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.
A pair of large, clear, intelligent, grey eyes looked out of a head so worn and wasted, as to be more like a mere skull than the head of a living man.
In the grey of the morning he left the king's apartment and went to Phaedime.
Either you are ill, or that ugly bit of grey stuff must contain some magic which makes you blind to everything else.
He sent us news at once of this strange occurrence, but instead of rejoicing your father shook his grey head sadly, saying: 'he saw now it was impossible for any one to avoid his destiny!
The stone was the best possible form of crystallised granite, fine grained, very compact and durable, grey in colour, with here and there black patches or nodules of hornblende.
Lichnowsky also added that Grey had told the Italian Ambassador that he thought Austria would receive every satisfaction on accepting negotiation.
And all things grey, dead grey, to where this dead sea meets the grey horizon.
The Archduke, who while reading the article had turned ashengrey with rage and indignation, remained silent for a moment and then made the following characteristic remark: "Now I must get better.
We could sometimes hear the coyotes and the grey wolves howl at night, but a sense of security prevailed, and our sleep was sound.
He also caused to be bought three fine young unicorns; one of them a male of a chestnut colour, and two grey dappled females; also a tarand, whom he bought of a Scythian of the Gelones' country.
It was a grey pigeon, taken out of Gargantua's dove-house, whose young ones were just hatched when the advice-boat was going off.
Thou twittest me with mygrey hairs, yet considerest not how I am of the nature of leeks, which with a white head carry a green, fresh, straight, and vigorous tail.
He had small grey eyes hidden under thick eyebrows of a red colour, which made him look like an owl; and this picture was set off by a small black wig, which exhaled a disagreeable odour of oil, and by a dress of coarse grey cloth.
Its hardness is greater than that of steel, so that a knife blade leaves a grey metallic streak when drawn across its surface.
The best-known bird of this family is that which also happens to be the type of the Linnaean genus Muscicapa--the spotted orgrey flycatcher (M.
These are sounds and sights to read of in poetry, like the whilome glories of our wayside hedgerows, now cloaked under a greypall of dust thrown over them by the passing motor.
For this noise is made by a little sheath-winged grey insect, found often in wainscot benches and wood-work in the summer.
Newcastle, which was relieved by the arrival of a ship bearing a cargo of grey peas or carlings.
On a grey day among the Yorkshire moors every native one meets salutes one with the single word Dull!
But the dawn was now at hand, the moon was fading; and in the cold, grey interval between dawn and daylight they slipped by within sight of the squalid walls, and with the fear of surprise on them approached the gate of the camp.
Whether the lark's song appealed to the softer strain in her, or she began to hate the sordid interior with its grey half-light, the moment she was sure that the riders had gone on their way she opened the door and went out.
Fortunately a chill, grey mist, through which the huts loomed gigantic, swathed the camp, and he thought that it was to guard herself from this that she kept her mouth covered.
The grey fog of the early morning, which had sheltered their approach and still veiled the lower parts of the camp, seemed to add to the hopelessness of the news they bore.
He saw her sitting beside him, but he saw also the rough grey walls, the altar, the crucifix; and to wonder succeeded curiosity.
By this time the densegrey mist, forerunner of heat, had risen and discovered the camp, which here and there stirred and awoke.
He would be riding, silent, alone, his hand on his hip, the grey light of morning falling on his stern face.
They could discern the bridge over the river; they could almost count the red roofs of the small town that crept up from the water to the coronet of grey walls and towers that crowned all.
It was over that left-hand road that I was driving Rayne and Lola in the Rolls in the grey twilight of a wintry evening.
His grey hair was long, his nose aquiline, his teeth protruding and yellow; and he was a grumbler of the most pronounced type.
These ancients of the forest, with their long grey beards and hoary tresses, look very solemn indeed in the gloaming.
Under the impervious shade and the long grey vistas, one moves forward with something of a superstitious feeling, as though one were intruding into the sanctuary of unseen spirits.
I followed with my little grey horse close upon the heels of my companions, keeping all the time a keen and suspicious eye upon their movements.
They are white, with a little greyon the necks, flanks, and buttocks.
As evening approached, the settled grey clouds, which had hung overhead like a pall all the afternoon, were driven about by a rough wind, which went on rising steadily.
Through the tasselled pine branches, festooned with streamers of grey moss, I could see the stars shining in the blue depths of ether.
The grey moss which hangs in such abundant festoons from the fir-trees has a most singular effect, almost weird at times.
It, too, may be of further interest to relate that at the present time Grey Eagle is the Chief Justice of the native court at Bullhead Station, South Dakota.
He was elaborately dressed in a suit of grey satin richly laced with silver, which seemed somewhat too airy and fanciful to befit the massive girth of his limbs.
She turned away again, looked out across the valley paved with a grey floor of mist, and so walked back to the main wing of the Castle.
The last light of the day fell grey and wan across her face and hair.
So long as I had stood by Elmscott's side, my back had intercepted it; but as I moved away I had uncovered the window, and it was the grey light streaming from it which had given to him a complexion of so deathly and ashen a colour.
The bandage was removed from my eyes, and by thegrey morning light which pierced through the crevices of the window, I perceived that I was in some rough cottage.
I came almost to believe that I myself was manacled, and with that I felt once again that premonition of evil drawing near, which had numbed my spirit in the grey dawn at London.
The pines on the hillside opposite grew black in the deepening twilight; a star peeped over the shoulder of the Wildthurm; and here and there a grey scarf of cloud lay trailed along the slopes.
Even Lukstein, which had worn so bare and menacing an aspect in the grey twilight of that November afternoon, now nestled warmly upon its tiny plateau, the red pointed roofs of its turrets glowing against the green background of firs.
For as I turned, I glanced across the table to his opponent, and I saw his face change all in a moment to a strangely grey and livid colour.
