Greyly

Steve sat facing the future and three walls that rose greyly around him like the cove of a cave. ❋ Brian Warfield (2012)

The night closed around them - small sounds, light sighing wind, stars showing in sparkling bunches between greyly drifting clouds. ❋ Allie Dresser (2010)

I got a compartment to myself, and sat with folded arms, looking greyly at the sunlit devastation that flowed past the windows. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

The interior of the kitchen we now saw greyly for the first time. ❋ H. G. Wells (2009)

The steeple – clock, perched up above the houses, emerging from beneath another of the countless ripples in the tide of time that regularly roll and break on the eternal shore, is greyly visible, like a stone beacon, recording how the sea flows on; but within doors, dawn, at first, can only peep at night, and see that it is there. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The mattress was partly transparent, a fact he observed with a strange sense of insecurity, and below it was a mirror reflecting him greyly. ❋ Unknown (2006)

An example: “The grey voice of the grey Seaforth glided greyly on to their ears, like a tide of putrescent grey molasses.” ❋ Unknown (2005)

Our young couple, emerging presently from an atmosphere of dusk and morning stars, found the sky gathering greyly overhead and saw one another for the first time clearly in the light of every-day. ❋ Herbert George (2004)

The leathery eyelids were creased greyly over their eyes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The drizzle of rain drifted greyly past upon the darkness. ❋ Unknown (2004)

She woke up greyly, and watched, but without making a sound to disturb Sir ❋ Unknown (2004)

From the ridge at sunset we looked back for an instant upon the northern plain, as it sank away from us greyly, save that here and there glowed specks or great splashes of crimson fire, the reflection of the dying sun in shallow pools of rain-water on the flats. ❋ Thomas Edward (2003)

A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Sin and evil weren't black - he'd argued the point with a priest - but were greyly anonymous. ❋ Rankin, Ian (1994)

After a silence he'd risen greyly to his feet to leave and told me to look after myself. ❋ Francis, Dick (1990)

The greyly persistent Detective Chief Inspector emerged like a turtle from his shell when he saw us arrive, and he'd come alone for once: no silent note-taker in his shadow. ❋ Francis, Dick (1990)