| 单词 | gray-brown |
| 例句 | Her gray-brown homesteader’s dress was the color of her subject. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Now there were only trees, their gray-brown trunks scaled with lichen, and every so often the sound of a squirrel or rabbit bounding through the underbrush. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Her hair is dyed an orangey color, with gray-brown roots showing. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Sandwiched between the Andes and the Pacific, Peru’s coastland is a skinny gray-brown ribbon. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Behind the bramble, half-hidden by a swirl of mist, a gray-brown shape, a rat, shaking dirt from his ears. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z They plodded through the poppy fields and gradually moved away from the Big House toward the gray-brown hills that lay on the horizon. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z During the day, turning, we saw the smoke of Drumner’s eruption hang behind us like a gray-brown extension of the surface of the Ice. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z But, before she put on the hat, she brushed her gray-brown hair and wound it into a bun at the back of her neck. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z And this dactyl—this strange and beautiful creature with its wrinkled, gray-brown hide, barrel chest, and slender neck—she wanted to hug it. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The whole room was full of the gray-brown powder. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Matt’s spirits rose still higher as he thought about traveling through those gray-brown mountains. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Approximately square, the cave’s only room was big enough to lie down comfortably in any direction, although the gray-brown ceiling sloped down toward the back, making it hard to stand in a lot of places. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z They turned their eyes upward again, for the fight was coming lower, and the firelight glaring up showed a swift-rushing swirl of black silk, pale limbs, green pine needles, gray-brown scabby leather. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z A scrawny gray-brown thing with long matted fur. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z His body was gray-brown and dingy, except for his right foot, which glowed a polished white from decades of hands rubbing it for luck. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But what the potters sought was the gray-brown clay that fused so well with the celadon glaze. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z 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 an ugly little building without a front door, set in a landscape of distant, gray-brown mountains and flat, white-gray basins. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z She could not look straight down—that was Jeremy’s back—but off to the right, and a bit behind them, she saw a gray-brown square the size of a postage stamp. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z I rinse my eyes with cold water and scrub my face until the white washcloth is gray-brown. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z One tray is filled with bundles of slender gray-brown sticks. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z The walls were institutional gray-brown; the carpet, ditto. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He looked like an old gray-brown piece of beat-up carpet, and I suddenly realized what bad shape he’d been in for a long, long time. Wife/Mother/Worker/Spy: My Dog Otto?s Last Day 2010-03-22T21:23:00Z “The black gingham is just like fire,” said Mr. Mazza, that day wearing a gray-brown blazer with skinny corduroys, a hot pink shirt and a madras pocket square, along with multiple man bracelets. Windsor Custom at the Ainsworth 2011-12-14T23:34:36Z Mrs. Baker’s pale gray-brown gown and hair are keyed to the wall of rock behind her and the clouds overhead, with no other sign of human life in sight. 2010-01-08T06:23:00Z DiGregorio pointed to the nearest box: flat, gray-brown skate, packed in ice. The Last Robot-Proof Job in America? 2019-08-01T04:00:00Z Occasionally the gray-brown countryside softens with milky light or flares with sudden, hopeful color; but the bright hues of a Beijing taxi are a cruel tease. 