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Sentences starting with gray

Gray (nee Tyler) yesterday, and called on her to-day. [5]
Gray slopes, tinging the purple, barren and wild, with the wind waving the sage, swept away to the dim horizon. [13]
Gray and Green, on Cliff Street, and remained there through the summer. [5]
Gray clouds hung low in the sky as they picked their way over the frozen furrows of the ploughed fields. [9]
Gray lizards, those heirs of ruin, of sepulchres and desolation, glided in and out among the rocks or lay still and sunned themselves. [5]
Gray age had drunk her life and had given her nothing in return--neither companionship nor sympathy nor understanding; only the hunger of a coarse manhood. [11]

Sentences ending with gray

Then with the wind soon came a shade and a darkening, and suddenly the valley was gray. [13]
And the gorge widened to narrow outlet and the gloom lightened to gray. [13]
Every one else who was in the street or at the window looked after Barbara, and pointed out to others the beautiful Jungfrau Blomberg and the proud security with which she governed the spirited gray. [10]
The men present were old gray Pacific-coasters whom I knew when I and they were young and not gray. [5]
Even at that time the long, smooth hair of the famous investigator had turned gray. [10]
What sightseeing by the country members and their wives who have come to attend the inauguration of the new governor, the Honourable Asa P. Gray! [9]
The face was scant, perchance from lack of food, the nose large, with a curved rim, and the eyes blue gray. [9]
A New York paper said of his arrival that he looked older than when he went to Germany, and that his hair had turned quite gray. [5]
A single band of linen, soiled by the journey, was wound about his throat, and I remember oddly the buttons stuck on his knees and cuffs, and these silk-embroidered in a criss-cross pattern of lighter gray. [9]
A London tailor must have cut his suit of gray. [9]

Short sentences using gray

The gray responded with spirit. [5]
Dr. Gray on Sloths, ibid. [1]
It is gray in color. [5]
Then there's your gray mist. [5]
Mr. William Gray. [6]
Dr. Gray, 'Cat. [1]
Gray, 'Cat. [1]

Sentences containing gray two or more times

The elderly man thought he had never seen her look so charming as in the yellow velvet doublet with ash-gray facings, the gray silk hose, and the yellow and gray cap resting on her glittering golden hair. [10]
A crowd of military men was assembled there, members of the staff could be heard conversing in French, and Kutuzov's gray head in a white cap with a red band was visible, his gray nape sunk between his shoulders. [2]
She was dressed in a soft cloth of a gray tone, touched off with red and slashed with gold, and a cloak of gray, trimmed with fur, with bright silver buckles, hung loosely on her, thrown off at one shoulder. [11]
Men and sky have given me the same kind welcome; gray, gray, and always gray-without and within--and my poor soldiers out on the square! [10]

