| 单词 | gray |
| 例句 | Her eyes are gray, but not like those of people from the Seam. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z But the many young mothers who entered the imposing gray building each day to apply for aid grasped instantly what lay behind the convenience of geography: the judgment that here sinners came to justice. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I stare out the window at the bleak gray sky while she busily prepares me something to eat. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z I put my head back and stare up into the gray sky and hold my breath. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The wool is.gray and has absorbed moisture from the air, it’s like a wetted baby blanket and smells faintly of damp sheep. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z A trail of gray smoke snaked up to the sky, merging with the clouds. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z “A year of this will have me prematurely gray.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z The mute sat at the table across from him, taking it all in with his gray eyes. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A low bush nearby had blossomed in tiny gray balls. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He didn’t know how long the gray man had been sitting in the dark. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z They dressed her up in a calico apron, a gray wig, and granny glasses to make her look like an old lady. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s got a mouth full of silver teeth and wears a gray baseball jersey. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Stiff black hair flecked with gray, a stoop accentuated by an oversize sweater. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Shapes of dried blood in the stubble grass and gray coils of viscera where the slain had been field-dressed and hauled away. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The houses were small and drab, constructed of gray concrete blocks. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z When they arrived at Hagrid’s cabin, however, they found an elderly witch with closely cropped gray hair and a very prominent chin standing before his front door. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z And now it is a cool, gray October day a week or so later. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was a wolf cub, gray and black, with eyes the color of dark amber. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z They wore masks of dully gleaming gray chain mail over their faces, their features obscured by the mesh. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She was wearing a plain black cotton dress and had short gray hair that was permanented into sausage-like curls that bounced and jiggled on her round head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Chamberlain saw gray men below stop, freeze, crouch, then quickly turn. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A thin gray light showed her three other bunks, each empty and neatly made, one below hers and the other two across the tiny cabin. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Their graying hands stand out in contrast to the black lacquered finish of the rickshaw handles. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Diego opened the door, wearing pajama bottoms decorated with cartoon elves, and a gray tank top. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z It was gray and chill beyond the kitchen window. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve been ducking and hiding any time I spot a gray car in the neighborhood. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Before he was many days old he was not only looking like a mouse but acting like one, too—wearing a gray hat and carrying a small cane. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Behind Percy, a wave surged up from the bay—a wall of gray water even taller than the glacier. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z In fact, a soft gray day has begun when I shake his shoulder. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z The bridge was of gray stone, lichened, dappled with slow moisture where the fungus crept. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His lips looked puffy, gray, and cracked, and they felt dry as cardboard. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z There are also gray areas and various ways to lump and split the relations, which give linguists plenty of things to argue about. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Rolling her eyes at herself, she threw on her Silly Boys, Coding Is for Girls T-shirt and plain gray fleece pants. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There was nothing in between, no happy medium, no shades of gray. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It was covered in what looked like lumpy gray glue. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z It would be cold, as it always was, and Frankie would be waiting in the washing room like a wax doll, gray and shrunken. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Toby called as the man in the gray suit started down the path. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “It wasn’t speaking our language,” Tali said, scrubbing a hand through his gray hair. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z He was standing on a narrow track made up of loose gray pebbles that crunched under his combat boots when he walked. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z She began to feel sorry for Cousin Eunice, who had lived all of her life in this city, who had gone off to work every morning along the same gray city streets. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The second girl had risen more slowly, and at first Kit was only aware of the most extraordinary eyes she had ever seen, gray as rain at sea, wide and clear and filled with light. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z He looked to be in his late fifties, white, with a gray mustache. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z He stopped seeing color and all became a swirling, howling, leaden gray desolation. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I block the scene so when we kiss, faces around us blur, a filtered lens diffuses the light, and a smoke machine blows gauzy wisps of gray across the floor. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Everyone wears the same gray pants and shirt, the shirt tucked in at the waist. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Outside the windows of O’Hare International Airport, the sky was painted a particular shade of gray and leaving droplets of water on the large glass windows that looked out onto the airstrip. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z He was good as new in his camouflage and combat boots, translucent gray flesh covering his bones like glowing Jell-O. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Smith appeared and glared back at them from under the gray fedora. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z As if looking through his eyes, she perceived her own withered skin, her sparse gray hair, the awkward gait with which she moved. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The beach at the end of this road was backed by low, rolling dunes, which flattened out to a narrow belt of sand before giving way to the placid gray water. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I could tell it used to be a white robe of some kind when it was new, but it was so old it was gray now. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z It was such a gray and misty day that I could not see the other side of the river, where there was a small stadium. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “But will she? Will Stef lose her arm? I can’t imagine the doctors will be able to fix it. It’s turning gray, Matt.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d tied her blond hair back with a strip of denim torn from her pants leg, and in the fiery light of the river, her gray eyes flickered. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She looked older than usual, with streaks of gray in her hair that Marigold had somehow never noticed before. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z As Taran wrestled with the fallen stones, the walls of Spiral Castle shook like gray rags. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Her cold gray eyes fastened upon Ashe, and he grinned. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Ahead, where the black road twisted out of sight between black trees and gray sky, was the mountain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He was gripping a handful of pamphlets, and his gray suit and pale skin made the blood dripping from his head all the more vivid. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z The principal had short gray hair and wore a turquoise necklace over a black turtleneck. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z Some letters were written on grainy gray paper; some were written on the back of homework assignments. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Around thirty kids in light gray suits all stand shoulder to shoulder. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The older official is tall, with graying hair at his temples and a chiseled jaw. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “I’ll keep that in mi—” But when she looked up again, the man in the gray suit was no longer there. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Around her neck, the gray pendant from Monsoon was cold and wet. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She was just another speck of gray in the endless ash sea. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z From the brick face, six even rows of windows seemed to glower down at her through the gray April drizzle like so many unfriendly eyes. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The torn white lumber from concrete forms was piled beside gray walls. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He had gray eyes, a ruddy complexion, and a pleasant face, though he did not like his nose, which he felt was too big and bulbous. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a patient sergeant with a long gray beard who put him under guard and sent him along up the dark road to Longstreet’s headquarters. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray area is neither hot nor cold. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He spied Tater down on the beach, frolicking where the sand was gray and wet. Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A predator approaches: gray jock buzz cut, whistle around a neck thicker than his head. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z But three out of four birds that walked out of the white box looked just like his: gunsmoke gray. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z You pouted, but refused to stop, transporting a third worm from the gray concrete onto the grassy earth. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “His hair’s gray, right? You think he dyes it that color? Or does he dye his beard?” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The gray front hood nosed up near the front door. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z They set it down upon the platform and I looked at the shape of the cheap gray coffin and all I could remember was the sound of his name. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z And I run, choking, my bag banging against my back, my face cut with branches that materialize from the gray haze without warning, because I know I am supposed to run. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z He ran hard across the muddy schoolyard through drifting clouds of thick black and gray and white dust that choked and blinded him. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z She looked like an old magpie, with her gray hair scraped back and a pointed nose that didn't seem to fit her small, wrinkled face. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Later that afternoon he walked to the Castillo Street Bridge, a gray arch over the narrow trickle called the Santa Fe River. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t even focus on that gray patch of sky. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I lowered my head, and turned it toward the girl in gray. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray sky looks heavy and low, a piñata filled with snow. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Bright pink rouge-stick stains her teeth, and the face powder she has used doesn't mask the tiny gray tint in her skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z And everyone else won’t have fancy poster boards with foam letters that make my flimsy piece of newsprint that the teacher gave me look like gray toilet paper. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z She was thinner, with pallid skin to match her gray eyes, and her hair had turned more silver than gold. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z His dark bushy hair and long gray beard were tangled. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She had dark, wavy hair and wore a tattered gray coat. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z If I unfocus my eyes, I see exactly what the Candor don’t believe in—gray. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z All around him, people in gray tunics were running, screaming, and they weren’t the only ones. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The coffee was gray with milk, and I skimmed the milk scum off the top with a piece of bread. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Warm rooms and warm suppers beckoned them, and as they hurried away, leaving the cold square to the two gray cats, the miraculous autumn departed too; the year’s first snow began to fall. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Ramon’s face was no longer tanned and rosy-cheeked but instead seemed thin and gray. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z They were gray and silver and unsmiling and proud, like the men sitting in them. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Cold and gray and heavy in the scavenged bowl of the countryside. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Beyond it sat the abandoned Jerusalem airport—a few streaks of gray runway and a small tower. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z The sky was still wan and gray and refused to clear. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her face looked like the gray of a late evening sky. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z His trousers were held up by red braces over the long gray underwear that covered his chest. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time she ever went into his dream, she had stood right in front of him, secure in her invisibility, and wistful, wishing this strange dreamer might fix his sweet gray eyes on her. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z He and his father had walked to the very tip, across the breakwater, a string of giant gray slanted stones, and then on the narrow, final inward crescent of sand. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Matt spent the night in the guardhouse, and in the morning Raul took him to a large, gray building with high windows covered with iron bars. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Jesper looked at the gray swells of the sea, marching to the horizon in endless formation. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The winter sky is bright gray and sharp. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Everything in it was gray—no, not quite everything: something glinted on the floor, something the color of an ember in a nursery fireplace, the color of a scarlet-and-orange tulip nodding in the May sun. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z He stared at the children with his frank gray eyes, willing them to understand. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The station was empty, but the ticket window was open and a porter in a gray uniform was pushing a broom. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The rose bowl dulled and sent down a warm gray drizzle. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “What’s that?” he interrupted, heading for a dull glimmer of gray he’d just noticed behind the ivy on the wall, about head high. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z His grandmother’s house was a rambling gray stone mansion on twelve acres in North Vancouver. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z It kept crackling and sparking at odd moments, and every time Ron tried to transfigure his beetle it engulfed him in thick gray smoke that smelled of rotten eggs. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z Far and high in the east one drift of gray dimmed the sky’s brightness: the smoke of Udenushreke, nearest to us of the Fire-Hills. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Isaac is Edmond’s twin, and they look exactly the same, only Isaac’s eyes are green and Edmond’s are the same color as the sky, which at the moment is gray. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain was silver on the windowpanes and the sky was wet and cold and gray. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z From time to time all things, clouds, icy rain, ice, air, would turn a dull red, then fade slowly back to gray. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z When I put my hands down to look again, I recognize the old brown man and the old gray woman walking toward me out of the pine forest. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Three men came into the room, the two doctors and a short, middle-aged man with a round face and a graying mustache. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The studio is the purplish gray of autumn twilight. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The sky looks like gray wool, and that's a good thing. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z His hair, still coal black except for touches of gray at his temples, was combed back, but his cheeks were sunken, and he had a thin beard. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Under the influence of lull, Sarai’s days had been nothing but dreamless gray moments between one night and the next. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The morning light coming through the window was gray and watery, giving her skin an unhealthy pallor. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z But he’d never hoped to dream that— “It was an old bicycle, anyway,” the man in the gray suit went on. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He looked exactly like his photo in the newspaper clipping, but less gray. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z I look up and freeze when I find myself staring into familiar, pale gray eyes. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z It was a very old house, with gray stone walls, high arched windows, and a roof with red shingles that glowed like embers in the afternoon sun. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z The logic of the gray wall of silence was instantly clear, as clear as the glare of hate that Officer X had sent my way when he heard what I’d done. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z A middle-aged woman with stringy gray hair stood near my seat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Thoughts evaded me, hiding in the vast stretch of clinical whiteness to which I seemed connected only by a scale of receding grays. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She walked to a dull gray van two aisles away and put the thermos inside. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The air seemed to cool with every step, gray stone walls all around her pressing in. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The day is a rare overcast one, and the sails reflect the gray of the sky. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z If they had not dressed him and led him to the car, he would still be there, drifting along the north wall, invisible in the gray twilight. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z War had bled color from everything, leaving nothing but a storm of gray. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He fought rats, magpies, gray squirrels and, once, a crow. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s all different colors—gray, white, yellow, and red—and has four wheels, two smaller turntable ones in the front and two bigger ones in the back. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z A single gray streak bolted through her hair, but her skin was smooth. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He was a shorthaired dog, gray with black and brown spots — to call him nondescript would be a kindness. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Her graying black hair was pulled back into a sharp bun and her makeup was immaculate, even at the end of a long day. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Instead she splashes into the water and starts paddling toward me, her gray head bobbing above the waves. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The scythe looked at her with those cold, inscrutable gray eyes. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The marbled sky lay heavy on the gray Great Lake when Grace Windsor Wexler parked her car in the Westing driveway and strode up the walk ahead of her daughters. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z That was another good thing about going to the zoo on a gray, gray day—no one cared if you shouted. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z He wore flannels, a gray jacket and a stiff straw hat. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Burnside mats down his gray combover and knocks four times, then a fifth, because he’s obnoxious like that. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z In the deep evening shadows the siding paint looked gray instead of cream. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z And in that gray cast, that fog in which we both sat, I could see, and feel, that tears were rolling down his face. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing a black graduation gown with a white collar sticking out, and her hair is in a tight bun with powder on it to make it gray. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z His hair had turned gray, his mustache nearly white, but his eyes were as blue as ever, bluer at this instant by proximity to the sea. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The other was tall, with a thick gray beard and large belly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Before they arrived at their Orange County destination to retrieve the money, they found themselves being followed—and then chased—by two Latino men in a gray van. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z I feel a stab in my heart when I look on Grandpa’s shoulder and see the gray smudge that was once Mango. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z A gray bird flew above them, above the electric wires for the streetcar line, and perched on the metal cornice of a roof. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z She groaned, lying back again and blinking up at the gray sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Once upon a time there was a dark tower that pierced the sky and turned everything gray. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z The hammering begins and the familiar mottled gray bursts of color appear about a foot away from my face. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He crouched and wiped away the gray salt and looked in but he could see nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z While the king grew gray and serious with the burdens of government, Claudius, with his brown beard, was still vigorous and lusty. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She’s wearing her gray snowsuit jacket but the hood is back, her head is bare. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She had short, gray hair, and yellow eyes like a hawk. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The other end was sharpened and caked with gray dirt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It is long and narrow, the walls covered with shelves that bear identical blue- gray books, thick and heavy as dictionaries. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z It was painted white with gray shutters, and there was a nice front porch. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Addison is this really serious-acting black woman with tight gray hair in a bun and these suits that make her look like she works in a bank or something. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z The eyes were the only thing in the shed that weren’t gray. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z He looked at his wet, black hair and the dark gray eyes which looked back mistrustfully from the mirror at him, looked at the marks on his coffee-colored skin. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z A gray, canvas bag, as large as a loaded army duffel bag, hung from the ceiling on a long chain. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Next to the calendar there is a postcard of a Duchamp painting he has always loved, of a chocolate grinder that reminds him of a set of drums, suspended against a gray background. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing an oversize white T-shirt that draped over his bony shoulders and gray thermal underwear that covered his legs, which were now trembling in fear. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Instead of marble floors, this part of the house had gray concrete. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It was a gray day when they set out, and Emma had a toothache and a headache. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Madam opened an envelope and shook out two gray strips of mouse fur, each cut into an arch. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He rubs his graying beard and sighs again. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The gently looping script was pale gray on the creamy paper, too faded to make out in the dim room. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z King Lords in gray bandanas and Garden Disciples in green bandanas stand on a police car in the middle of the street, chanting, “Justice for Khalil!” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Captain Pierce was a heavy man, with round shoulders, gray hair, and pleasant eyes. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I pulled my T-shirt up to cover my mouth and nose and ran off into the blowing gray smoke. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Bobby pins held back her lank gray hair, and a cigarette dangled from her mouth. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Her dark hair has a shock of gray in the front, like a vanilla swirl in a crème-cone. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z There was another volunteer working that day, an older woman with a long gray braid and bright blue eyes. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z I walked past a block of brown and gray slab homes. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z We marched in single file across the cool gray sand, from oldest to youngest. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Her simple tunic was identical to theirs, gray and hemmed just below the knee. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Ho Chi Minh, a frail figure in his mid-fifties, with a wispy gray goatee, stepped toward the microphone. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The gray ghost that took your breath and your words. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z From the kitchen he could see her sitting there, in her hair—already—streaks of gray. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky had grown as thick and gray as lead. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Czernobog simply stared at him, his gray eyes like points of steel. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Old buildings, whose gray rococo facades housed my memories of the Forty-Niners, and Diamond Lil, Robert Service, Sutter and Jack London, were then imposing structures viciously joined to keep me out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Yesterday’s rain had cleared; the sky was a clear, pale gray, and the grass was springy and damp underfoot as they set off for their first ever Care of Magical Creatures class. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling’s expressions were like a closet of pressed gray suits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “Yeah, well, things pretty much suck right about now. The sun disappeared and the sky’s gone gray, they didn’t send us the weekly supplies—looks like things are going to end one way or another.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Dad,” I call, but as I walk toward him, the pavement grows slick and there are gray chunks of what looks like cauliflower. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I dug the man out, a gray and bloody ghost beneath fallen bricks. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Instead of gray eyes, his irises were as brown as Candice’s. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Her boyfriend is handsome, with broad shoulders, graying temples, and a mustache. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z How else could I orient myself in this sea of gray? Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The sky, every last inch of it, was slate gray. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z “Yes, Lord,” said Sister Price, “the Lord done raised you up a holy son. He going to comfort your gray hairs.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Its crisscrossed grid was a huge silver tapestry in the gray spring light. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The Crown in a gray beanie holds my dad’s pendant and makes a kissy-face at me. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z He pulled his blanket about his shoulders and looked out down the gray and barren beach. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They were this stunning gray, so light the irises almost blended in with the sclera. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z He had greasy hair and a square-shaped little mustache speckled with gray. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His thinning gray hair was tied back in a ponytail. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Against the gray landscape it seemed like a fallen piece of gold. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z One by one their little gray bodies failed under the strain, and the basement came to resemble a Civil War field hospital. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It felt like a place where it was always gray and rainy. Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z Malcolm’s other constituency lay just over the bridge outside the tavern, in the gray stone buildings set among green fields and neat orchards and kitchen gardens of the Priory of St. Rosamund. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z But as I sat in the evening wind and scanned the ocean going slowly gray, I wondered why I felt so sad. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Now those memories are like a gray winter tree, sharp and bare. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z “Everything okay with you, young man?” the man in the gray suit asked. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He went to the gray metal box and flipped a switch, and suddenly everything was bathed in light. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z “Very nice,” he said after he unwrapped the heavy gray socks she’d knitted in home economics. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The something was gray, perhaps once a large sock. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z A gray skull sat on his neck, its jaws flapping, laughing. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The largest rat climbed onto the old man’s shoulders, swung up on the long gray mustache, past the big black button eyes, and onto the top of the man’s head. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z We walk home under the low thick sky that is gray and bulging with dampness. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Now, when I am no longer young, when my hair is fast growing gray, when strength begins to diminish, now I am beginning again like a child. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z Something very small and gray was bobbing in and out of sight beyond the glass. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The air was not very cold; the mountains were lost in varying shades of gray mist; the sky was overcast, quiet—everything was immersed in lull. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Over the gray marble this new, jagged etching of bodies doing things, growing parts, fitting together, changing shape. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A blinding stream of white light shot from the weapon and into the man’s chest, quickly turning him into a wall of gray, then an explosion of particles that disappeared. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z Jesus and Magdalena race outside, where their mother is already hobbling past the wooden front gate, her long gray braids swinging. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The sky beyond the cut of skyscrapers is gray, turning grayer, and in a few hours this flurry of snow will become a steady fall. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Her swollen feet ache against speckled gray linoleum. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Meggie couldn’t have said if it was gray or very fair. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z When the sun sank and the words faded, he gazed over the landscape, moved by its beauty, watching it slip from gray to purple before darkness blended land and sky. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z Somewhere around there the first gray mule had eaten a poison weed and died; the bones would be scattered in the tall grass around the windmill. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The seat had once been bright red, but what was now left of the paint was dull and chipped, revealing the gray wood beneath. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z One sunny Saturday morning, Callie put on a gray sweatshirt; Mona covered a pink-flowered shirt with a darker shirt of Helen’s. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He took the call out of earshot and came back inside looking very gray. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The lake was gray, darkening to a band of black at the horizon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The skin on his hands looked dry, parchmentlike, and his lips formed a thin line beneath the heavy tangle of gray beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The gray mule was gone, his bones unfolding somewhere on the red dirt, bleaching white and thin in the sun. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Tufts of gray hair escaped from the braids beneath her beaded wrap, and more wrinkles than I thought humanly possible lined her face. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Agent Fiona is about to tell us something when the gray bigfoot steps into the room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I am carried out into the cold gray air; it’s Mr. Banerji who carries me, making sounds of distress. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z After our conversation, though, I looked at him and saw a tall, fine-featured man with deep-set blue eyes, a long gray moustache, and lots of thick, almost white hair. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z The gray mist washed over Mark’s face and disappeared. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He saw only a couple of big gray birds hopping among the branches. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Her salt- and-pepper hair turned completely gray and her robust figure sprang a slow leak, so that she seemed to be deflating day by day. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was a miserable day, gray, damp, and somewhere around the zero mark. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z She watched the Academy diminishing as they sailed away until it was only a small gray speck, indistinguishable from the vast dark sea. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Emilia sat nestled in heaps of bundles on the back of our cart, her pink hat a blink of color among the endless blacks and grays. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z I notice how dingy and graying his smock is, like all the others that hang on hooks around the studio. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z His hair dark and curly, those gray Seam eyes bright and, even then, dangerous. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It was strange to know that the night grew later, that darkness should’ve swallowed the world around them, but to see only the pale gray light outside. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z When he thought of that his mind closed down like a blank gray wall, not letting him see. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The storm left the sky thin and dappled gray, like a molted snakeskin. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Her sticky graying hair is tied in a chignon at her neck. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z His gray tunic’s hem was slightly singed, but overall, he appeared unharmed. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z I could not see a leaf anywhere on the dry gray branches. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z They hovered in a gray tide, watching the children. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z The coffee was a pale gray and sweet with condensed milk. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In comes a heavyset man in a black felt hat and a gray suit. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The inside of the church is painted white, though the paint has faded somewhat, and in the late evening light it looked pale gray. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Night blends into the gray of the stone until I can’t tell where the shadows end and the buildings of Blackcliff begin. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Instead of a jacket, he was wearing a long fur vest sewn with gray rabbit pelts. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He’s wearing gray pants, a crisp white shirt, and a black tie and carrying a slim attache case. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Plates, cups, spoons, pot lids, the heavy aluminum rice pot, the frying pan, all half submerged in gray water with a greasy scum floating on the top. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z She was African American, stood almost six feet tall, and wore a white turban on her head and a gray dress. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Of stones in the creek bed, all of them different shades of gray. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z He didn't notice that the man's gray golf pants were wet from the green bathing suit he'd worn underneath. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z He was thinner, balder, and grayer, and his face had a crumpled look. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z An old man with dark brown skin, piercing eyes, and slick gray hair had been watching them from the back of the room. Forged by Fire 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a drizzly morning, overcast and gray. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Elizabeth asks because Lou Anne’s wearing a gray wool dress in the heat of summer. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “Stock boy, fine,” Killer Man went on, polishing his glasses with the fine silk handkerchief he’d pulled out of the breast pocket of his gray flannel blazer. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Pencil gray chain-link fences closed off the backyards in our neighborhood. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I blinked in the gray morning, sat up, and took my first look at Yazd. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The live oaks got a crusty look and the sage-brush was gray. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z A few yards ahead on the towpath, just visible through the reed stems, a man in a gray raincoat and trilby hat was standing under an oak tree. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z For comfort, I tried to cradle Quixote, our gray and white cat who was missing an ear, but he growled and scratched at my face. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Eleven of these icons were grayed out and had a red “X” over them, and these robots could not be identified or selected. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z So I hiked around the snout to the side where I thought the scar had been and I crouched in the shadow of a large fin, to see the gray side of the shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z In all this, his dreamer’s eyes were incongruous: gray and wide and guileless. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Then, again without thought, he began to row slowly, rowing through the watchful ocean until the blue land changed to gray and then brown and green. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z They landed with a soft flump on Harry’s bed, and the middle owl, which was large and gray, keeled right over and lay motionless. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z When the captain announced that we were nearly there, at first I thought he was kidding; all I could see from the ferry’s rolling deck was an endless curtain of gray. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z In the center of the previously empty arena, a swirling tornado of stone gray and loamy black whipped up gusts of frigid air and threw stinging clouds of arena dirt into Anya’s face. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z Off the trails, we surprise animals—a gray fox, black-tailed deer. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z It’s dead and gray, like the future of the war. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z “I’m thinking...something that’s gray. To accent the dreariness of this place.” Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Two silhouettes are moving through the thick gray fog. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Squinting against the gray glare and against the cold and by now steady wind that made his eyes water, he searched the opposite timberline for the gunman, but could see nothing. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even from a distance, they could see her long gray braid and bright smile. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Trapped behind the speckles of gray and green. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z Victor asked, picking a gray feather from his jacket. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Only when the sky lightened to gray and the sun began to peek over the horizon did Minli sit down and rest against a tall tree. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z He was an old man with a long, gray beard who wore a black coat and was constantly smoking cigarettes. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z But I wasn’t going to make it to nightfall, not even with the gray clouds overhead. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z He tapped his head with its short, curly gray hair. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z After a while they came to a roadside garage and they stood within the open door and looked out at the gray sleet gusting down out of the high country. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z These were growing flesh as I watched, turning into men, but men with dull gray skin, yellow eyes, and modern clothes—gray muscle shirts, camo pants, and combat boots. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And don’t let her see some gray hairs. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z It’s a man with silver hair and a gray suit. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z We all follow Boggs down an alley that runs between two dull gray warehouses. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z The gray robe falls from his arm as he clutches a pole for balance. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Just a long, gray rain that fell straight and soft on a flat sea. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Where he should have had a face there was nothing but dark gray. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Two huge gray fish with fins of silver surfaced for just a moment, their backs gleaming in the sunlight. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The men took chemical showers under the gray- area tarp, to decon their space suits after a visit to the cave. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Before the offer was finalized, Haupt was ushered into another office down the hall, where a thin man with a streak of gray hair introduced himself. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z And there, floating in the center of the pond, was an old gray goose. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z The mountain was crisp with evergreens, which were luminous set against the browns and grays of shale and limestone. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z ‘Fine lady,’ she sniffled, and went on dreamily, ‘and I’ll have a gray pony and a pony cart. I’ve got the gold locket already.’ Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They were made of dark green metal and had gray metal handles on top and a kind of latch on the side. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z As far as my eyes can see, white and gray grave markers line the earth, each with a tiny bit of information. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z As he drew close, Pax saw that even his eyes were clouded gray with age. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He sees a stone bridge, scattered islands the size of rooms, gracious gray and white homes with pleasant views. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I have found a gray hair behind my left ear. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z No one refused the water or gray slop in the buckets. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He looked alert, dark gray in color, and extraordinarily handsome, though not so huge as Brutus. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z It’s ugly, all right, a big rodent with a fuzz of mottled gray fur and two wicked-looking gnawing teeth protruding over its lower lip. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z The glass panes in the windows are stained gray as trapped smoke, making the light strange. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z A tall gray suit, walking with pride and confidence all around El Barrio. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Little Hamlet is a sprightly child with his father’s dark hair and Gertrude’s gray eyes. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “A nightmare? You were screaming,” my mother says, her face as gray and voice as unnerved as it was last night. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z His pale skin had turned gray and smooth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z I studied my father, sitting on the pale gray living room sofa in his blue striped pajamas. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “Nonsense,” says the gray bigfoot with a wave of his hand. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He had trimmed his beautiful beard and was dressed in a bureaucrat’s gray suit and a faded tie of the same color. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a gray coat with a fur collar that had literally been chewed up by somebody. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z As a result, the view, no matter how bright the day, is gloomy and gray. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The late afternoon sun, trapped beneath a wall of pewter, stained the clouds a yellowish gray, making the sky unusually bright. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The app has a blue interface with an animation of a gray clock as two silhouettes approach each other and high five. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Dusk had come to Cannery Row, the gray time between daylight and street light. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, in one stride, she crossed the room, seized a great handful of Uncle Andrew’s gray hair and pulled his head back so that his face looked up into hers. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z From the high gray dome of the sky, a hawk dove toward the field not far from the drive. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z The junior wife came in with a bowl of boiled potatoes covered with a gray sauce. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z In the gloaming to the east, he can make out a gray line of traffic herded between the edges of the road. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z It didn’t matter that I was wearing a gray T-shirt—a goose among swans. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He takes a dark gray peacoat off the back of a chair and pulls it on. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A tall monk passed, his face buried entirely inside a coarse gray cowl, even the eyes hidden. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z As we approach the usual gray leather exchange couch, I notice two other people standing beside my dad. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z And perhaps beyond those shrouded swells another man did walk with another child on the dead gray sands. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The November weather turns colder, the sky always dark and gray. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The sun peeks across the horizon, shading the world gray as dawn approaches. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The sky was gray and I could tell the wind had picked up by the way the branches of the oak tree next door were jumping. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z The slate gray sea roiled, scraping the narrow strip of sand rhythmically, tugging at beach grass, digging and sucking loose the rocks at the shore's edge. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Then a woman with nice gray eyes and a heart-shaped face and a baby on her hip came and rescued them from the other ladies. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The gray seal population off Cape Cod had shrunk because they had been hunted for their meat, oil, and skins. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z The sky turned gray with streaks of silver. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Her gray eyes were as steely as ball bearings. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Printed on it are processed meats, cold cuts as tall as he is, reds and pinks, gray at the edges, garnished with parsley sprigs the size of shrubs. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Then she lay awake for a while longer, thinking of a gray bird dancing in its blood. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I listened to the water murmur and watched the little gray fish play with each other. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally, a mouse climbs up the gray walls. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Beneath one of these makeshift tents, she saw her baby, Tariq’s baby, its temples wasted, its jaws slack, its skin mot- ded, bluish gray. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He has sparkling blue-green eyes, thinning silver hair that spills onto his forehead, big ears, a triangular nose, and tufts of graying eyebrows. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t worry that Courtney still hasn’t given Brian his hat back or that Heather doesn’t take her ancient gray eyes off me. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z For he was the father, and could do whatever he liked — to remind himself of which, he ripped his soft, gray desk blotter in half and wrote, in large red letters, ACTUALIZE. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z But the back was gray cement and three floors high, with iron bars over all the windows. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “They weren’t worthless. The gray rug cost four hundred. The blue-and-white rug, four hundred. Her necklace was seventy-five. Her bracelet was two hundred. My cell phone was three hundred fifty.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z He’d gained weight since I’d seen him last, and his heavy gray wool pants and thick blue down coat made him look even bigger. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Suddenly there’s a gray streak of coyote, a jaw snap, and the crow is dead. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z We wore the same maroon blazers, the same gray slacks and skirts. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Next to it, I discerned the air-lock corridor, the gray zone through which the soldiers had passed into the hot zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The one that looks like Hogwarts, with the gray stone walls and tall turrets. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At that moment a new wave of firing broke out on the other side of the gray mass. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The new floodlights poured light as bright as day over the gray houses. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z He could just make out her small red figure against the backdrop of gray sky. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z Crease by crease he unfolded it, until at last there came to view eight small misshapen seed pearls, as ugly and gray as little ulcers, flattened and almost valueless. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I had let myself sit like a coward in the dull, endless stream of gray and green, never drawing attention, never once letting myself believe that I could or should escape. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The soft gray color made my eyes stand out. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z “You are beautiful, too, Frightful,” I said, and I touched the slate gray feathers of her back. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He spent a restless night tossing in his hammock and woke to a muggy gray dawn. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Its hairless gray skin was stretched tightly across its misshapen head, displaying a gaping mouth filled with black fangs. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Her chilly gray eyes narrowed and her waxy lips pursed in consternation. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He and his sister were all long gray string now. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The air had a gray tint to it, and a damp, foul smell like an ashtray. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The fever I thought I had kicked suddenly painted the world a fuzzy shade of gray. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She finds what she is looking for—iridescent gray labradorite drops given to me by Taryn for my sixteenth birthday, forged by a goblin tinker with whom she traded three kisses. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Ten feet long and painted dark gray, it looked like a small submarine. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The little woman’s gray eyes fastened shrewdly on Byerley, “Barbarians—the fall of civilization—possible failure of the Machine. Your thought processes are very transparent, monsieur.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Watching the bread, the neat gray hands, a broad gold band on the left forefinger, knuckled there by a blue knuckle. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z If only this fancy gray dress had a nice loose pocket in front for her poetry book! The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The leaves rustled as it slithered toward them, closing the distance as its massive gray ears flapped eerily in the wind. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He hoped Emma would ignore the ugliness of the house, the gray day, and her headache, and give it some more thought. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A string of gray yarn stretched across them, and the last woman was working on a large wooden spinning wheel. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The woman was older, with gray hair; my mother’s generation. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The ground does have a sandy color to it, or gray, but your feet won’t sink in. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Raspberry mocha, thin mint, stone gray...I’m so good at painting nails, I could open up my own shop. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Mark heard the distinct power surge and zing of Alec’s Transvice going off, heard the shocked gasps coming from above as people saw one of their comrades disappear in a flash of gray mist. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z He began to change, his nose elongating into a snout, his skin becoming sleek and gray. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Doctor Copeland rocked stubbornly, his gray shawl drawn close around his shoulders. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The sky was beginning to turn into a mix of orange, pink, and gray, with clouds interrupting in patches all over the horizon. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She ran to the window and nearly ripped the curtains from their hangings as she opened them to the gray mountains and bleakness of Endovier. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A man may have lived all of his life in the gray, and the land and trees of him dark and somber. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The livers of these animals were gray, eroded, nasty looking. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z As the gray uniforms begin to converge on me, I think of what my brief future as the assassin of Panem’s new president holds. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Richard’s head is buried in Lil’s neck, and Em is practically sitting in the lap of a gray hair who wandered over from the bar. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Girl with a cane, girl in a gray dress, girl made of mist. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Gino and some other eighth graders were back at the goal kicking shots at the kid in the gray sweatshirt. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was early morning and the rabbits were beginning to silflay, coming up into clear gray silence. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The water was dark gray, even in the sunlight, white-capped and heaving to the gray, rocky shore. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z There was the gray cat sunning himself outside the tailor’s shop, and the hams and sausages hanging in the butcher’s window. I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919 2019-09-03T00:00:00Z But he was handsome in his own way, decided Francie, even though his hair was gray. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z That was what the creeping gray nothing protected her from—or was supposed to. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The buildings had always seemed more impressive because they were the only buildings to receive regular paintings; usually, the nearby houses and cabins were left untouched to become the dull grained gray of weathered wood. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z She touched the new streak of gray in my hair that matched hers exactly— our painful souvenir from holding Adas’s burden. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It's a woman with graying hair and a hoarse, authoritative voice. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z “That’s true! He wore a gray suit to work! Did he have a gap between his teeth?” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Her body is thin beneath the gray robe. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The paint is peeling off their gray concrete walls. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were varied in color, flecked with amber, gray, and a soft brown. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She was a tiny, tiny lady, very thin, with little fluttering hands, and her hair was in a gray knot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing gray, he thought, and remembered the sense of finality he’d felt throwing away his librarian’s robes after joining Eril-Fane—and the regret, too. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her wrinkly, pale skin blended with her short gray hair, and her dark blue eyes sparkled when she talked. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z He scowled beneath a thick gray mustache, pulled a dagger from his belt, and shoved it into the brachy. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The speaker was a woman with tightly rolled gray hair and a hard face. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z All I do know is that it was a hopeless thing, gray and terrible. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z As she stepped back she noticed he was in ironed gray shorts and white shirt, but was otherwise barefoot. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The kid in the gray sweatshirt played goal for the eighth graders. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Back at our space, I open one of the packs to find a thin mattress, bedding, two sets of gray clothing, a toothbrush, a comb, and a flashlight. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z John’s face looked gray in the fading light. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z On the podium, a plume of gray smoke rose out of the side of the broken, useless Stormbreaker. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Santo and Johnny’s “Sleepwalk” was playing when I next came up for air, the windows of the Dodge steamy and gray, the heavier droplets making curving little translucent streaks down them. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z She found room for the last little goat’s cheese wrapped in its vine leaf, smiled and bowed again, and took a last drink from the spring that bubbled up among the gray rocks. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s just because winter is over and gray March has marched on, but things feel a little lighter. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z There were also some gray areas, spaces where the rules were not so clear. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z They’ve all picked up on what the kid in the gray sweatshirt said about my goggles. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z She stared longingly into the boundless gray distance as if far, far on the other side of Lake Michigan lay China. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z A gray day in a foreign city where he stood in a window and watched the street below. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Her blond hair was tucked into a ski cap and her gray eyes were the same color as the ocean. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The Institute’s gray stone buildings were so similar to one another and so closely packed it was difficult to judge precisely where one ended and another began. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z A gray salt spittle lagging and curling in the rock pool. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z I was looking at a cot and a strange, halo-shaped gray machine hanging over it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat in a stall near the legs of a sad-faced gray. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The motel is painted a deep shade of gray. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “I know the sky’s gray, but it doesn’t look cloudy. It just looks ...” She searched for the right word. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Following the trail I found first the red and then the gray: clusters of long wing feathers still attached to gristle and skin, splayed like fingers. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Tiny gray balls float in front of my eyes. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z She had dyed bright-red hair, large gray eyes with dramatic eye makeup, and a soulful pout on her round face. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Framed there in the gray, early morning light of the door, my grandfather seemed to look from his eyes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The mahogany coffin was trailed by Hamilton’s gray horse, with his boots and spurs reversed astride the empty saddle. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He came out of Liverpool Street tube station just after four-fifteen that afternoon, still wearing his school clothes: dark blue jacket, gray trousers, striped tie. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z A mixture of sand and fine brown adobe clays and gray caliche, it had the texture, viscosity, and crippling powers of a tar pit. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I tell David about the fox I saw with a gray body and a red head, and he tells me about his aunt’s Siamese cat that yowls just for the pure joy of making noise. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “No. Just cold. And gray. I mean really cold.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z It was a misty, gray lake, wide and ringed with firs, its calm surface smooth as slate. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “The metal is nearly black and in the sketch it’s light gray.” Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Knowing that they'll grow older as time passes, they'll become old the way Gramps was, with gray hair and a tremble in his step, so much love still in their hearts—this astonishes me. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I always loved the beginning, where Dorothy’s in Kansas and everything is a brownish gray. The First Rule of Punk 2017-08-22T00:00:00Z It entered a cluster of gray sage that must have seemed like a tall forest to the stumpy little thing. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The gray of the sky cast a dull reflection on the blue waves, and the sea spray foamed like dirty dishwater. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z There’d been no breeze off the harbor that day, and a gray milk fog had wreathed the city’s canals and crooked alleys in damp. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z He was wearing his dark gray, double-breasted suit and his gray hat. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z A strange gray dust was trapped in his salt-and-pepper beard, and a thin white film had crawled over his open brown eyes. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The green or gray of Hugo's eyes depends on the weather. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z The pain in me swells, and when I blink, I’m sinking in water, blue and clear, turning gray and brown the deeper I go, bubbles rising and tickling my skin like the fluttering of wings. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z I get dressed in my new custom-tailored gray suit and red tie. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z His face and his gray gabardine suit both seemed to be neat and freshly pressed. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus one of the greatest jokes in the world is the spectacle of the whites busy escaping blackness and becoming blacker every day, and the blacks striving toward whiteness, becoming quite dull and gray. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z They found the Gray Women at last, looking in the wavering light like gray birds, for they had the shape of swans. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, no Missile interrupted the Scene, which was only the Grasses & the Cattle & Swallow's above a few gray Trees. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She runs her hands through her short gray hair and smiles. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A gray wool skirt and a thin blue sweater cling suggestively to her sides. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A somber mood rested over the Glade, an easy thing to happen when all is gray. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Hubert’s gray eyes flicked to the thick wooden door and back to the children. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She was as pointless and gray as the world. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z A gray, older man, a medical officer, approached, called for water, sponged Rab’s face for him, and said he was coming to. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The paint, once sparkling white, had faded to ghostly gray and eroded in parts, revealing the layered bricks beneath. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Yes and no. And no and yes,” I say as I kneel behind her on the bed, parting the thin, graying strands of her hair. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I set up a goal in front of the gray wall and they took turns shooting at me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the clothes in my closet are black, gray, or red. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He untied one of the chains, pulled the gray hippogriff away from its fellows, and slipped off its leather collar. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Miss Riley sprinkled a little hill of gray powder in the grass. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Stuart threw his skates away and watched them fall down, down, till they disappeared in the gray waves below. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z His eyebrows were gray, and he was starting to giggle. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z I sat on the bed and stared into gray dreariness. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z It was dark except for a fast-moving band of light gray that would be overhead in a few minutes. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z And the sun coming in the little stained-glass section of the breakfast room window made her smooth gray hair look just like a pigeon’s wing. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Queen Mary glides in wearing slate-gray separates and a stony expression, her gray bob arranged with razor precision around the edges of her face. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z As the gray and silent army marched past, led by Jody, the animals stopped their feeding and their play and watched it go by. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He woke before dawn and watched the gray day break. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z You see it in the slate gray of a pristine Mercedes-Benz, the gray-white fumes funneling out the back, the gray mop of hair of the unsmiling woman at the wheel. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a big black and gray German shepherd, and he loved to play with the garden hose. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Not a single one of his gray dreadlocks is out of place, and his mouth is pulled into a stern wrinkly frown. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He nodded his head, and his right hand went up and stroked his gray beard. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Attempts to quarantine Georgia are unsuccessful, and the new Fixers, whose sole function is to replicate, consume the entire planet in three days, leaving behind nothing but an ocean of gray goo. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z As if she’d conjured it from her thoughts, another slender gray creature, slimy and covered in what looked like sticky, prickly fur, blocked their path forward. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z White smoke billowed up, hazing her face to gray. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the gray wall opposite there was a nail hole. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z For Lee Chong dug into the grave on China Point and found the yellow bones, the skull with gray ropy hair still sticking to it. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the sedge—we’ve dyed it, you know—is it the proper gray and ebon?” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Alys was in the rocker, knitting with gray wool in the dim, flickering light. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z As we crossed the bridge, the water of Lake Pontchar-train reflected the sky’s gray tone, with whitecaps on its disturbed surface. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man was handsome in an odd kind of way, with a gray streak running through the middle of his hair. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z That ole lady turn almost gray in the face, but she kept her shoulders straight and her eyes locked onto mine. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z One day, on my way home from school, I discovered little gray fish in the puddles. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Brer Fox licked his graying muzzle, and his left ear twitched forward. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The boy moved quickly around the corner and out of sight of the iron door and the gray cement walls of the jail. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a kind of gray sickness; it weakened the hands. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Kreacher saw him!” gasped the elf as tears poured over his snout and into his mouth full of graying teeth. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Her soft gray eyes wore an expression so sad, it cut me. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She went into the lean-to, the gray room, and closed the door and sat in the darkness, listening to the pain creep back into her fingers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The sun was pushing against the gray horizon hills, sending yellow light across the clouds, and the yellow river sand was speckled with the broken shadows of tamaric and river willow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z A faint, gray light seeped into the room, as if the moon was escaping from the clouds. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z She tells the woman about that day in New York—the gray bin, the Nirvana phone case, how she’d seen her every day. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He was a devout and principled man, with a long, somber face and a full gray beard. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z I can see my reflection from all angles: the gray fabric obscuring the shape of my back, my long neck, my knobby-knuckled hands, red with a blood blush. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The gray bigfoot sweeps into an elaborate bow. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z A small gray bird swooped down from the sky and landed on the porch railing. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z She picked a long gray string out of the box. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The sky was turning from black to gray when I made my way back to the two-brick hole. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Ralph had aged visibly since the last time many of the people in the courtroom had seen him; I could hear murmurs about how his hair had grayed. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Their masks were already gray at the mouth and their eyes darkly cupped. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z The front door of the Emporium slammed shut with a wha- pop! and out came an enormous man in a gray suit. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Through the windows she saw a gray swirl of fog on each side, with occasional dark shapes that might have been buildings or trees. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Layla’s old bike was in the grass near their gray minivan, the handlebars twisted the wrong way. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z It was made of old gray stone and had twin spires that rose cleanly into the sky, high above the tallest tenements. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A sweater woven from green and blue and gray strands of kitten-soft wool. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z It’s far enough that I take a mount, a pale gray horse stabled beside a toad. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Oh, that would be far worse than the gray, silent world they were leaving, wouldn’t it? The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z When all was done, they were disappointed; all of it looked dismally gray. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z But I was afraid of his dog, who had a gray muzzle and whose eyes were kind of gloopy, too. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Men stand on comers, outside general stores, outside small banks, outside beer parlors with gray asphalt shingles on the walls. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She is carrying two towels: one white, one gray, both frayed at the edges. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z He lifted his cap and scratched into the gray hairs of his head, his eyes wise and wide with amusement. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he wagged his tail at a gray pellet on the ground. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The ashes were a gray, rubbled mass that didn’t even fill the box. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the east the sky was smoky gray, and I was glad for the approaching dawn. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z There were three things she longed for—a gold necklace; a gray pony with a basket cart; a little sailboat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z One of them was a darker gray than the other. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z After a few seconds everything blurred into hills of gray. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z The gray paint peels off the wall in odd and beautiful patterns, each cracked polygon of paint a snowflake of decay. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z The tall man’s face was raised toward the stars and his gray eyes seemed to see far beyond them. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Shortly after dawn, when the sky turned not rosy and welcoming as it does in summer but merely a lighter shade of gray, the midwife kicked her awake. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He waved his hands at the weathered gray wooden houses, set close together, that lined the street. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Once I’m squared away, I clutch the gray rubber pads on the arms and shove it forward until my elbows are extended, which turns out to be exactly one floor tile. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z A box of new paints, a butter-yellow silk saree, a gray woolen shawl, and a pot of juicy roshogollah paraded before her eyes. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z We flew over gray piles and gray piles and gray piles toward home. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z They weren’t solid gray, but filaments of a hundred different grays and blues and pearls, and they looked like reflections of light wavering on water, with the softest sunburst of amber haloing his pupils. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Night after night, she pulled her gray-streaked hair back into a tight bun at her neck and dressed in her gray silk dress with a white lace color. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In a sudden flash she knew he was never going to see her again, and the days rolled out before her like a dingy gray carpet in an unfurnished, unpeopled hall-for-rent. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother pressed a clump of money into the palm of my hand, along with a gray phone. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z It was a cool, gray morning, and Baba was squatting next to me, digging the soil and planting the bulbs I handed to him. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Cars go by, black most of them, some gray and brown. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I also grabbed a gray T-shirt with a pocket. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z His hair is dark brown, on the shaggy side, and the ends are dyed gray. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Finally Rachel wiped the damp gray strands back from her forehead and surveyed the rows of sleek green candles. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z She presses her hands against her gray pin-striped pants suit, then pulls the jacket sleeves down. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The blurry gray lines sharpened, revealing a shot of Fillmore Street. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Everything seemed gray today, even the houses with their bright color-washed walls and the flowering shrubs in the streets. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Cady hadn’t so much as finished the thought, however, when the words of the man in the gray suit scampered into her head. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The tree shakes; leaves and twigs and caterpillars patter down, bouncing off his gray felt hat, hitting the tarpaulin. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She stood in her gray garden and watched a sheet of ice slowly form on the pond. The Wild Robot 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z He looked exactly like his photo in the newspaper clipping, but less gray. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Bobcats, bears, red and gray foxes, beaver, skunks, raccoons, flying squirrels, and our friends the salamanders exist in admirable numbers, though you don’t often see them, as most are nocturnal or wary of people. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z From above the larches Kehaar sailed down among them, alighted and folded his long, pale gray wings. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a small face, an even smaller nose, and short dark hair that grayed at the temples. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z A car drew up, and a man got out holding a small gray sack and a key. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Dorian glanced at the gray sky and rode on through the silent game park. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Because I can already see the wrinkles and gray hairs begin to fade away. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The cab sped around the comer of West Broadway, and the gray lady sitting in the middle screeched, “Look out! Go left!” The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Then closest to the ground was a huge cloud which was colored gray because it was a rain cloud. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z It was a low gray building hewn from sea stone, with shells and coral fossils imprinted in the rock. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z And if you can’t have sun or blue sky, then you wish it would snow and cover all the gray world with a sparkling white so bright that your eye can’t take it in. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Tho, fifty-nine, had gray hair and manners Kissinger later described as “impeccable.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The moment Clarisse draped the Golden Fleece over the lowest bough, the moonlight seemed to brighten, turning from gray to liquid silver. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z Now he saw that much of his hair was gray, and the day-old stubble of whitish beard on his face made him seem older yet. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z One whirligig was meant to be a thunderstorm and it was so like one, black and gray, beautiful and frightening. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z The setting sun had turned the river a muddy gray. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Only little bits of green here and there, and lots of gray moss dangling to the ground. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z It wasn’t quite pitch-dark, and in the ghostly gray predawn light he could see the old treadle sewing machine. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I painted it gray, with the sheen from the window reflected on its screen. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Except for a few gray strands of hair, she was as bald as a baby pigeon, which gave her the appearance of being a very old man with enormous, wide eyes. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The moon is out, shining through the window at one end, silvering the laundry ropes, making ghost gray shapes on the dusty floor. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z She took in the heavy, green drapes, the pairs of polished shoes lined up neatly along the wall, the closet door, where the gray paint had chipped and showed the wood beneath. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z She could see the thin, restless form rocking back and forth before the fire, the hair already streaked with gray. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z My mother’s face has not aged as quickly as the rest of her body; it remains smooth and glowing—a cool tan— which her gray hair cleanly accentuates. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The clay dried and cracked; it’s a crumbling gray square. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z The rest was gray scrub and tumbleweed and a few prickly pears. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Like gray boulders the bulls sat on the pebbly slope. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Mother’s face sagged as she took in Pernilla’s gown of gunpowder gray silk, striped with white and blue. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Some guy in one of those very dark gray flannel suits and one of those checkered vests. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z One of them was a teacher at our school who always dyes his gray hair red. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Comrade Pillai himself came out in the mornings in a graying Aertex vest, his balls silhouetted against his soft white mundu. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He was sixty-four, but aside from his gray curls, he seemed decades younger, with smooth hazelnut-brown skin and youthful green eyes. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z We threw on our dress gray uniforms, including the gray wool pants that scraped every blade of hair off our legs and dark blue cotton shirts. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z She was pointing at an enormous, gray spiral horn, not unlike that of a unicorn, which had been mounted on the wall, protruding several feet into the room. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z He was large and relaxed, about forty, with gray hair and a froglike mouth. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I didn’t want to step out under the gray overcast sky alone and feel its chill work its way under my skin. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I settle on a pair of gray sweatpants because it will be a cozy TV night on the couch. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The stones are square and arched, black and gray, more often plain than shiny, caked with lichen and moss. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Bubble, bubble, boils and stubble, wrinkles triple, gray hairs double,” Seven said and Valley repeated perfectly as Seven handed the mirror over to her. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z After a while the meadowlarks began to sing again, but their melodious calls were out of place, foreign in this gray, snowy landscape. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A low, gray mist hovered over the land. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was broad and red, his hair curly and gray about his ears. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z A gray tinge lingers beneath her pink-white skin and more stubble dots along her chin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The tall gray motor-buses were the only life of the square except for the pigeons and the man with a hose who sprinkled the gravelled square and watered the streets. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “His face seemed to be grayer and his patent leather hair thinner,” one of the journalists, Stanley Karnow, later wrote. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Through the illuminated doorway, a new shadow creeps out onto the screen—a slate gray silhouette of a boy who walks across the stage of the window frame beneath the hovering moon. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z With the tip of her finger, she moves a strand of gray hair back into place, and adjusts her glasses. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z At first he thought her hair was gray like his grandma’s, but that wasn’t right. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A woman in her seventies, with a broad face and short graying hair, she had a gentle, scholarly manner that masked an inner intensity. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Ai’s face was badly frostbitten this morning, nose, ears, chin all dead gray when I chanced to look at him. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z She combs her hair, spots a lone gray strand and plucks it with a flourish. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He hardly had any hair on the top of his white head but had very bushy eyebrows and a mustache—like three fat gray caterpillars. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The way was a gray, timeless, eventless tunnel, but at the end of it was the one shining reality—my own wife, my own house in my own street, my own bed. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment a slender man with heavy gray eyebrows came out of Sillington House, holding his knuckles to his hips as he looked over the scene. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Her face was gray and her eyes were squeezed shut. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The old man was riding the gray horse across the open ground in front of the trees. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "My hair hasn't been this color since your grandfather died. It quickly turned gray after that terrible day. He always used to like my hair. And what do you think of the makeup?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Sweat rolled down the back of Sierra’s neck and stained the armpits of her gray T-shirt. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Its gray leaves brightened the hillsides and meadows along the river. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z She wore a shiny gray wig, wire-rimmed glasses, and a calico apron. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Four stories high, shaped from cold gray stone. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z And there was also the reservoir of dark water, all covered by snow and by night, by snow-fall and by night-fall, buried beneath black and white, gray mist and gray silence. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hadn’t you heard?” the man in the gray suit replied. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The bird is gray and black and white and has a long tail. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a big one-eared tom with gray stripes who had learned to jump on the outside sill of my mother’s kitchen window. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The fish in the Jade River were brown and gray, like the village. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z In the Aurora’s light she saw a great bird, a beautiful gray goose whose head was crowned with a flash of pure white. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z I remember those ruins: they seemed scary, all gray, crumbling stone and spider webs. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z When I headed back to my room, my dad was still on the couch, staring at the gray ghosts moving across the screen. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He looked a little like my grandfather, not as heavy, but his face, the way his hair was graying, even the way he moved. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z Her face looked bloodless, as gray as fireplace ash. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Faster and faster, until even the knight in his armor is gone beneath the gray and glimmering waves. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z I led him back to the gray lump—still face up—that was Rufus. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z At least I'll get to see something other than gray cell walls, if only for a little while. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z He is an average-looking man sitting behind a wide gray desk. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky over Manhattan was gray with soot in a halo of blue and a shroud of black. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z You’ll all be after the glory and excitement that comes with wearing this gray suit. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z He glanced at the House, and his gray eyes were displeased and vexed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, once as dawn approaches and the sun begins to turn the gray sky gold, I realize something. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z Citra chilled when her piercing gray eyes zeroed in on her. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “At night, all cats are gray,” said Sissy wickedly. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma answered the door—an old-fashioned, wrinkled black woman, with fuzzy gray hair. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We pick out two fly pairs of Guess jeans—one blue stonewash and one gray acid wash. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The graying middle-aged nurse who doesn’t attend to the patients but sits by and monitors the computers and phones, gives a little nod and stands up as if accepting a nomination. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He wiped the screen of his laptop with his shirtsleeve, then had to change his shirt because the sleeve turned gray from the dust. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The raw rims of the wheels sitting in a stiff gray sludge of melted rubber, in blackened rings of wire. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z We drifted by gray barns, cornfields in need of irrigation, and clumps of Hereford cows, chewing in slow motion, looking very content with their lives. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes, she even went to the farmers market so that there would be bright apples on the table instead of thick gray books like Representations of the Feminine in Ancient Hindu Sculpture. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z She seems grayer, her movements older and labored. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z He stooped down and brought up a handful of gray sand. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Once a great river had flowed through the city, but the water had long since vanished, and it was now only a wide ditch of gray dust. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The gray stallion pulled his sled, piled high with rocks, through snowdrifts and through blizzards, up steep hills and down again, through icy gorges. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Suddenly I remember him clutching the curtains in his living room, about nine years old, wearing gray, his dark eyes shut. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z The man in the gray suit kept the sideways grin on his face as he handed over the suitcase. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They ran across the meadow together in the creamy golden light of the end of the day, the gray horse and the brown, sweat glistening on their flanks. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He wore gray pinstripe pants, shiny from age, and slippers. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z I had on my gray sweatpants, Nicole had on some cute purple Nike shorts, and Ana wore capris. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “You’re not alone,” I say, and I turn my gaze back to the racing gray clouds. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z He saw large brown eyes, leathery gray ears that looked familiar but wrong, a trunk, and sharp ivory tusks longer than his arms. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The sun was feeble, wrapped in ragged gray clouds. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z July 14—It was a bad day to go out to Warren—gray and drizzly—and that may account for the depression that grips me when I think about it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z She was met by a white-aproned technician, who led her down the long corridors of the ancient building to a large, cold room whose walls were painted gray. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And her gray hair is almost always tied back in a ponytail, but for some reason tonight she had it just regular. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z “Ethics, rubbish!” said Mrs. Horsepool-Worthingham, glaring back with her steel gray ones. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Adam saw a big man, bearded like a patriarch, his graying hair stirring in the air like thistledown. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her mom seemed to favor blacks and grays, sometimes browns or olives. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z She is dressed in the same clothes she wore the last time I saw her, Abnegation gray, stained with her blood, with bare arms to show her tattoo. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The gray cloud of it disintegrated and drifted away in small streams, leaving Pet’s body full and solid in the studio, all gold and red-streaked white. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z She had white hair and a sharp nose and piercing gray eyes. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Hazel laid a hand on the gray dashboard as if to comfort it. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The birds sang only gray songs and the road wound back and forth in an endless series of climbing curves. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Her long hair was mostly gray, but her cheeks were rosy and her eyes as bright as ever. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It had grown quite light by now, but the sky was gray and cloudy. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Up close, his eyes looked watery and gray like Ludo’s. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z His eyes were gray now, a distant wintry gray. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z At the start of the performance Cody entered the ring on horseback, his long gray hair streaming from under his white hat, the silver trim of his white jacket glinting in the sun. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She was wearing a dress of gray wool. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He began looking through the sweatshirts, trying to find one that wasn’t too cutesy, but Kaira went straight to a charcoal gray wool jacket hanging on display. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I couldn’t see the details of her long tunic dress from this distance, but I could tell it was old and graying. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z The Colonel did not own a suit, and by virtue of his stature could not borrow one from anyone at the Creek, so he wore black slacks and a gray button-down. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z She decided that he looked very impressive in his expensively tailored double-breasted gray suit. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Summer nights we used to ride double on Nancy’s horse, Babe—that old fat gray? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “We need to know,” said the gray man. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z That night, beneath my cheek, the gray sheepskin rug turns into Cheetah’s fur. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z For a moment Carlyle ponders the gray suds in his bucket, then finally says, “It’s behind the peach pit, in the socket of his dead eye.” Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z He showed up punctually at the appointed spot and did not once look up at the sky, which was growing darker and darker with thick gray clouds. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Lampposts shed uneven silver circles of light whose edges faded to gray. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Finally the light was gray enough that I could see shapes. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He took the paper from her, and she opened a small gray box. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z He was standing there in the half light, wearing a gray trench coat and black high-tops, and watching for her. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Stuart peered ahead into the gathering storm, but saw nothing except gray waves with white crests. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z Then they all turned gray and crumbled to dust. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z I nod silently and drop the small gray plastic pieces back into the box. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “I have A’s in school Puerto Rico. I lern good. I no seven gray girl.” When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z With a song, I told the sycamore trees and the popeyed gray squirrels how happy I was. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He stared down with his gray eyes, and she felt like he was peering inside her. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He is surprised to see his father, standing in stocking feet, a small potbelly visible beneath his oat-colored sweater vest, his mustache turning gray. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The campus is really nice, kind of medieval-looking with a lot of gray stone buildings and trees everywhere. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The landscape has become gray, filled with low flat cement buildings, old factories, and then tracks and more tracks filled with trains like ours passing by in the opposite direction. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The first Rebel infantry came in that way, down the narrow gray road from the mountain gap. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The mule was getting bony; its hip bones looked sharp enough to push through the gray hide, the way bones tear through a carcass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Anyway”—he crumpled the paper with the hole from the groom and the image of the bride and tossed it, basketball-style, into the dull gray wastebasket ten feet away—“the Great Hunter rides solo.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z It does not recede into its background of leaden sky, nor harmonize with the gray frame houses and black telephone poles around it. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They went into the woods and the man squatted and looked at the gray and wasted figure under the tilted sheet of plywood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z After I was rushed offstage by Chief Crowe, she instructed two ladies in gray suits to bring me to a door marked Conference Room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The other was short and actually had gray hair already conquering the black on the sides of his head. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Then he stared at them more closely and saw that the haze was only the moisture that formed a gray film over almost every surface in the rest room. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Fumbling with the bag, he pulled out three flat jewelry cards—each gray plastic, covered in gray fuzz on one side, with a small charm wired in place. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z As my vision cleared, I recognized Gavril’s gray eyes and squarish features. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z With his wide face, gray goatee, and merry smile, he resembled, for the moment, an aging folk singer. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z I have a charcoal-gray pencil skirt that’s hard to walk in despite the kick pleat, and a bat wing sweater, a red one with modulated gray horizontal stripes across it. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z There were carrion crows wheeling in the air above the gray battlements, and Will felt a jolt of sickness as he realized what had drawn them there. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z He warned her about the steps, which were slick with a gray slime. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Behind the light pink cloth, her face was rigid and gray. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z One has gray feathers with two black stripes running across his back. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z A groom pointed to a gray man sitting in front of the barn where the Howard horses were kept. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The cricket chirped And jumped into The gray ambush of grass. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I ran my finger along the top of her microwave, and it turned gray. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The landscape sweeps past as a gray blur because I am focused on a distance somewhere between the window and the world around me. The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z It’s gray with a single black spot right in the middle of its back. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z He kept the isinglass curtains snapped to the windows to cut off the draughts, and tight around his neck he wore his gray wool shawl. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z They say she weeps Knee-deep in the river, The gray of dusk A shawl over her head. Neighborhood Odes 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z It lay curled into a ball of white and tan and gray in his lap. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Empty buses glowed from within with eerie gray light, chugging slowly from one stop to the next, their drivers sleepy and bored. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The sacks, as they pass, seem strange: they look as though they have been sculpted out of gray clay Neumann Two raises his chin. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I watched Joe, who laughed like a little boy, but I saw the lines in his face and even the emergence of a few prematurely gray hairs on his head. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Frightful, who was sitting on the foot post of the bed, yawned, fluffed, and thrust her head into the slate gray feathers of her back. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray sky curdled and the clouds resolved themselves into little lumps, like substandard mattress stuffing. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “I kind of like it. But I’m tired of the gray days. They say it will be worse in January. February too, probably.” Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe 2012-02-21T00:00:00Z And down below, on the planet’s bleak gray surface, there were exactly 1,024 copies of Megadon, the domed city described in the liner notes. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z A small gray cat sat on the kitchen counter grooming himself. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z There was no ghostly regiment, responded to those orders; just the gray stone, the blue mist, and an officer alone, hanger raised, bawling formations. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Liyana and Poppy sat silently in the backyard while their gray cat, Sami, leaped down from the top of the wooden fence to bury his nose in the grass. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z It was as big as a soccer field, carried by a thirty-foot-tall giant with bright blue skin and icy gray hair. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z I worked and hummed, and did not notice the gray sheet of cloud that was sneaking up the mountain from the northwest. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Clearly, someone has radioed for Shaan, because he’s standing there at the door to Henry’s apartments in an impeccable gray peacoat, dry and unmoved under a black umbrella. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I’m wearing a gray T-shirt with the logo I designed hand-drawn in fabric marker. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Lyra was awake before dawn, with Pantalaimon shivering at her breast, and she got up to walk about and warm herself up as the gray light seeped into the sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The class stands along the long back counter, hunched over tubs of gray pulp-filled water. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z There in the gray shadows of a breaking dawn, I cried until I could cry no more. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Her face was a sickly shade of gray. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Then Thomas stared in shock as up ahead the Griever dug in with its spikes and spun forward right up to the Cliff’s edge, then off, into the gray abyss. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Fog lay over the sea, washing against the island in gray waves. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Tears ran down her dirty cheeks, leaving gray runnels. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was oblong, with gray hair cut into a military bristle cut. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z She thanked him, and in the gray of the evening darkness, the air burdened with smells, she ached with an almost unbearable emotion that she could not name. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I saw faint gray streaks appear in the east. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z A gush of oily gray fluid spilled from the cracked cowling. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Yet it is always the thin gray grocery sums that make an impression. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been dressed in a sheath, striped gray and white, like mattress ticking, with a wide, shiny red belt, and they had propped me up in an armchair. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z His face, gray with dying and ash, seems to be receding. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z With no overhead lights the courtroom, always pallid, seemed grayer and duller than ever. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “So it’s going to be gray for the rest of our lives,” Kevin replied. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z Wherever here was, it was not locked in the unchanging clouded gray that blanketed the Kingdom. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Lee brought the gray enameled coffeepot to the table and filled the cups and sat down. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Several of Capricorn’s men ran the butts of their shotguns along the silvery gray bars before sitting down on the benches that had been made ready for them. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z And sure enough, the man Harry had seen in the Daily Prophet was following along in Percy’s wake, limping slightly, his mane of graying hair and his black cloak flecked with snow. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z The still waters of Lake Washington, stretched out at the city’s back, slowly shifted from gray to green to blue. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z As we rose out of the highway trough, we could see the condemned houses, many burned, as well as the stark beauty of all the vacant lots, gray and frozen. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The grandmother’s hair was gray and her face was wrinkled, but other than that she looked exactly like her granddaughter. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z Palmer began to notice a gray, sour smell in the air. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He would be driving a different Crown Victoria—the charcoal gray unmarked model reserved for detectives—and wearing a shoulder holster instead of a hip belt. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The rain had started to gust from the gray sky, a freezing rain. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He takes a drag, exhales a long gray stream of smoke, then gestures at the giants. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Her teacher had lifted her arms through the air like a priest ordering a congregation to stand, so that her slip showed, gray and raggedy. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z They grew especially fast in the gray time between night and day, spinning an eternity out of seconds. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Her hair is parted down the middle and graying at the temples, braided and wound over her head into a flat hair crown crisscrossed with hairpins. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Rubbing their backsides and scowling, Jack and Sarah looked around to find themselves surrounded by stubby creatures with gray skin and pointed ears. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z We went out into the gray, wet morning. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The hotel room was basic: two double beds separated by a wooden nightstand with a gray lamp on it, across from a chest of drawers that doubled as a stand for the TV and coffeemaker. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The floor was covered with tan tatami, and the walls were gray blue. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Thor threw his hammer at it, but the monster was already gone, vanished into the cold gray waters. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z He looks old enough to be someone's grandfather, but maybe that's just because I see gray hairs in his brown beard. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z The CIA man who introduced himself as Mr. Hathaway—"thin faced and graying," according to Wolf—announced that he was a personal representative of CIA director William Webster. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We go along the corridor and through another flat gray door and along another corridor, softly lit and carpeted this time, in a mushroom color, browny pink. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Imagine a flock of vultures the size of people—with dirty black plumage, gray talons, and wrinkled pink necks. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The walrus had all but vanished from the coast; the gray whales were rare, and the seals were few and far between. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The ugly gray walls did nothing to mar her perfect cinnamon complexion, although it made most people look like walking zombies. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A thick gray smoke mushroomed up and slowly spread over the neighborhood rooftops and church steeples. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z She reached up and pulled a long gray feather from her hair. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z It’s these underpants, thin and gray with use, that hang dripping on the line over our heads as we sit in Grace’s cellar pretending to be schoolchildren. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Next to the table there’s a dusty gray tarp covering something, or somethings. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z In September 1832, exploring the gray cliffs and low-lying clay bays near Punta Alta, he discovered an astonishing natural cemetery, with fossilized bones of enormous extinct mammals splayed out before him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z I look down, and I am wearing gray slacks and a gray shirt; I am thicker around the middle and thinner through the shoulders. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z She raised her glasses and rested them on her short afro, then looking over my gray sweat suit and overstuffed handbag, asked, “Is this all you brought?” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Soon another white man, thin and gray, entered and went into the rear room. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His beard had gone almost completely gray, and he sat stooped forward, bent, as though he were carrying something on his shoulders. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Overhead, the cloud cover was low and gray, striped like a tiger’s pelt. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The gray tide swirled around the room and fled out across the landing dock and into the sky. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z It was, of course, a cold November day on Long Island, and everything was, of course, gray—the sky, the air, the grass, the drizzle misting down. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z The skin beneath his eyes is puffy from too much sleep, and he's wearing a blue and gray plaid shirt and jeans that fit him way too good. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z I’m already dressed, wearing one of Donna’s uniforms: a gray skirt, a plain button-down white shirt, and a navy V-neck sweater. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z And all those years ago, his skin had been gray and had faded to normal. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Above us, the Chicago skyline loomed against gray clouds. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z There was beer on her Dad’s workbench, and the pillows on the bed where her Dad and Mama slept were right gray. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At the Marshall Library, her papers are held in twenty-two gray archival boxes. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Everything we own is inside a hard gray suitcase. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z When it rained, fat gray drops plopped down upon the roads, then bounced up, as if in a half-hearted effort to escape. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The past ten years had padded the curves of her hips some, and combed into her coal black hair a few streaks of cinder gray. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z There was still fog when they came into the open, but it had begun to drift and there was a gray dawn just beginning to break. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z They slipped in and out of the box of peeling gray, making no stir in the neighborhood, no sound in the labor force, and no wave in the mayor’s office. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z At dawn, Mount Elgon appeared as a slumped pile of gray ridges receding into haze, culminating in a summit with two peaks, which are opposed lips of the eroded cone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The smell of dying leaves in the motionless gray morning as he shambled up onto the porch after a night’s fishing, and the full, fine growth in the cedar trees. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z In gray ink, on pages edged in green, he wrote about something hed read. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a short, wrinkly prune of a woman with poofy gray hair who disapproved of everything and walked with a hunched back that made her look even shorter and wrinklier than she already was. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z At night, the darkness is black—only straight up a patch of gray and an occasional star. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Kneeling beside her, his face turned gray at the sight of her wound. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Down went her knee socks, her gray underwear. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He had gray calluses on his ankles from the chafing of the rope that Paravans tied around their feet when they climbed coconut trees. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The east is gray; it will be primrose soon and then red with firing and once more the weary backward marching will begin, retreating from annihilation, falling back upon defeat, though not quite yet. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z He entered the house wearing a grungy white T-shirt and gray slacks with red-and-blue suspenders, though his pants didn’t seem to be at any risk of sliding off. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z But where were the others— the ones who would be proud they were of a species with the gray man—the ones whose arms would ache to gather up the small, scared black mite? Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z While the pot simmered and the steam hung above it like a gray spirit, she took out a needle and thread and mended a hole in her old mitten. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Five years feels like a lifetime when one day bleeds into the next, and your world doesn’t stretch any farther than the gray electric fence surrounding two miles of shoddy buildings and mud. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Once, long ago, in a garden in springtime, Ulysses had seen a squirrel made of stone: gray, hollow eyed, frozen. Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures 2013-09-24T00:00:00Z This will always be the color of Westchester for me, that wan gray, the kind of gray that speaks of an impenetrable wealth, never too fancy. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I notice that he’s still in his pajamas, his graying hair jutting out in every direction, a lumpy pillow propped up behind him. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z He was tall and bent and his thin beard straggled up his cheeks like dry moss on gray rocks. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I longed for the gray porridge they gave us on the train. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The outer walls were of rough gray stone studded with pieces of seashell and coral, as if the slabs had been hewn straight from the bottom of the ocean floor. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z It might have been the day that gray photograph was taken. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The fierce July sunlight streamed in over a gray cloud bank and lit up the New York Harbor like a fire was rising from its depths. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I shook my head and continued to listen to the tones of smoky gray. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z But when I looked out, all I saw was a sky the color of an old teakettle, rainy and gray. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z Out of the corner of her eye, she spied swirls of golden light appearing here and there on the dewy slope, but when she looked closer, they melted into wisps of gray. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z It’s a man a little younger than Grandma and Grandpa, with a mustache and a shock of gray hair. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z For instance, there were funny things like little plugged-up funnels, some gray called pixie-cups and some bright red called British soldiers. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z Brown continued: “I remember the man very well, because I did not like his manner, and I felt that he should have had more respect for my gray hairs.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z I walked home under gray clouds whose undersides had been shredded. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Their gray robes hung like cloaks from their shoulders, and under the robes shone the richest, finest garments the children had ever seen. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His hair was almost completely gray, which made him seem frail and vulnerable. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Now, in her bed, his wife Iran opened her gray, unmerry eyes, blinked, then groaned and shut her eyes again. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Soft gray light slips over the tall redbrick wall. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z He’s on the way back to the airstrip when he sees it, emblazoned on the side of a brick building, a shock of color against a gray street. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Lenny jutted a thumb at the meek little gray muzzle and stiff jackrabbit ears. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The man on our left, a mustached fellow with gray eyes, regarded us curiously. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Both were wearing identical gray tunics that had seen better days. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Her dress was made of stars plucked from the sky, and the whorls of crystals in her gray mask glittered. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Now he was small and wizened, with sparse gray tonsured hair. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z The light splintered against the thick gray mist. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z Out of the gray throbbing an ecstasy arose. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed in a white shirt worn buttoned to the throat and gray, neatly pressed trousers. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He was looking at me, at my gray eyebrows and coated hair, and pretty soon we were both giggling. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z A pair of gray high-tops dangle by their laces from the utility line in front of the house, telling everybody who can decipher the code that drugs are sold here. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z In place of the hood and the robe, he now wears a very respectable gray flannel suit. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But it was hard to tell from day to day if the gray suit he wore was the same or different from the one he wore before. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Beyond that, the dirt road unrolled through fields that were like leaden sheets under the gray sky and disappeared behind a line of bowl-shaped hills. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The alleys lay empty and gray wisps of fog floated eerily over the canal. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The stranger had rumpled gray hair and an anxious expression, and was wearing a strange mixture of clothes; a pinstriped suit, a scarlet tie, a long black cloak, and pointed purple boots. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z The lady tucked a gray strand of hair out of her face. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Take the sentence I didn’t see a man in a gray flannel suit. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z It appeared the same: a gray tinge glowed through the whiteness, and Kimbro had failed to detect it. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair had gone steel gray, and she pulled it back in a severe bun that showed off the long-suffering look on her face. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He sank into his chair, his pallor turning gray. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z The walls turned to gray cement, and die ceiling got so low that pretty soon we were hunching over. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z She studied Luke and Thalia with large intelligent gray eyes. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z “Mrs. Caconi,” I say, staring out at the big woman framed against the green sea and the gloomy gray dusk. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z But with false gray dawn he had awakened, instantly, and began to dig in the pack—to find amazing, wonderful things. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He tilts his head, hairy gray eyebrows raised in that adorable schnauzer way. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z It’s evening, one of those gray watercolor washes, like fiquid dust, the city comes up with in fall. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The color drains from the surrounding buildings in the evening light, so that they all appear to be gray. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z I tore apart the bread from my cheese sandwich to feed the black and gray squirrels. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Flecks of gray salt the dark brown bob that curves around her heart-shaped face. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The walls were covered with gray and ivory striped paper. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She snaps the phone shut and focuses her gray eyes on me. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z A colder dark with more grays and more shadows. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z His pair of gray horses was out under the tree and the men were fooling with the gear when Janie arrived at the store with Joe’s breakfast. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I had gray and black skater shoes and dark blue socks with sharks swimming and swimming up around my ankles. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z When I saw the brilliant orange flame in the night, I saw better than ever before how gray was the world I lived in. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z When everything was carried up, Janina’s father and Uncle Shepsel broke apart the cart with hammers and kicks and carried the gray, splintery cart pieces up too, even the wheels. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z In the gray dawn of the following morning, a noisy and riotous dream disturbed my sleep. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The grass was mostly dead, the dirt had gone from brown to gray, and the one tree that did still stand was bare and leaning like a creature over a small child’s nightmare bed. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z Thin but not muscular, with wavy hair that always looks a bit messy, grays sprouting up here and there among the dark chestnut brown, and black-plastic-framed glasses that he prefers to contacts. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Huge gray mountains, steep and rocky, rise up into the clouds. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z His gray hair hung limp over his forehead. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Then he opened the night safe, and dropped in the gray bags. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z And then she started saying that gray was a good color for me. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z The shadow of night rose, dividing the eastern sky into pale blue above and gray below, with a rosy border where the sunlight still shone on a haze of dust in the air. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z At that moment Amari looked up as a tall, dark soldier with black and gray curly hair, deep-set dark eyes, and a spotless uniform walked purposefully from the fort toward them. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore long gray underwear that bagged over his knees and hung loose around his ankles. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Is your hair turning the color of the old gray goat? Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Harley’s burro went faster after they left the spring, and the gray mule had to walk faster to keep slack in the rope. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He woke up when the sky was dark gray, the transition from night already started. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But not a flake has fallen from the gray mistiness above. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z Pushing through the doors, I see her making her way across the gray tile floor, waving and chatting to just about everyone as she goes, like she’s putting on her own personal Thanksgiving Day Parade. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z Next came old Ab Pulliam in his goat cart, the pants of his gray uniform folded under his thigh stubs. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z A man with long gray hair is lying on a bench, with his head on his wife's lap. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It was still dark along the ground and among the trees, but the sky was getting lighter, the blue gray streaked with red light, like a belly opening under a knife. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “I had no idea your eyes were so gray,” Leah says. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z And what sort of a person wore gray to a ball? Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z A tall white woman in a gray tunic and white leggings was smiling at us. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z When he looked up at me, I recognized Matt—stocky, red-cheeked, a lot older and nearly bald with a fringe of gray hair bordering the sides of his head—but still Matt. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Her gray hair was loose and she wasn’t wearing any makeup. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Opening my eyes, I see that on the bedside table, there’s a framed picture of a woman with long gray hair in a floppy white hat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z She pulled out a brood frame, a canvas of whirling blacks and grays, with rubbings of silver. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed the gray walls seemed to suck up the light and destroy it. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Oscar Noble was standing in the big front room, his gray hat on his head and his red mackinaw buttoned up tight around his throat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z But Mama sat glumly on the stool with a gray, determined look on her face. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought of the shreds of gray stringy beef floating in the stew, and I wanted to retch. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z She wore her rimless glasses that Frank always liked to steal, and her fuzzy gray fleece pullover that smelled like cinnamon. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But when she opened the door, it was to a small, plump woman whose gray hair peaked out from under a close- fitting black felt hat. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Then we get busy cleaning up the soggy drop cloths and dump the buckets of gray water in the grass outside. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I was odd and wary, and that was just the way of things, like my gray eyes and my untamed hair, red and tangled as a wild rose vine. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The moon hung ripely between two heavy gray clouds. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman had short gray hair and wore a pale pink blouse. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z In the hall she remembered the gray cat and looked around anxiously, but it was nowhere to be seen. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Blue water washing up to gray sand and nothing else. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I smile at my uncle, glad to see him out of the house in a freshly pressed shalwar kameez and vest with a topi pressing down his gray hair. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z I’m lost in shades of gray and want to scream in frustration. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The ash had turned the sparkling water to thick gray sludge that stank of sulfur. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing ratty gray sweatpants with poplar springs printed in green down one leg. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z He crooks a long finger under my chin, tilting my head up so that my eyes meet his, light brown flecked with gray. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z He was neither young nor old, his wild black hair just beginning to gray at his brow. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the winter he wears a gray felt hat with his gray overcoat. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Despereaux looked at his father and saw an old mouse whose fur was shot through with gray How could that be? The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z I’m sitting in the armchair by the open window, watching the slow turn from indigo to periwinkle dawn to light gray morning. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z His eyes were gray, strangely deep, clear as a flame, and Taran sensed that little was hidden from Adaon’s thoughtful and searching glance. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Odin’s good gray eye stared into Loki's green eyes, and it was Odin who looked away. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z So far as he was concerned, she might have been born in her severe, her sexless, long and shapeless habit, always black or gray. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z We set an example for our fellow faction members, and soon the three of us are engulfed in the mass of gray fabric ascending cement stairs in the half light. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z First they stopped by the alley where Papa kept the gray trash cans and blue recycling bins. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z I wore my dark gray dress pants and a turquoise button-up with these subtle leaf patterns on it, the kind you could only see in a certain light. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The wood’s light-colored, with soft gray grain running down it like pathways. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “Uncle Jack, I don’t know why you elect to disappear into the mist. Dr. Finch scratched his head and a tuft of gray hair stood up. “I’m sorry,” he said. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Katie had no way of knowing because even at bright noon only a dull gray light filtered through the airshaft window. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Above the dark gray iron, stone walls formed the North Tower. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Now she was dressed like she was going to an interview: a gray pencil skirt and heels and a blouse as black as her hair. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z He stood up and held the book closer to the faint gray light coming through the narrow window high on his wall. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z But she texted him anyway because the sound of his gray voice hurt her heart. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z Anything beyond that though . . . and I feel Gale's gray eyes watching me watching Peeta, all the way from District 12. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z And just then Pax saw a movement below him—a broad-shouldered alpha with black and gray fur emerged from the brush halfway down the slope and marked a sapling beside him. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The manager types the number into one of the gray computers; $3 buys fifteen minutes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The praetor’s dark eyes turned as gray as storm clouds. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He rode past a house, slowed to let the men flow round it, saw a fat woman in a bonnet, a gray dress, standing on the porch, her hands in her apron. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Shut the front door,” Grandma told Mary Alice, who was just a little gray shape, mouselike, as she went over to close it. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z By the end of the weekend, the snow had started turning gray and yellow, and then a rainstorm turned most of the snow to slush. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z An older man with graying hair in a suit stands next. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z They were startling gray, like storm clouds; pretty, but intimidating, too, as if she were analyzing the best way to take me down in a fight. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z A group of about a dozen clustered together, all wearing long, dingy gray cloaks with hoods that hid their faces. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z The neighborhood is gray and dingy and littered with trash, but all the row homes are occupied and therefore not condemned, so our blocks look pretty healthy compared to most around here. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky remained gray, threatening, the valley dark, their ridge and part of the meadow around the ninth Little Baldy Bear Lake a sheer, dully gleaming white. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She acted just as refined as whitefolks in the movies and books and she was more beautiful, for none of them could have come near that warm color without looking gray by comparison. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It was so the emissary would see how Min’s vessels captured the elusive green and blue and gray hues of the waves. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z That Wednesday, I wore the leotard and tights with my gray T-shirt over the top. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In several places, the gray was peeling away to reveal the pink, so it looked like the Very Friendly Animal Center had a skin disease. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z The sky was the color of wet gray aluminum and there was no indication on the translucent shield where the sun might be, so I couldn’t tell direction. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She points out a gray metal plate and cup and a dented spoon. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z It was being ridden by a hunched-up figure in gray leather with helmet and goggles. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Three wake lines appeared in the gray water, and a pod of hippocampi broke the surface. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z The servant, a graying woman, threw herself on the floor keening with apologies. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z His thin, gray eyebrows began to climb up his forehead. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Judy noticed Mrs. Granger’s eyes right away—gray maybe flecked with a little gold, and very sharp, but not hard or mean. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Iaided in the pounding of boiled clothes; I translated dull tags; I daily ran my fingers through Mr. Sharpe’s hair, greasing it and feeding his graying queue into a bag. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z His sparse gray hair lay uncombed on his head. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Citra did her best to hold the woman’s cool gray gaze. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The cavern ceiling was so high above us it might’ve been a bank of storm clouds, except for the stalactites, which glowed faint gray and looked wickedly pointed. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z She unwrapped a piece of gray silk cloth, and inside was a small stuffed dog, white with black spots. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Across the creek the brown fields stretched, bounded by staggering lines of gray rail-fences. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Browsing in one of the art galleries, we run into Granddad’s lawyer, a narrow, graying fellow named Richard Thatcher. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z Now they were down to what Dad called a “skeleton crew” that made either brown or gray slacks for office workers. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Suddenly she saw it, lying like a gray frost upon the TV set. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Olanna saw the smoke rising like tall gray shadows before she smelled the scent of burning. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z A shearing had brought a veritable mountain of gray wool to be washed and bleached and dyed, enough to keep Mercy carding and spinning and weaving for the next twelve months. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z One of them, however, much younger than the others, wearing gray flannels and a blue tie, had left his pen lying in front of him and was looking at me. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z A tall hat of fetal lamb balanced like a wasp’s nest on Grigori’s head, shadowing eyes as hard and gray as mica, with the same shallow gleam. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z There are strobe lights, flashing blues, yellows, and grays. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Pale gray smoke was gushing out of the top. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Skirting a small lake, they had stared to see a great gray fisher bird that stabbed and paddled in the sedge, until a flight of wild duck had frightened them away with their clamor. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky blushes from gray to pink to blue. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z We were looking at a gray mountain ringed in forests. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The color climbs over the woman's body, changing it from pale gray to soft beige with yellowy undertones. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The tub was full of what looked like dirty rags swimming in gray water. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z She was mostly facing away from Luke, and she wore jeans and a gray sweatshirt not much different from what the Sports Family brothers always wore. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z A flock of gray birds passes over us and settles in a giant tree. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z It’s a full-page photo of a bulky, bearded guy in a cowboy hat, decked out in a dark gray suit. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Over the years, his dark wavy hair has grayed handsomely. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The seagulls screamed, and the brooding gray clouds were the same shade as the gray of the waves. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Just old enough to have a little bit of gray hair in his beard, but nowhere else. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z My siblings all have gray pouches under their eyes; their hair is knotted and sticking out in many directions. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes, which are normally a kind of mutt’s mixture of gray and brown and green, have gone dark. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Its grip was so tight she could barely breathe, and the Cursed Forest passed before them in a blur of black and gray. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z The vague gray light was in the west. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There were also dark secrets people didn’t much talk about, along with a gray market of gossip that could spread the ill-informed rumor as fast as any IM or text network. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It’s so gray that turning on a lamp is too sharp and it hurts. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a reason he hadn’t spoken and it had nothing to do with gray cells working. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The woman wore black boots and a plain gray shift dress. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z Yet with his rolled-up plaid sleeves, gray hair, and beard, Mr. Leo seems just Leo. Paradise on Fire 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z All was a blur, bloody and gray and flashes of steel; Thomas tried not to look left or right, only ahead, through the narrow gap formed by the Gladers. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z There was a cheerful jingle and a name turned from gray to green. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His blond hair was gray in the sunlight. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The gray troops had turned; they had begun to withdraw back up the road. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Far away, Lina saw a narrow gray line curving like a pencil stroke across a sweep of green. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Nothing to do but watch the gray sidewalk grow darker, watch the drops slide down the glass pane, watch people below me move fast, heads bent. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z They are gray and troubled, like a dark-clouded sky, but there is no unkindness there. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z She ran her hand across my uniform, a gray skirt with a darker-toned waistband, long enough to show no calf when I wore it. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z Then a shoulder bag made of canvas printed with gray flowers. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z A lamp cast pale light over the gray and white pebbles. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z His face was square and blunt; he had gray hair that he brushed back off his forehead and thin, straight eyebrows over cold eyes. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, beyond the covered sidewalk that ran like a moat around the huge building, lay the huge, gray parking lot, a no-man’s-land of empty cars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z While the rest of the band was being a storm, she was the sun busting through thick, gray clouds. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The man’s body turned into a gray wall and then he was gone in a cloud of mist that washed over Mark. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z A gorgeous set of yellow topaz crystals on a gray matrix. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She stood beside the gray rails that morning with her hands folded beneath her apron. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z One by one, he took the impressed, the curious, the adventurous into the gray shadows, after explaining that they were going to play Momma and Poppa. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The Hudson River isn’t nearly as beautiful—only gray, no sparkling white waves. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z Like a lean, gray wolf, he moved silently and easily. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Dicey was hypnotized by the molten silver of the cloudy islands and not until the veil of fuzzy gray blew across it again did she begin their march of the day. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Enrique’s eyes are closed, but his face and arms turn gray. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The gravel path lay open and clear in the gray twilight and the little glow of yellow from the priory windows. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Sitting back on their haunches, they were a good six feet tall, and their legs, arms, whatever you called them, bulged with muscle under their gray fur. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z The tiles were gray and green, not pink as Melissa had imagined. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z She’s just as warm and soft as I remember, but her cropped hair is now entirely gray. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The night had been black and gray as the fog crept over the rowboat, winding along her arms as she strained at the oars. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Francie saw the Tynmore girls standing together in their doorway, their gray hair in crimpers, and ruffled, starched nightgowns showing under their voluminous wrappers. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Through the glass I could see a fifty-year- old woman with long, gray hair worn straight down her back, clad in a dress right out of the sixties, smiling welcomingly from behind the counter. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z She stood before a table with graying pieces of raw chicken and imagined grabbing them and running away as fast as she could. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I understand now that what is shrinking him, what is turning the air around him that awful gray, is defeat. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z Outside the plate glass the world in the mist had become a pencil drawing executed in a dozen different grays with, here and there, a smudge of electric red or pure white. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z This one is unfinished: gray cement, rafters above. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “She has had a good example before her all her life, my dear,” Mr. March whispered back, with a loving look at the worn face and gray head beside him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She laid a dry pinon branch on the coals; smoke curled out of the gray scaly bark like woolly hair until yellow flames burst around it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It looked like that worn by every other prisoner—coarse cotton with blue and gray stripes. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “I—I never meant—” To Zane’s surprise, the man in the gray suit chuckled. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Thomas looked down and saw nothing but a gray descent. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Around Halloween the last, stubborn wildflowers died away and the wind became sharp and gusty, blowing showers of yellow leaves on the gray, wrinkled surface of the lake. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It lodged in the flank of a gray wolf scarcely twenty feet away. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Tons and tons of gray smoke billow, darkening the sky. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z I noticed then the lines in her face, the traces of gray in her black hair. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Dewey looked at the gray stone inscribed with four names, and the date of their death: November 15, 1959. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It looks like a castle, gray brick rising high in the sky and left and right too. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The little gray fish looked up at me, rapidly opening and closing its mouth. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He was an unusual looking white man, his face young, almost unlined, but his hair completely gray and his eyes so pale as to be almost colorless. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Occasionally a pigeon flapped into the air and stayed there, feathers intact, not only stayed there but rose higher and higher into the gray cloud, then above it, above the treetops, into the sky. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z They are ugly gray insects, with such quick flight that they are hard to kill. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Maxine teaches him how to paddle properly, angling the oar and drawing it back through the still, gray water. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Soon the cameras were rolling in front of the living room fireplace, with Koppel in his crisp blue suit and Morrie in his shaggy gray sweater. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Behind the girl in gray was a big window and you could see we were in a bubble way high up over the moon. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I switched from gray sneakers to black sneakers a week ago, but the gray shoes are buried in one of my drawers. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The silky gray horse nibbled at some clover that was taking over my onions. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z A man with gray hair and a military buzz cut got out. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z She was sort of folded into herself, arms crossed across her gray kurta tunic, curls hiding her face like a makeshift curtain. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The dog’s gray tongue lolled in the dust and her rib cage pumped up and down. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z It was moist gray in the middle and red around the edges. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Obviously, the man on the stand with the soft voice and gray hair had gone berserk. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z At first, all that came out was a hoarse croak, and then he was choking, coughing, hacking the gritty gray dust out of his throat and lungs. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z A cloud of gray dust spiraled around her legs. Artemis Fowl 2001-04-26T00:00:00Z She gathered up her skirts and mounted the stairs, wholly blotting the gray light. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early 1850s, Mendel had tried a more audacious variation of this experiment, starting with white and gray field mice. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z The weather was gray, rainy, cold, and damp. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z Its Ark was a gutted mass of charred wood, its four Torah scrolls were seared black, its holy books were piles of gray ash blown about by the wind. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Before the first settlers arrived in America, the big gray coyote of the woods lived and hunted all over the Northeast. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z With a start, she saw the gray in them was from scarring: punctured places in his eyes that had healed over time. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z For two days they had been boiling the small gray bayberries that Kit and Judith had gathered in the fields, and Rachel had skimmed off the thick greenish tallow. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z If you do, you can watch the sky shift from gray to auburn and next thing you know, it’s morning. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Now she was able to look around a little, and everything she could see was rusty and gray. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Fang looked up the hard gray wall, damp and dark at the bottom where the sun hadn’t hit. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Big gray vans came and hauled the machinery away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z One of King’s boys hands him a folded gray bandana, and he lays it across Khalil’s chest. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He successfully raised a few baby gray squirrels, feeding them milk through a glass syringe. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The sky was a soft gray, and it was drizzling lightly. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Looks like a big gray ceiling—close enough you could almost touch it.” The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z He was white, with an impressive gray mustache that wrapped around his face to make a curious sort of beard. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Down the hill he could see the gray boys moving back, a few flags fluttering. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Slightly to the north was the gray, featureless hospital. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the kid’s suitcase was big and gray, a businessman’s. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A gun barrel pressed to my spine urges me forward, through the front doors of Abnegation headquarters, a plain gray building, two stories high. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Then suddenly we saw this fat guy in a gray suit go running across the field. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A new, light gray, too dressy, double-breasted suit made him look even shorter than his five feet three and three- quarter inches. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z All that night it rained and all the next morning: warm, gray, coming down soft and steady as a dream. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The army stood in long uneasy ranks for a moment, and then, with a soft sigh of sorrow, rose up in a faint gray mist and disappeared. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z And I lay there, hazily watching a dark red spot of my own blood shaping itself into a butterfly, glistening and soaking into the soiled gray world of the canvas. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Ellsberg sat at a kitchen chair while she snipped his curly, graying hair. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He was a funny-looking man, with broad puffy shoulders, thick wrists, and kind eyes beneath gray brows. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Afterward, I was given a new gray jumpsuit and another pair of plastic slippers. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z She looked at Marcus’s gray face and took pity on him. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “So what have we got here?” he asks, gray eyes twinkling. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z It was gunmetal gray, and glinting in the sunlight. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A canvas soldier’s bag, mouse gray, with two padded straps. 14-6963. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A head with stringy gray hair slicked back tight to his skull. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Rowan, at sixteen, had resolved he would experience gray hair before he turned his first corner—and even then, he wouldn’t reset so far down as to be embarrassing. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z The rain had stopped by then and the thick masses of gray clouds were beginning to break apart. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In the end I followed the path of the misty sun, which stared down at me from the gray sky like the dead mans blank and solitary eye. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z His subgravity walk teetered across the broken ground, kicking rocks to right and left under his weight in noiseless puffs of gray dust. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z Soon, the bucket’s water was a dingy gray and the washrag was heavy with grime. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A gray paw emerged from under the bed and patted her shoelace. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Robin thought the gray one looked like his father’s favorite. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z She wore a hotel maid’s uniform, gray with a white collar. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z He’s dressed in his usual collar shirt and dark trousers, although the shirt is black this time, with pencil-thin gray stripes. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They made good time-—Thomas was glad for his wristwatch, with the skies being gray—because it quickly became obvious that the walls hadn’t moved from the day before. The Maze Runner 2009-10-21T00:00:00Z The knees of his robes were ripped and bloody, his face scratched; he was unshaven and gray with exhaustion. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z At the center of a gray circle was a bright white light, blinking as it set itself up for another test. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z Way off we saw the steep bluffs, dark with trees and jutting with gray stone, that marked the course of the Irati River. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Through the schoolhouse window, framed by two of the older cabins—their whitewash smeared to gray, worn down like those who slept inside them—Cora huddled with her favorite at the starting line. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z As I drew nearer I recognized the loose gray shirts and pants worn by the veterans. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The granite ledges were streaked by a thousand shades of gray and silver, separated by slices of pink quartz that glowed like happiness. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z He wore a gray county-issue sweatshirt and khakis, and while he had lost the terrified look of his early court appearances, his eyes remained wary. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z She turned around and the light hit her and I could see how gray her skin was and how dark the moons were ringing her eyes. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Her hair is black and straight, but in the light I see that it is streaked with gray. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Calpurnia was past middle age and her body had thickened a little, her kinky hair was graying, and she squinted from myopia. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I fold back the lace and expose her graying legs. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The cold wind that shook the windows and the gray morning light made her shiver. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The cattail pond now had steel gray and rust brown pipes running up from it toward the groves, like someone had connected straws together in four crooked lines. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z His gray rags had been cast off in a pile next to him and he was clothed in a bright yellow silk, the color of the sun. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Sahil turned down a street and pulled up a driveway to this sprawling gray house with giant windows. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z One moment it was so dark he couldn’t see Derek on the raft and the next he could make out the bank, see the trees in the gray light of dawn. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z Her tawny breast is decorated with black marks; her back is gray blue; her head black. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Here was Garnett dressed beautifully, new gray uniform, slender, trim, riding that great black mare with the smoky nose. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The sleeves of his gray shirt are rolled up, exposing hairy, muscled arms. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I make her eyes the color of a stormy gray sky to honor the people of Orléans, but add tiny golden sunflowers around the middles to mirror the royal chrysanthemum. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z They wore gray camouflage outfits that flickered over skeletal bodies. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The ice reflected his distorted shadow and the beam of wandlight, but deep below the thick, misty gray carapace, something else glinted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z As Francie walked in, the pianist drifted into another song inspired by Francie’s new gray fall suit and her gray suede pumps. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They'd been issued a pair of khaki pants, a khaki jacket minus the shiny buttons, black leather shoes, gray wool socks, a black belt, and a hat with a swastika on the front. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z The brush along the road stirred restively under a new and unexpected population of gray tigers and gray bears. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The sun, bright and warm, caught in her graying hair, shone on her drawn, thin face. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z They loomed overhead, becoming closely packed and gray with rain. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z On the afternoon of April 12, 1945, Vice President Harry Truman strode through the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., dressed in his usual gray suit and bow tie. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray, elephant-shaped Hole in the Universe agitated in his sleep, then slept again. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z When the pale but striving sun has lifted the gray morning mist, Count Durufle and the bishop arrive. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The bright yellow building with the green door was so different from the gray and brick structures I was accustomed to. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z And I don’t know what color Jem’s hair or eyes actually are because the movie is in black and white which means mostly gray. Mockingbird 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z This man had gray in his kinky hair; her father didn’t look the way he had when she’d been small. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The hallway was gray and empty, hardly more interesting than the room, but at least it was different. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z She came to the tower, held so tightly in the embrace of the house, in the straining grip of the house, and walked slowly past its gray stones, not allowed to touch even the outside. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z He was a dozen years older than Sherman, with sparse gray hair and sad brown eyes. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He lay back on his pillows and looked into her pinched gray face. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Alongside the neat gray wharf sheds that lined the river and canal across the railroad tracks, Lew Pants huddled, a silent and smoky plea for urban renewal. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s got gray hair and a crooked nose. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I rushed over and nuzzled my face into his gray fur. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Dying was OK because it was sleep and there wasn’t no gray ball in death, was there? Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Her hair was gray and stiffly oiled in scallops around her face. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A gray station wagon stood on the gravel in front of a house that was bigger than the school Meggie had been attending for the last year. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z Something chirped, then hummed; then there was a gray light emanating from the entire body of the weapon itself. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z His gray eyes scanned the glade and he nodded briefly. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z He was a monstrous man, with a mane of greasy gray hair, his face pouched and seamed, with protuberant lips. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z Salter looked up at him with weepy gray eyes. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Topping off the ensemble was, of course, the utterly unremarkable gray felt fedora. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The stark gray sky and bare tree limbs feel more suited to her than the uncomplicated promise of sunny spring days. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They stopped, and from his trouser pocket Grandpa Nyles pulled out a bundle of gray sage wrapped in red cloth. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The wet gray flakes twisting and falling out of nothing. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They were grown men with thick forearms and huge, cracked hands; depending on the season, they were covered in gray dust or black mud. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z They sailed up and out of the grave, past Mr. Milgrom and into the rectangle of gray sky and the black falling teardrops of the bombs. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z “Now cheerleading, that’s a sport. A sport with dignity. You make it or you don’t. There’s no gray area, not like with volleyball.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z She looked mighty fetching in a tight-fitting gray suit, trimmed with black braid from the factory. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z On the floor along the sides of the plank counters there were kegs of nails, and kegs of round, gray shot, and there were big wooden pails full of candy. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z His pale skin was turning an off-white that shaded into gray. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe she would sit down and stroke the gray fur. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z She was thin, wiry, with short gray hair. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Concentrate on making those clouds—the ones over there, in the west—making them bigger and darker. Think gray skies and driving winds coming down from the arctic. Think snow.” American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Everything about the creature was gray: gray clothes on gray flesh on gray bones. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Dim streaks of light, gray and waning, are filtering in through a nearby window. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z At the end of the table, sitting like a great dropsical gray slug, was William Willoughby, the political symbol of everything her father and men like him despised. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I concentrated on the rows, and watched the spreader and the gray fertilizer sifting down from the hopper onto the soil. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Papa, wearing a long, gray robe like the rest of the oblates, helped distribute ash every year. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z At nine in the morning, there was nothing more than a light chop on Lake Washington, a typical gray, late fall day with light winds out of the southeast at perhaps five miles per hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Gran’s hair is short and curly and gray; she’s been wearing it in a permanent wave, Dad says, since the 1970s. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Except for the dull, grayed light coming through the plasticized window and the walls of my room darkening to a deeper shade of blue, nothing seemed any different. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z He couldn’t see much in the gray light and the stinging rain. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z She wore a dark gray skirt suit and heels, a lawyer or banker, the kind of person who ran things, not the kind who would hang out with a guy like me, jeans and sneakers. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I see near Signora Pompa’s house the bluebells sprouting out, draping down the gray stone wall. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Dimple rinsed her hair out and got out of the shower, making her way back to the room in her gray terry cloth robe. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Percy lurched awake in cold gray daylight, rain falling on his face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Instead of walking I was floating through space, not clear and sharp, but with a gray film over everything. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Greg kneels down and rubs some ointment in her armpit, right in front of her strange gray breast, which hangs from her chest, like a woman’s. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z His tie was solid black, and on the sleeve of his gray coat there was the mourning band that he had sewn there. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He sat close to his uncle then, on the wagon seat, above the bony gray rumps of the mules. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In fact, it was always nipping at something: the Nerf ball, the gray soldiers, book covers. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z The electric mechanism, within its compellingly authentic-style gray pelt, gurgled and blew bubbles, its vidlenses glassy, its metal jaws locked together. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z I imagine an old white lady with gray hair and old-fashioned glasses hanging from her neck. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z I sweep a small brush into a blob of cerulean gray and pin my gaze to the corner of the canvas until his footsteps leave the room. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Her gray hair fell out of her bun in pieces around her dull face. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Margo’s blue blue eyes blinked and she looked impossibly beautiful right then, her jeans wet against her legs, her face shining in the gray light. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z I leapt over the remains of a sentry fire, bumped into a gray- bearded soldier wearing a homespun shirt, and startled a man carrying two live hens by the feet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He took one last look at the gathered crowd—scarlet robes and the occasional gray—and spotted Master Hyrrokkin, looking stunned and proud. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Her eyes were gray and neutral, her lips slightly open as she stared straight-on at the camera. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Two Eyes, in gray suits, leap from the opening double doors at the back. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Not that he’d recognized its divinity at first — not in this flat rectangle wrapped in checkerboard paper; its attached clump of gray ribbon curlicues looked like the head of a mop. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z A chubby white guy in a gray suit comes in a few minutes after the class is supposed to have started. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Under the nearest hydraulic lift, which was holding a ’98 Toyota Corolla, a pair of legs stuck out—the lower half of a huge man in grubby gray pants and shoes even bigger than Tyson’s. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps it’s the iron gray of the afternoon sky overhead, casting gloom as it always does this time of year, but today the two of them look especially worn down and tired. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z When it flew away, it left a single pearl gray feather behind, which Matt hid from Rosa. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Scofield flashed his light and for a second I saw the black man, his face gray with shock, watching the jetting pulsing of his blood spurting into the street. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a chilly morning, with a damp breeze and a gray mist that blew by in patches. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I thought it'd get sunnier once we crossed the bridge, but the weather’s overcast, a dull gray. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Sleep might be a gray wasteland to her, but she knew what was lurking beyond the safe circle of lull, and she was glad of the gray. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z There were gray, ancient dried fish and jellies and potatoes sprouting wigs of grass. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Her scalp bristled with tight gray curls trimmed close. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The only furniture in the room was a huge chair puffed with gray silk cushions, a tilted reading table, and a floor lamp deeply hooded. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Shutters on the squat gray houses are closed. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z At sunset, after an impossible day of driving, he pulled to the roadside, kicked off his tight shoes, laid himself out in the seat, and slid the gray Homburg over his weary eyes. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z We knew that a gray, foggy smear of invisible vuvv was everywhere around us, watching, peering at us, checking our eyes for a hint of boredom or anger or failed desire. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z With scarcely time for a final glance at our home, and at Uncle Yousef and Aunt Najah shuffling in the chill gray dawn, we drive off, crunching over rubble and broken brick. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z But then the risks of hope rise again and my Noise grays a little. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z She assumed there would be a fight now for the gray socks, but the opposite was the case, and to avoid further sorrow she was obliged to return to Briony’s room for another pair. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The builder grabbed the ropes that attached to the empty stone-boat and prepared to hitch it to his great gray horse. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It looked like a huge gold, black, and gray bug hanging awkwardly in the black sky. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The woman had strangely pale blue eyes and sharply arched gray eyebrows. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The lower back was light gray and so were the wings, which tapered to long, black-tipped primaries folded together over the tail. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Her blond hair was now streaked with gray. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The gray of the wall drifted along in the left side of my vision—distracting me, troubling me. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z John met Ernest at the Berkeley house and the next day whisked him to Oakland’s Peralta Hospital, where his gray pallor shocked the attending physicians. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z I am wearing a gray shirt, blue jeans, black shoes—new clothes, but beneath them, my Dauntless tattoos. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z And the three pounds of gray matter he carried around in his skull served him well in the classroom. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was the day after Christmas and a gray sky bellied over us, fat with snow. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Police Chief Song ran a hand through his thick, graying hair. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z The casket was steel gray, with a white satin interior. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The streets of Mamou’s neighborhood didn’t look so different from the streets back home: dull gray asphalt. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z His gray, drooping face appeared to be made of something stiffer than ordinary skin; it rarely moved except for making the smile that was on it now. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z No inmates and guards around us, no noisy television, no cold gray room, no intercom blasting names and demands and rules. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The sinks had been built of gray marble for the old Chinese men who boarded here before we came. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The sheriff moved his light over the outside of our gray car. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z My eyes met those of the little robot woman and the reporter in the gray jacket. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z It was dull gray, mottled with greenish and brownish blotches that looked like mildew. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z During the short drive home, I notice every car behind us, especially if it’s gray. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z His eyes were a scary gray and blue colour, ’bout the same as the sky afore a storm. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A noble elf strode into the gray tent, wearing robes of costly damask. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z When Stephen eased out the front door, he was wearing red pajamas and a gray sweatshirt. Wishtree 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z It was made of gray stone, which was cool in summer and very cold in winter. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Slivers of gray fish pickled in white glue, smoked fish with yellow eyes that bulged, raw red fish without heads or tails. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z The tarp closest to the cave covered a gray area, a place where the worlds met. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She was dressed in a gray wool suit; she wore pearls around her neck and in her earlobes. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Vivienne chooses a violet that seems to be a silvery gray when she turns it over her hand. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The burro chewed the dry tufts of grass as close to the gray shale as it could and strained against the reins to reach another sparse clump of grass. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But he looked straight at me, so I could see the green and browns and grays swimming around in his irises. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I change into a gray Wilco T-shirt I got when David and I saw them in concert last summer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z A constant rain and shrouded gray sky masked the passing of hours, leaving Cole in a cruel time warp with only one possible end. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Lidewij drove a clunky gray Fiat with an engine that sounded like an excited four-year-old girl. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z Then I’m at my own funeral, looking up from my grave at a rectangle of gray sky. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The woman tucked a dry gray curl back under her bonnet. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z The lamp on Kevin’s side of the bed went on and I could see him beardless now, but with his thatch of gray hair uncut. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The ocean looked dead too, dead gray waves hissing mordantly along the beach, which was gray and dead-looking itself. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He had changed out of his gray suit into his overalls and poncho of past years; he was wearing sandals and had slung his guitar over his shoulder. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As he soared up out of a dive with wide wings white against the gray, something blade hurtled at him and struck. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Or, when he’s all spiffed up in his private school gray flannels and jacket: “Hey, you look like a Simpsons Rep.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She has a gray bun and lives alone; there’s a spark in her eyes. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z The day was cold enough to make his breath visible, and he wondered for a moment at the purity and whiteness of his own breath among the dirty, gray explosions surrounding him. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z The sky was a peculiar shade of gray. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z And so they sat together until the dawn light came, pallid and gray, and they saw that the soil of Tab’s grave was newly rimed with frost. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Vivi holds up her silvery gray dress, with its tattered edges, sparing a smile for me. The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He had a thin gray beard that hung down from his chin, and was wearing a long red and gold robe that looked like the ones on the plates. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z On this circle the old man could see the fish’s eye and the two gray sucking fish that swam around him. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z As we drove silently down 1-4,1 found myself thinking about the day that the guy in the gray suit showed up dead. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z Her avocado skin had a ridged texture like corduroy, her graying hair was shaggy and matted, and her build bordered on obese. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z He had a reddish gray crew cut and a big head and neck, like a football player’s. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Crouched on the gray boulder, her ears flat along her back, she looked like a little stone herself, gray-brown and inconspicuous, except for her eyes. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z A woman with curly gray hair and a black coat follows close behind him, but then stops in front of me where I’m standing with my satchel. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He seemed nice enough, even though his gray mustache was awfully pointy. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Nico stands up and loosens the striped blue tie he’s wearing over a gray shirt. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z She is dressed in a gray business suit. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it was a sparse handful of coarse gray. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z In the predawn summer gray, vehicles, most of them old pickups with their lights on, pulled out of the hard-packed shiny dirt yards and began threading through the town’s narrow back roads. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Clouds had rolled in off the mountains, casting the whole of Yazd in gauzy gray light. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He is seventy now, with short gray hair and soft eyes that can water at a mention of the past. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z His hair lay close to his skull in gray twists, and his chin tilted slightly heavenward. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z "Pale white skin turns gray faster, can you remedy that?" The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z We passed another man wearing an English raincoat and a fedora hat and carrying a stick, walking slowly: a gray figure in bright sun. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s in a dark gray fleece and is wearing blue basketball shorts over these Adidas gym tights. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Jalil had taught her that gray clouds got their color by being so dense that their top parts absorbed the sunlight and cast their own shadow along the base. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z There was one small gray area of the sky still aglow in the west; the rest was blackness, and flashes of lightning. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The referee grabbed his gloves and wiped them off on his gray shirt. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I pull on a pair of dark red pants made of denim—so long I have to roll them up three times—and a gray Abnegation shirt that is too big for me. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z In the end the green skirt and beige skirt were sandwiched around the ivory blouse; the mauve sweater was layered in with a gray skirt Callie thought Theresa would have worn with it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Her modest gray dress had a “white Puritan collar and cuffs.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I have noticed that she needs a new pair of white socks, her current pair having grown rather gray. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z On the long march, gray overcast skies protected the boys from aerial assault, but by afternoon, the skies cleared, exposing the columns to danger from Allied planes. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z The morning air, spilling over with radioactive motes, gray and sun-beclouding, belched about him, haunting his nose; he sniffed involuntarily the taint of death. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He knew that they could not see color, and that their flesh, as well as Gabriel’s light golden curls, would be no more than smears of gray against the colorless foliage. The Giver 1993-04-01T00:00:00Z I could see the pleading in her warm gray eyes. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z There was snow on the tops of the mountains and the lake was a gray steel-blue. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z He was only a little boy, ten years old, with hair like dusty yellow grass and with shy polite gray eyes, and with a mouth that worked when he thought. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Miss Long smiled and sat on the sofa facing the gray chair. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, that might be something to search for. A tortoiseshell hair comb. Next to a gray bureau in the far back corner. That’s where I got this fabulous dress,” she said, twirling. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z In the early morning light the land below him extended seemingly forever, gray and refuse-littered. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z To the right of them the gym meditated behind its gray walls, the high, wide, oval-topped windows shining back at the sun. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Dressed in blue and gray suits, they climb out, waving American flags, to thunderous applause. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The tall yellow rice grass and the broken gray shale ridge were undisturbed by outlines of darker objects that did not belong with the junipers and yuccas. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He prodded moodily at the lumps of charred gray fish on his plate. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Its Hearth and outbuildings were all of gray stone cut from the steep mountainside to which it clung. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z Benjamin Sweetwine: The Sequel has skin the color and texture of gray earthenware clay. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z And like that we slowly made our way toward land, the fog pursuing us always, its long, gray tendrils like the ghostly fingers of some phantom hand, ever trying to draw us back. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z A misty rain had begun to fall and dark gray clouds hovered over the tops of the mountains in the distance. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z For a moment I see her in Abnegation gray, her thick hair bound back with a dozen pins, sitting across the dinner table from me. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Dead trees standing out of the gray water trailing gray and relic hagmoss. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Wednesday morning brought one of those cold Pacific rains that makes you feel like the gray of the sky has worked its way inside your skin. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the very last gray of the day, he could see Alice stumbling across the grass in great haste, carrying Lyra. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z His eyes were the same as hers in shape and depth but his were a bright clear blue and hers a dark clear gray. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z His words are matter-of-fact, his expression unchanged, but he can’t hide the tinge of gray that colors his face. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z We quickly fill her in on what Gideon told us, her warm bronze skin going gray. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z The man in the gray suit pulled his hands from the knobs. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z He is wearing a gray three- piece suit and a silk striped bow tie, and he walks with a black cane. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z "Meat is supposed to be gray. They doctor up the color for the ads and so forth, but there's nothing wrong with these. You'll see." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I think the dark, gray days of a Washington winter didn’t help my mood much. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was gray and dripping with sweat. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Her thick hair is tied back in a knot, and she wears a gray shirt with a factionless armband over it. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The man in the gray suit leaned over the basket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “I think they are bluish gray, with a little brown in them.” My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair seemed to be turning gray, a cruelty upon cruelty; there were too many clocks running. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z In his other hand there was a gray sock. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The picnic table was weathered gray and bumpy. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Some gray has come into Dimitri’s hair and chest, some lines around the mouth and eyes. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It started out bleak—a gutted building along a gray road on a rainy day. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z I found the coat, still streaked with gray from last year’s dirty snow, and put it on. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z Con squinted up at the hard, bright gray sky. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z I silently scorned the gray, timid faces around me. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She stood beaming under a dull gray sky, tears streaming down her cheeks, the needle-cold wind blowing her hair, and clutching that baby in her arms like she never wanted to let go. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Oil for their little slutlamp to light the long gray dusks, the long gray dawns. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Her thick, gray hair was a wig; I could tell that even from where I was, across the yard from the coop. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z The big dude looked pretty odd in his bedsheet toga, with his gray pullover hoodie and jeans, and a bow and quiver from the ship’s armory slung over his shoulder. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z The mirrors have been replaced here too by oblongs of dull gray metal, but the urinals are still there, on one wall, white enamel with yellow stains. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I start at the end of the line and choose a brassiere and matching underpants, blue gray with a little lace along the edge. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His white-walled room was bare except for a bed with a gray blanket, a toilet without a cover, a shelf for clothes, a cement table, and a barred window facing onto the center group area. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Suddenly he seemed so old, just a graying forest fox living out his final days, a fact he had made peace with. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z His eyes have gray fog on them, but he looks at me direct. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z He traced it back into the canyon with his eyes; the gray banks cut a winding track, its curves and twists the print of a snake’s belly across the sand. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Your lady may prefer this. It’s a superior article, a most desirable color, quite chaste and genteel,” he said, shaking out a comfortable gray shawl, and throwing it over Jo’s shoulders. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Lee looked, saw the ludicrous man in the lustrous hat and the wide gray coat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He looks like a bull about to charge, and his gray eyes blaze with pride. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Sunday morning, I wake up late in the Doctorita’s bed, to watery gray light and more rain pattering on the windows. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray stone was streaked with powdery yellow uranium, bright and alive as pollen; veins of sooty black formed lines with the yellow, making mountain ranges and rivers across the stone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z In six months, her hair had turned as gray as lint. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Better to stay in the gray than get eaten by the dark. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The serpent would grow beneath the gray waters of the world ocean, grow until it encircled the earth. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z It was a gray afternoon, the kind of gray that darkens and deepens the greens of leaves and grasses. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The guards had walked him down a gray stone stairway and out into a plaza filled with brightly colored things, with people and with objects. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z It was plastic, a soupy bobbing island of it, bags mostly, soda bottles, laundry detergent containers, all the same bleached gray. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The three other women were all wearing some nondescript sort of coarse gray stuff. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z A black hat dangled from one hand, and as Winnie came toward him, he passed the other through his dry, gray hair, settling it smoothly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray clothes, the plain hairstyle, and the unassuming demeanor of my faction are supposed to make it easier for me to forget myself, and easier for everyone else to forget me too. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Even though it was a rumor, several newspapers and agencies—including the eminent gray lady, The New York Times—published it as at least a possibility. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The irises changed color from gray to black to white. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Blue-filtered daylight shone from a row of unreachable windows, beyond which was the street, a smear of indistinct gray. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The gray stone buildings lining the cobbled street were pockmarked, missing their doors and windows. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Her gray tunic was torn and smeared with blood and filth, and her head had been crudely shaved. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Her skin was dark and smooth, and at her temples was just a bit of gray. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Going up to Phil Resch—who stood off to one side vigorously smoking a small gray cigar—he said to him, “I hope to god you do test out as an android.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Whereupon, he later wrote in a formal report of the interview, “Suspect underwent an intense visible reaction. He turned gray. His eyes twitched.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Light from the door struck gray in his temples. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He had huge gray eyebrows and a somber face. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Her hands were drifting in the gray dishwater, long gone cold. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z He fitted himself for a new blue flannel suit, and a rich gray Homburg which balanced oddly atop his gaunt head. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t,” she croaked, looking at his moonlit profile, his thick shoulders and broad chest, the tufts of gray hair protruding from his open collar. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z The Polish girl’s pink hat bobbed like a candy egg amidst hundreds of gray faces all so tired and drawn, they looked like boiled meat. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z A gray tinge lingers just under the whiteness of her skin, and tiny patches of whiskers crop up along her cheeks. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The metal girders looked like dull gray clay in the rain. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Clouds covered the world from one edge of the sky to the other and they were so dark gray they were almost black. The Honest Truth 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z I look at her hair on the paper pillowcase, and among the brown I see some gray ones. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s sitting on a sleek gray couch right next to the meeting table, his elbows perched on his knees. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They started early in the morning, in the gray light. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z A gray wall was thundering toward the Frog in the moonlight—too close. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Over my left shoulder, orange light from the setting sun reflects off the glass buildings, and I can faintly see the rows of gray houses that used to be my home. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z She wondered briefly how hungry he must have been to come in here at all, when she looked at the gray counter and the smeared glass bowl over a plate of doughnuts. The Haunting of Hill House 1959-10-01T00:00:00Z Instinctively, Harry looked up, but there was no sign of white among the mass of brown and gray. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Hooks and chains were scattered across the circle of gray for securing whatever did land. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z I pictured the returns sitting in the large gray filing cabinet in the kitchen. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z About his tattered clothes and golden skin and funny gray eyes. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I leaned against the gray stone gateway to the cemetery where Hassan had buried his mother. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Tiny gray birds poked around their feet for crumbs and pecked at a paper wrapper. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Two clerics with pepper gray long beards and white turbans were taking calls from the faithful all over the world. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z His gray eyes glittered and his quick, intelligent face expressed great strain. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z The valley had darkened, grown gray and momentarily still; almost icy cold. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Suddenly, it struck me, too, that this plump little nun with a bit of her gray hair showing under her headdress wasn’t Mama or Papa I could argue things with. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z He was watching the first stars emerge in the gray sky. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z They were huge and foreboding in the gray light of afternoon. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z When he was seated, Garvey shoved the small boat off the slick gray rocks and jumped aboard himself. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z On the scorched middle ground of Korea, however, Blake discovered the gray zone, where even hardened loyalties were tested and new alliances forged. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z She believed that the light pained her eyes, and also that the gray room was a cave to hide in, a dark burrow in the earth, a place where no eyes could stare at her. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, everything about Marcus screamed superstar in the making, from his red Jordans, gray jeans, and leather jacket to his all-AP class schedule to his talent on the court. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z The girl who stared back had the same heart-shaped face, the same slightly crooked smile, the same brown hair, the same gray eyes as Hannah Stem of New Rochelle, New York, in America. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Fishermen sometimes shot duck loads at them, but for the most part the gulls were given free rein on the docks; their gray white droppings stained everything. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He shifted his hips on the hard concrete and looked out through the boards at the gray country. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z It was raining lightly, gray misty drops like steam. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In the picture, he wears a gray dress shirt and jeans. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z His brow was crisscrossed with wrinkles, his dark eyes brooded and burned with some kind of invisible suffering, and the fingers of his right hand played aimlessly with a long, gray earlock. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The moon slipped behind a rolling gray carpet of clouds, and the freshening gusts smelled wet. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z All I see are gray blobs that look like used chewing gum. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z He thought he recognized the horse, a big dappled gray—had he noticed it in a Milagro field last night? The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A spark of protest flashed across his mild gray eyes. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z His black hair was streaked with gray, his jaw jutted strongly, and his osprey dæmon sat glaring on his fist. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A bright, shining, beautiful future, where I didn’t wear blue and gray stripes, where I ate three full meals a day, where I wouldn’t work until I passed out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z When she closed the door to the gray room the outside light was cut off and only the reading lamp threw its cone on the table. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Swaying in the doorway was a huge barefoot apparition in striped men’s pajamas, gray hair cascading over its shoulders, a wild look in its eyes. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z Some went up the stoops of the gray houses, pulled out keys, unlocked doors and went in. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z This particular morning it was gray and cloudy, which didn’t bother the Baudelaire youngsters one bit. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z He slowed the train every time it went by and waved at us with his gray and white striped cap. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Then we were lodged within gray, the smoke thick around us, and we coughed and slapped at our eyes, scarcely able to perceive our own limbs; with the heat of the flames all about us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z With them was a stretcher, the body aboard covered by a gray blanket. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z He climbed up the roadbank, over the gray rails on the far side, between two dead bodies, one a sergeant, face vaguely familiar, eyes open, very blue. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was as if his eyes changed back and forth between gray and blue, but she wasn’t sure if that was possible. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z But what stood out on this gray day was a bright yellow pyramid the size of a circus tent pitched near the base of the elevator. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She took out a clump of gray yarn and began to sort through it, and then frowned and picked up another clump. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z He recognized the man in the light gray suit as President Garfield. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z His eyes were as dull and gray as cinders, burnt out. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Straight black hair, olive skin, we even have the same gray eyes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Even the soil, once rich and brown, had turned brittle and ash gray. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z And someone had beaten their dirty rugs right in the hallway, because my red bedroom curtain was gray with dust. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z The closets were full of suits, dozens of them perfectly aligned from lightest gray to darkest black. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The eastern sky was still clear, but graying, shot through with streaks of pink and orange. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z The old man reined up and stood for a moment immobile, head turned eastward toward the enemy, the gray hat on the horn of the saddle. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Moon Orchid accompanied her to a gray building with a large storefront room, overhead fans turning coolly and cement floor cool underfoot. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Years of wind and no rain had finally stripped the valley down to dark gray clay, where only the bluish salt bush could grow. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Its walls were painted with a postwar bureaucratic gray. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He was old, had a gut as big as Jim’s and a long gray beard. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z The last time I saw him, he had suddenly stopped moving and turned from pink to gray. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z The gray woman retreated to her bleeding heads. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z He’s wearing an olive cap and army fatigues, and his curly, graying beard floats below his chin, elongating his tired features. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z By the next morning, gray clouds scuttled over the sea, muffling the sound of the waves and throttling hope of a sea breeze. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The curtain went up and the singing began, giving us a gray, gloomy version of Paris. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The sky was low and gray and wet. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When Mom was fourteen years old, the Makah Nation hunted a gray whale. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z I had expected a withered corpse, but Mr. Crumbley looked perfectly intact and surprisingly young, perhaps only forty or fifty years old, his black hair graying just around the temples. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The latter had on a neat gray coat with the traditional pregnant- woman bow at her navel, a black cloche, and a pair of four- button ladies’ galoshes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Terrible ones who boil everything until it’s as gray and soggy as English weather, and the ones who bake perfectly iced cakes and adorable meat-filled pastries for BBC cooking shows. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes, leaning over the cracked, “tattle-tale gray” bathtub, he scrubbed his father’s back; and looked, as the accursed son of Noah had looked, on his father’s hideous nakedness. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z Green, gray, black, these cargo trucks sway back and forth on bald tires, spitting out dirt and engine smoke as they roll on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It spread out in a gray line, and a long, thin finger of it flowed toward the tower. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The dust, over the years, had eroded him; it had left his features gray, his thoughts gray; it had shrunk him and made his legs spindly and his gait unsteady. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z He was about two or three years older than I was, and he was dressed in a gray shirt without a collar. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Park Forest was like a miniature city of tract homes—modest ranch-style places with soft gray shingles and newly planted saplings and bushes out front. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z As the first gray light slanted along the river, Kit made up her mind. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Char blows a fat ring of stinking gray smoke in my face. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z She was dressed in her gray suit, with matching bags under her eyes. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z She’s short, and oblong in shape, so that her iron- gray cardigan falls straight from shoulder to hip with no pause in between for a waist. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He rubbed at the fringe of gray fuzz banding the top of his head. Pax 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z He bounded off the dais and approached the velvet gray box. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray skies outside matched my mood, and Jennifer knew that my thoughts were far away, somewhere on a tropical island. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A feeble gray paw emerged from the pile behind them, struggling to evade their grasp. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Pa. When he thought of die old man he could see him suddenly in a field in the spring, trying to move a gray boulder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The clouds over the land now rose like mountains and the coast was only a long green line with the gray blue hills behind it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z I knelt at the edge of my bed, hovering over Fig’s gray mass of fur, afraid of what I might find. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z The skin is pinkish gray, close to the color of a white person. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t see Izio, but it was difficult in the crowd of men with their shaved heads and gray cloth. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He was uneasy and disturbed by the slinking gray shape that merged into the undergrowth every time he looked back to snarl at it. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He wanted to transform the world’s view of his gray, sleepy, logging- and-fishing town into something far grander and more sophisticated. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z A dark gray cloud was rolling straight at him. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z “A scrawny gray cat that was living up under my porch.” Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z The desolate landscape was painted in blues and grays by the moon. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z She would be all dressed in her gray suit and black high heels—which Aimee had put her stamp of approval on—maybe putting on another coat of mascara. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z I noticed for the first time that her hair had a lot of gray sprinkled through it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Beneath gray skies, I wandered the streets, engaged not simply in my errand, but also in wonder at what was about me. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He was tall, and his hair was long and black, sprinkled with gray. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z He wears glasses, and when last seen was wearing a gray tweed sports coat, khaki pants, and a yellow rain slicker. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Round cheeks and gray eyes and flaxen hair. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I only knew the memory lived in me, a perfectly encapsulated morsel of a good past, a brushstroke of color on the gray, barren canvas that our lives had become. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He lowered his hood, shook out a long mane of grizzled, dark gray hair, then began to walk up toward the teachers’ table. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Musicians and attendants led the way as Hamlet passed through the gates on a gray mount with a black braided mane. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z One day just as we had given up hope, huge gray clouds, large and clumsy as elephants, came rolling in. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z I undo the buttons of my gray Abnegation shirt, exposing my arms, revealing more of my body than anyone else has ever seen. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z The man held the gray thing above his head. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z What I saw in the warm gray eyes of the friendly old hound brought back wonderful memories. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z They were gray as old ashes; faceless, eyeless. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z King Ogunwe bowed and left his commander scanning the gray horizon. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z The sea, visible ahead of her in a gray swathe only a few shades darker than the sky, moved in giant, undulating swells. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When Angie finally comes out of her room, she’s wearing a ratty gray robe and her hair is matted and greasy. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The twin points of light in his eyes had dulled and nearly vanished, as if someone had entered his eyes with a minute paintbrush and painted them gray. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Heavy, gray clouds obscured the sunrise, and a few raindrops already warned us it wasn’t going to be a beautiful day. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z Isolated, segmented, and stratified, these families are cut off from the single, the gay and the gray, and, except for those tending them, anyone from lower classes. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A gray banner with an owl fluttered outside the tent. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z By the one window; all of its yellow blooms had faded to a general gray, and Turner had started to peel it away. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z Each wears a standard uniform: black boots, black shirt with a single row of silver buttons, dark gray trousers, bulletproof vest, and a single silver armband. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z In the ghetto all was gray: the people were gray, the sounds were gray, the smells were gray. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z I look away from the window, straight forward at the dingy gray back of the seat in front of me. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Reflections of blue and gray swirled on the water as a fresh breeze ruffled the spruce boughs and sent ripples along the shoreline. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Against the snowy pillow he was light gray, and his eyes were enormous, bloodshot, and bulging with what looked like fear. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z It was filled with what looked like graying meat. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z Tiller led them through a clump of bushes and there, on the other side, was Sairy, seated on a flat gray stone, her hand stretched toward a big black skillet full of bacon. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z They both had short gray hair and black military-style uniforms with red trim. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z But you know how prisons are on TV, all metal and gray and filled with angry people eating slop and sleeping on concrete slabs. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z For a week the dead prisoner remains strapped to the stake in the courtyard, his flesh frozen gray. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She pointed toward the light board, a gray metal box perched on a rolling metal cart against the back wall. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z And it was Lyra who woke them when the gray light of a wet dawn crept into the cave. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z We found our uniforms—a gray suit for me and a white lab coat for Elsie—waiting for us in our closet. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z The squirrel maneuvered so quickly, it was nothing but a gray blur. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Next to her, a man with a gray mustache stirred three different pots. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Because now there was a sadness in the room like a thick gray ghost at my shoulder. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Ayesha hands me my worn gray Wonder Woman T-shirt and a pair of jeans. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z A middle-aged man in a white kurta and gray topi points at me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z He brings home red squirrels most of all, but they aren’t as good as the larger fox and gray squirrels, which he calls bushy tails. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The sky was a dull slab of gray—not the natural pale light of morning. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Heat rays from the late afternoon sun arose from the gray concrete, shimmering like the weary tones of a distant bugle blown upon still midnight air. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He had seen outlines of gray steel tables, outlines of the food they pushed into his mouth, which was only an outline too, like all the outlines he saw. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “This is my mom, Stephanie,” she says, indicating a woman with gray streaks in her dark curly hair. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Here I am, sitting on the graying floor of this freezing metal kitchen, listening to a bunch of complaints from girls who don’t know how to boil an egg. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Something sat on one of the racks in a coat of gray fur. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z George Blake stepped forward, out of the gray zone of the double agent, and chose to make the communist East his home. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Beyond the dining room was a grand foyer, the floor inlaid with a very pretty gray stone that reminded Ophie of the train station in Atlanta. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Amah was thinner and grayer, her robe dirty and stained. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was a gray day and a chill wind was blowing. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After so many months and years of dirty streets and peeling paint, of gray uniforms and spartan barracks, it was astounding that there could still be beauty in the world. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Silver moonlight shimmered through a window, revealing a gray stuffed rabbit lying on a step above. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z The darkening gray sky cast everything in a moody, deep blue, but not the fence. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z She looked up at Robin, who was dressed in pajama bottoms covered in pineapples and a plain light gray T-shirt. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I replaced my glasses and started off again, riding parallel to that high gray wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The goldfish swam peacefully, alongside the little gray fish. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z He had gray hair and a red beard. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z What would Holly Paine know about hair dye with that long gray braid? Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z There’s a sore at the top of my nose between my eyebrows, gray and red and itching. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z She hadn’t been there when I brought Charles home, and she looked like she’d just got out of bed herself: tousle-haired, no lipstick, wearing a gray wool sweater that came down past her wrists. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The solitary gray animal loped along the shore, stopping every dozen strides to look around and sniff among the rocks. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In the gray light, her gold eyes looked more like tin. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Gene Johnson brought a floodlight, and they set it up in the gray corridor. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z In the watery moonlight, the island’s volcano was a formless monster wearing a halo of thin gray clouds. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z He was a stooped-over little man with a long gray beard. Missing May 1992-03-01T00:00:00Z The steel was gray and saltscoured but he could make out the worn gilt lettering. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Baba’s beard was graying, his hair thinning at the temples, and hadn’t he been taller in Kabul? The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z This gray day in late January, among perfect strangers all looking across the river with yearning eyes to a glittering place for a glittering future, quietly I become older—fifteen. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z She is wearing another cashmere sweater, gray this time, and a silver necklace with an odd little charm on it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Ba seemed to drop his gray and work weariness — his black eyes sparkled like raindrops in the sun when he began a story. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z The lino was irregular offcuts from downstairs, and in places, gray floorboards showed. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Delicately sensing decay at last, the regiments of mice hummed out as softly as blown gray leaves in an electrical wind. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky turns a misty morning gray and still there's no sign of the other tributes. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Water ran into his cloudy gray eyes, and when he spoke, his voice was hollow: “Jigo isn’t here.” The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z “And that hideous bland gray, too. We should go and demand they change it back.” Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z They were standing in a windowless, lightless, cinder- block corridor that had doors at either end: this was the makeshift air lock, the gray zone. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s fifty or so, with gray hair that falls in an unbroken sheet to her shoulders. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z For George is an old gray cat who has accumulated a hatred of people and things so intense that even hidden upstairs he communicates his prayer that you will go away. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Her short gray hair curled over her ears and forehead, which was marked with black oil as if she had pushed her hair aside with dirtied fingers. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z "Just a minute, now," he said, studying the sample, "just a minute . . ." I watched him nervously, waiting for him to throw a fit over the gray tinge and hating myself for feeling nervous and afraid. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z He had grown a generous mustache in the year since I had last seen him, and there were threads of gray at his temples, but I recognized him in an instant. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z It was a small house, shingled with gray asphalt. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked around for my mother, but there was no one else on the raft Just this huge Negro, myself, and a big black and gray cat that was licking his haunches. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z She pulled the loose strands of her thin gray hair back into a bun. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We camp for days on a bench in a gray station in District 7, awaiting a train that never comes. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z She had more gray in her hair, I noticed. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It is only September and it is still hot in Paintbrush Falls, even if we are pretty far north, but Killer Man has decided, I guess, that the season dictates gray flannel. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z A cold wind comes tearing up Port-and-Palace Street, the river goes gray, the trees on the Embankment shudder. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The gray goblin from the Ministry of Secrets paused by the door. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z One of the last men to speak came from the back of the room, but I recognized his thick gray beard instantly. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Harry’s lamp seemed to grow dimmer as the cold gray light that precedes sunrise slowly crept into the room. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z We decided to pick one of each kind and press them in my gray geography book which I had in the car. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Obinze called her at Ranyinudo’s house; she would arrive minutes before he was due to call and sit by the gray rotary phone, waiting for it to ring. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z During these sermons I would try to melt into the gray seat cushions of our wooden pew. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Also at the table is a man who looks as old as my dad, but with a wrinkly face with a gray mustache and not much hair up top. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Then another bigfoot, only its fur is gray, and it’s dressed in a fancy red suit and sipping a cup of tea. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z Now its lackluster facade is gray from mold and pollution, and its walls cracked from neglect. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When they finally let us go, the sky was turning gray above the rooftops. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He was tall with brown hair turning gray and a wide smile, though he wasn’t wearing it now. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Her hair was completely gray but still very fine and, in the light coming from the television, it appeared to be almost blond. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Now even the rows of neat dormitories seemed to threaten me, the rolling lawns appearing as hostile as the gray highway with its white dividing line. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In a tin bowl, in the captains lap, steams a cylinder of boiled gray meat. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A photo of me sprawled on the shower floor—bound and green, wearing only a gray alien mask—had spread virally through SnowFlake, each new person who shared it heaping on derision. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z In a dreamlike trance, I pulled the gray wool sweater over my head. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z A bushy gray tail passes on my left, but it's gone before I can tell. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Underneath were little gray bags, their necks tied with wire, arranged like nest eggs. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the air is temperate, the rolling gray clouds overhead thick with the promise of monsoon season, but Lkossa remains a city bathed in silver moonlight, more than enough for me. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “So,” he said, crinkling his gray eyes against the smoke, “tell me your story.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He could not buy her a gray pony, a gold necklace, nor a little sailboat. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of her family was dressed in black or gray, their hair neatly combed, the boys’ heads shimmering with brilliantine. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z At the height where the bird used to disappear, the clouds would gray the world like an ink wash. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad, who had changed into thick gray sweats, was standing there at the front door, grinning, my denim book bag in his right hand. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z “Perhaps you could absorb the material,” he said, but then he hung his old gray head. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The gray windows of the house slanted at strange angles. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z She reached into her pocket and pulled out a small black stone, dirty and jagged, covered in veins of gray and white like cracked glass. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The healthy and the sick, the assured and the sick in spirit, all make their way to church in the gray morning or in the dusty afternoon. Bless Me, Ultima 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Its masts were shattered and its grimy gray sails hung limp and torn. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Eyes were raised to the dull gray sky. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky was always oppressive and gray, and the smoke of thousands of chimneys hung low and menacing. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z His gods were already waiting for him when he arrived: Tyr, one-handed, and gray Odin gallows-god, and Thor of the thunders. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Then, looking at the turquoise flowers, I exchanged it for my father’s suitcase, a gray Samsonite. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Palmer knew that Beans and the guys intended to stay all day, from the first boom until the last gray feather floated to earth. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z In a kind of furious daze, forgetting the eggs, I got a big old gray peach basket off the porch and dragged it down the path. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Thanks,” I mouthed to the old usher lady, her hair a weird purplish gray color. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Then he began smelling the gray and sour odor even when his father wasn’t there, even when Pigeon Day was over. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Gazing all forlornly, as Britt-Marie would say, at the gray house next door. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z Eight dogs, each with thick gray coats shading into white bellies and paws, had been led into the courtyard by a thin, spry Xi woman. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Rashid looked at him for several long seconds through the haze of dark gray smoke. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z His hair was streaked with gray, and his beard was long and curly. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z The black storm-pattern blanket was spread open across the gray flagstone. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z America is not like Limerick, a gray place with a river that kills. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z None of April and Dorothea’s Hollywood friends ever had gray hair, except the kind you have on purpose, no matter how old they got otherwise. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z As they moved away, he looked out and looked up, for one hasty glance at the gray winter sky. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z All were the same, a brilliant white diffused with gray, I closed my eyes for a moment and looked again and still no change. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The bleak line of shore surrounding the gray harbor was a disheartening contrast to the shimmering green and white that fringed the turquoise bay of Barbados which was her home. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The pants, mercifully, were light gray, though his chestnut suede boots looked too new for masculine pride. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z But no, it’s a storm petrel with its wide black wings, soft gray underbelly. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z His hands had begun to tremble a little and his face was gray. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I put my phone, headphones, and backpack into the gray bin before walking through the metal detector. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z That first day, gray drapes covered the large glass windows that separated them from the public. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He wears a gray T-shirt and a pair of blue jeans. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Tiny screaming mouths erupted along his gray flesh like welts. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z His eyes were dark gray, the color of the sea during a storm. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Far ahead of us, I see a Dauntless soldier push a gray- clothed man to his knees. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z It was going to be a football game after all, a mean, relentless, thudding fight in the gray and the rain. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Then she described the head itself, the open eyes, the graying skin. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z It was gray and dark and they were hotfooting it out of Constantinople just as fast as they could because Fezzik had just demolished their champion before most of the crowd was even seated. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z After a good hour they turned off the coast road and followed a narrow, winding lane through a valley gray with buildings. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I touch up the gray in her hair and skin as a bonus. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z Instead of moving past the house, beyond the house, instead of charging around Illinois by way of South Dakota, the mare walked toward the house, toward the gray windows like closed lids. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z His warm complexion had blanched to an ashen gray, his thick eyelashes cast over the bruised crescents of his lower lids. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Usually she wears a gray skirt with two straps over the shoulders, and a red sweater pebbled with little balls of wool. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z We never saw more than a quarter-mile ahead through the gray mist and mass of rain. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z “My, you’re very polite,” Mrs. Cadaver said, flashing her wild gray eyes. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The graying hair on the back of his head was swept forward, a comical arrangement to disguise his bald spot. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z The Arab boy had Dustfinger’s backpack over his narrow shoulders, and gray cat hairs clung to his pants. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The light from the opening in the roof was becoming diffuse and gray. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The lace curtains were gray, the floors, although swept, grew sticky and dank. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He was standing at the counter wearing a worn gray T-shirt and jeans. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z But when he happened to glance at Marigold’s bedroom window, it wasn’t her head of hair he saw, but a close-cropped gray cut instead—and just enough of her face to recognize her. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Twelve years later, an old hippie woman with waist-length gray hair answers the door. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z The one side of my head--the right side-- is full of millions of gray hairs. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z He watches me pass, his gray eyes hostile, then sleeps again, his cave half hidden by snow. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z His gray hair was cut short with unruly tufts here and there. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z To get to Dr. Holiday’s office, I had to walk down a long gray corridor that seemed buried deep in the bowels of the hospital. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z His weather-beaten cutoffs had been bleached gray by the sun, and a dirty red bandanna was knotted around his right wrist. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z The glow in the fog fades to a dull gray. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z He tiptoed after her into the room, which was cold and smelled of furniture polish, and miserably gray in the light from the rain-washed window. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I would wave at the general, perpetually dressed in his shiny overpressed gray suit, and he would wave back. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z What I saw could only be described as a field of pale gray fog. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z While riding on the train to Pittsburgh, Ophie had seen a ghost outlined in a deep, stormy gray that shaded to black. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A drift of gray was leaving the Clouded Mountain, a slowly spreading smudge against the blue sky. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He had a long clean-shaven face with a sharply-pointed nose and extremely bright eyes and a great tousled mop of gray hair. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z The clouds were low, but the half moon was lower still and shone a gray, feeble light on their quilted undersides. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z I look at our joined fingers, at the fraying cuff of his gray shirt and the worn knee of his jeans. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z The room itself was plain—a gray floor with swirls that gave it the impression of movement and that was illuminated by four or five lights beaming from the shadows. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z I crack one eye open, notice the pale gray light filtering through the bars on the windows, and grunt. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z A second later, I was running toward the two still gray forms lying side by side. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z Some Authority guys step in and out of a gray modular building attached to the Hub. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Members of the skeleton night crew pass us in the hall and wave wanly; most have that gray night-shift look. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood on the gray slate stoop in front of him. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Between the gazebos, pond, and swans, the picture required more than thirty shades of white, gray, and silver. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z She could feel the gray gristle of the felt that cushioned the window glass pressing into her chinskin. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I park it in the gray office chair across from her. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Now she was able to look around a little, and every-thing she could see was rusty and gray. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy hauled a gray sack that bulged as if it held pumpkins. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z He pointed out that across the gray wire barricade was California, that famous place I had heard so much about. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Their overgrown gray manes completely covered their eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The scurry of gray jungle fowl running for cover. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z On the screen, Deborah sat on a couch with her mother’s Bible open in her lap, her hair brown instead of gray, her eyes bright, with no circles beneath them. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Miss Love cut off most of the thick gray beard with the scissors, after which Grandpa wrapped a steaming towel around his face to soften the stubble. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Chacko was examining the gray paste of sweat and dandruff lodged under his fingernails. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Overhead was a dark purple skin with gray veins. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Her weight is settling down into the gray cushions. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z The ugly gray sky of the morning of March 4, 1865, threatened to spoil the great day. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Outside, the gray afternoon was speckled with drifting white. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Where just a moment ago there had been nothing, now suddenly there was the Talent the Owner had plucked from the man in the gray suit, clean and condensed and opaque, like an ice cube. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I chew with my mouth open, and I see the gum, moving around between my teeth like a gray caterpillar. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He was shorter than most of the men in the village but easily twice as thick, with a tangle of graying red hair that matched his bushy beard. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It had a bed, an old, gray- brown dresser, a small closet. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Or in the foreign country of Norway by the gray winter ocean. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z “You were green and turning gray when we found you. If it weren’t for Chiron’s “Now, now,” Chiron’s voice said. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Then a fog rolled in, misting me clean through—no pain, no thoughts, nothing but wet gray haze, like I’d been set adrift in a boat at dawn. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Their gray uniforms passed like fleeting shadows through the confusion. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z He had gray mustaches, wore a doorman’s cap and was in his shirt sleeves. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z She hands out little pieces of gray quiz paper. Ask the Passengers 2012-10-23T00:00:00Z But soon the potatoes and the chicken and the carrots had all tasted the same to her, blanched and waxen and gray. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z She was dressed in a severe gray suit and was sucking a peppermint. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z The general’s gray van was parked in the driveway. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z She stood watching me, her long gray hair caught in the wind like wisps of silver thread. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z In the gray light before dawn, Thor met Hymir on the dock. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z She watched the sun rise into a cold gray sky that turned warmer and brighter as the first peach-colored beams of light grew golden, then yellow, then white. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z As they approached this gray foundation, Mrs. Frisby saw that near the middle of it, a few inches off the ground, there was a square patch of darker gray. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The sleek, mouse-sized car with wire-spoked wheels and knock-off hubcaps was painted silvery gray, the right color for whizzing unnoticed through shadows. Ralph S. Mouse 1992-08-01T00:00:00Z On the left side of the courtyard stood a line of columns holding up weathered gray arches. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z He was wearing a black overcoat, gray suit, yellow silk shirt, and gray suede kicks. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Shadow could see a gray face, in the shadows, peering out at them. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Everyone was gone but the weeping old woman in the bulky brown and gray sweaters and black head shawl, and soon she too would be gone. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In his version, the dull gray house had cheery yellow shutters, the brown of the palms was a fiery orange, the roof was a burnished red. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Nestled in all that boring gray was a single golden feather, which he extended to them. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Our house is half gray shingles and half brown painted panels. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z On a gray, low day at the end of February, they closed the door to the parsonage for the last time. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z The leader, a gnarled gray rat with a diagonal scar across his face, pointed at Gregor and hissed, “Kill him!” Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z It contains some yellow and red, from the Amity, and some gray, from the Abnegation, colors I rarely see side by side. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z But unlike Helene, the Commandant exudes a deathly chill, as if her gray eyes and cut-glass features were carved from the underbelly of a glacier. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He had a well-trimmed beard, marbled gray and black like a storm cloud. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z The Diallo shooting, in other words, falls into a kind of gray area, the middle ground between deliberate and accidental. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z She turned her eyes from the gray sky to her family. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray light, streaking across the cloudless sky, stung my eyes. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z It's really ironical, because I'm six foot two and a half and I have gray hair. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Donatelli sat down in the other, resting his heavy forearms on his neatly pressed gray slacks. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Dawn was just breaking the sky into pale gray, illuminating the floating docks and the distant mist-shrouded structures of drowned Orleans. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was pulled low on her brow today, and Laila could see the gray hairs of her sideburns. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Then she went off to join her siblings from the Athena cabin—-a dozen boys and girls with blond hair and gray eyes like hers. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z By the time the light outside grew gray with the approaching dawn, Klaus had found out all he needed to know. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z And thirty feet up on the gray shoulder he saw a series of little erosion caves. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z I wash off my brush and prepare the gray and white paints. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z It had been painted white a long time ago, but the paint, where it hadn’t peeled off altogether, had turned a dismal gray. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z We watch until they disappear into the gray haze on the horizon. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She had long gray hair that she wore in a low bun. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z I’m going to keep her gray silk scarf. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The man was short and square, with a graying moustache and a wide nose. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The door slams, and we are left in this room of unspoken words, surrounded by the gray concrete walls. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z On the morning of my escape I woke to a wool-like world of misty gray. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Traffic was heavier, and the exhaust and the diesel fumes could not rise into the sky on that first gray day, but hung over everything. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z She has the same knuckly red hands, the same metal-rimmed glasses, the same hair crown as Mrs. Smeath, only hers is all gray, and the hairs on her face are gray too and more numerous. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z He is older than the others, with deep creases in his dark skin and gray hair at his temples, and he stands on the ledge like it’s a sidewalk. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They rested once more at the head of a rocky valley, because even Will could tell that Lyra was nearly finished: she was limping badly and her face was gray. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z I walked straight out until I was facing the gray wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “Night and day, my girls,” Mom mutters, running a finger through graying hair. Red Queen 2015-02-10T00:00:00Z To his left waits the city, gray and dense. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “OUCH!” said Harry as what appeared to be a small, gray, feathery tennis ball collided with the side of his head. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I go downstairs early, and it's only me and the dirt, which I now realize has a gritty top, like someone sprinkled coarse sea salt on a gray cracker. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z When I opened it, Diego was standing on the step, dressed in gray shorts and a black sweater. We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z His carpet is gray and his furniture is black. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z In one of the gray tents of the Order of the Clean Hand, Spurge and Werfel sat slumped in a metal cage, waiting to hear news of their doom. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z From the corner of my left eye, I see a gray blur collapse to the pavement. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Industry was dressed in a gray suit and shiny black shoes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z They are made of gray cement, with few windows, in economical, no-nonsense rectangles. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Nathan turned around and stared at the gray being, the size of Seed Collector, that had been extracted from the back of his skull. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z A lane snaking to Marl Bank and Castlemorton, fields, more fields, a glimpse of an old gray turret rising above the firs. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z To compensate for my youth on campus, I wear old gray sweatshirts and box in a local gym and walk around with an unlit cigarette in my mouth, even though I do not smoke. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Attorney Fitzgerald’s door is at the end of a long, gray, and mostly featureless hallway. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He began showing up at the barn in neat gray suits, dark vests, whipcord trousers, wing tips, and on race days a restrained Republican tie. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty years had passed since the last Fischer–Spassky showdown, but each of the three main players seemed approximately the same—excepting some gray hairs, additional furrows, and extra girth around the middle. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Barbed wire edges this barren, infinite wilderness, just a line of stitching along a gray tea towel. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z The sloughs by the roadside motionless and gray. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z There was an explosion, a ball of flame and a fist of gray smoke that followed Alex up as if trying to seize him. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z They look like tropical birds against the dark gray of the subway. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z He is not dressed right for the weather—an old leather jacket, thin black gloves, jeans, and battered gray gym shoes. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Long gray hairs were matted into the blood on the blade. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But God has painted this place gray and brown. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z An hour later, just before dawn, the travelers heard a soft whooshing noise above their heads and they glanced up and saw an immense gray batlike creature swooping down toward them out of the dark. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z Gertrude lifted my chin and I looked up into eyes that were deep and gray and full of mystery. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Perfect beads of light reveal the cherry red of her fluttering eyes and the gray of her skin. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z She stared out the window and watched the dusk turn the white of the neighbor’s house pale purple, then gray. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But on those days he could smell the gray and sour odor of the gunsmoke. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z He heard them in his head, all those screams and sighs, he thought he could feel tears on his gray skin. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z But in time maybe everything will fade to gray. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Her hair was loose and damp, grayer than it had been three months earlier. Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z Apa peers down at the scrap of paper in his hand and then looks up at the number on the gray stucco building. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z She untwists the strap of my gray tank top undershirt and kisses the top of my head. A High Five for Glenn Burke 2020-02-25T00:00:00Z And on they walked, trudging in silence under a sky that had finally darkened to a dull iron gray and remained there without getting any darker. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z You could tell because the white wall had turned gray right where he had just tapped his head. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He tried to hold it back, but the wind swept down from the green coastal mountains, whipping the rain into gray waves that blinded him. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I believed him, not because of the pale gray of the sky, but because of the bustle of the NKVD. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The sky was a bleak and uniform gray. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z As he straightened up, he caught a glimpse of himself in a store window: a gray ghost stared back. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Yossarian and Milo were covered in their bower by tissue-thin tiers of sloping green and largely surrounded by other gray chestnut trees and a silver spruce. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Reilly had added a new touch to the office the day before, streamers of mauve, gray, and tan crepe paper looped from lightbulb to lightbulb across the ceiling. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were pale gray—the same color as his stubble whiskers. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Sohrab’s new room had cream-colored walls, chipped, dark gray moldings, and glazed tiles that might have once been white. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z He has a graying beard and hair tied back in a long ponytail. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I flung my rag into the bucket, sloshing gray ammonia water all over my ankles. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The water turns gray and I feel virtuous because of all the dirt that’s coming out. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One gray Monday morning a few weeks after school started, Mom hurried me to get dressed for a hospital appointment. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Each monster was about the size of a cow, with a bowed back like a broken-down horse, matted gray fur, skinny legs, and black cloven hooves. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She was wearing a gray dress with tiny pink flowers. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I caught it with the edge of my shoe and a tiny fountain of my blood spurted against the gray paint of the porch. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I turned right at the end of Kensington Gardens Drive and walked parallel to the high gray wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Only when the ghostly figures got closer did Alex realize these were just regular people, their clothes and hair and faces coated in gray dust and ash. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z Scheer’s face was handsome, pale, with an Asiatic cast to his gray eyes. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z We walk among these gravestones, pointing out which ones —particularly gray, particularly oafish—the Lump-lump Family would choose to bury one another beneath. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z With his hands pushed into the pockets of a gray overcoat, Spencer circled the track on foot, moving by a palette of colorful barns and turning leaves. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I see him, behind the gray curtain, his back pressed up against the wall. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z It surrounded her with a swirl of gray ashes. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z As the bullet whizzed over its tiny whiskered head, shattering the toilet seat, the mouse took off—a squeaking gray blur that scooted out the doorway, between Curly’s feet. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The day is silver gray and cool as I walk over to Harrison Avenue. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Elisha let fall the stiff gray mop and rushed at John, catching him off balance and lifting him from the floor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z A gray bird circled, glided downward on outspread wings, then flew rapidly across the fields and disappeared from sight. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z I see the gray streaks in the woman’s hair and the end of the man s hooked nose and the blue armband of a Dauntless traitor just beneath their shoulders, and recognize them both. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z On January 20, 1969, Lady Bird and Lyndon Johnson ate breakfast looking out the White House windows at a gray and windy Washington morning. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z How the skin on them grew gray and lifeless. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was going to say something, but Lacey’s open mouth became truly slack-jawed, and she leaned her head against the cold gray tile of the bathroom wall, asleep. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z A strange sense of helplessness fell upon the girls as the gray bonnet vanished round the corner, and despair seized them when a few minutes later Miss Crocker appeared, and said she’d come to dinner. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I had mud on my shoe, on my sock, on my artificial legs, inside my artificial legs, on my gray shorts, on my shirt, under my fingernails and halfway up my arms. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z And there were five colored pencils: gray, black, green, blue, and orange. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Near the earrings a few gray wisps of hair escaped from beneath the black wig, which was slightly awry. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Tall, thin, with gray and green eyes?’ asked Doctor Copeland suddenly. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Its skull grinned beneath an expressionless gray face. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z To the east, the sun was rising behind a long row of gray clouds. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z This is some older, grayer, weaker, enslaved version of her. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z The flames dissipated, and standing before us was a tall man in gray overalls and a metal leg brace, his beard and hair smoldering with fire. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z His hair was peppered with gray, and the whites of his eyes had turned a dull yellow. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The day was cold, the sky was as gray as wet wool, but William had never felt so free in his life. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z His nose was flat and his face was broad; his head was a mass of wiry gray hair. The Cay 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z It suddenly seemed like there was more gray around her temples than had been there just a moment before. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Wears her gray hair up in a big beehive on her head. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Annabeth sat at table six with a bunch of serious- looking athletic kids, all with her gray eyes and honey- blond hair. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sure how they could tell, Jon was no grayer, no more silent than usual. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z There were six large gray tents, and each one had a black letter on it: A, B, C, D, E, or F. The first five tents were for the campers. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z Thomas stood next to him on the edge of the Cliff, staring at the gray nothingness beyond. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Out on the plaza, in the gray light of dawn, Jackson ordered them to stand still. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z He holds him there, and this close he can see the faint gray tinge to Henry’s complexion, the way his eyes aren’t connecting. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Now, this evening, it had all turned from bright white flakes to grubby gray mush. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z After breakfast, I’m in the valley pasturing sheep under a sky the dull gray of cow intestines, when Hermelinda appears on the hill. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A old smell leaked out and it seemed like it was the perfect smell that all this gray would have. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z We trudged along the road, the sky gray and heavy. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z Mitch and I exist in this weird gray area, but I’m thinking it’s grayer for me than it is for him. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Most common were the crisp nguka caterpillars, favorite snack of Anatole’s schoolboys, which resembled small twigs and were impossible to see until I learned to sense their particular gray curve. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He was still gray and his face glistened with sweat. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z Each one contains a substance that represents each faction: gray stones for Abnegation, water for Erudite, earth for Amity, lit coals for Dauntless, and glass for Candor. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Pearl was smarter than any of them and yet she seemed comfortable with everything she didn’t know: she lingered comfortably in the gray spaces. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Perhaps Changing Woman could help get rid of this bland lifelessness that was now taking the shade of a gray cloud. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Twelve feet tall, its skin was a dull, granite gray, its great lumpy body like a boulder with its small bald head perched on top like a coconut. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z In his right hand there was a long gray rifle. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned back, rubbing both hands over his thinning hair, now salted with gray, and asked me how I had enjoyed my internship. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The judge had short, manicured hair, slightly graying, and he spoke quietly in a way that suggested he was restraining an intensity. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z The square was mostly empty, except for an enormous gray horse that swished its tail in front of the smithy. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Having discarded his work uniform, he wore gray khakis, a matching shirt, and, like Perry, ankle-high black boots. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z If you look carefully, you can see the long curtain of gray where it’s already raining. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z I remember that bright-purple door on the short and wide gray building that takes up the whole section of this street. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Across the river, on a hill, the Ferris wheel of an amusement park stood motionless against a hazy gray sky. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the river, cold and gray in the dusk of a winter’s night, lay Wilmington. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The man in the gray suit gazed out at the horizon. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Instead, a white stripe runs diagonally across their chests and their armbands are gray. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z “Hard to get used to everything so gray and dead.” Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z All I can think about is wrapping my big, black hands around her scrawny, gray neck. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z He took off the soft black hat and held it in his hand and the gray hair glistened wetly, and the band of white skin at the forehead shone in the light. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z This angry black cloud looked nothing like the wispy gray plumes they’d seen from Cedar. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z His face was drawn in the twilight, as if the flush of anger had been ripped out of him and he’d been left with nothing more than gray sadness. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z There in the middle of the crowd in her dirty gray coat is my mother. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I nod my head at a two-story gray stucco bungalow on the corner. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z That dumb gray cat was sleeping in her bed again. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z The day's last flock of gray birds congregates above the seedheads of spent wildflowers and launches across the yellow green into a slate-blue sky. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z A tear gas canister exploded, spewing a gray cloud over the scene. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He stripped off his shirt and jeans, revealing a pair of gray boxers underneath. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z The ground-level lobby was an open space with gray walls, stone floors, and a uniformed security guard standing behind a desk. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Erik and Vincent Castor had found a can of white spray paint, and they had painted something on that gray wall. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And I confess to a feeling of gray desolation. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I followed it all, heated it on the stove, and before I knew it, I had made a pot of pale gray mush. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z His hair was gray, but when he combed it and walked out the door, he was smiling and his face wasn’t tired or old. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was snowing, and everything was covered in a thin layer of gray ice and slush. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I pulled back the rough gray sheet completely. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z The light was so bright now that he could actually make out the color of the rock—dark brown and gray. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z A big gray dog with long curling hair and yellow eyes was their leader and he went last. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z His gray eyes half-closed and he stood with his hands deep down in his pockets. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Grosie was short and fragile, with a gray pompadour and smiling brown eyes. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The light outside the blinds was just gray. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When it seemed the night would last forever, the blackness finally softened into a dull gray. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z Dicey woke herself up early the next morning, before the first gray signals of dawn, when the air outside lay black over fields, marshes and the glistening water she could just see from her window. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z For about ten yards away, next to one of the trees, was a large gray wolf. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z The cedar tree was a silvery gray and its bark crinkled all the way up. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z In this gray room her eyes shine with ambition. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Folly Bridge had been swept away altogether, and the Thames was no longer a river but a swollen sea of gray turbulence sweeping from right to left and threatening to overwhelm La Belle Sauvage entirely. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z In the bay, a mother seal played with her spotted pups as a golden sun peeked through the gray overcast and glinted off the waves. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “Maybe they were already branching? Do you remember seeing any gray feathers on the ground near the nest?” A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I dreaded what she would do when she woke up to find her arm torn open and turning gray. Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The air over their heads churned and darkened, a cloud coalescing out of nowhere, gray and dense and gravid with rain. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z A lethargy had settled on him, and a little gray hopelessness. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Quisling’s expressions were like a closet of pressed gray suits. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “He’s fainted,” said Hermione, who was also rather pale; she no longer looked like Mafalda, though her hair was still gray in places. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z His boots came to my shoulder, and his gray uniform was piped and spangled with silver. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z Cherrie looked up and caught sight of a dark gray monkey with a potbelly and prehensile tail. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Sure enough, I saw Big Ma, although I didn’t see Pa. Our grandmother’s sea-green dress with matching hat and white feather stood out among black, brown, gray, and navy business suits. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z She very often wore men’s khaki pants, a gray cotton sweatshirt, and sandals. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Visiting the East Coast or the gray capitals of Europe during the long months of winter, I often meet people at deluxe hotels who comment on my complexion. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew it would not last long; the eyes would begin to cloud and turn glassy green, then gray, sinking back in the skull. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z They went outside and stood by the door, facing the gray and white sea that was so very silent, rolling into die shallows, its spume blown off into the wind. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z As she dropped her hands, it occurred to Lazlo that they bore no gray discoloration. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Thunderheads rolled in, painted the sky iron gray. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z They leaned the tin against the crumbly gray sides of the arroyo. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was not blue or gray or even greenish. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z In the gray morning light she saw the twins snuggled together in Beto’s bed. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Miss Love’s gray fall suit barely showed under hers, and she wore the dust veil over her red hat. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He's wearing a gray and red shirt with a University of Nebraska logo printed on the front and oversized glasses, even though the lenses aren't prescription. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Shimmering gray scales emerge from the watery room. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z At a passing glance, one might think her eyes blue or gray, perhaps even green, depending on the color of her clothing. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Just two blocks away, we stopped in front of that gray trailer with the men out front and the Reverend jammed his car into park, waving for me to get out. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The roosters were crowing in the chickenhouse and a gray rim of dawn lay on the east. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z After a while, I find my eyes adjusting to the darkness, and in the gray light we start walking in different directions at different speeds. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z A little gray light filtered in from the window in the back door, and she used it to guide her out of the hallway of the small house. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z Is it true that all cats are gray when the candles are out? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z So the shade provided by the bushes created various tones of gray that were easier for the film to absorb. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z It's a pure gut reaction because there's a gray Taurus in the driveway. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z William gazed at me in the gray light of the little window. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The sky was gray and an icy wind was blowing off Mount Cataract. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The flickering light cast a topaz glow over the narrow verandah, over the stubby gray hairs on Papa-Nnukwu s chest, over the loose, soil-colored skin on his legs. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z A slender stream twisted back and forth in its broad bed of gray sand, and the water was not milky with silt but clear and pleasant. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They illuminated his tired, gray face, but his eyes looked alert and wary. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The one with the gray suit and expensive watch. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z This foot was covered with a blue and gray Argyle sock, and Mrs Whatsit sat there, wriggling her toes, contentedly finishing her sandwich before scrambling to her feet. A Wrinkle in Time 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “His hair is quite gray,” said Taran, who could not bring himself to believe these strange creatures were indeed speaking of his old teacher. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Her craving for lull was powerful, but there was no more gray waiting for her now, no matter how much lull she drank. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The holding cells looked much more like the prison he had anticipated—no white stone or glass displays, just dank gray rock and iron bars. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Her face is gray, as if she might be ill. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z The rest of that day was dull going, under a cold gray sky, but they made a fair distance, by Malcolm’s reckoning. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z The woods were dark, but there was a gray light on the snowy path, and in the sky there were a few faint stars. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z In the gray light of dawn the trio continued down the side of the road until they reached a point where it took a right-angled turn. The Incredible Journey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Seeing him with short hair, and without that big droopy mustache and bushy gray beard, I was surprised all over again. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Following Lady’s scent, the gray fox located her exact position with his nose and leaped. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z The sneakers I saw were in dull colors like gray, tan, black, or white. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s wearing tiny black shorts and a gray tank top with a silver dollar sign on it. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z Finally, like the sun peeking out from behind gray clouds. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z The road ran along the flat gray coast and there were drifts of sand in the road that the winds had left there. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z She turned around so quickly, she knocked the pan off the stove and nearly dropped the gray paper into the open flame there. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z The chief mate leaned in, examining her with his dead gray eyes, scanning for falsehoods the way he’d scan the Current for leaks. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Our dead as a result are thinner, grayer, harder to hear, and hungrier. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z The gray squirrels have the most meat, he tells me, but are hardest to see in the woods. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z They set out at gray dawn, driving between the grape trees, which hunched like dwarfs in the fields. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z In four years he’s achieved more wrinkles, and the sideburns and mustache are graying further. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z In the gray gloom below the grandstands full of screaming faces, their white blades flickered in and out of the water. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The gray smoke hung low and seemed to thicken as I walked with my head down and eyes closed, trying to avoid the fumes. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Soldiers had observed him, hanging in the air like a plump gray fruit, were beginning to point and grin. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The days that followed were gray and heavy, as if Tali’s death was a dark cloud surrounding them. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z She pointed off to the right side of the road, northward to the gray cliffs, and said, “This is the place I told Ivan about.” Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Anya turned to see a gray charger clop into the village square. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z "Mo always said you worried too much. Told me I needed to make sure you didn't go gray before high school." City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z In the dirty gray light, Barry saw jagged hunks of wood, shattered glass, a twisted bicycle, a refrigerator, a stuffed penguin, a mattress covered with a pink blanket. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z Heat radiated off the ground, making the gray, windowless building shimmer. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The windmill near the sheep camp had gone dry, so the gray mules pulled the wagon from the springs, moving slowly so that the water would not splash over the rims. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He was dressed in Juvenile Hall’s gray sweatshirt and khaki pants, his hair cropped close. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z He wore a pale yellow shirt, spotless and clean, with gray slacks and suspenders and polished black shoes. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Wednesday was still sitting on the sofa, sipping his coffee, stroking the gray cat. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He calls himself a cab and goes to the basement one last time to throw away the towel he’d used to dry off, the gray push-button phone. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In Cora’s shock, the world drained to gray impressions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On my left was a high gray cobblestone wall with a mammoth dragon skull mounted on it. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z For now, there was a wooden cross and a gray rock the size of a dinner plate lying flat on the ground in front of it. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z My hair was receding and streaked with gray, and lately I’d traced little crow's-feet etched around the corners of my eyes. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z A craggy, square face with pale gray eyes. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z Crooked between the trunk and a branch, a sort of gray paper cyclone contained a circular hole about an inch in diameter. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z The late afternoon turned to gray dusk around them as Brooklyn settled into another summer night. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Instead of gray camouflage, they were now wearing blue New Mexico State Police uniforms, but they had the same transparent gray skin and yellow eyes. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I take a few steps closer and notice that Rock has some gray hairs in his beard, just like Daddy did. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z The castle was darker than it usually was in daytime because of the thick, swirling gray snow at every window. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z A few old men sat on the benches underneath the bare trees, looking dourly toward the blank gray sky overhead. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Stark, horrific images flickered in the darkened room, bursts of orange, gold, black, and smoky gray. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z His hands are covered in flecks of brown and red paint, and he's wearing a gray T-shirt with a Coca-Cola image on it and black pants. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z Like all of them, he was tall, but he wore a tidy beard, and his long blond hair showed gray at the temples. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The blanket on the bed is gray and says U.S. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z The Commandant arrives with Aquilla after nearly everyone else and stands at the front of the crowd beside the governor, her face harsh in the gray morning light. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z This is true even of tonalism, which emphasizes dark, neutral hues like gray and brown. History of Art, Volume 1 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z On the gray snow a fine mist of blood. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Examining the two of them in that bright light I saw that they looked wrinkled, dusty, and gray. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now I could see traces of his red and-silver fur through the gray. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z Bitter’s hand flew to her mouth when she saw Jam being held by the creature, and Aloe’s skin went gray. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Just a chill in the air, an arc of gray sky overhead. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Naomi fingered the soft fabric of a gray dress with flared sleeves, a blousy top, and a skirt that flared out a bit from a belted waist. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z But Goon, the Cedar Grove King Lord with the ponytails, looks at us from the driver’s seat, a gray bandana over his nose and mouth. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z It had stopped snowing and the cedar trees lay about in hillocks of snow and broken limbs and a few standing trunks that stood stripped and burntlooking in that graying landscape. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Beatrix Halliday patted her gray hair and said, “The boys in the warehouse think you fund the CIA, and the ladies at the front desk think you’re a descendant of the Queen of England.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z There was a gray house on the corner whose owners were indifferent to their dog’s feral displays, and a line of cottages where the wives stared out of the windows with flinty expressions. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The cloudy gray circle identified the place where the bowl filled every day during the doctor’s life with fresh flowers had stood. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Mile after mile after mile after mile, and everything became grayer and more monotonous. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z After a hundred yards, a glisten of gray ripples appeared beyond the trees: some wide body of water. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z And at his heels there walked a dragfooted sheepdog, gray of muzzle, and with pale, blind old eyes. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z She spooned porridge into her mouth, found it to be bland, and scooped four heaping mounds of brown sugar into the gray mess. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z All gray and brown and dark and hard. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He wore a light gray suit that was travel-wrinkled and stained; he carried the jacket over his shoulder. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I was no longer young for my peer group, nor did I walk around in gray sweatshirts with unlit cigarettes in my mouth. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the stout, gray cylinder of the water tower on its commanding hill, the sandbar curved out into the sea. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z His thoughts were churning too much about the gray sky and what Teresa—at least, he thought it had been the girl—had told him in his mind to participate in any conversation. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The office was plain, stuffed full of gunmetal gray filing cabinets, but little else. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z What was it the man in the gray suit had said, about shooting in a healthy direction? A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Even when I got used to that gray, I would only see peaks as if shaded in pencil, rocks like charcoal rubbings, everything so murky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z His body followed the movements of his hands, and his gray earlocks moved along the sides of his aged face. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Emma had her face buried in Rocket’s gray fur, and Finn was watching syrup drip from his fork. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The driver brought his bus to a landing outside a high gray wall. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z His lips spread wide, revealing a gray molar with a dark pit in the side. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z Mom parked in the shadow of the steel gray bleachers and turned off the car. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray BMW is parked in the intersection near the liquor store. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z The wagon driver wore a gray uniform similar to the ones worn by the guards at the gate but absent any sash or decoration. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z I thought it was a cloud, except that it was too gray, the wrong color, and then I thought: there are no clouds anywhere else. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z He saw a line of white smoke erupt, the gray troops waver and move back this way, stop, rifles begin to fall, men begin to run to the right, trying to get away. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The world around her had lost its color; everything looked gray and cloudy like a smudged watercolor painting. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z He was tall, dressed in hunting green, and his dark hair was streaked with gray. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z There he stood, a cut on his cheek, his clothes wrinkled and gray, even his hair saturated with dust. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z On a hot day, the gray smoke from the cars makes for sunsets with the strongest colors. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair had been hacked short, so its iron gray curls burst helter-skelter all over her narrow head. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z As he rounded the corner, he noticed a familiar-looking gray Oldsmobile, a jagged crack in the rear window, parked in front of the house. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Dust and gray particles exploded in what seemed like slow motion toward the ceiling, and something slapped against her face. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z A red glow was creeping up the church tower, and gray smoke formed a dense cloud above the rooftops. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z The laundry would be clean, the gray wood floors sprinkled and swept with water and wet sawdust. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The churring of gray squirrels in the bright morning sun told me it was daylight. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In twenty-four hours it was all gone except for some lovely shady patches in the woods—white-laced branches dripping rain holes in the crust—and the slushy gray piles at the roadside. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z His gray suit and tie made him look like a lawyer, plus the way he stood there with his hands clasped in front of him, all serious, as he focused on the judge. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Jones was thin and graying, his deep voice softened by a faint Southern accent. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It was just that she had also begun to rise, once she had watched the gray mist of twilight give way to early sun, and leave for work. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then his pursuer came within sight—one small man on a gray horse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z A freeman from his appearance, dressed in striped gray trousers and a vest of cowhide. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He had long, straight gray hair and a thin, mean mouth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She staggered into the gray zone, carrying boxes of supplies, and felt a sweeping adrenal rush, and thought, I’m too young to be going through this. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew these sharp, gray rocks—knew how they crunched beneath her feet, how they smelled after the rain, how they could so easily cut into her skin when she was thrown down. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The other was a long, gray, furry rodent with a white imsk around its face. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z She could feel it in the heaviness of her limbs and eyelids: The lull had not yet spent its thick gray spell. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z The green light next to Surly Wombat’s name switched to gray and read “unavailable” instead of “online.” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z The woman’s hair, long and gray, draped Over her neck like a fringed shawl. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z A gray pickup and a green Chrysler 300 are parked behind Daddy’s truck in the driveway. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z He’s taller than I am but just as skinny, with streaks of gray in his shaggy, brown hair. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z I pictured the man and woman in their somber gray suits. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Windows were made of gray vinyl, too opaque to see through. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z His reddish hair is flecked with gray and his nearsighted eyes disappear under weary, fleshy lids. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In the meantime, I’d taken my gray coat from the closet, but it was so small it looked as if it might have belonged to my little sister. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He was slightly gray and he had a mustache. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Something small and gray parted the clouds and came hurtling toward us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z He was gray, tired, and distracted, to the point that he received a rare tongue-lashing from Luis Alvarez for his inattention to Rad Lab business. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z The other bigfoot, the gray one wearing the suit, just rolls his eyes and adjusts his monocle. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z It was made of gray shell-encrusted sea rode, long and low like a bunker, but it had windows that faced the sea and it always had a good breeze blowing through it. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z They looked very much alike: tall, with prematurely gray hair, a beak nose, sharp eyes, a calm manner; and their voices sounded alike. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We found before us a small, gray man in a gray silk coat who surveyed us as we entered, clearly assessing even the academicians among us for resale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The sage — low-growing and shrubby — could hold its place on the mountain slopes and on the plains, and within its small gray leaves it could hold moisture enough to defy the thieving winds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z On the far side of the rocks I found the big gray dog. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z You can buy gray Arabic notebooks with soft covers just the right size for folding once and sticking in your pocket. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z From under her pointy hat fell a cascade of gray braids that she always had done in the colder months, her tight curls loose and flowing whenever it was warm out. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z She tossed a pan of dirty water onto the flagstones and pushed a strand of graying hair out of her eyes with the back of her hand. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes it seemed as if they would crush the road between their gray and rocky sides. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z I turned back to racist dude’s wrinkled white face, his thinning gray hair. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z Those days, the world feels as gray and cold as it really is and it's hard not to believe the new girl isn't mas mejor than me. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z It looked smudgy, so I wiped it with the little gray cloth. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Her skin is a patchwork of colors—gray, white, beige—and wrinkled like a paper sack. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z The sky was pale in the southeast, and the air was suffused with a gray mist, through which the gyptians moved like bulky ghosts, loading sledges and harnessing dogs to the traces. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z Here, there was only gray rock, a shadowy forest, and two old people. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z It was a stone gray day, the sea a bleak slate broken up by whitecaps, the sky pleated with thick ripples of cloud. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It was hard to imagine Mrs. Lynch, with her gray hair, wrapped in a bun, as a teenager, dancing to music in the living room with my mom. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Far away, and down near the horizon, the sky began to turn gray. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z Lit by the pale glow from the nearly full moon, Horn Rock rose like a giant gray tusk from the edge of the bluff and jutted up into the night sky. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z The gray room darkened and the cone of light flowed and rippled like water. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z "Hoping I'd see you in the square wearing a gray scarf so this can all be over. So that you can get your brother back. And after, we could...you and I could..." An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z Her bun had fallen out and a long gray braid trailed down one shoulder. The Night Diary 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Her hair was pinned back, and she wore a plain gray dress similar to what Mama wore to work. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z A stocky woman with kinky gray hair was dancing alone on the linoleum, shaking her pendulous breasts, which were slung in a white bowling blouse. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His name, Jamison, was still three syllables, and his hair had not grayed. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z First the man was Father Amadi, his soutane flying behind him, then it was Papa, in the floor-length gray sack he wore when he distributed ash on Ash Wednesday. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z "Yes—but I'm not sure what I'd look like if I had a gray beard and my face was all wrinkly." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z His hand became see-through; his black suit lightened to gray; from the stage you could see rows and rows of burgundy velvet seats right through him. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z When she brought it out again she was holding a stone in it, a gray stone not much bigger than a bird’s egg. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z There were small gray motor cars that passed going very fast; usually there was an officer on the seat with the driver and more officers in the back seat. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Sunlight poured through the three wide windows that faced the street and spread gold across the gray rug, the French-style sofa, chairs and end tables, the polished, glass-topped coffee table, and along the white walls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z I didn’t see a man in a gray flannel suit; it was polyester. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Through the hanging smoke, Lefty saw other streetcars letting off other workers, hundreds and hundreds of gray figures trudging across the paved courtyard toward the factory gates. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A gray marble rolled across the floor and clicked against the wall. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z I pick up a smooth gray stone and try to think what Nat would match with this. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She was very gray and weak and tired. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z We lived in a big gray building with windows so small, you couldn’t put your head outside. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z We walk down the yellow hall with the industrial carpet, that factory gray, past the shiny elevators, and through a heavy door to the stairwell. Sparrow 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z This gray concrete house was a duplicate of the others they had seen on the dirt road. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z While the peasantry was chuckling, the Pierce Arrow would buck away in clouds of gray smoke, while the professor up front rendered a few bars of Honk Honk Kadookah. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In the increasing light, the ship’s wake curled white behind them, a spreading vee in the still gray water of morning. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z It was light gray with white trim, all sharp angles and expertly painted wood tiles. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Harry whirled around and Griphook tightened his hold around Harry’s neck: A tall, thin wizard with a crown of bushy gray hair and a long, sharp nose was striding toward them. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z The light is fading now and gray clouds billow over the mountains we crossed earlier. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She was middle-aged; there are hints of gray in her dark hair. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z As he added branches to keep the faltering flames alive, he watched the rain pelt the icy slate- gray waters of the bay. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z In the hall, a sweat- stained gray Stetson hat—Herb’s—hung on a hat peg. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s strange to see the gym filled with parents instead of kids running around in their gray and purple P.E. uniforms. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z And that’s where it should have stayed, except that, while Toby was turning another corner into the gray fog, the suitcase tumbled to the floor of the truck. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z I heard a shout and looked up to see a man in a gray uniform rise from a hatch in the conning tower and level a gun at us. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z The room has Harold’s minimalist look to it: the twin bed with plain white sheets and white blanket, polished wood floors, a bleached oakwood chair, and nothing on the slanted gray walls. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Saw a groundhog, saw a doe with two fawns, and saw a gray fox with a reddish head. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z His gray hair looks more sparse than the last time Gogol remembers, his potbelly more pronounced. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She has frizzy gray hair and a coffee stain on her blouse; her face is kind. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He stopped in front of a gray blue house with a willow tree in the front yard. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z I stare at my worn gray Converse All-Stars and try to scrape off the dirt from one scuffed toe with the other. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z Dull gray in color, she'd been abandoned by a spooky alcoholic with long fingernails and a large collection of kimonos. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He took the tightly folded rectangle from the notepad and set it on the table, and judging by the little bits of cartoony blue and gray, it looked like Batman, but I wasn't sure. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Her long, shiny hair, with its gray strands here and there, was tucked into a neatly pinned bun at the nape of her neck. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “Good girl!” roared a figure running through the dust toward them, and Harry saw Aberforth again, his gray hair flying as he led a small group of students past. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z These birds are a big gift to the gray skies of Los Angeles. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z A boy no older than I was, shuffling silently along in his gray robe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Tonight, it’s a bulky gray sweatshirt and matching pants. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z A fat gray cat with a tail that lifted like a plume crossed the floor to our table and curved against my leg to purr each time she rubbed. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In a true volcanic eruption, he went on, the smoke is steel gray or black. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z On the loading dock, under a gray tin roof, women sort red and green tomatoes. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z The rule was never waived, even when the temperature dropped to the fifties, and a cold, gray rain was falling. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Now it’s this big heavy thing rattling around in there—all mushy and gray and, I don’t know, brainlike. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The water came from a gray metal water pistol with a long skinny barrel which I stuck into a small opening in one end of the bag. Flying to the Moon: An Astronaut's Story 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Willum stood nearby, dressed in a gray suit too warm for the day. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is fanned out around her face, a mixture of gray and misty brown. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z She spent a whole summer with the gray ball, the little ball of fur and string and hair always floating in the light near her but which she did not see because she never looked. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Recognizing the female by her great size, I stop running to admire the silver gray body streaking through the sky. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z A dingy gray that was still somehow beautiful, like clouds before rain. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z New York is gray and slushy and miserable for months. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In short, it was a grisly episode, that meal, and the little session of three that followed began in a gray, unhappy manner. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z It looked like a big gray igloo, but it was a cairn—one of the Neolithic tombs after which Cairnholm was named. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z Mary Alice and I watched like two paralyzed people as the milk rose around the mouse’s furry gray body until his whiskers began to float. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z My grandmother has always kept her long gray hair secured in a tight bun. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Dunmore, rigged and coursed with smoke like some spirit vessel, cast volleys of flame through its entanglements of cloud, and all its gray was incarnadined with fire. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z The soles of Fang's feet, grayed by powdery stone, were all I could see of him. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It’s even sad when it’s a slimy gray worm that gave its life for science. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z By three o’clock, the rain had stopped and the sky was a curdled gray burdened with lumps of clouds. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Across the aisle, a man in a gray fur hat was pinning down his son to put a gray fur hat on him. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z It was an unadorned gray room with a small table with two metal folding chairs. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z I spent hours staring out our front window, watching for Red’s old gray Chrysler Windsor. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z All around, everything else blended into an indistinguishable, borderless cascade of blurring gray streaks. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z At the sound of Reed’s footsteps, he turned, dead gray eyes probing. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z He pulled off his hood to reveal neatly cut gray hair, a mournful face red-cheeked from the chilly day, and dark eyes that seemed themselves almost to be weapons. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z Luke studied her face, seeing lines of fatigue that hadn't been there before, noticing that the hair around her face now held as much gray as brown. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z He imagined himself being flung into the air and landing on the thick gray skin of the giant creature before being trampled. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Among them, the chief’s family is the fattest and wears only new black, shiny clothes, not the faded gray rags we have on. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She had gray splotches under her eyes, and the fine wrinkles that came out from the edges of her eyes and her mouth seemed deeper this morning. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z His uncle’s cheeks were sunken and his whole face was cast in a gray that somehow looked even and flat. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky was gray, and Wash’s smile was the brightest thing in sight. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z An odd, dilapidated wooden building near one of the corners of the square contrasted greatly with the gray stone. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z All of them were senior citizens now, their hair graying and shoulders curving, a sign of the decades and maybe also the weight they’d carried for future generations. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He could see that where the front door had been there now stood a jagged hole leading out into the gray night. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z The hideous gray uniform made her look much younger than she really was, despite the fact that her womanly curves showed through the design. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He was short, with thin hair and small, blinking, gray, honest eyes. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Her graying hair is parted in the middle and tied in a ponytail, her nose pierced with a stud shaped like the sun. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Jack’s already white to his forehead, and Aunty’s gray all over. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Slowly, the gray pallor faded and the killing fever cooled from her cousin’s skin. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Two pale hands rested on the gray desk like pink animals. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z He was wearing a tall gray hat and a remarkable coat with very wide shoulders, like wings. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Their robes were of crimson and silvery gray and deep purple and vivid green: and there were patterns, and pictures of flowers and strange beasts, in needlework all over them. The Magician's Nephew 1955-05-02T00:00:00Z To the south loomed the Rocky Hill, gray boulders clearly visible along the top, and beyond it the higher eminence of the Round Hill. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They walked all afternoon until at last, a mile ahead, where gray and yellow smoke billowed up from surrounding fields, they saw the bridge across the Bergues-Furnes canal. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Martin huffed through his explanation, washing his sweaty gray hair from his face as he spoke. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She was gray with a white bib and boots. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Here, gray and cheerless moors spread before them. The Black Cauldron 1965-06-01T00:00:00Z Everything faded from gray to grayer to grayer still, so that soon there was hardly any color, and then the gray was so dark that Turner couldn’t see through it. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z There isn't a shred of humanity in her gray eyes, nor any evidence of kindness in the planes of her masked features. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z One of them was made of new boards that had not had time to get gray; it was the yellow color of newly-cut wood. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Night after night, green and gray military vehicles cruise the streets. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z A mother gray squirrel ran out on the limb of a burr oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Good decision, he told himself as he huffed up and up the track, as it wound around the mountain, as the river got farther and farther below the gray cliffs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z He looked up at Marly, and his gray beard shook when he laughed. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z At the park, Robin Hood races from tree to tree, his gray mustache quivering as he sniffs. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z For a second that contained an eternity, Harry stared into Cedric’s face, at his open gray eyes, blank and expressionless as the windows of a deserted house, at his half-open mouth, which looked slightly surprised. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z “And hair gets thin and goes gray, in thirteen years. But yes, that’s right. It’s Jack.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z We slogged through mud to a rear entrance, showed our I.D.’s, passed through another metal detector, and then marched down a long gray corridor. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Smoke was thick & black & gray & white against the Grasses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z I pointed to a low gray building made of sea stone. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z The gray wood looked as though it would collapse if just one more book were added. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z They stood watching the pale gray flakes sift down out of the sullen murk. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z They looked up at the uniform gray skies and, seeing in them tokens of much colder weather ahead, wondered how they would make it through another winter. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z It was the one part of the Ice Court he’d seen that wasn’t white or gray. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z It stood on a snowy cliff overlooking this big frosty forest on one side and the gray churning ocean on the other. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The dawn sky is a smudge of gray flecked with pink, like a picture drawn with two crayons. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z Luckily, everyone in the community rushed to donate new furniture and art and worked together to cover up the horrible words that had been sprayed on the walls with fresh coats of light gray paint. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z He sports a gray mustache and a backward baseball cap. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z They were even more menacing in the faded gray light. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z Men in gray robes rode upon wheeled ladders, seeming to float through the air, scrolls flapping behind them like wings as they rolled from shelf to shelf. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z In the middle of the chute was a boulder—huge, gray, wet with waves and spray—and the raft aimed directly at the center of it. The River 1991-06-01T00:00:00Z The gray door was unmarked except for an extremely small, unobtrusive sign halfway down that read: Sexual Disorders and Gender Identity Clinic If my parents saw the sign, they pretended not to. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Below, the steep gray ice of the Lhotse Face dropped 4,000 vertical feet to the floor of the Western Cwm. Into Thin Air 1996-08-01T00:00:00Z The arm dissolved into a gray mass, then whiffed out of existence. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z This was the thing about Japan: the water was gray, not blue or pretty. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z "So many gray hairs on my head, but I have a lot left to learn. I'll try my best." Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z The heavy metal door of the Map Room was slightly ajar, a wispy trail of black smoke drifting out and into the gray sky. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z We were on a bright, cold, gray Manhattan sidewalk. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z He wore a gray suit and the new purple tie that Mom bought him. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z It is old, so old that it's possible that the gray stone columns grew from the mountain it stands on. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z When the door opened, it was not the woman in white but another one wearing red, her hair cut so short it resembled a little gray, curlicue swim cap pulled tight over her scalp. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The world had already gone to shades of gray as dawn approached, but now colors are starting to bloom. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z He nods, and his Adam’s apple, which has some extra gray whiskers on it, bobs. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z A faint gray haze hung in the east. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z As we reached the store, what little sun there had been that day was setting and the sky blended into the gray haze that swallowed everything around us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z In the darkness, a gray sphere appears, followed by a cube, a pyramid, and a cylinder. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We could wear white or gray or navy blue but no orange, or red on the outside. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “The general albedo of Mercury is low and most of the soil is gray pumice. Something like the Moon, you know. Beautiful, isn’t it?” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z One by one, Crick sets dark gray jumpsuits at the end of our cells. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The sky outside the window was changing rapidly from deep, velvety blue to cold, steely gray and then, slowly, to pink shot with gold. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z Her black pajama clothes are gray and faded. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair is like gray thread, her mouth soft, her face wrinkled and sweet. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z His beard covered so much of his face he seemed always to be peering over a gray cloud. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Even before the ghetto, even before the Jackboots came, Big Henryk wore gray bank coin bags on his feet. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The man had a kind of gray wistful twinkle in his eyes as though he remembered humor when it was not against the law, so that I dared go out on a limb. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He turned to look and saw, only just visible through the wet gray air, a man in a dinghy rowing hard towards them. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Will’s arm was strong around her, but he, too, was looking ahead, trying to peer through the wet gray gloom and to hear anything other than the dank splash of the oars. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Each had “luminous” eyes and a mouth surrounded by sixteen "whip-like tentacles” resembling a "gray snake.” Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z The once white concrete is gray with mold, the short grass around it brown and shriveled. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z His face was proud and handsome and grim, his eyes rainy gray. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Metal shelves stretched into the darkness of a vast gray hall. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Too heavy and too gray to not turn into rain. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z In any case these people—Roosevelt called them the Paituna culture, after a nearby village—had ceramic bowls, red- to gray- brown. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z On instinct, Mark sprinted to the other side of the gray wall, yet there was nothing there. The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z It’s a gray day, the church is gray and the small crowd of people outside the door of the priests’ house is gray. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I think I was half prepared, in my dark, demented state, to see God, bearded and gray as geometry, scowling down at me, shaking his bloodless finger. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z I looked up at the frosty gray sky. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z Their skin is thin and almost leprous gray. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z But a thorough look at the data reveals that the graying of America did nothing to bring down crime in the 1990s. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z A dirty gray dog ran out of the field near us, and then he ran back in. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z We can bounce the soccer ball against the gray walls until the manager comes outside and says, “Cut out that racket.” A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z All my life, winter has meant gray skies and rain, puddles and umbrellas. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Its new name was stenciled on the side of its battered gray hull. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Her hair was gray by that time, of course. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad bumped his elbow against me, his hands deep in the pockets of his gray Keller & Newton jacket. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z The Owner noticed something peeking out from the bottom hem of the man’s gray jacket. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z There, standing ten feet from the register, was a large man—towering, really—in a gray suit. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The front rooms were filled with piles of blankets and bedding, a few stacked mattresses, and a number of unidentifiable gray plastic tubs. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z I glance at Mango and decide that theory must not be true with cats, since my hair is neither gray nor white. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z The sky was gray, the stars were fading, when we got back to where we started. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z The soldier has a gray streak in her hair. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z They were no longer the brown of desert-tanned skin, and neither were they the gray of grime and sickly babies. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z Instead, there was an old man, tall and silver and dressed in gray. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z In the deep gray of a motel room dawn, with my imagination in overdrive, it was difficult not to confuse her with the dead girl in the dream. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z It’s two blocks away—a tall gray building with big tanks of frozen oxygen out front and construction vehicles constantly adding new wings. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z I watched a gray rooster walk into the shrine at the corner of the yard, where Papa-Nnukwu’s god was, where Papa said Jaja and I were never to go near. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z She pushed the door open, peeked in, and saw that the ashes of his fire were still hot; wisps of smoke drifted from the chimney and disappeared with the wind into the gray sky. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Miss Cook isn’t here today but there is an older lady with gray hair. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z The players were aware of nothing, the frantic yells of the crowd, the clock, the dwindling light, the gray sadness of it all. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her saddle and bridle were made of fine dark brown leather, and the saddle blanket was woven of gray and white wool that nearly matched the horse’s coat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He was wearing the same tall gray hat and the remarkable coat. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z All the children in the neighborhood loved the stall and Grandpa Hong, with his gray hair and wispy beard. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s older but still has all his hair, a stately gray mop, combed half-heartedly. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The color was uneven, but made a nice gray watercolor. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z He saw an officer: handsome full-bearded man in gray, sword and revolver. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The food Mrs. Byrne makes is bland and unappealing—soft gray peas from a can, starchy boiled potatoes, watery stews—and there’s never enough of it. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z He had deep-set dark eyes; a handlebar mustache; and long, greasy black hair streaked with gray and tied in a ponytail. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I could pick out General Washington astride his big gray horse at the center of the line. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z The grizzled, gray old parkhand could never know how much Maniac was tempted, or how deeply the offer touched him. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Though it was now a dull gray, so detailed were its features that he found himself half listening for the sound of a quack. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z Her eyes were startlingly gray, like storm clouds. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z It was overgrazed; rain eroded big arroyos in the gray clay, and the salt bush took hold. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Nevertheless, uneasiness settled over the companions as the gray shapes continued trailing them; and Melyngar, docile and obedient until now, turned skittish. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Here, the sand was fine, gray, and sun-seared, nothing like the clumpy red earth back home; the trees were tame, unlike the bursting greenness that sprang up and cast shadows on the road to Umunnachi. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z And he thought of their feet so swift and brutal, and the dark gray clothes they wore, and how when they passed they did not see him, or, if they saw him, they smirked. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z I reached up and twisted a few strands of his straight gray hair between my fingers. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z The sky was gray and low and full of rain but not yet raining. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z In the gray morning light, I examine my hands. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Little flecks of gray fluttered down all around us, collecting on puddles of water in the yard. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z It was a rutted, gravelly field of gray Georgia chalk with a few tufts of grass and tall weeds. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z A short, balding man with graying hair, a pointed nose, and small, watery eyes stood before Frank, a mixture of fear and alarm in his face. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z Already the mourning bands had been sewn around the arms of two gray suits, and now he was on the last. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z No one realized what was happening at the moment he stepped out and approached the gentleman wearing the fine, gray suit. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z The "crackpot—clown" with the streak of gray hair sitting before him suddenly had Traynor's full attention. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z Case in point: today’s skinny jeans and a navy plaid shirt, under a fitted gray sweater, rolled up at the elbows. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z Instead of everyone wearing the long-sleeved gray shirts prescribed by the Academy, some had slipped into the short- sleeved version, despite the still-cool spring weather. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He leaned back in his small gray chair. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z The driver was a guy in a silky gray suit. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It feels like a thunderstorm, gray clouds billowing across the sky. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z He almost completely occupies it; he’s large and barrel-shaped with a stately, pockmarked face, gray hair, big eyebrows, and a firm handshake. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z But Claire had been silent, appearing without warning from the swirling gray mist, and his maimed feet made it impossible for him to jump and run. Son 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z He took her for rides in an old gray Oldsmobile—to the country, to drive-in movies—and they sat over bad coffee in certain dime stores where they were not likely to be recognized. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s leaning on the table I’m wiping, wearing a gray T-shirt, old jeans cut off above the knees, running shoes with no socks. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Monsoon cast a waterfall in front of them, then whispered a few words that shrank the waterfall into a gray pendant. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Far below, the gray ocean defined the word “forever.” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In it, wrapped in a piece of blue silk cloth, are feathers: mostly slenderly, gray or white. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z The station wagon pulled into a parking space between two looming gray buildings separated by a narrow road. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z But there was a van outside her house, an unmarked vehicle that nevertheless said “official” in every line of the gray unwindowed metal of the bodywork. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z A snowy owl, white wings folded in a plummeting dive, threw out his feathered feet and struck the little gray bunting. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky took on a light gray color. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He pulls the sleeve back off my shoulder to reveal that pretty gray brassiere, to loop his finger through the strap, to rest his lips on my collarbone. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z His eyes are my mother’s eyes—a dull green, almost gray, though his blue shirt makes their color appear more potent. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z “What about this gray for the sofa cover and some prints in yellow for the curtains and the pillows?” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z The man in the gray robe had a string of beads around his neck and at the end of it was an ornament of polished wood. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Her mother, very soon to be a grandmother, is standing at the mirror of her dressing table, untangling waist-length hair, still more black than gray, with her fingers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He’s got a beer gut and a graying mustache. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Then they set out along the road through the gray slush, the boy at his side with his hands in his pockets. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z Her wispy hair was somewhere between brown and blond and gray, so it blended with the dry grass. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z Over the last year, while Percy had been missing, the gray streaks had finally disappeared from both of them, which made Annabeth sad and a little worried. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z I looked back to make sure no important part had fallen off, and saw a cone of gray smoke billowing behind us. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I’ve been watching the first gray light bring into view the park and the bridges over the vanished lake. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z As soon as the door opened, this icy cold wind came rushing out and I saw something gray go running up the steps. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z My hair is a grizzled gray, my eyes blue and my cheeks ruddy, a complexion inherited from my Irish mother. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z His spirits drooped suddenly a moment later, and he ran his hand nervously over his short, black, graying curls. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z In the gray haze of half sleep, I processed them in small, terrifying pieces: the gasoline reek of shoe polish, the creak of stiff leather, the twist of disgust on their lips. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z But there he was, just a hand’s breadth from her fingers, his gray eyes wide, his arms swinging as if he could turn them into wings. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z She was lying, still and gray, on the bed. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The fields glowed with a gray frost-like light and in the dew the tracks of rabbits and of field mice stood out sharply. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z His gray ears showed up in my video screen. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Masses of Lithuanians with tattered suitcases and bulging bags poured out into the valley, dirty and gray with soiled clothing, as if they had lived in a gutter for years. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The foal grew into a horse called Sleipnir, a huge gray stallion, the fastest and the strongest horse that ever there had been or ever there would be, a horse that could outrun the wind. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z As they neared the splintery gray ship that must have been the Tin Bucket, they ducked behind a stack of crates to survey the dock. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z I didn’t know what it was, at first—a wad of dull gray cloth—but when I touched it I realized it was silk, so I took it, in case it was important. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z She seemed like a fair bird-girl girdled in veils calling to me from the angry surface of some gray and threatening sea. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The clouds present diffuse bands of tender grays and blues, and below them the ocean does the same. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She led him into a room, made him sit on a gray velvet sofa, and dismissed all the dogs but two that lay at her feet. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The man standing in the doorway had long gray hair. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z In that instant, the light was particularly, if rather vividly, flattering to his gray, mostly white, hair. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Scattered throughout it are certain words, such as “worried,” “Florida,” “old,” “lonely,” “gray,” “bingo,” and “wrinkle.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z The windows giving back the gray and nameless day. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z If they didn’t want an exchange at the moment they’d put down in one of the big gray ledgers the amount of credit coming to them. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He had that same soft gray look in his face, his eyes. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The gray light from the window cast spidery shadows across it. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z One graying zombie, dressed for the best day of her life in a torn red gown. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Her eyebrows are gray even though her hair is black. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The man turned a pair of keen gray eyes on Taran. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z Like the pigeons he had seen in the city, this one was mostly gray, the color of eraser-smeared blackboard. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z Behind the clear gray eyes the light still burned steadily. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z Few people could tolerate the gray zone for long, but this was the place where George Blake found his true calling—and his real powers as a spy. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z We passed more buildings — huts and shacks and gray, peeling businesses — all abandoned. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The gray clouds in the sky meant more snow, but they also meant night would come earlier, and maybe an earlier end to the day’s marching. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Eliot looked out the kitchen window, at gray waves receding from the shore, and said that he was fine. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Without sunlight, the house’s pink brick lost its color and faded to an ashy gray. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z In Carmel Valley the artichoke plants stood gray green, and the willows were lush along the river. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The bright gold gleam of a tracker jacker lazily making its way across the papery gray surface. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z Down on the river, twilight was settling over the water like gray gauze. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He lay there early in the morning and watched the high small window above the bed; dark gray gradually became lighter until it cast a white square on the opposite wall at dawn. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Though if you look and look, as we are doing, you can see the outlines of the features under the white cloth, like gray shadows. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Michael still wore a gray beanie, which was good because there was still a card that said Steal Michael’s beanie. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z A stool posed in front of a backdrop painted with shades of swirling gray. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z To the west the sky was opening into a high gray overcast, and where the clouds were rubbed thin, the streaks of sky were almost blue. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Harry got toast, coconut, baked bean, strawberry, curry, grass, coffee, sardine, and was even brave enough to nibble the end off a funny gray one Ron wouldn’t touch, which turned out to be pepper. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z His head was small and perfectly formed, shaped like that of a deer, but with a gray beard growing from his chin. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z |
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