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Sentences starting with grey

Grey fungi had shot up after the refreshing rain, and gathered round the red-capped giants among the mushrooms. [10]
Grey was her only concession to colour, and her gowns and bonnets were of a primness which belonged to the past. [9]
Grey mists gathered more and more densely over the sunny land, for which he had longed with such passionate ardor, and it seemed as if in that luckless hour, he had been faithless to the "word,"--had deprived himself of its assistance forever. [10]

Sentences ending with grey

I don't mean you, Lucy, or Laureston," she added to her sister, Mrs. Grey. [9]
His grey lock was indeed somewhat thin and lacked the firm curl of the former ones; but every one who was not colour-blind must acknowledge that it was grey. [10]
We shall be together all our lives, till we are old and grey. [11]
What would happen to Jameson and Willoughby and Bobby White and Raleigh Grey? [11]
Presently the door swung open, and a silken page said-- "The Lady Jane Grey. [5]
A wonderful glad sense of peace came over him with power and pleasure in work, and he gave his brains and pen no rest till morning was growing grey. [10]
So life may run on like a leaden stream, and everything that grows and blossoms on its banks remain scentless and grey. [10]
He had changed much since the fateful day when he had forced George Fournel to fight him; had grown more silent, and had turned grey. [11]
It is sometimes more distinctly orange than in any Mongolian, and in several species it is blue, passing into violet or grey. [1]
She was not little, either, but above the middle height, and her hair was well streaked with grey. [11]

Short sentences using grey

He was dressed in grey. [11]
The east is growing grey. [10]
They were blue grey. [9]

Sentences containing grey two or more times

The air grew warmer and warmer, but no one became restless; all seemed as cool of face and body as the grey gowns and coats with grey steel buttons which they wore. [11]
I see grey, grey, and white, white, and have accustomed myself in my yearning after knowledge, not to attribute the smallest part to my own idiosyncrasy, if such indeed there be existing in my empty breast. [10]
On the old grey ass she goes, And the old grey ass, he knows! [11]
He had been a kind of god to me--a god in a grey frock-coat, with a grey top-hat and field-glasses slung over his shoulder; or in a hunting-suit of the most picturesque kind--great pockets in a well- fitting coat, splendid striped waistcoat. [11]

