They cleansed his room, brought fresh linen from home, and took from off his limbs the sheets, greyish-black with dirt. ❋ Unknown (2010)
They were greyish-black, slimy, and exceedingly large -- not quite as scary as I had remembered them without all the blood but still pretty weird. ❋ Cathy Erway (2012)
And he was reading through a transcript we had been given of Chais statement to the police when wisps of greyish-black smoke began seeping from the air grille at the top of the room. ❋ Lord Michael Levy (2008)
My jeans are luckily greyish-black, so most dust is invisible, but my black fleece turned grey, and my hands and face needed cleaning. ❋ Magnio (2005)
An elderly Cossack with a broad greyish-black beard was lying in his shirt, girdled with a black strap, close to the river and gazing lazily at the waves of the Terek as they monotonously foamed and swirled. ❋ Unknown (2003)
I decided to wear my black skirt, this new blue blouse I got, and this greyish-black long sweater. ❋ Krazililme (2003)
Covered with greasy, rank, greyish-black fur, but wearing clothes like a person — a vest and a pair of knee-length breeches, both of plain leather, dirty and stained and worn in patches. ❋ Edghill, Rosemary (2002)
With age, the galls harden, become fibrous, greyish-black and unpalatable. ❋ Unknown (1999)
Straightening as much as possible, the German giant distinguished a greyish-black lump, vaguely man-shaped; whoever it was rose to his feet and faced his executioner. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1991)
The soil throughout the upper portion, and indeed for a depth of from 15 to 20 feet, is clayey and red: the remainder consists of a greyish-black carbonaceous earth, increasing in density with the depth, and being very hard at a depth of 40 feet. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)
The Airedale terrier resembles the dog we call a "Schnauzer"; it is wire-haired and of medium growth; generally with a greyish-black coat and yellow feet. ❋ Henny Kindermann (N/A)
Still another variety, greyish-black and generally associated with hæmatite iron ore, is called emery, and, when ground in different degrees of fineness, is so well known by its general use as a polishing medium as to need no description. ❋ John Mastin (N/A)
He sported a leonine head with a greyish-black mane of oddly unappetising hair brushed back from a broad but low forehead. ❋ Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 (1921)
Mr. James Davidson of Hindlee, a tenant of Lord Douglas, besides the points of blunt honesty, personal strength, and hardihood, designed to be expressed in the character of Dandie Dinmont, had the humour of naming a celebrated race of terriers which he possessed, by the generic names of Mustard and Pepper (according as their colour was yellow, or greyish-black) without any other individual distinction, except as according to the nomenclature in the text. ❋ Unknown (1917)
The calf himself, with his slippery greyish-black back and under-parts of a dirty cream color, was not beautiful -- though, of course, his mother thought him so, as he lay nursing just under her great fin, rocked gently by the long, slow ❋ Charles George Douglas Roberts (1901)
The clay, which is of a greyish-black color, is stiff and hard, and is first broken up with a mallet. ❋ Frederick Starr (1895)
The subsulphide of copper thus obtained contains 79.85 per cent. of copper; it is a greyish-black crystalline mass, which loses no weight on ignition if air is excluded. ❋ Cornelius Beringer (1886)
-- "Above dark-blackish or blackish-brown, slightly tinged rufescent, and with a silvery cast in certain lights; beneath greyish-black" (_Jerdon_). ❋ Robert Armitage Sterndale (1870)
