They have a pale greyish-brown stripe along the top of their head, expanding into a flame with a dark central area over their abdomen. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Their thick winter coats are heavy with water, making dark and drear their dry shades of greyish-brown hair. ❋ Unknown (2011)
Left to cook hamburgers one night when my parents were at bridge club, she put the greyish-brown lump of dead cow flesh down in front of me and proceeded to tell me about tapeworms. ❋ Con Chapman (2011)
The velvety bark sac spider Clubiona corticalis is perhaps the smartest; dark greyish-brown, with a tan flare over the top of the abdomen that highlights a central, backward-pointing, dark streak. ❋ Unknown (2011)
The local rabbits, btw, are all greyish-brown and about half the size of your black monsters, and far too shy to eat from anyone's hand; 'though only when they notice that they ought to be. ❋ Elizabeth McClung (2009)
The thick coat is greyish-brown in colour; males may have a more yellow tinge and they have particularly large testicles, which may be related to sperm competition. ❋ Ann Althouse (2009)
A solitary tree covers the expanse of a wide open sky, with an old well for company that welcomes the rains, as greyish-brown fields fade toward the silvery clouds. ❋ Chirayu (2005)
Gerhardt looked up, his greyish-brown eyes a study under their heavy sandy lashes. ❋ Unknown (2004)
It was the boat with greyish-brown sails, which she saw now flatten itself upon the water and shoot off across the bay. ❋ Unknown (2002)
She lifted to him those greyish-brown eyes that seemed full of soft light. ❋ Rendell, Ruth, 1930- (1981)
The new-turned soil, greyish-brown and sluggish, heaved moist and fresh to light after the share. ❋ Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 (1977)
'She had smooth gilded skin and greyish-brown eyes. ❋ Francis, Dick (1970)
About fifteen feet inside this there was a second fence, solidly made of posts and rails which had weathered to a pleasant greyish-brown. ❋ Francis, Dick, 1920- (1965)
Leathers tanned in such solutions, however, are rather empty and hard, possess but little resilience and an uneven, dirty greyish-brown colour. ❋ Georg Grasser (N/A)
A phenolsulphonic acid, which had been overheated during sulphonation and subsequently condensed (crude Neradol), imparted a conspicuous greyish-brown colour to the leather; samples of this crude product were then partly neutralised with varying amounts of alkali, and these samples (containing increasing quantities of salts) tested for tannin and colour effects. ❋ Georg Grasser (N/A)
Dissolved in water, it possesses tannoid properties: the pelt is, however, tanned on the surface only, the intermediary layers being merely pickled; after four days in the solution, the pelt after drying was found to be converted into a greyish-brown, badly coloured leather, which was empty, hard, and possessed but little tensile strength. ❋ Georg Grasser (N/A)
One would swear it was a huge meadow, until, on looking rather longer, one sees the dark-green swamp lilies gently moving, while from amongst them are protruded numerous snouts or jaws, of a sickly greyish-brown, discoursing music which is any thing but sweet to a stranger's ears. ❋ Various (N/A)
This would be the treatment and colouring for greyish-brown or yellowish-grey smooth, dry-looking rocks, sandstones, etc.; and by a little alteration of tint and treatment in places, would imitate the various slates. ❋ Montagu Browne (N/A)
But as the seed forms, we see that life is working death, slowly and surely; the swords lose their stiffness and colour and begin to hang helplessly, and by the time it is ripe, every vestige of vitality is drained away from them, and they have gone to limp, greyish-brown streamers. ❋ I. Lilias Trotter (N/A)
On closer investigation, however, it proved to be covered with short, sparse, dirty-white spines; and between the spines there was some coarse greyish-brown hair. ❋ Unknown (1939)
