High above the bridge, antennas and communications gear showed faintly against the twilight gloom, gray and huge.
She led the way down the abandoned corridor, its lighting fluorescent and its floor covered with gray industrial carpet.
As she examined him, the gray temples and perfect tan, the beige sunglasses, she began to find his appearance a little incongruous.
He turned and moved up the gray metal steps to the cockpit, a raised bubble above the weapons station.
But the mottled gray behemoth was increasingly unstable, shunting sideways, drifting over the security fence and spiraling upward toward the mountain that bristled with SatCom's communications gear.
The tunnel sloped downward from the installation on the mountain as a gentle incline, and although the gray algae that swathed its sides now covered him, he had found niches in the granite to hang onto as he worked his way down.
He and Bill Bates had just climbed aboard the Sikorsky, cold and grayin the light fog.
He settled the phone back in its cradle and looked around Mission Planning, the gray walls covered with maps.
His eyes had grown narrow, almost disappearing behind his gray aviator shades.
He is short--barely five feet ten--with darting gray eyes and an old scar down his left cheek.
In the meantime the Hind continued spiraling and drifting down, and Vance looked out to see the gray granite of the side of the mountain moving toward him, with only a bramble of trees in between.
I'm counting on that," Ramirez said, his eyes expressionless behind his gray shades.
The time was 8:41 when she walked up behind him and laid down a large gray envelope marked Top Secret.
The gray box would receive the electronic query, "Are you a friend?
It was all set inside a high-security hurricane fence with a gray cinderblock control hut at the near corner.
Ramirez strode past the bustling gray SatCom uniforms with a single- mindedness that characterized his every move.
The town site is on a level stretch of land, half surrounded by what looks to be a beautiful natural wall, broken and picturesque with gray rocks and pine trees.
The pale amber spread, dilute with light, and beneath it lay the gray of the fog, and above it the dark blue of cloud--not of sky.
And while he thus regarded the book, he was himself regarded of the gray luminous eyes of Rachel.
The gray had grown darker, and she sat like one waiting for the night like a monster coming to claim its own and swallow her up.
So said the snake, and by the time Helen had walked home with her aunt, the glow had sunk from her soul, and a gray wintry mist had settled down upon her spirit.
The first selectman, his eyes gleaming, the horn of gray hair that he twisted in moments of mental stress standing straight up, rose and reached for his hat.
II One day a mild and placid little woman in dove-gray came walking from the bridge and handed over her penny.
And there's Bat Reeves's gray hoss hitched in the widder's dooryard.
The stranger calmly removed his ear-pads and gazed on the furious selectman with cold, gray and critical eyes.
His jaw-muscles ridged under his gray beard, and his eyes narrowed in angry reminiscence.
He arose with great decision, buttoned his jacket, cocked his cap to an angle of authority on his gray hair, and started down the hill toward the boat.
You've allus made a good deal of talk about how many men you've handled in your day," said the Colonel, tucking a thumb under his suspender and leaning back with supercilious cock of his gray eyebrows.
Here and there on the brown mould of his garden behind the big barn were scattered yellow and gray specks.
He stared despondently through the window at the seamed roof and weather-worn walls that looked particularly forlorn and dilapidated on that gray March day.
The elephant, Imogene, was bulked dimly in the first gray of a soppy dawn.
The shrewish night wind of autumn whistled over the ledges of Cod Lead Nubble and scattered upon his gray beard the black ashes from the bonfire that the shivering men of Smyrna still plied with fuel.
He found Mr. Gammon's homestead to be a gray and unkempt farm-house from which the weather had scrubbed the paint.
Two ladies had been awaiting the arrival of the Ancients in the square, squired by a stout man in blue, who scruffed his fingers through his stubblygray beard from time to time with no great ease of manner.
He rose at gray dawn, went to the stables, and curried down his master's best horse; then back to the castle to assist his superior to dress.
So at gray dawn William, Conon's first body squire, has yawned on his pallet by the chamber door, tugged on his own clothes, then hastened to the great bed to assist his master to dress.
Soaring high above ugly roof and factory chimney, with its airy pinnacles denouncing a life of materialism and doubt, visited by admiring pilgrims from beyond the Sea of Darkness, the great fabric of the gray cathedral remains.
If you meet a man with a graycoat and a scarlet hat, pass at a distance--he is a leper.
On ordinary days toil begins at gray dawn and usually continues until dusk.
As you go through Pontdebois you see the great gray mass of the new episcopal church rising ahead of you.
The circuit of gray curtain walls and turrets reaches down to the Claire, on which barges are swinging, and across which stretches the solid wooden bridge which gives the Good Town its name.
