| 单词 | grayness |
| 例句 | Behind her, the headstones fell away and it was all blue sky above the vast grayness of Erie. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z Stick breathed on the glass, watched it fog up, then dragged his knuckles through the slick grayness. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z After the drab grayness of the Glade, it was as if they’d been transported to a living rainbow. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z A building would appear out of the grayness and then disappear. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It transformed from a grayness to a dense feeling in his heart, like he had lost something important and would never get it back. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z His mind was a grayness and there were churnings of pain in his stomach. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The few who came seemed as closed and secretive as the freezing grayness of the weather, bent on some narrow business of their own. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z The room was dark but there was a grayness in the window like that which precedes the dawn. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z The eternal grayness in camp became a shade darker. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The sadness, the grayness, the denseness, had miraculously disappeared. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z The feeling of cold grayness was everywhere around me— a sense of resignation. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z I bound into the grayness of the rainstorm. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z His neatly clipped black hair, silvery about the temples with scant patches of grayness, reminded me of my father’s head ten years before, those dense shines of hair. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z To Minli’s great surprise, the grayness of the stone began to smudge away and a translucent, lustrous glow seemed to shine through. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Such people spread a grayness in the air about them. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no sound but the ice-cold surge, the cry of a gannet, invisible in grayness above me. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z The Seattle skyline looms behind us, all sharp vertical lines and blurry grayness. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z There would be no summer; there would be no autumn or winter or spring—only this never-ending grayness, as if all the color had been leached from the world. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z Now and then his mind fought its way upward, and when the light broke in it brought him only a sickness of the mind, and he retired into the grayness again. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Alarm stained his face, a grayness in his cheeks. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The last two years, with their summer droughts and winter storms, and now the unending grayness, had been heartbreaking. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z A small part of him, through the grayness, wanted Uncle Jet to feel better and hoped that he would talk. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z For whatever reason, Elizabeth Olsen’s character Leigh Shaw speaks to the grayness of this season. “Sorry for Your Loss,” an honest and real show about grief, actually uses Facebook for good 2018-12-11T05:00:00Z Amid the general grayness of the beach we could just make out the hunched figures of other fossil hunters. Searching for Dinosaurs in a Seaside English Town 2018-05-23T04:00:00Z We trudge after our guide, gliding into a horizon of grayness. Explorer: Getting Muddy in the Netherlands 2010-05-19T21:49:00Z But soon they too are sucked into the prevailing grayness. | 'The House of Blue Leaves' : A Papal Visit Has Dreamers Dreaming 2011-04-26T02:01:06Z The people who live in the village of Glass are a sad lot, their lives suffused with a grayness that borders on oppressive. Words of Wisdom (and Wildness): Distinctive Story Collections 2018-09-07T04:00:00Z There is a loyal, ravaged Irish housekeeper in Boston named Josette, whose “grayness was filled with light and it is an embarrassment to speak of one so good.” In Praise of Elizabeth Hardwick 2018-07-26T04:00:00Z No details are provided, but like much about the movie, the very grayness of the area is the significant part. With 'The One I Love,' a relationship gets trippy 2014-08-21T04:00:00Z Conversely, that seemingly black-and-white divide amplifies the moral grayness that all of these shows create when the prisoners are the protagonists and the people on the outside are their opponents. 3 small-screen shows that depict life in the big house 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z All that remains is the vast grayness, stretching into the distance like a congealed sea, and of course the idea: the quantity, the labor, the care. Critic?s Notebook: At Tate Modern, Seeds of Discontent by the Ton 2010-10-18T21:39:00Z After a brief period of grayness, our sunny summer weather is making a comeback this weekend, possibly breaking 90 degrees. 5 things to do this weekend: hit the highway, adopt a pet and more 2016-06-03T04:00:00Z The grayness and the ickiness of that scene between the two of them, I feel like achieves many things as opposed to just trying to solve the problem of race in America. Chris Perfetti on what aspect of "Abbott Elementary" is like "trying to play one-on-one with LeBron" 2023-06-04T04:00:00Z This is what “A Crow Looked at Me,” the new Mount Eerie album, proposes, and documents, and renders in vivid, bruised grayness. The Sound of Sadness Overwhelms and Inspires Mount Eerie 2017-03-22T04:00:00Z Yet the grayness that envelops this production is less one of moral ambiguity than of hazy dramatic uncertainty. Review: In David Hare’s ‘Plenty,’ Time Takes the Edge Off a Femme Fatale 2016-10-24T04:00:00Z Not in the lobby, though that might be refreshing given the general grayness of theatergoing audiences. Review: Anxious Teenagers Learn to ‘Be More Chill’ on a Big Stage 2019-03-11T04:00:00Z But as she got older, she became more curious about the figures at the helm, and what she calls “the grayness of the character of many revolutionary leaders.” How the World of ‘Selah and the Spades’ Was Created 2020-04-21T04:00:00Z Both are suspended in a brushy grayness that resembles mist. 3 Art Gallery Shows to See Right Now 2020-09-10T04:00:00Z Mr. Vecchio said the portrait reflected a “dissonance” found in Miller’s work, between the “clarity and the transparentness of the message” and an “ambiguity and grayness about the present.” Designing Arthur Miller: Simple Gestures, Big Ideas 2015-11-10T05:00:00Z Day by day and week by week, my new old hair grew in, grew longer, obliging me to confront, with awful clarity, a general grayness that startled even me. How I Came Out as Gray 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z The show is similar to Miguel’s previous ones at this gallery, but it includes a few recent paintings that were made in uncharacteristically bright hues in response to pandemic-era grayness. Review | In the galleries: Cutting, pasting and creating dazzling order out of chaos 2020-11-25T05:00:00Z If you’re in the mood for a day trip before the grayness arrives, you might want to take in this rich spot of earth. Monticello’s ode to autumn And to anyone watching her house tour, its imposing grayness is tantamount to a flapping red flag several stories high. "The Girl Before" confirms the villainy of minimalism 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Thesiger often wrote about starting his treks at 5 a.m., before the sun grew too hot, and so we too started the climb down in the predawn grayness. Journey to an Ethiopian volcano located in one of the hottest places on Earth 2017-03-30T04:00:00Z Behind him, a little mesh-covered window transforms the day’s brilliance into grayness. “We’re dying in here, miss, we’re dying!”: Horrors I saw in solitary confinement 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z She said she envisioned the dance as a gem of brilliance under the thundering grayness of the freeway and its drivers, evoking the refuge and utopia we all seek amid quotidian space and experience. Cornish choreographers taking it to the streets 2011-10-30T02:03:12Z “All of us felt the grayness of the case,” one juror told reporters at the time. R. Kelly Charged With 10 Counts of Sexual Abuse in Chicago 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z “You feel the grayness, the winds, the sea and nature everywhere.” Art: A Life of Melting the Status Quo 2011-02-13T01:06:05Z She’s a lovely young thing, her features almost obscured by the grayness of her skin, the puffiness around her eyes and the oxygen tubes threaded into her nose. Movie Review: In ‘Our Children,’ From Joachim Lafosse, Life Turns Tragic 2013-08-02T00:16:04Z Designers and architects think the vast grayness is a result of the past decade’s dominating minimalist aesthetic, as well as developers viewing it as a safe and inoffensive option. Behind the gray flooring trend 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z In the grayness, rain might have often seemed imminent. Few April showers seen Friday 2023-04-14T04:00:00Z Saturday seemed to embody winter in its brooding grayness, perhaps vivid in its contrast with the suggestions of springtime that came before. After much warmth, winter seemed to show up this weekend 2023-01-15T05:00:00Z In that sense, Saturday, though so often sunny, provided a reminder of the chill grayness that started this month and that will return. Saturday in Washington seemed filled with autumn’s delights 2022-10-08T04:00:00Z His imagined worlds straddled between the moral grayness of John le Carré’s spy novels and the allegorical sweep of Miguel de Cervantes’s “Don Quixote.” Javier Marías, celebrated Spanish author, dies