In the wide walk between the pines, gazing rather frightened, she could distinguish nothing for some moments; the greying light robbed things of their colour.
He kissed her forehead that he knew so well: the deep marks between the brows, the rising of the fine hair, greying now, and the proud setting of the temples.
The past winter and early spring there had existed, leaping like a sudden flame, dying to a greying ember, and then leaping again, a strange gaiety.
He loved her as can only a man who discovers loves secret with greying hair and after the loneliness of a desert hermit.
His long fingered hand went through his greying hair and then down the cheek which was sallow, stained with the atabrine from his latest malaria attack and badly in need of a shave.
Cautiously Bondy raised his bleeding nose to Lee and quickly put it down again: the dangerous maniac was a horrifying sight; with his greying mane standing wildly all around his death head he stood and laughed.
There, where her lips had first kissed him, sleeping in his chair, she found Saxham sitting at his table, with his sorrow of heart revealed in the stoop of his great shoulders, and his greyinghead resting upon his hands.
Courage had come to her with the paling of the stars and the greying in the East that meant the dayspring.
Though he could have been little more than five and thirty, his hair was thinned and greying at the temples.
She noticed that naïve look that sometimes came into his eyes, a boyish expression that gave the He to his greying beard and his generous proportions.
Mr. Trowbridge, who resembled a lean and greying Irish terrier, maintained that he had.
Mackenzie was a tall, ruggedly fashioned man, with greying hair and a keen, bold face.
Her hair was greying at the temples, and the skin was withered and crossed with lines.
Samuel, in his greying middle-age, had inherited the eternal youth of the apostle.
All about you was the light That dims the greying end of night; Desire was the unrisen sun, Joy the day not yet begun, With tree whispering to tree, Without wind, quietly.
Two giants, flush-faced, with greying hair, were locked in each other's arms.
Even the teacher of our little country school, a greying man of fifty, gave us vacations on the occasions when he wrestled with John Barleycorn and was thrown.
The first faint glow of red in the greying east found him at breakfast, with Zachariah sleepily serving him with hot corn-cakes, lean side-meat and coffee.
The square little aperture was clearly defined against the greying sky before he distinguished signs of activity in the room below.
The man heard and raised his head with the long, black, greyinglocks that encircled his face like the night and the snow.
Father Vassily clung to the window--eye to eye with the greying night.
The window panes frozen outside and frosted within reflected the light of the lamp and sparkled, but were impenetrably opaque like the walls and cut off the people from the greying night outside.
October was just ending; the willows along the river-bank were yellow, the reeds in the ditches that ran beneath each fence were greying and withering.
The other, which was his deeper self, preserved the memory of Dick's greying face and frightened eyes, and was glad that relief had come.
A fitted-over-corsets black taffeta and a high comb in the greying hair had done their best with her.
Next morning she awoke to find a soft, misty rain greying the world outside her window.
It was very beautiful out on the porch,--greying twilight, and young little stars just coming into being, all aquiver as if frightened.
The sucking mouths of the serpentine roots absorbed this matter, and red viscosity seeped into the eaten places, greying rapidly under the moon's effulgence, chemically affected by it.
This river's end drew into sight, flashed under me and into the distance, leaving fast-greying red paths on the slime.
His greying hair, goatee beard and slightly wild eyes, always had this effect.
He wore spectacles with light steel frames that seemed to cut deep into his flesh; his hair was fast greying and his face was much lined, which, however, interfered little with the benevolence of his expression.
Cleo's father rose before him again with his greying hair and his good face, bent, aproned, and in corduroys, just as he was wont to stand in the Dover workshop.
He noted the hardness of the eyes, the greying hair, the deep lines of the face, and was moved to a sudden burst of indignation.
It was already greying for the dawn when we reached the House on the Red Moss.
And it was already greying to the twilight when I came to a place by the seashore, waste and solitary, where there were but few houses about.
She was looking vacuously into the greying sky, conscious that Cairns was watching her.
Under a grey bowler set far back on his head his forehead sloped away to his wispy greying hair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "greying" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
