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Example sentences for "dark grey"

  • In another form the fore wings are dark grey brown (Fig.

  • His coat is covered with long hairs of a dark grey hue, besprinkled with black, the extremities of which are white, with dark mottlings here and there on the back.

  • It is of a dark grey colour, striped with white down the back, and having a leaf-like fleshy expansion on the tip of the nose.

  • Under the blowpipe it fuses very readily into a dark grey, and sometimes even black bead, which is slightly magnetic.

  • The plumage of this species is extremely simple in its coloration; the body is a dark grey, the lower portion, as far as the breast, being marked with white or yellowish white, and the sides with brown.

  • The female is dark grey on the upper part of the body, and the feathers have a more or less clearly defined edge of green or yellowish green.

  • The rocks are typically blackish or dark grey, and often have a pitchstone-like appearance, the groundmass being frequently semi-vitreous in character.

  • One which is dark grey with a specific gravity of 2ยท72 is exposed in the gorge of the Mbutu-mbutu River below the falls of Na Savu.

  • It is of a dark grey colour, with a darker line on the back, and a lighter one along the spiracles, which are white.

  • The fringe is dark grey, spotted with white.

  • The hind margin is shaded with a dark grey border, inside which is a row of dark spots.

  • The caterpillar is dark grey, with a line of black dots down the back; and it has a number of little warts, bearing hairs.

  • That which is formed nearest to the assay is of a dark grey color, the next, a dark yellow passing into brown, and the most distant of a bluish white color.

  • It presents, in its metallic state, a dark grey powder, which by compression acquires the metallic lustre.

  • If strontia or its compounds are fused with a green bead of carbonate of soda and sesquioxide of manganese, as described under the head of baryta, a bead of a brown, brownish-green, or dark grey color is produced.

  • By heating this dioxide in a current of oxygen, the metal may be obtained in the form of a powder of dark grey colour.

  • Potassium hydrate and ammonia turn it dark grey or black.

  • In this way a beautiful semi-crystalline, dark grey mass, resembling antimony, is obtained.

  • The third man, Inspector Frayne, as I learnt afterwards, was in dark grey, with a soft grey felt hat with the brim turned down in front.

  • Usually the area between the cross lines is dark grey, sometimes marked with yellow on the reniform and towards the inner margin.

  • Take a cock blackbird and paint his wings dark grey, and cover his bill with red colouring matter, and you will have to all appearances a grey-winged ouzel.

  • Dark grey is the prevailing hue of its plumage, with some black on the head and a quantity of brown on the wings and tail.

  • When closely inspected their plumage is seen to be dark grey.

  • Head and body above uniform light brown with a slight yellowish shade; underneath, from the throat to the vent, dark grey with a brownish tint, lighter on the sides of the throat.

  • The head and thorax are reddish-brown, and the abdomen is dark grey.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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