More example sentences with the word gray in them

When you are young again in body, these gray hairs shall render you distinguished. [11]
A gray mist would tangle the head of the oldest man that ever lived. [5]
Her hair, tinged with gray, was crowned by a lace cap. [9]
He climbed on, with frequent stops to watch the rim, and before he dreamed of gaining the bench he bumped his knees into it, and saw, in the dim gray light, his rifle and the rabbit. [13]
He cussed away with all his might, and throwed his hat down in the mud and rode over it, and pretty soon away he went a-raging down the street again, with his gray hair a-flying. [5]
Beyond, the road winds up the hill'around the end of Mr. Wiley's plantation and plunges shortly into the woods, gray and cold indeed to-day. [9]
And when the windows on the orchard side showed a gray square of light, he flung down the parchment he was reading on the table. [9]
At an open window by the door a kindly old face was visible, framed in long, gray hair. [10]
A soft summer wind waved a little the long gray grass of the ancient resting-place, and seemed to whisper peace to the weary generation that lay there. [4]
With the shifting wind and the passing clouds the scene was in perpetual change; now the American Fall was creamy white, and the mist below dark, and again the heavy mass was gray and sullen, and the mist like silver spray. [4]
I have a whole set of his works, and am very proud of it, with its gray paper, and open type, and long ff, and orange-juice landscapes. [6]
The steward Gras, who had grown gray in the service of Archias, was standing beside the couch. [10]
But the valet, who had grown gray in Charles's service, had witnessed still more surprising things, and beheld the presence of royalty bestow strength for performances which even now seemed incomprehensible. [10]
Little gray and white rabbits crouched in the grass, now nibbling, now laying long ears flat and watching the dogs. [13]
Her gray, nearly white hair, though ill-suited to her almost youthful features, lent them a peculiar charm, and how brightly her round, brown eyes still sparkled! [10]
In the morning, when Margaret looked from the windows of the hotel, the sky was gray and yielding, and all the outlines of the looming buildings were softened in the hazy air. [4]
The gray squirrels were out looking for their breakfasts, and one of them came toward us in light, soft, intermittent leaps, until he was close to the rail of the burial-ground. [6]
All these faces were gray with a coating of dust. [5]
All about me were gray heaps of ashes, and bones of deer and elk and buffalo scattered, some picked clean, some with the meat and hide sticking to them. [9]
The forest pools were cracked and dry, the Spanish moss was a haggard gray, and under the sun was the haze which covered the land like a saffron mantle. [9]
Then came a week of what the Muncheners call hot weather, with the thermometer up to eighty degrees Fahrenheit, and the white wide streets and gray buildings in a glare of light; since then, weather of the most uncertain sort. [4]
I'll warrant you wear silk-knit under that gray homespun, and have a cameo in your pocket. [9]
We cheered until we cried when we saw their ranks of gray, with the gold buttons and the gold braid and the gold stars. [9]
Thus all the way up the diminishing shaft for fifty feet; then it begins to take the appearance of being closely wrapped, spool-fashion, with gray cord, or of having been turned in a lathe. [5]
That is the way Dr. Owen and Dr. Huxley, Dr. Agassiz and Dr. Jeffries Wyman, Dr. Gray and Dr. Charles T. Jackson settled the difficulty. [3]
The same question was written in her yearning eyes, staring at the spot where the gray of his hunting shirt showed through the bushes at the bend. [9]
The enormous monster was weaving its gray net over Tennis, and all the islands in the water, the Pelican Island, and she herself upon the seat of turf, and held them all prisoned in it. [10]
Above him there was now nothing but the sky--the lofty sky, not clear yet still immeasurably lofty, with gray clouds gliding slowly across it. [2]
Sam Price's vocabulary was insufficient here, they were cut in such a way, and Mr. Worthington was downright distinguished-looking under his gray beaver. [9]
Her faithful face was gray with suffering. [4]
And the sea was cold,--cold and green under the gray light. [9]
With the group was a lieutenant, buttoned close in his gray coat,--one button gone, perhaps to make a breastpin for some fair traitorous bosom. [6]
It was a warm, gray morning. [2]
But as I walked from the gangplank a man in a gray uniform--[Policeman] --kicked me violently behind and told me to look out--so my employer translated it. [5]