Georges is really only forty-five years old, but to see hisgray head, gnarled face, and bent back you would think him sixty.
At graydawn the heralds from the castle go through the avenues of tents, calling, monotonously: "Let the jousters make ready!
This is the little castle church to which very many dwellers of St. Aliquis, including messire and madame, had repaired piously at gray dawn, and where now good Father Gregoire has just finished a rather hasty mass.
It is related of him that, if any one persisted in holding an opinion contrary to his own, Gauguin would reply only by an oblique glance from those cold grayeyes an answer that usually reduced the speaker to an embarrassed silence.
It is true also that he wore a strange costume, consisting of a long blue riding coat with pearl buttons, a blue waistcoat embroidered yellow, brown pantaloons, and a gray slouch hat with a blue ribbon.
Farther along, another man waited for them at a corner of the road near a laundry, the employees of which regarded him with alarm, because, at the end of a rope, the gipsy held a smallgray bear.
And now, in her girl's admiration of the thick, trailing folds of the soft gray satin, Theodora very naturally half forgot her tears.
There her toilet was performed and there the gray satin was donned in some trepidation, as the most suitable dress for the occasion.
There is a gray satin on the bed there, that will make a very pretty dinner-dress.
It would be better than Priscilla Gower, if Theodora had nothing but Pam's gray satin for her bridal trousseau.
I had on the gray satin when he came, and the train hung beautifully.
And joys the youth in life's green spring, who goes With the sweet babe and the gray headed nurse, To see those Cosmoramic orbs disclose The varied beauties of the universe.
And Taste paid gold for bright bouquets, The parlor vase that drest, That scented Fashion's gray boudoir, Or bloomed on Beauty's breast.
Though the skies are gray and gloomy And the shadows hang about, Yet the world is bright and bloomy When the sunny side is out.
On his head was a small, round, gray hat, full of days, or mayhap years, and of services.
He lighted another candle when the first went out; and sat thinking, till the gray dawn began to show through the window.
By digging down, it is found mixed with a gray sand, which largely predominates.
He was like a human nightmare; and even the gray dawn, as it came through the curtains, only showed that misshapen head more clearly.
Common chalcedony has little color, shades of gray and blue being the most common, although other tints occur.
The sturdy trees that yester-eve were gray In dim and foggy veils, and half effaced By winter rain that compassed them, to-day Arise like knights in crystal armor laced.
In the grass or crouched down close to the brown earth and gray weed stems we see another of our friends.
The goldfinch is also a regular winter visitor; but at this season he has none of his bright colors of the summer time; but is a plain little olive green bird, with dark wings and a gray breast.
With a "chip" he jumps up out of the grass and is away before you can see what particular shade of gray or brown is most conspicuous.
The older boy cast a quick look upward, and his gaze rested longest in the quarter where the forest wall was broken, allowing a view of the gray sky.
Yes, and he said he had never seen them so savage," declared Sandy, glancing around at the snowy forest, as if in imagination he could already see a host of gaunt gray forms leaping toward them.
It seemed never to dawn, and Sandy really began to declare that it was three nights wrapped in one, when his brother called his attention to a faint gray light in the east.
The stranger's were gray and persistent, with hanging corner lids that might have concealed even more purpose than they showed.
A damp breath breathed upon it, a soft hand passed over the slate, the sharp pencilling of the picture faded and became a confused gray cloud.
In the growing light she could distinguish the distant, low-lying marshes eaten by encroaching sloughs and insidious channels, and beyond them the faint gray waste of the Lower Bay.
Although at times a mere blank speck on the gray waste of foam, a closer scrutiny showed it to be one of those lateen-rigged Italian fishing-boats that so often flecked the distant bay.
A man of middle height, strongly built, bronzed and slightly gray from the vicissitudes of years and exposure, he had an air of practical seriousness that commended itself to Father Pedro.
The gray dawn came soon enough, and the coach drew up at "Red Chief" while the lights in the bar-room and dining-room of the hotel were still struggling with the far flushing east.
Nevertheless, she was refreshed and able to pursue her journey, until the cold gray of early morning found her at the end of her second stage.
This faded again, and a clear gray light, in which every object stood out in sharp distinctness, took its place.
And to cap all this a gray old shearer planted himself in her path.
Her restless feet took her many times to the kitchen and Mrs. Potter, who shook her good gray head and remonstrated with increasing candor and asperity.
Out toward the blue, the billowing fields sailed away the gray steamer, cutting a path that sprayed and sang after.
