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    grayish


    1. He lies on the grayish bed, and stares at the plate of food that inexplicably materialized on the table's glass surface a while ago


    2. She had always been drawn to his eyes; they were grayish in color, and could bore thru a person


    3. Her eyes were bruised and puffy and her skin had a grayish sheen to it


    4. The sun had started to cause its own light, lending a grayish cast to the surroundings


    5. The soft convoluted mass of grayish and whitish nerve substance which fills the cranium of man and other vertebrates


    6. Even though I was lost in my own thoughts, I felt pity for her—red nose, black marks under her eyes, skin white and grayish


    7. could see the grayish snow was fairly even


    8. The Borrascosa cellar was a cemetery of useless things and memories cloistered in pasteboard coffins wrapped up in naphthalene clouds under the dust layers which insisted on hiding the true color of the forms, granting to all of them a uniform grayish coloration


    9. The Executioner reached her in the grayish sandstone that was in the center of the garden near a mutilated fountain made of stone also


    10. Fear would not let him think; and this fear condensate in his bowels extended its claws over his body and gave him a pale grayish color to his complexion

    11. So I drove onward, and as I made headway became distinctly aware of an immediate change in the clouds, for they seemed to be taking on that sickly appearance just before a storm, dark and grayish they were, floating above my vehicle without the slightest inkling as to the wonder that they'd stirred in my being


    12. It was banded by narrow ledges, apparently cut out of the solid stone, and ranged along these ledges or shelves were thousands of tiny figures, mostly grayish in color


    13. He had a pale grayish complexion


    14. know why on earth she would choose a grayish tomcat like me to keep her


    15. It is very dark in color, along the lines of grayish purple


    16. He then walked to the corner of the side and rear fences behind the shed and dug a two-and-a-half-foot hole in the soft, grayish white sand


    17. Mostly goose fat and crushed beetles, it was a thick, grayish white


    18. She could lie for hours, silent and introspective, blowing grayish white smoke rings up toward the clouded moon, each swirling ring seemingly lasting just as long as she could exhale completely


    19. His face was grayish in color and mottled with weird patches


    20. My skin had a weird grayish tone, like I'd rubbed myself with fireplace ash

    21. The grayish figure was there, still advancing


    22. Her face, neck, and upper chest were a dry, grayish white


    23. The bark was a dull grayish black color and due to that fact the tree was also sometimes also called the Black Birch


    24. entrecano, grayish ( of the hairor beard)


    25. Grisled: Gray; grayish; sprinkled or mixed with gray; of a mixed white and black


    26. He can spot a deer over impossible distances, even though their grayish fur completely blends into their surroundings


    27. His face was contorted in a semi-permanent howling expression and his skin, thinly stretched over his bones, was a strange grayish color


    28. The undersides of her feet were grayish with street dirt


    29. The grayish stone was worn and weathered, softened by


    30. On the rocky, volcanic seafloor, there bloomed quite a collection of moving flora: sponges, sea cucumbers, jellyfish called sea gooseberries that were adorned with reddish tendrils and gave off a subtle phosphorescence, members of the genus Beroe that are commonly known by the name melon jellyfish and are bathed in the shimmer of the whole solar spectrum, free–swimming crinoids one meter wide that reddened the waters with their crimson hue, treelike basket stars of the greatest beauty, sea fans from the genus Pavonacea with long stems, numerous edible sea urchins of various species, plus green sea anemones with a grayish trunk and a brown disk lost beneath the olive–colored tresses of their tentacles

    31. Here and there stood sharp peaks, lean spires that rose as high as 200 feet; farther off, a succession of steeply cut cliffs sporting a grayish tint, huge mirrors that reflected the sparse rays of a sun half drowned in mist


    32. She wore cutoffs and gold earrings in the shape of butterflies and a grayish halter top that seemed to have been made with the strings of a mop


    33. The landscape outside the north windows of the lodge was not the glistening white peak one sees from miles away, but a grayish and slightly barren slope dotted with a few scraggly stands of pines and a smattering of lupine and asters that grew among the rocks


    34. Grayish blue with a red hue at its center


    35. From the uplands he could get a view of the shaded cut part of the meadow below, with its grayish ridges of cut grass, and the black heaps of coats, taken off by the mowers at the place from which they had started cutting


    36. He looked ill, with beads of sweat forming on his upper lip and his skin a pale, grayish color


    37. He was about to pursue his way, when his eye lighted on a little grayish package lying on the ground at his feet


    38. " It is proper and grayish; laid out by rule and line; one might almost say as though it came out of a bandbox


    39. It was thin and tinged with a grayish hue


    40. The faces of the men lost their grayish shine

    41. Inglis was every day of forty, and short and thin and grayish


    42. She got up, took a few steps in the parlour, and was on the point of entering the cabinet when the door opened, and Madame Byéshev's wrinkled, grayish face, expressing joyous terror, was thrust through the door


    43. A white prison cap covered her head; her face was grayish, and her eyes were devoid of either eye-lashes or eyebrows


    44. Resting his elbows on the table so that he should not be heard by the warden, whose face was of a Jewish type, with grayish side-whiskers, he said:


    45. "Well, that would be a kind deed," said a broad-shouldered old peasant with a curly, grayish beard like that of Michael Angelo's Moses, evidently thinking that Nekhludoff intended to rent out the land


    46. It leaves a very small proportion of light, grayish white ashes; on which I have as yet made no experiments, having this day, for the first time, paid particular attention to this substance, attracted by the unusual hardness which it acquired since it is in my possession: and not many hours have elapsed since I subjected it to combustion


    47. The colour of the rock varies from blue, and pale blue, to gray, or grayish white, frequently it presents a dull earthy appearance


    48. Immense quantities of it, possessing either a grayish or reddish brown colour, are found in the vicinity of Knoxville, East Tennessee


    49. The colour is usually a reddish brown, or grayish red


    50. Even the entire masses of the stone burn brilliantly, when ignited on a common fire; and, after exhaustion of the coally matter, leave the slate of a grayish colour



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    Synonyms for "grayish"

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    "grayish" definitions

    of an achromatic color of any lightness intermediate between the extremes of white and black