He climbed on top of her and he forged me with those black-grey fists, all rimed with the fine dust of metals and hot ash. ❋ Unknown (2010)
About my age, in his late forties or early fifties, he was tall for a Chinese man, and almost bald, with a small fringe of black-grey hair around his ears. ❋ Unknown (2005)
By the road under the hill were black-grey adobe huts, like boxes, and fowls running about, and brown pigs or grey pigs spotted with black careered and grunted, and half-naked children, dark orange-brown, trotted or lay flat on their faces in the road, their little naked posteriors hunched up, fast asleep. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She was an archaeologist, and she had studied the Aztec remains so long, that now some of the black-grey look of the lava rock, and some of the experience of the Aztec idols, with sharp nose and slightly prominent eyes and an expression of tomb-like mockery, had passed into her face. ❋ Unknown (2003)
An artillery officer on the Lesser Arapile saw the case-shot leave the smoke, he saw it as the faintest trace of a grey pencil-like line in the air and then it exploded, just over the far edge of the Greater Arapile, and it was a black-grey air burst shot through with deep red and the ground beneath and ahead of the explosion was spattered by the lead balls and the shattered casing. ❋ Cornwell, Bernard (1983)
On the screens of the visual monitoring system there was merely a black-grey spread without contours or details. ❋ Mahr, Kurt (1976)
The sodden tents hung dankly, black-grey in the gusty, rainy morning. ❋ G. W. Steevens (N/A)
Dawn the next morning was heralded by only a thin line of red parting the masses of black-grey snow clouds which still hung low down in the east. ❋ Oppenheim, E. Phillips (1920)
I do not know how the artist, whose resources were of the slenderest, contrived to get his overwhelming but fascinating effect of moorland solitude, of black-grey nakedness and abiding gloom. ❋ Sinclair, May (1912)
In the light of it you see Charlotte Bronte's figure for ever simple and beautiful and great; behind her for ever the black-grey setting of her village and the purple of her moors. ❋ Sinclair, May (1912)
She flicked out her grey silk handkerchief, and dabbed her nose, watching with big, black-grey eyes the fresh face of Alvina. ❋ Unknown (1907)
Then, as great quantities of black-grey reek, wheeling all convolved, were now enveloping the vessel, resting on the sea, reaching away in thinner fog even to the _Boodah_, and as, the day being calm, there was a difficulty in reading the flags, the Captain gasped: "Take the trumpet -- ask them -- But don't they pay for this ...?" ❋ Unknown (1906)
A black-grey drive between bushes of smutty laurel and arbutus. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
A black-grey house of big cut stones that stuck out. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
As they went back down the black-grey drive between the laurel and arbutus Miss Kendal carried her head higher than ever. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
Curtains, cream-coloured net, sea-green plush, veiled the black-grey walks and smutty lawns of the garden. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
Brontë's figure for ever simple and beautiful and great; behind her for ever the black-grey setting of her village and the purple of her moors. ❋ May Sinclair (1904)