More example sentences with the word grey in them

The last thing Wyndham did before he died in the grey of dawn--and this is told of him by the Gippies themselves-was to cough up the bullet from his throat, and spit it out upon the ground. [11]
If David, however, would stand to the shovel hat, and if Hope would be faithful for ever to the poke bonnet and grey cloth, all might yet be well. [11]
The grey mare would be among them. [11]
His fingers toyed with a wine-glass, but his eyes never wavered from that paper and the grey hair. [11]
Little grey man who comes Over the water, I have knelt down at her feet, Knelt at your Gabrielle's feet---ci ci! [11]
The yachts were whiter, the water bluer, the grass greener; the stern grey rocks themselves flushed with purple. [9]
The trying months which she had described in her letters to Barine had completely blanched her grey hair, her cheeks were sunken, and a deep line between her mouth and nose gave her pleasant face a sorrowful expression. [10]
I was thin when I went, but I was meagre indeed when I returned, my face looking grey and very old, with strange deep lines ploughed in it--my eyes stared unnaturally. [14]
If some demon were to transform me into a hedge-hog or a grey owl, it would be all the same to me. [10]
The ancestral features were there, the lips--covered by a grizzled moustache moulded for the precise formation that emphasizes such syllables as el, the hooked nose and sallow cheeks, the grizzled brows and grey eyes drawn down at the corners. [9]
Weathered grey cottages were scattered over the landscape, and dark copses of cedars, while oceanward the eye was caught by the gleam of a lighthouse or a lonely sail. [9]
The grey eyes were quizzical, and yet seemed to express a little commiseration. [9]
His warm face went pale, then shot to purple, and finally settled into a grey ruddiness. [11]
Thence the former watched the conflict in which, grown grey in the arts of peace, he shared only with his heart and soul. [10]
His large head was very grey; and his whiskers, which he wore only around his face, like a frame, were grey also. [5]
There--there alone it was the fate of my grey hairs to be ashamed of my fellow-Moslems--believe me, maiden, it was grievous to me. [10]
His brown hair was now streaked with grey, but the light in the face was the same; there was the same alertness and buoyant health in the figure and the same row of laughing white teeth. [11]
And while we was lookin' and tossin' pennies like as to his chances out there, a grey New Zealand mare nips out across the veld stretchin' every string. [11]
As the master was at the market, the strangers were led by the steward, an old servant grown grey in the service of Theopompus, into the Andronitis, and begged to wait there until he returned. [10]
The Greek prince was an old man, his beard and thick hair were grey, but his movements were youthful and light, though dignified and deliberate. [10]
The grey dawn was already glimmering, yet neither the expected vehicle nor Jorg had come. [10]
Beyond the library was a dining room in grey, with dark red hangings; it overlooked the forgotten garden of the hotel. [9]
The grey granite walls of the valley exhaled fiercer and fiercer heat and drops of perspiration had long been pouring from the burning brows of the three men on the cliff. [10]
The grey stone walls of the houses grew darker and darker, and seemed to close in on the dumfounded, hysterical crowd. [11]
Sometimes on these walks--especially if the day were grey and sombre--Janet's sense of romance and adventure deepened, became more poignant, charged with presage. [9]
Before the approaching wagon came alongside, she knew from the grey and the darkbrown horses who was driving them, and she made a strong effort for composure. [11]
Many times the two turned to see, and he was there, looking after them; his forehead bared to the clear inspiring wind, his grey hair blown back, his hands clasped. [11]
Skins hung along two sides, with bullet-holes and knife-holes showing: of the great grey wolf, the red puma, the bronze hill-lion, the beaver, the bear, and the sable; and in one corner was a huge pile of them. [11]
Seven lustres have turned our hair grey, but we still can stand upright. [10]
He had a trick of looking downward with a quizzical expression in his dark grey eyes. [9]
Her dress was torn and blood-stained, her grey hair had come loose from the ribbands and crescent that should have confined it; the worthy matron had become a Megaera and shrieked to the men: "Kill the dogs! [10]
She had been told nothing except that thieves had attacked her granddaughter, Barine, and slightly wounded her lover; but her own heart and the manner of the husband, at whose side she had grown grey, showed that many things were being concealed. [10]
He drew himself together with a youthful air, and held his grey head gallantly. [11]
When you came to study him closely, some sense of time and experience in his look told you that he might be thirty-eight, though his few grey hairs seemed but to emphasise a certain youthfulness in him. [11]
The youth, accustomed to Moor's wonderful clearness, Titian's brilliant hues, found Filippi's pictures indistinct, as if veiled by grey mists. [10]
His figure seemed to grow larger in the mist, and the grey haze gave his hair a frosty coating, so that age and youth seemed strangely mingled in him. [11]
Joshua's frame, inured to fatigues of every kind, resisted the tortures of this hurried march; but his weaker companion, who had grown grey in a scribe's duties, often gave way and at last lay prostrate beside him. [10]
I am sorry to destroy the confidence of your youth, but whoever grows grey, with his eyes open, will meet persons who rejoice, nay to whom it is a necessity to injure others. [10]
It seemed as though it feared to rise in the grey, damp, uninviting atmosphere. [10]
In spite of this, however, his grey eyes were nervously fixed on Charley, and his voice was shaky as he said, in reply to a question as to his finances: "That's my own business, Charley. [11]
At the shore this same little grey figure bade Mattingley good-bye with a quavering voice. [11]
Their own tragedies they hid beneath their grey coats and bodices; their dirty linen they never washed in public, save in the scandal such as this where the Society must intervene. [11]
He rode around them at the peril of falling with his horse over a precipice, and now found himself before a labyrinth of scaffolds and free-stone, in the midst of a wild, grey, treeless mountain valley. [10]
He still possessed the wardrobe of the first wife, thoughtfully preserved by his sister, even to the wonderful grey watered-poplin which had been her wedding-dress. [11]
In the west the sun was slipping down behind the hills, leaving the strong day with a rosy and radiant glamour, that faded away in eloquent tones to the grey, tinsel softness of the zenith. [11]
There stood on the step, a little above the others, a young man in a grey flannel shirt, evidently a mechanic. [9]
Accompanying Carterette to the shore was a little figure that moved along beside them like a shadow, a little grey figure that carried a gold- headed cane. [11]
Yet not only the rude gaoler, but anyone would have marvelled what had brought this beautiful, aristocratic woman, in the grey light of dawn, out on the highway to meet the hapless man loaded with chains. [10]
