I sat toward the front, in an aisle seat, next to Jamie Dee—pale, skinny-limbed, freckled, her black hair pulled back into a tight pony-tail, dressed in black denim and a faded blackish-gray AC/DC t-shirt. ❋ Joe Deir (2011)
The obverse (front) has lilac-gray toning and the reverse (back) has much blackish-gray color along with considerable brownish-russet and some lilac tones. ❋ Unknown (2008)
How may I help you? he asked, his wavy blackish-gray hair shining under the bright halogen lights. ❋ J. L. Woodson (2006)
It consisted of a vast stratification of blackish-gray slate, unvaried in its whole height by a single change of shade. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Mr. Schryhart kicked out his well-rounded legs, adjusted his soft-roll collar, and smoothed his short, crisp, wiry, now blackish-gray mustache. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Within minutes they had exposed a solid-looking corner of a blackish-gray object. ❋ CLIVE CUSSLER (2000)
In the above mentioned exceptional cases there is formed a small quantity of peroxide which adheres to the anode as a blackish-gray deposit. ❋ Various (N/A)
The Japanese cook pottered softly about in the square stone basement of the blockhouse, while, up above, his master sat at a table with his eyes fixed on a small mountain of blackish-gray rock. ❋ Alan Sullivan (1907)
A quarter of an hour later he was chipping the edges of a ridge of blackish-gray rock from which he had stripped great rolls of damp, green moss. ❋ Alan Sullivan (1907)
When, therefore, a lamb was born with a black face and blackish-gray legs, it was cherished as a curiosity; and when, in time, it developed a splendid pair of horns, it became the handsomest ram in all the valley, and a source of great pride to its owner. ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
The bark is fluted and blackish-gray in youth, and it breaks up into irregular plates, which on old trees frequently are five inches or more in thickness. ❋ Enos Abijah Mills (1896)
It was a very curious tail, for besides being so oddly paddle-shaped it was covered with what looked like scales, but were really sections and indentations of hard, horny, blackish-gray skin. ❋ William Davenport Hulbert (1890)
The tarantulas were just big hairy spiders, of a blackish-gray color, about as big as toads, and mighty ugly-looking things. ❋ Leander Stillwell (1888)
Behind the clear skies was a band of deep, dark, blackish-gray clouds. ❋ Unknown (2010)
The altered color here is evidently a consequence of the large development, in Ferindonald and Strathpeffer, of the ichthyolitic members of the Old Red, existing chiefly as fetid bituminous breccias and dark-colored sandstones: the boulder-clay of the locality forms the dressings, not of red, but of blackish-gray rocks; and, as almost everywhere else in Scotland, its trail lies to the east of the strata, from which it was detached in the character of an impalpable mud by the age-protracted grindings of the denuding agent. ❋ Hugh Miller (1829)
a clear limpid blue, a short fragment of a rainbow rising out of the light emerald-green sea, and stretching straight across the faded brown and dull green land with the little white houses, on to the blackish-gray cloud which flowed out into mist and against which the bright colors shone dazzlingly. ❋ Frederik Van Eeden (1896)