All day I waited, until the forest light grew gray, when a buck came and stood over the water, raising his head and stamping from time to time. [9]
Mr. King remarked upon this dumb-show to a gentleman in a blue coat and white vest and gray hat, leaning against a column near him. [4]
At noon, looking up to it from the street, above the gray houses, the color and depth are marvelous. [4]
As the gray uniforms file out of the gate, the crowd has become a mob, now flowing back into the fields on each side of the road, now pressing forward vindictively until stopped by the sergeants and corporals. [9]
They were gnarled, twisted into weird contortions, as if growth were torture, dead at the tops, shrunken, gray, and old. [13]
Gray, John Hay, Twichell, and others who had a chance to see it thought highly of it, and Hay had it set in type and a few proofs taken for private circulation. [5]
The countess in turn, without omitting her duties as hostess, threw significant glances from behind the pineapples at her husband whose face and bald head seemed by their redness to contrast more than usual with his gray hair. [2]
Gnarled and twisted trees spring from the old walls every where, and beautify and overshadow the gray battlements with a wild luxuriance of foliage. [5]
And gray old trees of hugest limb Shall wheel their circling shadows round To make the scorching sunlight dim That drinks the greenness from the ground, And drop their dead leaves on her mound. [6]
Instantly the waves took hues of lighter brown, deeper yellow, and cloudy gray, and the sea wore the aspect of a shallow pond with muddy bottom, into which workmen hurl blocks of stone. [10]
Features a little too sharp, a keen, gray eye, a quick and restless glance, which rather avoided being met, gave the impression that she was a wide-awake, cautious, suspicious, and, very possibly, crafty person. [6]
On the way to the ridges they passed clean pasture fields, bowlders, gray rocks, aged cedars with flat tops like the stone-pines of Italy. [4]
Miss Mela explained to the Marches: "Mother was raised among the Dunkards, and she thinks it's wicked to wear anything but a gray silk even for dress-up. [8]
Katie," she said to the maid, "bring the princess her gray dress, and you'll see, Mademoiselle Bourienne, how I shall arrange it," she added, smiling with a foretaste of artistic pleasure. [2]
To the Highlands, to the Lakes, in short excursions; to Glasgow, seen to disadvantage under gray skies and with slippery pavements. [6]
Then Lewis sprang to the ground and stood in this V. He gathered his vast strength, and with a perfect Creedmoor aim he seized the gray horse's bit as he plunged by and fetched him up standing! [5]
Desperately she tried to meet his gray eyes, in vain, desperately she tried again, fought herself as feeling and thought resurged in torment, and she succeeded, and then she knew. [13]
He is about to enter the horse-car when a gray and ragged old woman, a touching picture of misery, puts out her lean hand and begs for rescue from hunger and death. [5]
I arose early to discover a morning gray and drear, with a mist falling to chill the bones. [9]
And the third time I waked up at dawn, and slid down, and she was there yet, and her candle was most out, and her old gray head was resting on her hand, and she was asleep. [5]
Mr. Gray calls this same restrictive cast-iron law a "farce. [5]
She saw only this sad, gray, passion-worn man, and she heard only the faint rustling of the leaves. [13]
One was apparently thirty; another--the mother!--above fifty; the third--grandmother!--so old and worn and gray she could have passed for eighty; I took her to be that old. [5]
One of the third story windows was open, and out of it was pouring a mass of gray wood smoke. [9]
Well, he sit there long--long, and his face get gray and his cheeks all hollow. [11]
Every now and then one comes across a friar of orders gray, with shaven head, long, coarse robe, rope girdle and beads, and with feet cased in sandals or entirely bare. [5]
Lassiter smiled, and then his bronzed eyelids narrowed till his eyes seemed mere gray slits. [13]
In front of them rows of gray cloaks were already visible through the smoke, and an officer catching sight of Bagration rushed shouting after the crowd of retreating soldiers, ordering them back. [2]
He had endured the test; he had even got his little gray mare, lassoing her like a veteran. [11]
The next morning the sun poured a wealth of radiant light upon the desert, the green water of the harbour, and the gray and yellow walls of the border fortress. [10]
We hunted for the spring everywhere, traversing the full length of the island (two or three miles), and crossing it twice--climbing ash-hills patiently, and then sliding down the other side in a sitting posture, plowing up smothering volumes of gray dust. [5]
