For right away forward and to their left the grass grew shorter and shorter for a couple of miles, till it looked more than ever like some lawn whose soft green grew greyer and greyer till it was of a dull shimmering white.
The colour of these spots varies; they are generally a brownish-reddish purple and a paler greyer purple, but in some eggs the spots are so thick in colour that they seem almost black.
Parson John looked greyer than usual as he conducted the service and stood at the lectern to read the Lessons.
He seemed to be greyer than usual; his head was more bent, and his face wore a sad, pained expression.
In that room at the gable a child Was born while the wind chilled a summer dawn: Never looked grey mind on a greyer one Than when the child's cry broke above the groans.
The head is greyer than the body; the usual Sphingid horn is absent, and in its place there is a double wart.
Fore wings, ochreous grey, tinged with yellow on the basal half of the front margins; hind wings paler, becominggreyer on the outer area; fringes of all the wings yellow.
He was a little stouter, brighter of colour, greyer of beard, more nervous perhaps in voice and breathing.
He found two old farms, with a cart track rutted into the pink earth, leading down to a mill by the beach; a little grey church with a buttressed outer wall, and a smaller and greyer chapel.
A veil of smoky haze made the carrefour greyer now, through which at intervals a dying stag lifted its long neck from the shambles about him or some strong feathered thing beat its broken wings impotently upon the grass.
Von Reiter's dry, blond features had become greyer and more set.
There was a weary delay in getting my baggage out of the hold, and the February afternoon had grown greyer by the time we started in the doctor's pony trap.
I left Cannes in admirable weather, which became greyer and greyer with every step I took towards the North.
He was altogethergreyer than when last I had seen him--greyer and sterner.
Illustration: The Dreary Monotony of Grey Sea andGreyer Sky.
Not a solitary sail nor point of land to break the dreary monotony of grey sea and greyer sky, clear across to Valparaiso--5000 miles.
Roberts] Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more.
Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore -- And in my heart the face That I shall see no more.
The effect of atmosphere is usually shown by grey tones as compared with those of the foreground, and the greyer they are the more distant should the objects be away in nature.
It must, however, be remembered that the lights of distant objects are greyer than those of the foreground, hence the tissue paper must be used with judgment to prevent the distant lights from appearing too white.
Mrs. Baffall, looking a little older and a little greyer and a little more nervous; Mrs. Baffall with an eye upon the door, even while she tearfully hugged Moira.
Temple Purdue (grown a little greyer with the years, but otherwise unchanged) and indicated by a wave of the hand that it was to be read.
The colour of the bands may be greyer or browner than in the specimen figured, and the ochreous general colour of the fore wings is more tinged with brown in some specimens than in others.
Some specimens are browner and others greyer than that shown on Plate 36, Fig.
Some specimens are much greyer than others, and all the examples in a series from the Lake district that I have seen were distinctly grey, with very dark bands.
Long now he had been accustomed to the greater sense of proportion in things mental and emotional which amounts to a greyer level of feeling; he had lived on those not unsweet flats for years.
His swarthy complexion, shrewd oriental eyes and huge energetic oriental nose, flanked by greyer and longer side-whiskers than the Czar's, made him look like a representative of some foreign power.
On his way down the spacious corridor he was stopped by Onufri, his cheeks still hollower and his drooping moustache still longer and considerably greyer than of yore.
They watched the afternoon deepen, the haze of sunshine weaken and yield to greyer moods; they rose, too, and moved along the edge of the waters, and examined the shipping and barges.
Then he manipulated the blinds and the curtain till a clear, soft light, melting gradually into the surrounding greyer tones, fell on the wood-work, and Lady Betty stood illuminated with a suggestion of airy phantasm.
Distinguished from the Malbrouck by the form of the head, the greyershade of the hair, and the colour of the scrotal region; and from C.
The little old ladies looked greyer and more nervous, and the little old house looked greyer and gloomier than of old.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greyer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