2010-01-21T04:46:00Z “Wild donkey,” Nixon says, pointing to the cream-colored creature with a gray-brown face and enormous ears that stands oddly alone on the bone-dry pond. On Great Inagua Island in the Bahamas, the flamingos are many and magnificent Devoid of yellowish shine, the resulting plane of gray-brown wood seems ready for anything: art, dance, performance, parties. Last Chance: Charlotte Posenenske Installation at Artists Space 2010-08-09T22:26:00Z And as every kid with a multi-pack of Play-Doh learned early on: If you don’t keep things separate, and instead mix every color in the rainbow together, you get a muddy, pukey, gray-brown. This is your food on acid: Why edible rainbows have taken over the Internet 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z The 15-shade palette includes a variety of shimmery and matte burgundy, mauve, dusty rose and pink hues alongside gray-brown and taupe neutrals. Best beauty buys under $70 from Ulta and more 2021-11-26T05:00:00Z They pop out of burrows in the station’s raised planters at dusk, dozens of them, big fat ones, their gray-brown bodies nearly camouflaged by the bone-dry dirt of their stomping grounds. Dumping ground and refuge: For those who know how to navigate L.A.’s Skid Row, it can provide community — but crackdowns have made life even harder 2016-02-28T05:00:00Z It will be appealing, though, partly because of the gray-brown mustang with a dark mane and tail that is being rounded up as the story opens, a helicopter swooping overhead like an aerial cowboy. ‘The Mustang’ Review: Where the Wild Things Roam. And Sometimes Break Out. 2019-03-14T04:00:00Z Trim and athletic, gray-brown hair that was thinning on top, he was the same age as me. Two Open Marriages in One Small Room 2020-01-10T05:00:00Z The females are gray-brown with just a bit of speckling. New York Fashion Week: Male Models at the Line of Beauty ? NY Fashion Week 2011-09-16T23:20:18Z You'll find colors like Artichaut, an "opulent green that is born of the garden," and Oyster, a gray-brown sheen with a hint of iridescence. How Le Creuset nails the art of colorful cookware 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z For eight hours Schmidt guided the vehicle as far as two kilometers from the borehole, into narrow spaces where less than a meter of water separated the ice above from the gravelly, gray-brown seafloor below. Antarctica’s Collapse Could Begin Even Sooner Than Anticipated 2022-10-18T04:00:00Z Survivors picked through Hurricane Ian’s scattered wreckage at the foot of the bridge leading to Fort Myers Beach — massive tour and shrimp boats run aground, restaurants and trailers ripped open and inundated with gray-brown mud. Searchers hunt for victims of Hurricane Ian amid a swath of destruction 2022-09-29T04:00:00Z One by one, they scooped a clump of gray-brown soil and poured it into glass jars. With scoop by scoop of soil, Alexandria remembers lynched Black teens 2022-09-27T04:00:00Z The zookeepers at Cuba's National Zoo are especially proud of Ale, a pudgy, gray-brown baby white rhinoceros born earlier this month on the outskirts of capital Havana. EXCLUSIVE Japan pushes to remove zero-emission vehicle target from G7 statement, draft shows 2022-06-27T04:00:00Z A short drive further south through fallow gray-brown sunflower fields took us to Zaporizhzhya, the heartland of what was once an independent settlement of Cossacks. ‘We Need to Oppose Russia’: Ukrainians Find Common Purpose 2022-02-14T05:00:00Z Under an overcast sky, the three surfaces faded into a single indistinguishable gray-brown smear. The Eerie, Lunar Nothingness of Namibia’s Skeleton Coast 2022-01-17T05:00:00Z During my flights above Seldovia I was struck by the stunning array of gray-brown inlets, fjords and bays that form an erratic, filigreed coastline meandering endlessly along vast seas. These Shellfish Could Kill You 2022-01-24T05:00:00Z Holding it in your hand, peat looks and feels like a gray-brown chunky peanut butter. The race to defuse Congo’s carbon bomb This gray-brown wren with a long white eyebrow is still doing a bit of singing, though you may only hear two or three songs, possibly truncated or immature in form. What Seattle-area birders can listen for in fall: fewer songs, more warnings 2021-10-29T04:00:00Z At the edge of the fire, the trees and undergrowth were intact, but the forest was monochrome—every leaf and needle in sight had turned gray-brown. ‘There’s good fire and bad fire.’ An Indigenous practice may be key to preventing wildfires 2020-12-17T05:00:00Z The mountains behind Santa Barbara County, which gave way after being burned bare by the Thomas Fire three years ago, have turned a worrisome gray-brown tinder in recent weeks. Warmer. Burning. Epidemic-challenged. Expensive. The California Dream has become the California Compromise. 2020-09-12T04:00:00Z It’s a cityscape scrubbed out with a gray-brown brush, where residents casually walk past a skull peering from a head-high mound of rocks, rebar and trash. The people of Mosul, Iraq, find there’s life after Islamic State, but it isn’t easy 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z Its feathers are deep azure blue, its belly a soft gray-brown. Answering the call of the wild with Isabella Rossellini and her ‘Link Link Circus’ 2019-01-25T05:00:00Z And a heavy layer of gray-brown haze hangs over the town. Remembering the sweet life of a town wiped out by wildfire 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z The other was carved more loosely to create atmospheric tonal fields in gray-brown color. Out of the shadows, into the light: 'Chiaroscuro Woodcut' is a sleeper hit at LACMA 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z They got on either side of a sand tiger named Otis: gray-brown and sleek, 8 feet 