Cyrus had the feeling that the gray April sky had momentarily opened up and sent down a sun-ray to illumine the proceedings.
The night that Meg left, with her gray eyes blazing like two clear flames and her little chin so fiercely set that the dimple disappeared from it totally, MacLachan went out blackly glowering, and came back drunk and singing "The Cork Leg.
Back and forth, back and forth, through the fierce, gray slant of the rain, marched the Frenchman, drawing at each turn a little nearer to the corner bench.
One day Paula came into the dim and solemn Varick library where lessons were conducted with her big, wistful, gray eyes all wet and wincing, and her queer, sprightly little face like a mask of grief.
The stranger hadgray hair and a tired face lighted by crinkly eyes.
Dolly Gray took us and the shoes of the deceased cousin on our way.
But while I loitered on the cliffs the cloud in the west had risen and spread; a cold wind blew over the hills, and the high gray peaks behind Valdemosa disappeared, one by one, in a veil of rain.
Where the olive and the carob ceased, box and ilex took possession of the inaccessible points, carrying up the long waves of vegetation until their foam-sprinkles of silver-gray faded out among the highest clefts.
For see the dapple-gray coursers of the morn Beat up the light with their bright silver hoofs, And chase it through the sky.
I have something of most precious," and brought forth, out of a dozen protecting envelopes, a single grayhair from Beethoven's head.
The sky was full of great masses of gray clouds, that sometimes parted, and showed a steel-colored background, intense and cold, and immeasurably distant.
The butter had certainly been laid on thick at Lyng: the old gray house, hidden under a shoulder of the downs, had almost all the finer marks of commerce with a protracted past.
The rest is solitude; the church, grown old, Stands stark and gray beneath the burning skies.
And certainly in the distance the gray figure had looked like Peters.
He was dressed in the gray great coat which he always wore.
Mr. Snagsby pulls off his sleeves and his gray coat, pulls on his black coat, takes his hat from its peg.
These ministrants to a mind disturbed somewhat calmed the doctor's excitement, and his cunning grayeyes soon brightly twinkled again through a haze of curling smoke.
His face grew anxious as the time for sucking-pig approached, and his deep-gray eyes bore an expression of profound thought as he laid down his knife and fork, after putting the first piece of crackling into his mouth.
Hardly crisp enough," he said, curling his long gray mustache up from his lips.
The lower slopes were covered with pines; above, the bare, gray stone climbed up, shoulder by shoulder, to meet the sky.
His hair, still thick and growing low on his forehead and long behind, was barely touched with gray above the temples.
Then for the first time a human note overscored the thundering of the hot wind, and a small gray cat scuffled round the corner of the veranda, pursued by a great long-limbed boy, laughing to himself.
He cut off one of these to see whether it was still good, but the damp had soaked into it, and the outside surface was covered with a gray fungus growth which rendered it useless.
His face was thin and pinched, and his hair, although he was only thirty-two, was already gray and scanty, giving him a look of premature old age.
Popinot, addressing the man, who wore a gray blouse.
He took no care of his gray hair, and shaved but twice a week.
The loggerhead shrike is one of our most beautiful birds, clear blue-gray above, and snowy white below.
One more interview I was happy enough to have with my little gray friends.
Up to this time my searching into the name and identity of my little strangers in gray had been in vain.
The third was to my eyes anything but attractive, being a faded-looking gray tabby, who entered the place by a hole under the fence next the apartment-house.
And that was the last I saw of the pretty graybirds that year.
As it gains speed, the colors flash less and less, and finally melt into a middlegray of perfect neutrality.
Any two gray values unite to form a gray midway between them.
Thus a child’s hand may be his substitute for the color sphere, and also make him realize that it is filled with grayer degrees of the outside colors, all of which melt into gray in the centre.
Purple Yellow Red-gray } +Mixture of white and black: a scale of grays.
Thus R7 (popularly called a tint of red) is neither lighter nor darker than the gray of N7.
The thin edges of all sections unite in a scale of gray from black to white, no matter what hue each contains.
The vertical axis joining black and white is a neutral scale of gray values, while perpendiculars to it (like a pin thrust into the orange) are scales of chroma.
He, was simply Jack, With the coat on his back Patched up in all colors from gray to black.
But soon, crunch, crunch, He had eaten a score--then what should he see But the big gray wolf just under the tree!
He was gray and big, And he huffed and he puffed and he blew the house in, And he ate up the poor little pig.
Without a word they did as they were bidden, In twinkling of an eye, Out in the drizzly mist of a gray morning, Off through the chill and dew, And none too soon!
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gray" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