The man faced the north, the moon glistening coldly on his grey hair. [11]
Newly arrayed in the most becoming of grey furs, she met him at that hitherto fabled restaurant which in future days--she reflected--was to become so familiar--Delmonico's. [9]
The lock on the left temple of the second son remained brown, and not a sign of grey could be discovered even with a magnifying glass. [10]
At this moment the Lady Elizabeth and the Lady Jane Grey were announced. [5]
She looked at the hair already grey, the hard, pinched face, the lustreless eyes. [11]
But now, as the grey mare reached out to achieve the ground his troopers had covered before him, his brain was in a storm of feeling. [11]
The hoofs of the grey mare fell like the soft thud of a hammer in the sand, regular and precise. [11]
Our prince has the grey lock. [10]
His eyes on the great seats of judgment, he said to Pierre: "See, see, how they sit there, grey and cold and awful! [11]
Tears streamed down the bronzed cheeks of many a man who had grown grey in warfare, as he clasped his hand for the last time. [10]
He had left the bridge behind by twice the horse's length, when, all at once, the call of the red bittern rang out the third time, louder than before; then again; and then the cry of a grey wolf came in response. [11]
She's a flower, that grey mare! [11]
In spite of taxes to make the hair of an American turn grey, in spite of lavish charities, the wealthy classes still seem wealthy--if the expression may be allowed. [9]
He is a tall, strongly built man of about sixty, with iron grey hair and beard. [9]
But I wouldn't take one of our Adrian's grey rabbits for these runaways. [10]
Flung across the table beside her was a long coat of grey fur. [9]
Hodder took in, subconsciously, that the house was a dingy grey, of three stories and a Mansard roof, with a bay window on the yard side, and a fly-blown sign, "Rooms to Rent" hanging in one window. [9]
Lady Jane Grey studied Greek and Latin and was beheaded after a few days. [5]
She was a strong, tall, vital woman with a sweet irregularity of feature, with a heavy crown of chestnut hair turning slightly grey, quaintly braided, becomingly framing her face. [9]
There were liberal streaks of grey also at his temples, and she noted there was one strand all white just in the centre of his thick hair. [11]
It was a strange place of conflict, which the experienced soldier would never have selected voluntarily; for it was enclosed on both sides by lofty, steep, grey granite cliffs. [10]
He was no stouter in body, for he was of the kind that wear away the flesh by much doing and thinking; but there were occasional streaks of grey in his bushy hair, and his eye roamed less than it did once. [11]
The old woman stooped and kissed his grey tangled hair. [11]
From another corner stole a withered hag with streaming grey hair and malignant eyes. [5]
What he and still more his brave warriors needed was rest until the grey dawn of early morning. [10]
Some of the stalactites that hung from it looked like great icicles, and some of them looked like damp, grey clothes hung out to dry. [10]
Suddenly a shape sprang out of the grey mist, and the Maid of Provence struck. [11]
True, there are some apostles of caution who deny themselves every joy of existence while in their prime, in order, when their locks are grey, to possess wealth which frequently benefits only their heirs. [10]
He carried a soft grey hat, and somehow his face gave her a feeling that he had come to say good-bye. [11]
Mrs. Hanbury started, so vividly there arose before her eyes a brave and dashing figure, clad in grey English cloth, walking by her side on a sunny autumn morning in the Rue de la Paix. [9]
The marks of smallpox, a heavy beard, grey hair, and solitary life had altered him beyond Charley's recognition. [11]
Her dark hair, slightly streaked with grey, gave her distinction. [11]
Numerous carts and sledges, on which blocks of light grey granite had been drawn hither, barred his way. [10]
Her shining dark skin looked ashen grey, her high forehead, surrounded by tangled woolly locks, was dripping with perspiration, and her thick lips were pale. [10]
It had but six rooms, and was of wood, and painted grey, like its twin beside it. [9]
And how I should rejoice if a favourable wind would sweep the grey mist away for you right speedily! [10]
The old woman shook her grey head thoughtfully several times: but she let the little man go on to the end of his story without interrupting him. [10]
Dropping the pen, she went over to the window, staring out over the grey waters, trembling so violently that she could scarcely stand. [9]
For a moment she seemed to glow, and then the colour slowly faded and left her face rather grey and very quiet. [11]
Her dress was severe and quiet, as became her occupation --a plain, dark grey, but the shapely fulness of the figure gave softness to the outlines. [11]
At last the setting moon emerged from the grey clouds, and her peaceful light silvered the heights of Baal-zephon and the shore of the bay, whose bottom was once more covered with tossing waves. [10]
She marvelled to see that it grew apace, and presently arose to look out upon a stillness like that of eternity: in the grey light the very leaves seemed to be holding their breath in expectancy of the thing that was to come. [9]
Suddenly Shelek Pasha saw the dark-blue eyes fastened upon his face with a curious intentness, a strange questioning; and the blue of the turquoise on the hand folded over the other in the grey lap did not quite reassure him. [11]
No one ever saw her; but a gentle tinkling through the palace betrayed her presence, and when that ceased, the grey lock on the infant's temple was always found to have twisted itself into a curl. [10]
I'm hit--twice," he said, with grey lips; with eyes that stared at her and through her to something beyond; but he spoke in an abrupt, professional, commonplace tone. [11]
Portugais left the room, and when he came back, Charley was dressed in the suit of grey fulled cloth. [11]
There was no roadway, as it seemed no pathway at all up the overhanging cliffs-ridges of granite and grey and green rock, belted with mist, crowned by sun, and fretted by the milky, upcasting surf. [11]
A mist is rising from the water, and the shore is growing grey and heavy as the light in the west recedes and night creeps in from the ocean. [11]
Standing upon the Rise, lost in the prospect, was an old, white-haired man in the cassock of a priest, with grey beard reaching nearly to the waist. [11]
In the former reprints of the 2nd edition of this book an incorrect quotation from Sir G. Grey was unfortunately given in the above passage and has now been removed from the text. [1]
The body, though reduced by a sudden illness, had an appearance of late youth, a firmness of mature manhood; but the hair was grey, the beard was grizzled, and the face was furrowed and seamed as though the man had lived a long, hard life. [11]
And Honora was reclining on the hall sofa, reading about Mr. Ibbetson and his duchess, when she perceived the postman's grey uniform and smiling face on the far side of the screen door. [9]

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