5 inches long, 200 pounds, with a mouth full of curved daggers. How Do You Move a Shark? Very Carefully 2018-05-16T04:00:00Z McLanahan covered the exterior of the house with board and batten siding and painted it a gray-brown color by Benjamin Moore that appears to change according to the time of day — Dragon’s Breath. A Japanese-influenced remodel in Mar Vista brings the outdoors in 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z A gray-brown pall, tinted orange in places, hung across a region that is home to millions of people, and the regional air quality agency warned that the air posed a health hazard in places. California Fires Enter the Heart of Los Angeles 2017-12-06T05:00:00Z As people in Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties, and parts of the San Fernando Valley, made their way through a choking, gray-brown haze, many Los Angeles residents were treated to a cloudless blue sky. Southern California Fires Live Updates: Threats in Ventura and San Diego Counties 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Instead, they cooed at me - or, rather, at the gray-brown tabby in my lap. Oscar is a cat of the world but he didn’t like flying 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z French cheese lovers tend to associate Tomme-style cheese with its circular round shape, earthy gray-brown rind, and intensely nutty taste. It ain’t easy: Making cheese, flying drones in Ramah 2017-10-03T04:00:00Z On the right: gray-brown wood treated with a Japanese scorching technique known as shou sugi ban. One of the World’s Best Restaurants Gets an Update 2017-01-17T05:00:00Z No. Look closer: 10 or 12 rats with lustrous gray-brown coats are shuffling among the dried autumn leaves. Rodents Run Wild in Paris. Blame the European Union. 2016-12-15T05:00:00Z Unlike “the gray-brown reticence” of his New England background, Mr. Webb said, intense color seemed integral to Mexico. Capturing Complexity and Color in Mexico 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z I walked into the site, through smooth gray-brown gravel mounds, serene and raked as Zen gardens, graded to the angle of repose, so that no rocks slide. A Monument to Outlast Humanity 2016-08-22T04:00:00Z Pre-Black Death pottery — easily identifiable by its dull, gray-brown coloring and sandy texture — was abundant in every spot Lewis searched for it. Broken pottery reveals the sheer devastation caused by the Black Death 2016-05-24T04:00:00Z According to the paper, she was sixteen, a bit over five feet tall, with an “oval-shaped face, gray-brown eyes, gray sports jacket, maroon pullover, navy blue skirt and hat, brown gym shoes.” Patrick Modiano, True Detective 2015-10-05T04:00:00Z With no snakes, tarantulas or other natural predators to curb the population, the frogs proliferated, and state officials fear the little gray-brown amphibians will upset Hawaii's delicate ecosystems by devouring insects vital to pollination. Tiny coqui frog becomes a big problem in Hawaii 2014-12-27T05:00:00Z Weary soldiers laughed as the breeze caught the blast’s gray-brown plume. The Secret U.S. Casualties of Iraq’s Abandoned Chemical Weapons 2014-10-14T04:00:00Z At first, only a few of the small gray-brown birds at a time flitted high in the sky above the park. Dozens gather downtown to watch Vaux's Swifts swoop in for the night 2014-10-05T04:00:00Z The romaine with a Caesar salad was limp; smoked salmon rolls, thin sheets of salmon bundled with arugula and drizzled with a stone-ground mustard sauce, were unappetizingly gray-brown on the underside. A Review of Blue Plate Kitchen in West Hartford 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z Behind the station, there was a stack of recycling bins — and a gray-brown plastic tote bin. Iowa police chief describes finding missing baby, abandoned in freezing weather 2014-02-12T13:00:00Z Suddenly the tree canopy below the twin-engine plane turns a mottled gray-brown, a sign of drought damage that he estimates may affect as many as half the trees. Is the Amazon Rainforest Drying Out? 2012-12-24T20:15:00.177Z The lesser prairie chicken is a medium-sized, gray-brown grouse, smaller and paler than the greater prairie chicken, its close relative. Lawmakers cry "fowl" over move to help lesser prairie chicken 2012-11-30T23:15:50Z On a recent sunny day, the Hudson seemed calm and threatless, a cool gray-brown river about 10 feet below its banks. A Retailer, Eileen Fisher, Shakes Off Storm’s Impact to Reopen 2012-11-21T19:28:52Z The fires left a translucent veil of gray-brown smoke over the northeast Phoenix valley, obscuring views of nearby highlands where the blazes were burning. Crews battle to contain raging Arizona wildfires 2012-05-17T04:49:21Z Seated on the top of a bush on the gray-brown expanse of the desert, it is a most conspicuous object to the eye. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z One who reads this will never forget the odor of the lilac, "the lustrous western star" and "the gray-brown bird singing in the pines and cedars." The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z After a dangerous dilation of his gray-brown eyes, Flaccus seemed more than ever composed. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z In Harlem, gray-brown umbrellas sprouted stalactite-like from a couple’s apartment ceiling. City Room: After Biblical Rains, a Glorious Crop of Mushrooms 2011-10-21T22:27:10Z On the trunk the bark is thick, and broken irregularly into broad, flat ridges coated with close, gray-brown scales often tinged with red. Trees Worth Knowing 2011-10-13T02:00:48.357Z The bark on young stems is smooth, shining and light brown; on old trunks light gray-brown and covered by small, close scales. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z And then again they will hear the song of the gray-brown bird in the limitless dusk amid the cedars and pines. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 3 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:43.960Z Meanwhile, the proconsul's gray-brown eyes, large, intense, demanded of her. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z About two-thirds the size of the gray squirrel, and gray-brown in color. Sequoia [California] National Park 2011-09-21T02:00:31.497Z For delicacy of gray-brown color tones few butterflies can compare with this exquisite creature. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z The bark is gray-brown, separating into large, papery scales which curl back. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z The yellow eyes gleamed evilly as Old Man Lynx caught sight of Frisky hanging there so helplessly, and his grizzled gray-brown fur rose along his spine. The Adventures of Fleetfoot and Her Fawns 2011-04-03T02:00:18.337Z The proconsul made no answer, for his gray-brown eyes flickered suddenly as if a candle had been moved close by them. Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians 2011-10-28T02:00:22.437Z No sun is to be seen amid the gray-brown rack of clouds. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z The upper surface of the wings is broadly washed with a gray-brown color which runs into a suggestion of a lighter band near the outer margin of the front pair. Butterflies Worth Knowing 2011-08-10T02:00:15.887Z The bark varies in color from a light gray to a gray-brown. Forest Trees of Illinois How to Know Them 2011-10-08T02:00:23.997Z At the foot of the incline, in a narrow valley between the Scar and the cliffs which bounded the sea, rose the gray-brown stone roof of a quaint old Elizabethan house. Bosom Friends A Seaside Story The species I cannot name; I sent several fine specimens, stuffed, to London, in 1851; it is wholly of a gray-brown colour, and clothed with coarse pile. The Romance of Natural History, Second Series The color in Panamanian staufferi is gray or gray-brown with a pair of distinct, complete, dark brown dorsolateral stripes, a pair of entire paravertebral stripes, and in some specimens a vertebral stripe. The Systematics of the Frogs of the Hyla Rubra Group in Middle America Nothing but gray-brown moor and dwarf birches, and willows and ice-cold mountain brooks. What Happened to Inger Johanne As Told by Herself The planet was like a round gray-brown porcupine. One Man's Poison She frankly admitted to these pages, intended only for herself, that she was beautiful, though she wished that her eyes were blue instead of gray-brown, and that her type were different. The Portal of Dreams South and west the bare, gray-brown slopes shut out the horizon and limited the view. Laramie; or, The Queen of Bedlam. The central figure of the council was Susan B. Anthony, in her black dress and pretty red silk shawl, with her gray-brown hair smoothly combed over a regal head, worthy of any statesman. The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years This time the gray-brown monster uttered a titantic bellow of rage, halted, and began shaking its clumsy blunt head. Astounding Stories, February, 1931 It sloped gently from all sides, the gray-brown powder that had been coughed from within the earth. Two Thousand Miles Below Its fur, coarse and long, was of a sooty gray-brown, streaked coarsely down each flank with a broad yellowish splash meeting over the hind quarters. The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories Fascinated, her eyes followed it in and out until its dim line vanished high up in the gray-brown uniformity of the steep ascent. The Heart of Thunder Mountain The dust column showed one cloudless morning and they saw the undulating line of cattle reveal itself beneath the gray-brown haze. When the West Was Young Just where it vanished into space I saw the sheep, a splendid ram, standing like a statue of gray-brown granite and gazing squarely at us. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' The hot winds and the alkali dust had tanned her skin and bleached her hair; both were a gray-brown. Letters on an Elk Hunt And there is a small salmon trout, with his gray-brown back and his golden sides. Forest Neighbors Life Stories of Wild Animals In gray-brown desolation the sand dunes rolled away to the foothills, far and violet and dim. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Far to the south––so tenuous at first that it barely showed against the clear air, now thickening until it was unmistakable at last––a gray-brown dust column was climbing into the cloudless sky. When the West Was Young We collected a dozen others before the summer was over to show the complete transition from the first yellow coat to the gray-brown of winter. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' Sing on, sing on you gray-brown bird, Sing from the swamps, the recesses, pour your chant from the bushes, Limitless out of the dusk, out of the cedars and pines. The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman Heartwood light gray-brown, darkening with exposure; sapwood nearly white, coarse-grained, compact structure, easily worked, and susceptible to high polish. Seasoning of Wood She was wearing the gray-brown coat and gray-brown puttees of the English soldier. World's War Events, Vol. I Beyond the crest which rose gray-brown against the cloudless Indian summer sky, the desert waited silent as Death itself. When the West Was Young As the summer progresses the fur grows until by September first it has formed a long, soft coat of rich gray-brown which is of considerable economic value. Across Mongolian Plains A Naturalist's Account of China's 'Great Northwest' To the tally of my soul, Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird, With pure deliberate notes spreading filling the night. The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman If they are a matter of appreciation, that is why the gray-brown houses are perhaps more brown than gray, and more yellow than either. Picture and Text 1893 The ram, deeply contented, did not observe two gray-brown, stealthy forms creeping along the slope, from bush to rock, and from stump to hillock. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Duck Creek was ablaze with autumn leaves and the hazel thickets were full of the tempting gray-brown clusters, though the nuts themselves when cracked seemed a trifle green. Chicken Little Jane Over all brooded an opaque, gray-brown sky, sullen and impenetrable. The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance He sat very still and looked at her kneeling there as a child would, both hands clasped around his knee, and looking into his eyes with hers, gray-brown and gloriously bright. The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills His great head swung much lower than the ridge of his shoulders as he paused occasionally to listen, his gray-brown form melting into the shadows as if he wore a cloak of invisibility. Followers of the Trail Blocks, 4: Light brown, light gray-brown, gray-brown, black. John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut When the water ceases, the sun quickly bakes a crust of silt and dries the stones of the river-beds gray-brown. Riviera Towns Down by the waterside the roads were deep in a mixture of a weak gray-brown or coffee color. The Mark Of Cain It had been this way for days, red and yellow, violet—colors he had hardly been aware existed back in the cool green, silver, gray-brown of Kentucky. Rebel Spurs The creature's round, moon-like face, gray-brown fur and tufted ears proclaimed it a Canada lynx, one of the most savage of the cat tribe. Followers of the Trail Blocks, 4: Buff, light gray-brown, light yellow-brown, dark brown. John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Now his tantalizing, ruthless cat-play was done, the horrible gray-brown face was close to hers--she wailed her final despairing message to Costigan and attacked that hideous face with the fury of a tigress. Triplanetary The Callao had only half a funnel left, from which gray-brown smoke and red sparks poured forth. Banzai! by Parabellum One was tall and slender, with small hands and feet; the other was short and stout, with a scrubby gray-brown mustache. Four-Day Planet Oh, mother, the sadness of it, tucked away among the crowding tombstones, all gray-brown together, among weeds and early falling leaves! Set in Silver Blocks, 4: Buff, gray-brown, gray, dark greenish gray. John Baptist Jackson 18th-Century Master of the Color Woodcut Her searching ceased, and her eyes fixed their steady regard upon a gray-brown object moving amongst the myriad of black stanchions which supported the tousled roof of melancholy green foliage above her. The Forfeit But there was that one colourful streak which somehow, as if by a mistake in creation, had shot a narrow rainbow vein through his drab soul, like a glittering opal in gray-brown rock. The Second Latchkey He wore a faded and grimy bush jacket with clips of rifle cartridges on the breast, no shirt and a torn undershirt over a shag of gray-brown chest hair. Little Fuzzy His hair, fighting a stubborn rearguard action against baldness, was an indeterminate mousy gray-brown. Murder in the Gunroom To my eyes, the color is a pale gray-brown or smoky gray. The Extermination of the American Bison They disappeared across the mesa and through the gray-brown hills, and soon only a cloud of dust marked their passage. The Mintage We did not pause in the curiously picturesque place, which looked no more than a village, with its gray-brown houses and gray brown shadows huddled confusedly together. The Motor Maid And what was there in the good gray-brown eye, gazing through the monocle, which so moved her by its suggestion of kindness and—and some new feeling? Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" And the singer so shy to the rest received me, The gray-brown bird I know received us comrades three, And he sang the carol of death, and a verse for him I love. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation Yet what a dignified thing is he, and how easy to find by one who knows his ways and what hold habit has upon his gray-brown majesty. A Man and a Woman And ever below is the water,—wide and silent, gray-brown and yellow. Darkwater Voices from Within the Veil Mother Daly knew, as all persons in the past knew, that by right the face of the plains was of one colour, unbroken; gray-brown in summer, white in winter, green in the spring. The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Where a fold lifted and was strongly lighted, it was an exquisite silver-gray; where a shadow fell deeply it was gray-brown. Her Father's Daughter To the tally of my soul, Loud and strong kept up the gray-brown bird, With pure deliberate notes spreading, filling the night, Loud in the pines and cedars dim. The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation From thence there was a wonderful view through the rolling Foot Hills and over the gray-brown plains to Denver. A Lady's Life in the Rocky Mountains The walls were covered with tapestry which had faded to the gray-brown tints of decaying vegetation, so that the young man felt as though he were entering a sunless autumn wood. The Early Short Fiction of Edith Wharton — Part 1 He was dressed in a light gray-brown suit that made him seem larger than ever. Blindfolded The houses, when they did not stand apart like our own farmhouses, gathered into gray-brown villages around some high-shouldered church with a bell-tower in front or at one corner of the fagade. Familiar Spanish Travels "Yonder's McFluke's," he added, nodding toward two gray-brown log and shake shacks and a stockaded corral roosting on the high ground beyond the belt of cottonwoods and willows marking the course of the Lazy. The Heart of the Range There was a boyish eagerness in his manner; his changeful gray-brown eyes were alight; he came close and laid a hand on her arm--quite an unusual demonstration with Gray Stoddard. The Power and the Glory The plumage on the upper part is gray-brown, and on the under part pure white. Voyages of Samuel De Champlain — Volume 02 The river was full, and ran a gray-brown flood. Hugh Wynne, Free Quaker But she presently did her own share bravely and steadily, brushing and coiling the gray-brown locks as she had often seen her aunt coil them. Saturday's Child The smaller ones were called coyotes or prairie wolves, and are larger than foxes and of a gray-brown color. Tales of Aztlan; the Romance of a Hero of our Late Spanish-American War, Incidents of Interest from the Life of a western Pioneer and Other Tales On the veld, with the first delicate glow, the head of a meerkat, or a springbok, is raised above the gray-brown grass; herds of cattle move uneasily. The Judgment House She had no need of words, for in her face, pale, wet with her flowing tears, and illumined with her gray-brown eyes, Ranald read her heart. The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa His gray-brown eyes searched her face more keenly. The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail "We were running pretty fast—and it is a hot day—and—" But the clear gray-brown eyes were upon him, and Ranald found it difficult to go on. Glengarry School Days: a story of early days in Glengarry The long gray-brown front of the Casino, with its shingled sides and hooded balconies and galleries, added to the already strong foreign impression of the place. Their Pilgrimage Both forces had thought that nothing could live in that gray-brown veld, and no effort at first was made to rescue or take it. The Judgment House It was a very bright and very sweet face, with large, serious, gray-brown eyes that looked down on the little boy. The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa Sometimes, in the evening, she has "gray-brown thoughts which grow black at night," but she never dwells upon these. The Women of the French Salons Their scarlet sweaters made gay patches of color against the dull gray-brown of the autumn grass. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed The brilliant moon gave us a superb view of the volcano, a gray-brown mass rising, expanding and curling in with a profile like a monstrous cyclopean face. The San Francisco calamity by earthquake and fire The voice ceased in a pathetic little catch, the sensitive lips trembled, the beautiful gray-brown eyes filled with sudden tears. The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa |
| 随便看 |
英语例句辞典收录了117811条英语例句在线翻译词条，基本涵盖了全部常用单词及词组的例句翻译及用法，是英语学习的有利工具。