at 70 2022-09-13T04:00:00Z Now, as interiors have become inundated with grayness and people closely associate the color with corporate neutrality, some designers are starting to notice clients’ tastes shift away from the ashen, the smoky and the silvery. Behind the gray flooring trend 2023-06-01T04:00:00Z The west, however, revealed an expanse of grayness, with a tint perhaps comparable to that of dishwater. That was not the haze of summer, but of wildfire smoke 2022-09-17T04:00:00Z At moments, even as rain fell, its orange rays streamed through the grayness. Saturday was our second wettest day in a wet month 2022-07-16T04:00:00Z And, now and then, to enhance the sensation of dreariness, rain did drip from the grayness. Coolest day since May also seemed perfectly cloudy 2022-06-11T04:00:00Z Even the streaks of cloudy grayness seemed unlikely to interfere with Monday’s near-idyll. Summer’s unofficial opener closes on a comfortable note 2022-05-30T04:00:00Z In its overall grayness, it followed the pattern set by previous days here this month. Friday seemed to resist efforts to make things ‘perfectly clear’ 2022-05-13T04:00:00Z Above, a grayness looms in the sky, poised to descend with unflinching finality. At the National Gallery, a history of aquatint, from neoclassical fantasy to the horrors of war 2022-01-13T05:00:00Z In the narrowness of its range, the temperature may have made a particularly appropriate accomplice to Saturday’s skies, which were notable for their stolid and scarcely varying grayness. Saturday was warm and overcast in morning and evening 2021-12-18T05:00:00Z That bike was a color amid the terrible shrouded black and grayness of 9/11. Perspective | Beneath 9/11’s terrible smoke, a flash of gold 2021-09-11T04:00:00Z Yet the month arrived here cloaked in a bland and uninspiring sort of grayness, and a high temperature of 78 degrees, three below our average for June 1. June arrives under gray skies, but with growing warmth 2021-06-01T04:00:00Z That courtroom hug, no matter how you view it, forced an important conversation on the grayness of black-to-white forgiveness. Perspective | Before a hug sparked a debate about race and forgiveness, a Maryland man decided to out a neighbor for using the n-word, despite an apology 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z “There was even grayness to his skin,” Will added. Will Smith, Jada Pinkett Smith held intervention for son Jaden after concerns over his diet, weight loss 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z Coppola gives a different accounting: “Maybe it’s the grayness of his name.” James Gray’s Journey from the Outer Boroughs to Outer Space 2019-09-09T04:00:00Z Its mostly wooden buildings were cracked, crumbling and peeling into an ugly grayness. The Forbidden City Opens Wide as China Projects New Pride in Its Past 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z “It’s not. The key to this is embracing the grayness.” Lifesaving Forecasts Start Here: Inside the Storm Prediction Center 2019-04-21T04:00:00Z He draws on his memories of the grayness he experienced there in imagining Berlin in the 1920s, he said. The Man Who Brought Weimar Into Germans’ Living Rooms 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z Warsaw — though lacking Krakow’s charm as a medieval university city — rates as a mostly successful rebuild from World War II’s destruction and Soviet-era grayness. Opinion | D.C.’s cruel failure to tend to its homelessness problem 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z Over time, it seems, explaining this grayness just grew too complicated. Remembering Operation Torch on its 75th anniversary 2017-11-09T05:00:00Z “You learn to tolerate grayness, take in information and communicate information.” Teaching what everyone needs 2017-06-03T04:00:00Z For Owen Ashurst, who now lives happily in San Diego, the unrelenting grayness of Seattle became too much. Rain, and more rain, is in our DNA: Your Seattle survival stories 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z The grayness was characteristic of the type of eclipse, in which the moon did not enter the darkest part of the Earth’s shadow. Grandmother charged in Md. infant’s methadone overdose 2017-02-11T05:00:00Z Though grayness ruled outside, a fair bit of color shone indoors. A Manhattan Fashion Party That Beat the Odds 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Once it’s over, everything is over, and there is no deader feeling than the day after, especially in the dreary February grayness of the north. Super Bowl: An event that defies the notion of American decline or proves it 2016-02-02T05:00:00Z "The aesthetics were shaped by growing up in Poland, by a certain grayness and bleakness," he said. In and out of the shadows with 'Bridge of Spies' cinematographer Janusz Kaminski 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z “That’s been my pastime since I was a kid of enjoying more living in a story than living in the chaos or grayness of life as I perceived it,” says Rylance. Rylance, Shakespearean maverick, catches Spielberg’s eye 2015-10-08T04:00:00Z There was Hunt, who disappeared into the grayness of the rocks. Lost Brother in Yosemite 2015-06-11T04:00:00Z It springs up like the daffodils even despite the harshness and grayness of the organizational structure of rules and budgets. Stepping Into The Human Workplace 2015-03-21T04:00:00Z He spent a few minutes talking about his wife with us as the clouds refused to part, the grayness of the day settling in. In Fond du Lac, kindness clears a path 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z A band of pink flared on the horizon, then extinguished into grayness. Minnesota’s Olympic Hockey Cradle (Pop. 1,781) 2014-02-04T15:55:23Z “There is genuine happiness in a place where I expected grayness and sadness,” he says. Visit North Korea! 2013-06-13T08:45:00Z Here behind the walls of the convent “a common grayness silvered everything” and all care was remote, save that, never to be escaped by womankind, of making two ends meet. Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 2012-04-27T02:00:38.817Z He could not be well older than the latter, for not a trace of passing years, no wrinkle, no furrow, no grayness of hair, no loss of any youthful grace was apparent. The Smuggler: (Vol's I-III) A Tale 2012-04-26T02:00:10.260Z Even then it will not rain so much out of the blackness as out of the grayness behind it, and if there is no grayness chances are that you will escape a wetting. Reading the Weather 2012-04-19T02:00:27.487Z Ogilvie's boat shot out at full speed, and I watched her until she was a gray speck vanishing into the grayness. The Clammer and the Submarine 2012-04-17T02:00:15.727Z It was a soft, gentle snow, sifting down calmly and clinging moistly to the bare branches of the feeble trees, which stood out starkly sheathed in white, spectral in the grayness of the late afternoon. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z Down in the streets the grayness and chill yet lingered. The Story of Francis Cludde 2012-03-30T02:00:16.347Z He looked up then, but neither the shadow nor the grayness left his face. The Great House 2012-03-30T02:00:14.973Z Before entering it the ship coasts along a naked region, in which pale, almost flesh-colored hills are backed by mountains of a ghastly grayness. The Near East Dalmatia, Greece and Constantinople 2012-03-26T02:00:38.077Z It is clear, nevertheless, that premature grayness is not common. A Racial Study of the Fijians 2012-03-15T02:00:31.197Z The trains rattled and ground on the Elevated almost over their heads; the clouds scattered and a faint gleam of pale March sunshine at last illumined the grayness of the day. Vistas of New York 2012-04-14T02:00:25.810Z The slightest clouding or grayness of atmosphere makes them turn away and close. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z As it was, however, water and sky and shores were of uniform grayness. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z She saw his lips set for a moment, and the tinge of grayness creep into his face. Long Odds 2012-03-02T03:00:08.670Z I would hazard the judgment that on the whole the Fijians show less tendency to grayness than do Caucasians. A Racial Study of the Fijians 2012-03-15T02:00:31.197Z Her complexion had the texture of a rose in November, the texture that gains a rare lucency from the grayness and moisture by which one might suppose it would be ruined. Poor Relations 2012-02-11T03:04:00.973Z I like its fresh grayness in the garden. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z At the pier, a steamer, just arrived, sent up heavy clouds of smoke, black in the gathering grayness. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z On the one hand, a dingy smear, that might have been a point with pines on it, lifted itself out of the grayness, and Tom Wheelock pointed to it as he swayed with his wheel. Thrice Armed 2012-02-03T03:00:24.970Z The higher incidence of grayness of the interior sample of Fijians is likely due to a larger number of older men in that series. A Racial Study of the Fijians 2012-03-15T02:00:31.197Z That miracle of lucent grayness, an elm in the morning sun, when every branch and every smallest twig is cased in ice outdoes its green enchantments of June. Minstrel Weather 2012-01-24T03:00:25.640Z Dawn was breaking, and there was an ashy grayness in the east, but the sky was barred with clouds. Harding of Allenwood 2011-12-21T03:00:21.617Z The mist kept rising and falling, and one minute we could see the islands—Ulva and Gometra and Inch-Kenneth and even Staffa—and the next only grayness. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z He must be young to understand this protest; and considering the premature grayness of our present youth, he can scarcely be young enough if he would understand its reason as well. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z There was no actual daylight but a faint grayness as of approaching dawn. Mighty Mikko A Book of Finnish Fairy Tales and Folk Tales 2011-11-25T03:00:15.030Z The grayness and the rigidity of her features clashed bizarrely with the brilliant coloring of her gown. The Gray Phantom 2011-11-04T02:00:21.427Z The platinum wires still glowed dully, and weak moonlight now filled the room with a silver grayness. Jungle Peace 2011-10-06T02:00:42.363Z Then the wind fell, and again we were swallowed up in grayness, and could scarcely see. Our Journey to the Hebrides 2012-03-03T03:00:19.857Z A lone woman wearing a tank top sprints through the grayness and throws a hammer through a giant screen, shattering the droning visage of Big Brother. Steve Jobs Dead at 56 2011-10-06T00:08:01Z Of twenty-seven patients suffering from neuralgia of the ophthalmic division of the fifth, eleven had more or less decided localized grayness of hair on that side. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z Indeed, accustomed to the grayness of the snowfall, his eyes were fairly dazzled by the bright light of the sun, now quite high over the range, which struck him full in the face. The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado 2011-09-22T02:00:25.630Z The houses of Cholet are well built, but always with that grayness and sadness of tone which does not contribute to either brilliancy of aspect or gaiety of disposition. Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country 2011-08-27T02:00:22.057Z The grayness of the dawn filled the room. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z Already there was a grayness in the dark that told of the coming dawn. Cedric, the Forester 2011-08-17T02:00:29.077Z In four of these cases there was also grayness of part of the eyebrow on the affected side. Neuralgia and the Diseases that Resemble it 2011-10-03T02:00:31.460Z It disappeared on either side of him into the surrounding grayness. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z Through the small window the grayness that comes before dawn begins to glimmer in. Fifty Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-08-08T02:00:15.947Z The blue sky was tinged with smoky grayness, the green fields were discoloured, and long rows of mean, shabby houses took the place of white cottages under hanging woods. Masterman and Son 2011-08-23T02:00:35.033Z His sister-in-law, a shop girl, equally weary of her life, is weakly thinking of marrying a man she does not love, but who really loves her, in order to escape the grayness of her life. Dramatic Technique 2011-07-04T02:00:19.763Z A street lamp sent a faint grayness into the pavilion, but he stood in shadows. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z “Looks to me as though we were here for a while,” observed Nelson, glancing through a port at the impenetrable grayness outside. Four Afloat Being the Adventures of the Big Four on the Water 2011-08-11T02:00:15.547Z There was no sharpening of the features—no falling in of the temples—none of that pale ashy color, or rather that leaden grayness, which precedes dissolution. The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 2, September, 1851 2011-06-14T02:00:20.590Z A common grayness silvers everything,— All in a twilight.” Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z The earth lay still and peaceful, wrapped in shadow, while the pearly grayness changed to a pale ruby gleam in the eastern sky; but that beat of human feet jarred dissonantly through nature’s harmonies. The Dust of Conflict 2011-04-14T02:01:04.343Z The face reflected was clear in outline, firm to the verge of hardness; the eyes full and alert, the carefully brushed hair so abundant that its grayness gave dignity without the effect of age. A Man's Hearth 2011-06-25T02:00:17.093Z Certainly there was an added grayness settling upon the icy world. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Stanief again looked across the teeming streets; it was as if a chill, intangible mist stole up from the near-by river and drew its cold grayness between the two who sat side by side. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z Far up the trail they saw a grayness in the eastern sky where the day was about to come in. The Basket Woman A Book of Indian Tales for Children 2011-03-09T03:00:44.330Z He will drive twenty miles in a springless wagon and twenty miles back again in the grayness of dawn to stamp his feet to the sound of an accordion. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z They were prominent landmarks rising from the limp grayness of his skin. Sense of Obligation 2011-02-09T03:00:52.337Z Occasionally the sky darkened up to a heavy grayness that seemed to cover everything as with a pall. Trenching at Gallipoli The personal narrative of a Newfoundlander with the ill-fated Dardanelles expedition 2011-02-02T03:00:25.187Z Now the pearl shone a glistening spot in the surrounding grayness, beckoning, tantalizing. The Game and the Candle 2011-04-03T02:00:16.907Z She seemed to look into them through the grayness of the failing light. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z Then in the grayness of the dawn the little cavalcade filed away, like muffled phantoms, toward the east. The Westerners 2011-02-14T03:00:39.347Z After one of those hours which seem to belong to eternity rather than to time, a quality of grayness made itself felt in the overwhelming gloom. His Unknown Wife 2011-01-27T03:00:38.763Z The darkness seemed at first complete, but the accustomed eye could see a faint grayness at the stage end opposite them. A Pasteboard Crown A Story of the New York Stage 2011-01-26T03:00:25.590Z We stood a little longer, and the sun dipped behind the mountains, robbing the Sicannie of its yellow gleam, casting a sudden grayness over the North. The Land of Frozen Suns 2011-01-23T03:00:15.307Z It was well on in the afternoon when the automobile came in sight, swishing through the sodden grayness with curtains drawn and hood and running-gear splashed with clinging clots of clay. The Professor's Mystery 2011-01-18T03:00:11.317Z By this time the fire in the old house had been vanquished and the earth was filled with the cold grayness of approaching dawn. The Camp Fire Girls in After Years 2011-01-13T03:01:12.303Z The stars had disappeared, and beyond the universal grayness there was now a faint rose light. The Ranch Girls at Home Again 2011-01-13T03:01:04.363Z From the outside, its stolid grayness is more Soviet than Swiss. Sports of The Times: Jets and Giants Fans Bring Drab Stadium to Life 2010-08-17T01:29:00Z The subtleties and grayness that we can so easily grasp off the screen will make their way on to it. Your Life In 2020 2010-04-08T22:30:00Z After the grayness and mud of the ride out the great living-room glowed like a jewel. The Trail of Conflict But my vision was caught in the grayness as in a web. The Jonathan Papers The twilight had started to fall, and already its first grayness had begun to soften the harder lines of forest and hill. The Voice of the Pack When a quality of grayness sharpened its outlines he knew it was high time to be on the move. The Day of Wrath A Story of 1914 It had seemed to me that a swift shadow glided through the grayness at the shore of the lagoon. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery The sunshine faded and a grayness as of twilight filtered into the room. The Guns of Europe I sank down on the hay, and watched him melt into the grayness. The Jonathan Papers He didn't understand the grayness that had come upon the mountain world, his own strange feeling of numbness, of endless soaring through infinite spaces. The Voice of the Pack Here was no shade, no weird grayness, but everything was either vivid gold or vivid green. Mentone, Cairo, and Corfu The shore and the sea were gray, the gardens were swept with grayness, the lagoon itself had lost its many colors and only the same neutral tint remained. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery It was sad to see the youthful fire flash and sparkle in his bright old eyes, only to dull and fade to the grayness of forced resignation. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois She went to her room shortly after dinner, and she slept heavily until the first grayness of the morning. The Garden of Eden He wondered if this were the frontier of death,—the grayness that lingered over him. The Voice of the Pack He found Luke, when he went back to him, still in coma; the blood-shot veins stood out against the ghastly grayness of his face, and his stertorous breathing sounded through the rooms. The Indian Drum At that moment it was impossible to conceive of anything but grayness. Kastle Krags A Story of Mystery If he kept this grayness of the clouds always upon his right, he would be going north. The Blind Man's Eyes She had thought for a second that it was Trewhella's dog, and her heart beat very quickly in the eerie imagination of herself and his master alone in this grayness. Carnival Then she paused and asked him about a strange grayness, like snow blown by the wind, on the sky over the ridge. The Voice of the Pack The general effect is grayness of color and a size which can be measured in acres better than in feet. Harper's Round Table, June 11, 1895 The grayness swallowed everything up, leaving the landscape oddly flat, like a badly drawn picture. The Tree of Life She remained so long, dreaming, remembering, and planning, that the first grayness of the dawn came before she could go within and take her own bit of sleep. The Sun Maid A Story of Fort Dearborn Before she knew that she had gone so far, the noise of the sea sounded from the grayness ahead, and beyond there was the groan of a siren from some uncertain ship. Carnival In my conscious mind there was only a sort of grayness. The Plotters His overwhelming personality radiated an aura of grayness—not the gentle gray of the dove, but the resistless, driving gray of the super-dreadnought; the hard, inflexible, brittle gray of the fracture of high-carbon steel. Triplanetary Horatio blended in perfectly with the deep brown of the chair and his face, which stuck up six or eight inches, was invisible against the grayness of the wall. The Chameleon Man He had not locked his door, and now, across the grayness of the room, he saw it slowly opening. The Medici Boots After six feet, the building was lost in the grayness. Monsoons of Death But it was the pain that cut through the grayness of my mind, and because of that I welcomed it. The Plotters Incipient grayness is best treated with silver powder, which, when the eyelashes are properly darkened at the base, gives a very charming lustre to the expression. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Perhaps the wary sentinel on the crest of the dam detected a darker shade stirring among the firs, or a lighter grayness moving inexplicably between the bushes up the bank. The Haunters of the Silences A Book of Animal Life There in the early grayness of morning French soldiers were marching to a band composed of bugles and drums. A "Y Girl in France Letters of Katherine Shortall There was no thought in his mind to fight, to face these things that emerged from the dead grayness of the monsoon, but only a hideously desperate desire to escape. Monsoons of Death When at last he moved slowly forward into the circle of an electric light, something of the hard grayness of the stone might almost have come into his face. Under Boy Scout Colors Something in the sky, drifting slowly through the grayness. The Variable Man Between the reef and the island a shallow lagoon lay in sullen grayness, its surface broken into innumerable tiny wavelets by the continual splash of rain. To Choke an Ocean Billy Stark wondered at the aging grayness, and reflected curiously that youth is not only a question of flesh and blood but of the merry soul. Rose MacLeod The blade had fallen from the bared hands; the gray, drawn face was lifted to the heavens; but the grayness was gone. The Vision of Elijah Berl I saw McGill, the lawyer, in the line ahead of me and noted the grayness of his cheeks, the nervous way his lips worked, and the futile, wandering, uselessness of his hands. The Crimson Gardenia and Other Tales of Adventure The grayness rose in the sky, higher and higher. Second Variety For grayness is the hue of all In life that is not lies. Sea Poems The inflection of the word "starved" must emphasize the grayness. Vocal Expression A Class-book of Voice Training and Interpretation The glacier had taken to itself a cold grayness that was disconcerting. The Silent Barrier This time Rick slipped into the enveloping grayness almost at once. The Scarlet Lake Mystery He was short and spare of figure, lean and colorless of face, while about him hung an atmosphere of grayness. Trusia A Princess of Krovitch The air had a grayness that meant snow. Old Crow It was a drab shadow now against the vivid grayness of slopes. Master of the Moondog But the first lieutenant, unperturbed, peered out into the grayness. The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers For a brief moment he succeeded, then the grayness moved in like an all-encompassing curtain. The Scarlet Lake Mystery I remember reaching the wall of fog, saw it loomed before me, plunged into it, raced through cold grayness, snow crunching beneath my boots. Where the World is Quiet Early in the grayness of morning he heard a great cry, swelling louder and louder until the forest echoed. Boys' Book of Indian Warriors and Heroic Indian Women "Well, no use of delaying further," he said, when at length the grayness of dawn began to dull the starlight. Nuala O'Malley I looked out of the window, and from what I could see in the grayness I guessed that we were somewhere or other between Rappallo and Spezzia. Memoirs of Life and Literature The grayness slipped away again and he recognized the circuit. The Scarlet Lake Mystery It was daylight and the silvery grayness overhead was palely luminous. Where the World is Quiet There is no one to say what was here in this grayness of the Western Hemisphere stretching around me, but in Java there was a man-like ape. Astounding Stories, May, 1931 One night of anxiety had racked her, and left hollows under her eyes and a flat grayness in her cheeks. The Rustler of Wind River There Would be nothing but grayness to look at, grayness in front of her, grayness behind in the dim, silent room. Cloudy Jewel The warmth at his heart annulled whatever of chill stole in at the grayness of the canaled streets of the northern city after the color and glow of Porto. Dreamers of the Ghetto Looking out on life, one sees only its sad grayness; another sees the thread of gold, "which sometimes in the patterns shows most sweet where there are somber colors"! In Times Like These But a bar materialized in the fog before him, and the grayness drew away before him and closed in behind. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 The grayness of the cave settled down upon him like a pall. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Not that she had anything better in view, only that she shrank from taking the step that would bring inevitable and irrevocable grayness to the end of her days. Cloudy Jewel Anders perceived the delusion behind the grayness, and then there was nothing at all. Warm But outside the portholes of the little freighter was only the murky grayness of the timeless hyper-space continuum. Equation of Doom And the siren sent its dismal blasts out into the grayness all about. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 Pan gazed back and down upon Marco, a ragged one-street town of motley appearance, its white tents, its adobe huts, its stone buildings, and high board fronts, mute and still in the morning grayness. Valley of Wild Horses A slow rumbling, muted with distance, emanated from the dense grayness of the Time Door. Of Time and Texas In the dim grayness it seemed less yellow, less fluid. Astounding Stories of Super-Science February 1930 When life is drab, it takes away its grayness. All About Coffee Above them, out of the grayness, a moon disclosed itself, then the pin-points of stars. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 From every bush and tree looming up from the grayness, from every field spread out in dark waving folds, and from the black swamp beyond uprose the welcoming chorus. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Then he swore, beat upon the unyielding wall of grayness with clenched fists, and fell back, panting, to his desk. Of Time and Texas For a single flashing instant, the view held; then it was gone in blank grayness. Empire But the grayness was unbroken by a single ray of green. El Diablo Priscilla was not looking at her now; her statuesque face was turned toward the wide expanse of landscape, fast dying out, as it were, in the twilight grayness. Theo A Sprightly Love Story Elizabeth's mood was in perfect accord with the grayness. 'Lizbeth of the Dale Then she lay back in her corner, and, I suppose, began to feel the grayness of the as yet unseen dawn of a new day. The Message The screen's grayness fled and they looked into the control room of the Interplanetarian. Empire A line or two, perhaps, had deepened about her mouth, and the grayness of her hair may have become a shade whiter. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies He could not help owning that Ellen Webster’s bequest, heartily as he disapproved of it, lent a welcome bit of color to the grayness of his days. The Wall Between The other’s eyes dropped, and a grayness stole over his features. Northern Lights Dusk had sneaked up on them; the clearing was full of swimming grayness, and between the woman's screams, the woods crackled. Free Air As he watched, shrinking back against the wall, the grayness deepened, took the form of a man. Empire The sky was fast darkening, and a deep grayness was spreading from the east. The Watchers of the Plains A Tale of the Western Prairies Already a thin mist was rising from the meadows, and the temples hung pink in the misty grayness. Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories The pink sky was showing against the earlier grayness when Tania slipped into her coarse clothes and, like a small elf, crept out of her window into the friendly branches of the old tree. Madge Morton's Victory Under this last, in a pencil scrawl now blurred to grayness, Milt had once written, "This what Ill be aviator." Free Air There lay the Jersey boat, snorting and puffing, amidst the dim grayness. Vixen, Volume III. The occasional dull boom of a gun called “Help,” from out the grayness, with pathetic persistency. How to Cook Husbands Mrs. Carroll stopped, for a grayness settled over the young man's face, and the eyes that he turned upon hers were filled with horror. A Tar-Heel Baron I don't think the rainfall here is much greater than in London or at Thetford, but the heavy air and the grayness make us, as you say, notice it more. Robin Redbreast A Story for Girls Canities, or graying of the hair, may occur in localized areas or it may be more or less general; the blanching may be slight, scarcely amounting to slight grayness, or it may be complete. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine Across the valley dim ghosts of hills lighted by evanescent gleams rose out of the east wind grayness with shadowy grandeur. Masters of the Wheat-Lands Annie’s nature was very emotional; she was intensely sensitive to her surroundings; the grayness of her present life was absolute destruction to such a nature as hers. A World of Girls The Story of a School A grayness like the livery of death came over her face, but now so vitally warm. A Tar-Heel Baron The dull grayness of the dirty walls and decorations about her and the throng of shabby, jeering beggars seemed to saturate and oppress her whole being. The Comedienne Once the grayness of the open shore had faded behind him, the man found himself walking stealthily, like the stealthiest of the wild kindred themselves. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Over those seamed cheeks there was a certain pallor, a grayness caught from many a vigil. A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays It was restful, there was no question about that, the change from the constant glare of a white sun in a blue sky, to the soft damp grayness of the fog. Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power Three men stood outside in the grayness, their horses tied to trees behind them. A Tar-Heel Baron It was comparatively deliciously cool outside, the grayness before dawn a pleasant contrast to the tropical glare that was positively hurtful to the new-comer's eyes. Queensland Cousins The man was fastening one end of the tether to a stake at the water's edge, and from the east a grayness touched with chill pink was spreading over the sky. The Watchers of the Trails A Book of Animal Life Stetson stared at the grayness swimming in his desk visor. Operation Haystack The first grayness of twilight had come, like mist, over the distant hills; but the peaks were still bathed in the sunset's glow. The Snowshoe Trail Distant objects seemed blurred by the mist, taking on a somber, brooding grayness. The Talkative Tree She felt puzzled by these signs, for though she had never seen death, this grayness, this shortness of breath, were scarcely unfamiliar. How It All Came Round The last star was fading into the grayness of the sky and already morning was at hand. The Motor Maids at Sunrise Camp The floor was black, the fireplace empty, the walls without a picture, and yet it was neither from this grayness nor from this barrenness that one recoiled. The Forsaken Inn A Novel Because of the faint grayness before his eyes he judged it was broad daylight: perhaps already the day was giving over to darkness. The Snowshoe Trail She glanced at him sideways once or twice and she saw that his eyes were narrowed in thought and their grayness was steel. The Lady Doc Suddenly she knew on whose brow she had seen that awful grayness, from whose lips she had heard that short and hurried breath. How It All Came Round He hurried to the window and stared out into the grayness of the dawn. Ted and the Telephone The sun went low like a scarlet eggy probing the mother-of-pearl lake with a long red line of shadow, until it wasted into grayness and so disappeared. The Cursed Patois From "Mackinac And Lake Stories", 1899 Did storm threaten, a grayness brooded, a grayness quite capable of changing to ominous black. Janet of the Dunes Now far beyond the grayness, to the west, the cone of Fuji flashes into splendor. The Dragon Painter Everything was familiar to me, even in the bleak winter weather; only the landscape was inexpressibly wild in its leafless grayness, under the faint light of the waning moon. Paul Patoff When the lens is dismounted it may be examined by a beam of sunlight in a dark room, under which circumstances the faintest signs of grayness are easily discernible. On Laboratory Arts I met this discovering morning as your ambassador while you still slept, and betrayed not, I hope, any grayness and bleared satiety of ours to its pure, frail, and lucid regard. Pipefuls Behold and see What a great heap of grief lay hid in me, And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn Through the ashen grayness. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Then the sun went down, and grayness followed, and from the thicket came the sad cry of the Chuck Will’s widow. Plantation Sketches At last he found himself once more at Galata bridge, and the light of the lantern began to pale before the grayness of the coming morning. Paul Patoff In her modish frock of gray linen, with a parasol of leaf green, she seemed to merge gradually into the grayness and greenness of the forest beyond. Glory of Youth The first was rose-hued; the second was dull; the third was filled with the grayness that blurs activity turned to mechanical action. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life Once he stopped and looked back and saw that the grayness had closed in behind him. The Street That Wasn't There The quiet grayness and the age of the building impressed her, she knew not why. A Modern Tomboy A Story for Girls From his grayness about the head I had little doubt that he was of great age. The Black Wolf Pack A storm played with the water, casting its grayness into white capped rollers which beat upon the shore like the restless spirits of an ocean. Tess of the Storm Country His mind was a dull blank of grayness. Blazed Trail Stories and Stories of the Wild Life But there wasn't any sun ... only an all pervading grayness that shrouded everything ... not a gray fog, but a gray emptiness that seemed devoid of life, of any movement. The Street That Wasn't There Even the grayness of the ash gave back no light; there was none to give. Plotting in Pirate Seas Everything gray like the grayness of old women's bodies.... The Wind Bloweth The smoke and the grayness might make it a gloomy scene if it were not for the red sides of the immense submarines gleaming in their wide slips to the water. The Old Coast Road From Boston to Plymouth And so is premature grayness of the hair. Woman Her Sex and Love Life Then the city and the face slid out of focus; the vision faded like a darkened magic-lantern, and the grayness moved in again. The Street That Wasn't There Even the Bug Light, which shone on ordinary nights from the tip end of Bluff Point, this evening formed only a paler shade in the universal grayness. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes "You are the exact antithesis of all that, but you are threatening to fade into its grayness—and to deaden all the glow that was on the palette with which God painted you." The Tyranny of Weakness In a few moments a faint grayness steals into the air, and off in the half darkness you hear the Somali gunbearers chanting their morning prayers—soft, musical, and soothing. In Africa Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country The grayness in his face deepened, and his lips grew livid. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story His overwhelming personality radiated an aura of grayness--not the gentle gray of the dove, but the resistless, driving gray of the super-dreadnaught; the hard, inflexible, brittle gray of the fracture of high-carbon steel. Triplanetary I know she had something to do with his premature grayness and the disappointment that Pierce hinted at. Molly Brown's Orchard Home The Emperor's face was pale always, but there was an ashy grayness about his pallor in that hour that marked a difference. The Eagle of the Empire A Story of Waterloo The troubles pose a threat to men of flavorlessness and grayness and the loss of essential meanings, a threat of diminished humanity. The Nation's River A report on the Potomac from the U.S. Department of the Interior And Kerr's figure in the twilight seemed each time it moved to be on the point of vanishing into the grayness. The Coast of Chance Without any lingering spring, the cold grayness of long, tense winter gives place to a radiant sun-burst of warm, yellow light. Lords of the North There was yet no light of day, only a grayness that streaked the night sky, and a bitterness in the air like a note of mourning. Vrouw Grobelaar and Her Leading Cases Seventeen Short Stories He saw the frightened grayness return to his mother’s face. The Best Short Stories of 1915 And the Yearbook of the American Short Story It was just before dawn, and a grayness was beginning to trouble the dark about the top of the mountain. Earth's Enigmas A Volume of Stories Since when I have myself fetched and carried my garments, and they are rapidly taking on the tinge of prevailing Island grayness. Jane Journeys On The sun was gone now, leaving grayness and blackness behind, accentuated by the single strip of gleaming scarlet which flashed across the sky above the brim of Mount Taluchen, the last vestige of daylight. The White Desert But in another moment, both were gone, and space was black, yet in but a few moments a grayness was showing, and light was appearing from all about, growing gradually in intensity. Invaders from the Infinite It was dark, the dark grayness of a moonless night. The Mermaid A Love Tale His grayness and the bleak remoteness of his air made him seem unreal as a spirit come back to haunt the scene of long-ago triumphs or defeats. The Guests Of Hercules No longer, in this grayness that grew, that would soon melt in rose and in gold, did the dazzle of the Covent Garden lamps blind his eyes. The Way of Ambition In the west a faint tint of red and yellow, barely discernible through the grayness, marked the sinking sun, and in the east the blackness of night was still advancing. The Young Trailers A Story of Early Kentucky The black wall dissolved into grayness in one spot, as a flood of energy beyond comprehension exploded from it. Invaders from the Infinite Then he smiled in his wintry fashion, which was quite powerless to add warmth to his curious aspect of grayness. The Forfeit And the soft, thoughtful grayness which was dimming the sunshine suited this different, higher world as well as it suited his mood. The Guests Of Hercules The grayness seemed to grow slightly more livid over the tree-tops and behind the branches. The Way of Ambition The cold grayness of the outdoor world made her shiver. Cicely and Other Stories In the garish light of the afternoon he looked singularly white and bleached, like a man whose warm, red-veined life is dried into a sere grayness of blood and tissue. The Emigrant Trail Except for the operator—who was also ticket-agent and general factotum—it was now empty and dull of light with its smeared window glasses between its interior and the dispirited grayness of the outer skies. A Pagan of the Hills It was Vanno alone who was real for her, not the other figures; and she did not see the grayness that settled like a shadow on Lord Dauntrey's lined and sallow face. The Guests Of Hercules The silver of the moonlight had given place to a faint grayness, a weariness of the night falling toward the arms of dawn. The Way of Ambition Once or twice he had thought of opium when he could not escape, even in dreams, from the grayness of his life. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. July, 1878. Having found the stone she sought, she moved her hand in a certain pattern before it so that the faint radiance streaming from the tiny sun, gleamed on the grayness of the wall. The Gifts of Asti This grayness, in contrast to the dead white surface of the ice and snow and the strangely diffused quality of the light, gave an indescribable effect. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club It was just after dawn, and the grayness of the vanishing night still held in the corners of the armory. Voodoo Planet Such offers are unseemly in a man of your years and already apparent grayness. Green Valley Magic moments that peeped through the grayness of hard work, and made the whole game so worth while. The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story "Just wait a minute, Mortimer," I broke in, becoming suddenly aware there was a grayness in the eastern sky. My Lady of Doubt Notwithstanding the grayness of the day, and the melancholy aspect of the surrounding world, by some strange shift of feeling the fear of the leads had fallen from me completely. The North Pole Its Discovery in 1909 under the auspices of the Peary Arctic Club "You are married," he repeated, and the old grayness shadowed again a universe without hope. August First "Oh, no, not this sky!" and he cast up a grudging glance at the opaque grayness overhead. King John of Jingalo The Story of a Monarch in Difficulties The yellow haze which had been his day had faded into grayness and now to the dark he feared so much that he dared not even speak of it. Star Born She pulled up a curtain and looked out upon the grayness of the street. The Tin Soldier And she would have eyes like that, drawing their very shade from the vague grayness which seemed to him to spread over everything. Under Handicap A Novel To-night his increasing grayness was very perceptible, and with his feverishly bright eyes staring straightly before him, he looked haggard and ill, despite the deceptive tan of his skin. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor The wind howled fiercely through the group of pine-trees in the yard, that seemed but deep shadows on the general grayness, and occasional flakes of snow were already flying about. Divers Women In just what this change lay, the Coroner hardly knew, unless it was in the increased grayness of his hair. The Mystery of the Hasty Arrow Sometimes the hair and nails are not properly nourished, causing falling out or grayness of the hair and loss of the nails. Mother's Remedies Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers of the United States and Canada A light snow fell from the silent soft grayness of the sky. The Mantooth In the gray light, which, I thought, must be the light of dawn, I discerned other trees about us and an open expanse, tree-dotted, stretching into the misty grayness. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor The glow and colour of the shops and houses seem only to intensify the grimness and grayness of that Roman background, the immense wall of the arena. The Motor Maid When they had set forth again, it was a great comfort to Susannah that grayness had succeeded to sunshine. The Mormon Prophet No one gets farther away from the academic grayness, the colorless chiaro-oscuro of the conventional painters. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Just as Dinorah said, "The tea is served, madam," the large figure of Batavius loomed through the gathering grayness; and the women waited for him. The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York Oppressed with an unaccountable weariness of spirit, I stood within the lobby looking out upon the grayness of London in November. The Hand Of Fu-Manchu Being a New Phase in the Activities of Fu-Manchu, the Devil Doctor As the rascal gazed, however, a grayness came into his cheeks that, somehow, smote Captain Jack with secret terror. The Submarine Boys for the Flag Deeding Their Lives to Uncle Sam Jim Done awoke as the grayness of dawn was creeping through the night—awoke with an idea that he was sleeping under the gum-trees. In the Roaring Fifties It was as if the world ended suddenly, exhaled in grayness, just beyond the reach of my hand. Montlivet Snowdown and Platt were with difficulty dissuaded from attempting acrobatic feats on the parapet; and the city faded from deep purple into a vast grayness. Mike Fletcher A Novel But now I made out the pond gleaming; and by this and by the dim grayness of the earth immediately about me knew that dawn was at last under way. The Killer For there, separated by low-lying fields, rise clustered Byzantine towers and belfries, with strangely-quaint German-looking spires of the Nuremberg pattern, but all dimly outlined and mysterious in their grayness. A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg Apparently the blankness and grayness of life itself had been broken for her only by the portrayal of a different world. The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets I slipped off in grayness the next morning. Montlivet At Dover the wind was hard as the ice-bound steps which he descended, and the sea rolled in dolefully about the tall cliffs, melting far away into the bleak grayness of the sky. Mike Fletcher A Novel The candlestick loomed strangely forth from the still grayness; the bottle took form; the yellowed paper glimmered on the table. Diane of the Green Van But amid all this grayness of sky and water and fog one distinguished certain black and shifting masses. A Man's Woman The wind, fitful and chill since the sunset, speckled the grayness beneath the trees with dim white fragrant rain and stirred the drift of petals on the ground. Kenny A few moments before it had seemed a vital matter to find what creatures they were that whispered and rustled past me in the grayness. Montlivet In all-pervading grayness the world lay as if dead; not a whiff of smoke ascended, not a bird had yet begun, and the river, like a sheet of zinc, swirled between its low banks. Mike Fletcher A Novel Even as we watched them, a grayness fell on them, and then they grew dim. A Sea Queen's Sailing The fishermen were to assemble in the grayness of the August dawn; and Johnny was, as usual, prepared to throw a handful of gravel at Edith's window to hurry her downstairs. The Vehement Flame It was now about noon, though, from the grayness of everything, it seemed to be getting towards dusk. The Piazza Tales The grayness of age showed everywhere, and the silence of the defenders on the walls deepened its ancient aspect. The Texan Scouts A Story of the Alamo and Goliad There were hours of grayness when he told himself that he had neither the fortitude to endure the old nor the energy to embrace the new. One Man in His Time All at once the swamp changed and chilled to a dull grayness; tall, dull trees started down upon the murky waters; and long pendent streamings of moss-like tears dripped from tree to earth. The Quest of the Silver Fleece A Novel When he awoke, the sheltering heavens, the long paths, and the trees in bloom all looked strange to him when seen through the grayness of the mist. Young Folks Treasury, Volume 2 (of 12) Even respectable houses in that part of the country were then built with few or no windows; but delicious masses of grayness they were, roofed with thick and overhanging thatch. Lazarre “Wait—my—” But the girl had slipped from his grasp; she was gone into the misty, threatening grayness that had closed in about them while love had carried them beyond their depths. The Man Thou Gavest A curious feeling of age and grayness had suddenly come over him—a hint of fatigue, of consciousness that much of life lay behind him. The Younger Set For a brief space nobody moved, and then the lad flung down his cards and stood up with a grayness in his cheeks and his hands shaking. Winston of the Prairie For a moment Van Landing hesitated, puzzled by the sudden fear in the man's face, then over his own crept grayness, and the muscles in it stiffened. How It Happened Under grayness, with a soft wind blowing, the Fox showed his blue coat. Lazarre Near its foot the water gleamed palely among overhanging alders, and in the distance the hills faded into the grayness of the eastern sky. Ranching for Sylvia When he awoke the day was already breaking, and the electric light burned dimly in the general wash of grayness. The Wheel of Life Payne made no answer, and the sound that rang more loudly every moment through the grayness of the early daylight was not pleasant to hear. Winston of the Prairie The early summer daybreak was at hand, its approach heralded by the perceptible diluting of the darkness that surrounded them, and a ghastly, pallid grayness began to overspread the surface of the broad river. The Sword Maker Sometimes I thought her eyes must answer me with her old self-command; their bright grayness was so natural. Lazarre Then toward nightfall this shadow grew lighter and lighter, until it was a transparent grayness into which one could see quite clearly. The Devil's Garden We have to do, not with the bright colors of the childhood of a race, but with the grayness of its extreme old age. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The other stood bolt upright with lips set, and a faint grayness which betokened strong emotion showing through his tan. Winston of the Prairie In the dim pre-dawn grayness Joyce could see nothing but a gulf of mist. Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West Her usually florid face was pale to the lips; and this pallor appeared to accentuate the dark, faintly lined shadows beneath her eyes and the grayness of her rigidly waved hair. Life and Gabriella The Story of a Woman's Courage Outside, the light was rapidly waning, and inside the building the general tone had a grayness and dimness that obliterated all the bright colors of the girls' dresses and hats. The Devil's Garden The grayness of his face drew the cry from me: "The villain! the black-hearted villain!" Helmet of Navarre Malling knew it was the rain, the possessive grayness, which troubled his body to-night, and through his body troubled his spirit. The Dweller on the Threshold It was a strange world of sleep and grayness and disillusion. Tales of the Five Towns So, silently, we rode on, and the world looked very fair to me after the long grayness of the prison walls. A Thane of Wessex "Do not go until you tell me—" In misty grayness she was vanishing. People Like That Gently she stands up in the grayness, and puts an end to this first fate-changing meeting. Light The morning sunshine receded, leaving a certain grayness in the cluttered room. Every Soul Hath Its Song “You shall go, now, Stephen Holmes,—quick! before your sovereign lady fades, like Cinderella, into grayness and frozen eyes!” The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 53, March, 1862 A. To understand this question, note the difference between grayness and grisliness; grayness is caused through defect of natural heat, but grisliness through devouring and heat. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy But when I saw a faint wet grayness beginning to creep along the horizon beyond the Headland, I thought it was the most wonderful thing I’d ever seen in my life. Us and the Bottleman In the grayness of twilight one discerns a dark and mighty crowd, gliding therein. Light His hair was singularly shaggy and picturesque in its tawny grayness, and wavy, wiry length. Miriam Monfort A Novel Quebec grayness infused with light softened the autumn world. The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World Sometimes all grayness is caused by the naughtiness of the complexion, which may happen in youth: sometimes through over great fear and care as appeareth in merchants, sailors and thieves. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy From his lonely summit he could gaze over the silvery grayness of the sea, and trace on the distant horizon the headlands of his dear native land. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Sunshine and glow were the characteristics of the first school, grayness and sobriety of the second. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 4 France and the Netherlands, Part 2 And in their grayness and their desolation they are one with each other and with the network of low walls that links them to the last solitary farm on the High Moor. The Three Sisters A silent little group stood on the dreary beach watching the twinkling lights of the distant ship as she sailed, phantom-like, out into the misty grayness of Bering Sea. Baldy of Nome There was a grayness about his cheeks; fine, wire-like lines about his mouth. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 There are circles beside circles rising in their grayness, with the grass and heather carpeting their aisles. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Well, no matter what befell Ruric yonder, it must be that in this grayness there is some other being who is real and dissatisfied. Figures of Earth The moon had gone, and over on his left a soft grayness began to show above the line of the hills. The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West But in the grayness and gauntness of him there was something that was mightier than the strength of youth. The Hunted Woman The road led him through a heavy wood, and when he came out at the other end he stopped to gaze at the stars, for already a grayness seemed to have come into the night. The Lake It grew warmer and warmer until it purpled and died away in grayness and mournful shadow. Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine None the less, I know that I am real, and certainly the grayness before me is real. Figures of Earth The night was thinning into the grayness of dawn when he took her to the waiting carriage. The Slim Princess The sun had long since set; a solemn grayness was brooding over the water, and the first faint stars were beginning to twinkle over the crest of Mount Tamalpais. The Cruise of the Dazzler Long, ethereal, floating white feathers drooped from the heads of tremendous boulders that were gray with the glossy grayness of old silver. The Port of Adventure He was submerged in the vast impersonal grayness about him, and at intervals the sidelong roll of the boat measured off time like the ticking of a clock. Alexander's Bridge Lorry tells us that grayness of one side only is sometimes occasioned by severe headache. Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine They glowed out of its quiet and grayness like the throbbing, blood-red thoughts of a vivid soul imprisoned in a dull husk of environment. Anne's House of Dreams She fancied that his even grayness might reveal a thousand tints of lavender and blue and silver. Main Street The house was still, and the grayness of a cloudy day lay against the panes of three lofty windows. The End of the Tether And it is not my own extremity I remember best—a vision of grayness without form filled with physical pain, and a careless contempt for the evanescence of all things—even of this pain itself. Heart of Darkness "You shall go, now, Stephen Holmes,—quick! before your sovereign lady fades, like Cinderella, into grayness and frozen eyes!" Margret Howth, a Story of To-day A grayness had blotted out the waning moon in the west and the clear, dark, starry sky overhead. Desert Gold The black road before the buggy turned to a faint lavender, then was blotted to uncertain grayness. Main Street Sunlight broke through the grayness and the cabin was filled with sunlight as the plane climbed. Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko In fact, he had looked at twenty very much as he looked at sixty, lacking a little of the grayness. Anne of Green Gables He sank, and the cloud grew gray; but the grayness touched not my heart. Phantastes, a Faerie Romance for Men and Women She watched it so long and steadily that the grayness grew heavier and heavier before her eyes and she fell asleep. The Secret Garden She glanced about the rusty office—gaunt stove, shelves of tan law-books, desk-chair filled with newspapers so long sat upon that they were in holes and smudged to grayness. Main Street The airplane banked left, changing its coastal orientation, and rose through the hazy grayness surrounding JFK Airport. Undo, a Novel By Joe Hutsko Then the hoof-beats rose to a roar, and a shadow just darker than the darkness heaved against the grayness that Lockwood held covered with his pistol. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West Those eyes, with the grayness and eternity of a cliff of soft granite, caught his. The Beautiful and Damned Their steep breasts were losing their grayness and changing to dusky blue and slatey green, but their blurred coloring was atoned for by their grandeur of form. Vane of the Timberlands She leaned out on her folded arms till the flare of sunset blazed on the westward windows, then sank through a burning decline into grayness and the night. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California He slipped into his clothing and advancing peered at her through the grayness. Michael O'Halloran It was so still that the drip of steam from some loosened pipe far below was plainly audible, and it sounded in that lifeless, silent grayness like—God knows what—a death tick. A Deal in Wheat and Other Stories of the New and Old West It probably was not fifty feet away, on that toboggan slide, but it seemed quite hopeless to find anything in the freezing misty grayness that surrounded us. A Woman Tenderfoot A red drapery, of a dull color, and a touch of brown-red here and there, warm the agreeable grayness of the rest of the canvas. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859 As the ship slid out on its way, a stray beam pierced the grayness. The Gem Collector His set determination filled him, kept him but too wide awake, and his gaze at the grayness beyond the window was wide—eyed and bitter. The Magnificent Ambersons And then, amid the misty morning grayness of the fourth day he hanged himself from a ladder left by some workmen engaged in repairs, by whom his body was afterward found desecrating the sacred precincts. The Heavenly Twins One brief glimpse of this mountain drama; then they sank out of sight, and the numbing grayness and darkness once more closed around us. A Woman Tenderfoot I had entered the park about half a mile beyond the town, and then between two rolling banks of vapour I saw the high walls and higher towers of the castle looming through the grayness. Two Summers in Guyenne As she stood looking up and down its misty grayness she felt more peaceful than she had felt for many days. The Sisters-In-Law Outside was the blackness of the cold winter night; inside the grayness of stained walls lighted by the glow from the blazing fires. Together Just as the light defined the margins of the trail, we picked up in the grayness the track of a lion. Hunting with the Bow and Arrow And through the grayness rang at last my name, and straight to heaven I went, ransomed by that mighty price, freed by prayer from prison. Purgatory The grayness of the closely-packed houses was soon exchanged for the farms lying beneath the elms. In and out of Three Normady Inns He blinked, as though to convince himself he had not seen aright, then stared again; and as he looked a sudden grayness overspread his face. Darkness and Dawn It is the colour of the ground and the background too, and the grayness of the scanty growth that hides it. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War The evening overshadowed her in the train, as though she were whirling in the swiftest passage possible, through an indeterminate grayness, from day to night. Linda Condon Above us, the clouds drifted and turned; about us, the horizon was blotted out; mist and grayness were everywhere. Purgatory But when the sun arose, grayness and fear vanished; the back thrown smile of the departing glory was enough to turn old age into a memory of youth. Malcolm He disappeared into the grayness like a spirit. The City of Fire Her eyes were shining as though the moonlight had got into their misty grayness. Hidden Creek He had changed—except for a palpable settling down of grayness—as little as Linda. Linda Condon He paints life in its grayness and sordidness and dull mediocrity. Halleck's New English Literature Its grayness makes its strong, bold outlines appear the more distinct against the melting background of the faint blue and white English sky and the shifting sky scenery…. Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 No stars, no moon, no afterglow of sunset illumined the grayness that in this hour seemed prophetic of Lenore's future. The Desert of Wheat The grayness of the dawn was illuminated by sheets of green and red flame and black oily clouds rolled along the valley toward the river like smoke from a burning 'gusher.' America's War for Humanity Even though happiness was not my share, I have never believed that life was nothing but grayness and duty. Mogens and Other Stories With the awakening of his emotions, his first perception was a sense of futility, a dull ache at the utter grayness of his life. Tales of the Jazz Age The bureau loomed up in the grayness like a rock; opposite the bed, under a high wooden mantel was the cavernous blackness of the chimney, Dr. Lavendar reflected that it must be nearly four…. The Awakening of Helena Richie Fran stood very still, the sharpness of her profile defined, with the keenness of eyes and a slight grayness about the lips that made her look oddly small and old. Fran Why he should have withered away as it were into premature grayness, and loss of the muscle and energy of life, none knew; unless, indeed, his wife did know. Castle Richmond But the brilliant throng of kings and queens, of knights and ladies, of pilgrims and lovers, and all the make- believe people of storyland stood out all the brighter for the grayness of the background. English Literature for Boys and Girls “Morristown, eight miles,” he read in the dark grayness of approaching day. Janice Meredith The hard outline of his features and the hard grayness of his eyes were softened as when he had paused to talk with Lakely. The Masquerader They threatened to cover and obscure his life with chilly grayness. Sister Carrie They looked very much as though they had come out of a scene in a comic opera, and it seemed a pity to destroy anything that relieved the dismal grayness of the November day. Sant' Ilario She thought she perceived them swarming up a ladder to the higher roof, but in the surrounding grayness she could not be sure of this. A Texas Ranger The strange Mexican was standing proudly and looking into the squinting eyes with only a grayness of face and a tigerish litheness to tell what he felt. Bar-20 Days An opaque and obscure grayness filled the world; all had changed, except that strange, oppressive, and vast silence of the wild. The U. P. Trail Not till the freshness of dawn was in the air, and a curious living grayness made the tangled rose bushes look artificial and the fountain strangely cold, did she get up to go to bed. In the Wilderness Even the sunset light had left it now; a soft grayness shut it in, away from the world. The Thrall of Leif the Lucky A Story of Viking Days When Sunni reached it, he crouched down in its shadow—the grayness behind the palms was spreading—and took the rest of his turban cloth from his waist. The Story of Sonny Sahib She knew, for her peace of mind, onlytoo much about pictures, and galleries and churches had been the one bright outlet from the grayness of her personal atmosphere. Tales of Men and Ghosts The grayness of dawn—the stillness—oh, I feel them now!... The U. P. Trail The grayness, the silence, the oily waters, suggested a brooding resignation. In the Wilderness Attitude, grayness, dignity, the unstudied strength of his politeness, all sang aloud of battles won. Hira Singh : when India came to fight in Flanders No woods, no moss, no coolness, no greenery; all nature toned down to one monotonous grayness. The Woman Who Did We arrive at a junction of trenches, and on the top of the maltreated hillock which is outlined on the cloudy grayness, a mournful signboard stands crookedly in the wind. Under Fire: the story of a squad Behind the cookhouse a bed of poppies flamed scarlet against the general sombreness, and gave a strange touch of colour to the common grayness. Sowing Seeds in Danny Perhaps, indeed, there was nothing at all after this short life was ended, nothing but the blank grayness of eternal unconsciousness. In the Wilderness Another hour and then another passed in silence before the girl noted that she no longer seemed to float through abysmal darkness, but that the river showed in muddy grayness just over the gunwale. The Barrier Gradually a grayness absorbed all but the larger stars. The Man of the Forest At the foot of a bill in the half-light, we reach some houses, still slumbering and wrapped in heavy grayness. Under Fire: the story of a squad The round cheek of that formerly young lady had, of course, alarmingly flattened its curve in her modern representative; a pervasive grayness overspread her once dark brown hair, like morning rime on heather. Wessex Tales Already a very faint grayness of the coming dawn was beginning to filter in among the darknesses. In the Wilderness The drive home, through the dismal grayness of the cloudy afternoon, seemed longer and more trying than the trip over. Thankful's Inheritance It blanketed us in storming wind and flying spray and grayness. The Mutiny of the Elsinore Glancing down at the ironing-board before her, she flushed painfully through the drawn grayness of her face. The Deliverance; a romance of the Virginia tobacco fields The ruddy oblongs of sunlight crawled nearer to the east wall of the room, stretching themselves thinner and thinner, until finally they were not there at all, and the room was left in deepening grayness. His Own People The view up and down the quays has the cool, neutral tone of color that one finds so often in French water-side places, - the bright grayness which is the tone of French land- scape art. A Little Tour in France Suddenly the old rider's face changed—the bronze was blotted out—a grayness came, and then a dead white. Wildfire "Don't be angry with me—I can't help it—I'm not glad or sorry for anything now," she answered; and her voice matched his for grayness. Stories by English Authors: The Orient (Selected by Scribners) He stood up again, unsteadily, feet wide apart, and peered ahead through the grayness. The Yellow Claw It was the expression which a man wears when he has lost the desire of his heart, yet manfully struggles on, allowing no bitterness to steal in, facing unflinchingly the grayness of a crippled life. We Two, a novel Did she have any bitterness because the very grayness of her skies was making her hard old father richer and more powerful? A Poor Wise Man There was a stirring in the coarse grasses; the sky, which a moment before had been like sapphire, dulled with an indescribable grayness. A Mountain Woman She was a stout, broad-faced woman, smiling-mouthed most of the time, with blurry, gray Irish eyes, and a touch of red in her hair, now modified by grayness. The Financier, a novel Her nose was pinched, her chin sharp, the whole face nearly triangular, the eyes worn-out with weeping; but she now wore a touch of rouge which brightened their grayness. An Historical Mystery See how this tone of mingled reddish-brown and ochre warms up the cold grayness of that large shadow where the blood seemed to stagnate rather than flow. The Hidden Masterpiece It was daylight, but a dreary autumn grayness. Creatures That Once Were Men The eyes of the man who sat there were perfectly wide-open, but there was something unnatural in their fixed stare,—something unnatural, too, in the drawn grayness of his face. The Illustrious Prince The dark hours slowly passed, no sound coming to him save the distant bark of a dog and the monotonous tread of his guard; a dim grayness pervaded the lodge. The Spirit of the Border Jimmie Dale, staring at the grayness of the subway wall through the window, shook his head slowly—then, with a queer little philosophical shrug of his shoulders, he smiled gravely, seriously. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale It was dark as a pocket in there, save where a square of grayness betrayed a window. Cabin Fever Its lights twinkled yellowly through the grayness, but I was less concerned with the approaching car than with the solitary traveler who had descended from it. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu It is not Spring — not yet — But up the stocky Pownal hills Some springy shrub, a scarlet gash on the grayness, Climbs, flaming, over the melting snows. The Second Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets In the dim grayness he saw a bright blade moving carefully upward through the deer-hide. The Spirit of the Border Anger fled, and a sickening sense of impotent dismay took its place; the red left his cheeks, and in its stead a grayness came. The Adventures of Jimmie Dale The question was answered for him, and so oppressed was he by the grayness of life that he forgot the tentative proposition she had made for him to go to work. Martin Eden But to-night a fearful grayness was mingled with the brown, his lips were purple... and there were marks of strangulation upon the lean throat—ever darkening weals made by clutching fingers. The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu But at length a grayness blotted out the stars and mantled the level of mesquite and cactus. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border It was merely a grayness between borders of black. The Lone Star Ranger, a romance of the border |
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