The moon was setting and the moonlight grey upon the garden, with the snow under foot very crisp and dry.
I didna mean any such thing, but ever since you rode thegrey tit last, she's never been out o' stall.
Suppose you try the grey mare you rode t'other day, and I'll find a quiet one for your friend.
INK Next in importance is the preparation of the ink for printing the key-block or any black or grey parts of a design.
A descriptive black or grey line is used throughout the design, outlining all forms or used as flat spots or patches.
For a palegrey line the key-block also must be well washed before printing.
If a grey line is wanted the brush should be dipped in a little of the paste and scarcely touched with ink.
I assure you I am proud of these breeches," and he exhibited to Raskolnikov a pair of light, summer trousers of grey woollen material.
Her hair had begun to grow grey and thin, there had long been little crow's foot wrinkles round her eyes, her cheeks were hollow and sunken from anxiety and grief, and yet it was a handsome face.
It was a grey and heavy day, the country was exactly as he remembered it; indeed he recalled it far more vividly in his dream than he had done in memory.
At the great closed gates of the house, a little man stood with his shoulder leaning against them, wrapped in a grey soldier's coat, with a copper Achilles helmet on his head.
He glanced with a defiant and desperate air at the porter, who without a word held out a grey folded paper sealed with bottle-wax.
At that moment other steps were heard; the crowd in the passage parted, and the priest, a little, grey old man, appeared in the doorway bearing the sacrament.
He had a straight-forward, sensible, soldierly face, with grey moustaches and whiskers.
Wringing his hands and screaming, he rushed up to the grey-headed old man with the grey beard, who was shaking his head in disapproval.
He was an old man, grey pallor stealing in under the weathered brown of his face.
There was another kind of deer seen at some distance; the bucks were full-antlered and from where Skag stood, they looked light grey colour.
He met a slender lad of twelve years, presented to him by Dickson Sahib as "My son Horace," whose clear grey eyes attracted him much.
A vast and mysterious mechanism was locked in the great grey skull.
The whole head seemed delicately veiled in a grey magnetic haze.
Nels was a phantom of grey before them in the shadows, leisurely showing his powers.
Skag knew that it was good to him, knew how the sensitivegrey nostrils quivered wide, drinking deep draughts of cool moist air.
What she heard came out of a grey intolerable monotony; but still her eyes held his.
He saw how her breast had been torn by the thirsty little ones--the open sores against the soft grey of her nether parts.
When he reached them, Nels was still doubled tight over the cheetah's backward-bent body; hisgrey iron-jaws locked deep in the tawny throat.
Horace lifted both arms and leaned forward--his greyeyes gone black--as Nut Kut's trunk caught him.
Sir Edward Grey described this as a "shameful proposal," and rejected it on July 30th.
A note, sounding Sir Edward Grey on the question of British neutrality in the event of war was received, and a curt refusal to commit the British Empire to such a proposal was the reply.
Realization of this fact did not come to Sir Edward Grey until his negotiations with Germany and with Austria-Hungary had proceeded for some time.
Sir Edward Greyspent the entire Sabbath in the Foreign Office and personally conducted the correspondence that was calculated to bring the dispute to a peaceful conclusion.
Sir Edward Grey then proposed his plan of mediation upon the two points which Serbia had not wholly conceded.
Sir Edward Greyrenewed his efforts on Monday, July 27th, with an invitation to Germany to present suggestions of its own, looking toward a settlement.
By the time dressing was accomplished it was sufficiently light for the lamps to be dispensed with, and we assembled for breakfast in a dull-grey atmosphere.
Amongst table birds there are grey pheasants, martinetta, and partridges.
They had a most alarming appearance, for these masses of grey cloud approaching so rapidly seemed to portend a storm of terrible force.
The most marked action of the drug is upon the anterior cornua of grey matter in the spinal cord.
Seven little sparrows Ruffled brown and grey Snuggled close against the bars-- And this is Christmas day!
Then suddenly the "wildcat" blares its hate Like some mad Moloch screaming for the kill, Shattering the air with terror loud and shrill, The dim, grey walls become articulate.
By the palace ceased the fountain And the whole greyworld grew dark.
On their limbs hung, in graceful folds, the long grey moss, as if a mantle of mourning, waving over a few decayed tombs at the east side of the church.
He had a beard that reached to his middle, and but little hair, of a reddish-grey colour, on his head.
The faithful daughter cannot brook the summer sun should rise Upon the poor defenceless head, grey hair, and lifeless eyes.
The attendant was not gone long, but on her return she found officers in possession of the room, the royal canopy down, and was told that "Jane Grey was a prisoner for high treason.
Lady Jane Grey spent the Christmas of 1551 with the Princess Mary, with whom the family were on very friendly terms.
Lady Jane Greywas born in a beautiful palace half hidden by masses of old trees, called Bradgate Hall, in Leicestershire, in the year 1537.
Then Prigio, seeing a little heap of grey ashes beside the engine, watered them with the fairy water; and up jumped Alphonso, as jolly as ever, his sword in his hand.
She was tall, with cheeks like white roses blushing: she had dark hair, and very large dark-grey eyes, and her face was the kindest in the world!
The room was very dark; only the last grey light of the rainy evening came through a slit of a window, one of those narrow windows that they used to fire arrows out of in old times.
It was Lord Grey who called Magdelaine "The First Girl Scout," and as such she will be known.
Work out in cotton materials using two tones of one color or closely related colors, as brown and orange; grey and violet.
The documents relating this bit of history have been in the Archives for many years, but when they were shown to Lord Grey about twelve years ago he decided to erect a monument to Magdelaine de Verchères on the St. Lawrence.
The grey (Labrador) or jack pine is considered good fuel in the far north, where hard woods are scarce.
