric washed so many times it was ash-gray, sat at a plank table in ninety-six-degree shade, the wind popping the canvas tarp above his head. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

At one time, unmistakable in their coarse, ash-gray habits, they were present at almost all the nerve centers of city life. ❋ John Dickie (2008)

Medium height, the kind of face they called "elfin," with slanted ash-gray eyes and a bob of shoulder-length chrome-white hair. ❋ Dozois, Gardner (2006)