The Wellesley coach, who was red-faced just a moment before, turns ash-grey when he sees the traditional Japanese swords borne by the yakuza. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)
Their porcelain-white necks are revealed as two slender pale parallel lines against the ash-grey water. ❋ Unknown (2011)
They laughed when they flew over Connemara, where the wild, greedy Atlantic takes long, blue bites out of the green land, and that laugh alone destroyed a field of yellowing oats, turning it ash-grey. ❋ Cristalia (2009)
From an ash-grey sky finely-wrought snowflakes descended, fluttering angularly in the calm air like the scraps of paper that Americans pour over their heroes – God was blessing the Revolution – and fighter planes flew overhead in formation, while others flew low over the highest towers of Russian history. ❋ David McDuff (2009)
It quickly becomes a representation of something entirely other, when a door appears overnight, a door which opens into an ash-grey corridor that cannot possibly be there given that the door has appeared in an exterior wall. ❋ Hal Duncan (2005)
The prisoners, ash-grey, gazed with black, glittering eyes, making not a sound. ❋ Unknown (2003)
There are dead that sit under the trees, watching with ash-grey eyes for their victims. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He had dreamed about her countless times, on that same staircase, with that same blue dress and that same movement of her ash-grey eyes, without knowing who she was or why she smiled at him. ❋ Zafon, Carlos Ruiz (2001)
His skin was an irregular brown, or maybe even dark ash-grey, and it was only as Steff drew nearer and caught a glimpse of his profile behind a gap in his crusty hair that it became apparent that the man was white. ❋ Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- (1998)
At that moment a single ray of sunshine seared through the ash-grey sky, a pillar of light bathing what had once been a bow and was now a swiftly growing tree. ❋ Gemmell, David (1995)
All around them were the badlands of the gorge, a vast confusion of ridges and spines and reefs of rock of fifty different hues, some ash-grey and white, others black as the hide of a bull buffalo, or red as his heart blood. ❋ Smith, Wilbur (1995)
As the Mist rolled away Uther saw the desolate landscape of the Void, a place of ash-grey hills and long-dead trees beneath a slate-dark sky. ❋ Gemmell, David (1988)
I looked at R.R. His face was flushed, and a moist lock of ash-grey hair had fallen over his forehead. ❋ VICTOR MOLLO (1979)
He was a smallish man past his middle years; his beard, and the hair under his festal garland, were ash-grey. ❋ Renault, Mary (1978)
The last of the daylight had gone but there was a three-quarter moon hanging across the eastern skyline and the street lamps were throwing down an ash-grey diffusion of light that picked up the iron fire-escape. ❋ Hall, Adam (1978)
Soon it was airborne in the ash-grey sky, destined to fly higher than any pterodactyl! ❋ Mahr, Kurt (1972)
Also I noted landmarks: a hump of withered bush, the skeleton form of a watchtower to my left, the ash-grey shape of what looked like a concrete bunker on the other side. ❋ Hall, Adam (1968)