But once, on the return trip, when Stephen had a writing pad on his knee, the young Southerner came up to him in his frankest manner and with an expression of the gray eyes which was not to be withstood. [9]
Like angry surf the pale gleams of gray, amid the purple of that scudding front, swept beyond the eastern rampart of the valley. [13]
At first Dietel, the old waiter, whose bullet-shaped head was covered with thick gray hair, also failed to notice them. [10]
She vividly recalled the moment when he had his first stroke and was being dragged along by his armpits through the garden at Bald Hills, muttering something with his helpless tongue, twitching his gray eyebrows and looking uneasily and timidly at her. [2]
Orlando was picturing the little gray mare with Louise on its back. [11]
Nobility spoke in the large features, in the generous mouth, in the calm, gray eyes. [9]
North of this the land comes down to the sea in knolls of rock breaking off suddenly-rocks gray with lichen, and shaded with a touch of other vegetation. [4]
And then there's the Honourable Asa Gray, who wants to represent the Northeastern some day in the United States Senate. [9]
Sometimes I like the gray days best--when I am happy. [9]
He tapped on the glass lightly, and a large, gray, hairy spider came forth from the hollow of a funnel-like web. [6]
He remembered only the dull gray weather now rainy and now snowy, internal physical distress, and pains in his feet and side. [2]
One by one the companies are marching up, and taking place in line; the city companies in natty gray fatigue, the country companies often in their Sunday clothes. [9]
He can see the broad green Campagna, stretching away toward the mountains, with its scattered arches and broken aqueducts of the olden time, so picturesque in their gray ruin, and so daintily festooned with vines. [5]
The eyes were the blue gray of the flint, kindly yet imperishable. [9]
The first objects that caught Stephen's attention were the grizzly gray eye brows, which seemed as so much brush to mark the fire of the deep-set battery of the eyes. [9]
What softness and tenderness of color in the gray rocks, with the browns and reds of the vines and lichens! [4]
The Judge had taken off his hat, and his gray hair was stirred by the river breeze. [9]
His gray glance swept up the slope to the west. [13]
They would gain Suzanne for a dance only to have her snatched away at the next by the slim and reckless young gentleman in the gray court clothes. [9]
David Gray spent Sunday here and said we could but little comprehend what a rattling stir that thing would make in the country. [5]
I wore a suit of gray homespun, and in my saddle-bags I carried four precious law books, the stock in trade which my generous patron had given me. [9]
Some were autobiographical, such as those of a trained nurse, a stenographer, a hardware clerk who had sat up late Sunday night to summarize what that sermon had meant to him, how a gray and hopeless existence had taken on a new colour. [9]
A wax candle stood at each side of the minister's bent bald head with its gray temples. [2]
Beside Kuni's pallet stood a Gray Sister and an elderly man, evidently a physician. [10]
We did not stir till all twenty-four were safe; then we made a dash for the tents of Lancy, which now showed in the first gray light of morning. [11]
On a high, steep hill, toward the sea, is a gray ruin of ponderous blocks of marble, wherein, tradition says, St. Paul was imprisoned eighteen centuries ago. [5]
Such was the state of affairs one gray afternoon in December when Cynthia, who was sitting in Mrs. Merrill's parlor, suddenly looked up from her book to discover that two young men were in the room. [9]
Then came a space gray with puzzling wonder. [9]
He had aged somewhat, his hair was a little gray, but otherwise he was the firm, dignified personage I had admired on this same gallery five years before. [9]
His face was smooth-shaven, thin, intellectual, or rather spiritual; the nose long, the mouth straight, the eyes deep gray, sometimes dreamy and puzzling, again glowing with an inner fervor. [4]
It is charmingly situated on a projecting point of gray rocks veined with color, enlivened by touches of scarlet bushes and brilliant flowers planted in little spots of soil, contrasting with the evergreen shrubs. [4]
For the A. sing-sing, Gray, 'Cat. [1]
And in a single look of curiosity and amusement his own gray eyes met Stephen's. [9]
She wore a simple silk gown, of a Quakerly gray, and she held a handkerchief folded square, as it had come from the laundress. [8]
The young Councillor silently followed the physician to the sick bed, at whose head leaned a Gray Sister, who was one of the guests of The Blue Pike and had volunteered to nurse the patient. [10]

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