It was just before dawn, and a grayness was beginning to trouble the dark about the top of the mountain.
As the thick dark shrank down the steep like a receding tide, and the grayness reached the ragged heap of branches forming the nest, the young eagles stirred uneasily under the loose droop of the mother's wings.
Out of the grayness ahead a slip loomed ghostly in the dawn, tier on tier of cordwood stacked on the rude wharf; upreared on rows of piling, it seems to my juvenile fancy like a monster centipede creeping out to us over the smooth water.
We stood a little longer, and the sun dipped behind the mountains, robbing the Sicannie of its yellow gleam, casting a sudden graynessover the North.
One brief glimpse of this mountain drama; then they sank out of sight, and the numbing grayness and darkness once more closed around us.
It probably was not fifty feet away, on that toboggan slide, but it seemed quite hopeless to find anything in the freezing misty grayness that surrounded us.
And through the grayness rang at last my name, and straight to heaven I went, ransomed by that mighty price, freed by prayer from prison.
Above us, the clouds drifted and turned; about us, the horizon was blotted out; mist and grayness were everywhere.
The stars had disappeared, and beyond the universal grayness there was now a faint rose light.
Mrs. Carroll stopped, for a graynesssettled over the young man's face, and the eyes that he turned upon hers were filled with horror.
A grayness like the livery of death came over her face, but now so vitally warm.
It was Vanno alone who was real for her, not the other figures; and she did not see the grayness that settled like a shadow on Lord Dauntrey's lined and sallow face.
His grayness and the bleak remoteness of his air made him seem unreal as a spirit come back to haunt the scene of long-ago triumphs or defeats.
And the soft, thoughtful grayness which was dimming the sunshine suited this different, higher world as well as it suited his mood.
Even then it will not rain so much out of the blackness as out of the grayness behind it, and if there is no grayness chances are that you will escape a wetting.
The grayness seemed to grow slightly more livid over the tree-tops and behind the branches.
No longer, in this grayness that grew, that would soon melt in rose and in gold, did the dazzle of the Covent Garden lamps blind his eyes.
It was the grayness of her eyes and the whiteness of her feet that he remembered.
All these years it was the grayness of your eyes and--and something else that I remembered.
In the murky grayness of the sky a derelict sun wallowed, like a ship on fire.
Once the grayness of the open shore had faded behind him, the man found himself walking stealthily, like the stealthiest of the wild kindred themselves.
The man was fastening one end of the tether to a stake at the water's edge, and from the east a grayness touched with chill pink was spreading over the sky.
Part of the shifting graynessflowed over the board.
He caught a flicker in the shifting planes of a grayness that the kqyres had become, according to promise.
The grayness crept out over the board, touched a bishop, hesitated, and moved to a pawn.
They were not all as big as the first shadow, though some of them stretched up so high that their heads and shoulders were lost in the grayness of the sky.
She could hear the steady beat of the gander's wings, but the grayness around was so thick that she could see nothing but the dim outline of his neck before her.
The gander turned and flew in that direction, and they had gone but a little way when the grayness before them grew lighter.
He looked at the grayness and at the innumerable graves, he was conscious of the stagnant heat, he seemed to draw into himself the wide silence, and the excitement faded out of him, was replaced by a curious inertia.
Not till the freshness of dawn was in the air, and a curious livinggrayness made the tangled rose bushes look artificial and the fountain strangely cold, did she get up to go to bed.
Already a very faint grayness of the coming dawn was beginning to filter in among the darknesses.
Perhaps, indeed, there was nothing at all after this short life was ended, nothing but the blank grayness of eternal unconsciousness.
At its brink eternity commenced, a pulsating oblivion of mist and grayness across which the rising sun peered curiously.
Her pupils dilated, obscuring the grayness of her eyes; they became black pools, mirroring her terror.
He remembered her fascination, the grayness of her eyes, the fastidiousness of her dress.
There, in thegrayness of the dawn, he had espied a tall figure slowly pacing, accompanied by a snow-white Russian wolfhound.
He must be young to understand this protest; and considering the premature grayness of our present youth, he can scarcely be young enough if he would understand its reason as well.
He will drive twenty miles in a springless wagon and twenty miles back again in the graynessof dawn to stamp his feet to the sound of an accordion.
Then in the grayness of the dawn the little cavalcade filed away, like muffled phantoms, toward the east.
For a good half-hour Red Fox watched the first hole, while the woodchuck peered forth from the other; and the coloured sunset faded into the grayness of the dewy forest twilight.
The black wall dissolved into grayness in one spot, as a flood of energy beyond comprehension exploded from it.
But in another moment, both were gone, and space was black, yet in but a few moments a grayness was showing, and light was appearing from all about, growing gradually in intensity.
The grayness before her eyes yielded the image of a cross, and a second horizontal bar grew visible--there all the time.
Grayness in the clearing too; no flowers, nothing of the sun, but phallic-bodied toadstools and a ground-vine twisting a serpentine life among scattered rocks.
Because of the faint grayness before his eyes he judged it was broad daylight: perhaps already the day was giving over to darkness.
The first grayness of twilight had come, like mist, over the distant hills; but the peaks were still bathed in the sunset's glow.
The sun was gone now, leaving grayness and blackness behind, accentuated by the single strip of gleaming scarlet which flashed across the sky above the brim of Mount Taluchen, the last vestige of daylight.
This grayness of aspect cannot be overcome in the carpet except by re-dyeing, and even then the improvement may be transitory, so an experienced maker of rugs lets the half-cotton ingrain drift to its end without hope of resurrection.
None the less, I know that I am real, and certainly the grayness before me is real.
Well, no matter what befell Ruric yonder, it must be that in this grayness there is some other being who is real and dissatisfied.
There was nothing else in the world but the vastness and the grayness of the cliff and the sea, till the spark felt the faint thrill of warmth which gave to it the knowledge of its own life.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grayness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: dullness; evening; evensong; eventide; gray; grey; sunset; vesper
