| 单词 | grey |
| 例句 | He wrapped his grey cloak about him, hiding his mail-shirt, and stretched out his long legs. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She was short and dark with eyebrows turned white with age, although her hair was only lightly streaked with grey. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z His hand was grey and stiff, but blood oozed between his knuckles as he tried to close his fingers to grasp. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "They know truths the grey man has forgotten." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Upon Penelope, most worn in love and thought, Athena cast a glance like a grey sea lifting her. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z She put her front paws down on the rock, and, laboriously, pushed herself up into a standing position: a grey wolf bigger than a bear, her coat and muzzle flecked with blood. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Chandresh loses him in the crowd more than once, the grey falling into a blur of black and white dotted with color from the patrons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Bod waited on the grey wooden bench, but there was no sign of Silas. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Manderley stood out like an enchanted house, every window aflame, the grey walls coloured by the falling stars. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z ‘It will be a grey ship, and full of ghosts.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Nobody, of the hundreds of people that had visited the Fair, knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Yellow fangs snapped closed on his throat, but he shook off his old grey cousin as he would a rat, then charged after him, knocked him down. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She was wearing a grey T-shirt that fell midway down her lean thighs. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The sky was a very pale, pearly grey, and the mist lay in great rolls, about the edges of the field, and thick on the horizon. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z They were alone in a grey formless world without mark or measure. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She put into his hand a little box of plain grey wood, unadorned save for a single silver rune upon the lid. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A new smith tower had risen from the ruins of the old, its stone a paler shade of grey, and as yet unmarred by patches of lichen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Maybe I just felt like looking at all those flat fields of nothing and the huge grey skies. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The grey walls, the blue bars, the strip searches, the showers behind bars watched by guards and cameras. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit looks back at Celia, and when he speaks she understands the words once more. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He had been a Summer Islander, before; his jaw and half his cheek had turned to stone, but his skin was black as midnight where it was not grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wizened grey giant shuffled into sight, holding an oversized meat cleaver. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z In the near distance the grey city wall arose. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Its grey stone walls were draped with banners. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z We talked for a moment about some wet, grey little villages in France. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The old Master murmured one word, “Tolk,” and there lay the pebble, no jewel but a rough grey bit of rock. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The Mound of the Riders and its cold spears lay grey behind them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A raven landed on the grey stone sill, opened its beak, and gave a harsh, raucous rattle of distress. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z After a great deal of pinning and measuring, Bailey ends up with a nicer suit than he has ever owned in his life, nicer even than his father’s best suit, in a charcoal grey. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They took off their masks now and again to cool them, as the day-heat grew, and Frodo saw that they were goodly men, pale-skinned, dark of hair, with grey eyes and faces sad and proud. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “Men generate before they yet have certain characters, such as a beard or grey hair,” Aristotle wrote perceptively—but they pass on those features to their children. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z "What if I am? It seems to me that most men are grey." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He’d found it in one of the storage rooms in the back and secreted it out to his bags under the folds of his grey sweater. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “That wasn’t there before,” Elodin said apologetically as he pulled his feet free of the grey sand. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Slender they looked, but strong, silken to the touch, grey of hue like the elven-cloaks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Some were naked and carrying their clothes; others half-naked, or more or less dressed, in school uniforms, grey, blue, fawn, jacketed or jerseyed. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The gruel was grey and watery, and he pushed it away after his third spoonful and let it congeal in the bowl. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Clods of mud filled the old sword gashes in the ghoul’s grey skin. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Instead he wore a simple robe of grey and blue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Nondescript grey stone renders it indistinguishable from the surrounding buildings save for a tarnished sign hanging by the door. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He would go mad as well if he had to spend his days in this grey soup whilst his flesh and bones turned to stone. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Until dawn, when the stars went out one by one, and the grey light changed the sculptured figures back into immobility. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Beneath die Mother of Mountains, a line of naked crones crept hum a great lake and knelt shivering before her, their grey heads bowed. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z More than two dozen full-grown sows, plus the young pigs and the boar with the grey, bristling back. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I shuffled from foot to foot in the thin grey snow. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They walked on the path together, a small girl in a bright orange anorak and a small boy in a grey winding sheet. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Her grey sun-strained eyes looked back at me with polite reciprocal curiosity out of a wan, charming discontented face. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The mist was turning from black to grey and from grey to white. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z He seemed to dwindle again to an old grey man, bent and troubled. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Just a bunch of striped tents, looking more yellow and grey than black and white in the afternoon sun. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z M. Dupont was a tall, elegant gentleman with a grey beard and a monocle. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z That relatively small room appeared to be a forest of black dinner jackets, grey hair and cigar smoke. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z They paint in a realistic style using somber colors—browns, greys, dark greens, colors typical of the Netherlands. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit halts, though he could easily continue on through his colleague’s apparition unimpeded. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It looked grey and uninviting, great rollers sweeping in to the bay past the beacon on the headland. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The scales are metallic grey, the eyes deep red and the talons particularly long and vicious. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z They gave her a shift of grey roughspun wool and a pair of ill-fitting shoes, and sent her off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then his grey cloak drew apart, and they saw, beyond doubt, that he was clothed beneath all in white. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z It was a grey day of the kind often found at the too-brilliant start of early summer. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The body of the clock, which has been methodically turning itself inside out and expanding, is now entirely subtle shades of white and grey. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Through his mask, Chandresh sees only the still grey suit, the hovering top hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “And now we ride,” the Tattered Prince proclaimed from his huge grey warhorse, in a classic High Valyrian that was the closest thing they had to a company tongue. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Their hounds ran before them, snarling grey- brown beasts with more than a little wolf in their blood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z From the porch upon the top of the high terrace they could see beyond the stream the green fields of Rohan fading into distant grey. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Bod woke early the next day, when the sun was a silver coin high in the grey winter sky. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z In return we wore his colors, green and grey, and added to his reputation wherever we went. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But I do like the feeling of getting into my little car, knowing for the next couple of hours I’ll have only the roads, the big grey sky and my daydreams for company. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The tailored grey wool that makes up the back of Mr. A. H—’s suit shifts. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Along the walls, the women outnumbered the men by five to one; what few males he did see had long grey beards or looked too young to shave. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit considers the girl for some time before he speaks again, and still, she does not comprehend the words. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There was a grey light on the terrace, I could see the shapes of the blown fireworks stands taking form on the lawns. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z A long time passed; when at last I rose, my limbs were stiff and prickling, and darkness had given way to the first grey beginnings of dawn. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The maester looked like a mouse as well, with his grey robes and little brown mustachio. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “A traveler; a trader's agent from Osskil; I am here on business,” said the man in grey. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The others could be seen as grey shapes in the darkness. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z At last they came suddenly into a thin shade; great grey branches reached across the path. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Now through the grey fog bloomed a blur of red, as the Kargs set fire to the thatch of a house. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He thought of Victoria's lips, and her grey eyes, and the sound of her laughter. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z When he looked out of his window, it was clear and grey. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z I stood up, bracing myself for the encounter, and stepped from the familiar darkness of the hut into the greying night outside. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z The sky was greying over the castle walls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He watched the forest go from grey to green below him as light filtered through the silent trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Hector catches it in his hand and reads it before handing it to the man in the grey suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He looked at her face for a long moment with those cold grey eyes of his. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z At last, after hours of riding, far away on his right there came a single long streak of paler grey, low down on the horizon. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The right side of his face was gaunt, with sharp cheekbones and a grey eye beneath a heavy brow. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "I'm getting out of here," the father said, greyer than ever now. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The king's pavilion was close by the water, and the morning mists off the river had wreathed it in wisps of grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In the leaping light, as the fresh wood blazed up, Frodo saw many grey shapes spring over the ring of stones. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Merry saw many folk standing, looking up and muttering; all their faces were grey and sad, and some were afraid. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Four horseheads proclaimed the four Ryswells of the Rills— one grey, one black, one gold, one brown. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Giants they seemed to him, vast grey figures silent but threatening. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z All in black, he was a shadow among shadows, dark of hair, long of face, grey of eye. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z But soon they began to fall down into the darkness, and as the sun turned west a grey shadow crept over their faces. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “I was brought up to look at the atom as a nice hard fellow, red or grey in color, according to taste,” he remarked years later of the plum pudding model. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He could only stand there beneath the great grey walls and the hard white sky, sword in hand, waiting, waiting . A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Now that is a bit more impressive,” the man in the grey suit admits. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Its frame was eight inches wide, also grey, and also one single seamless piece of stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Was that a kind of bestial derision that he detected in those blank grey eyes? Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z As if a dark veil had been withdrawn, the Mirror grew grey, and then clear. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He wore a pair of grey sweatpants and a droopy wife beater that showed the sagging skin on his arms and the strength still hard in his chest. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z As he approached the fiery grey apparition, he was fairly sure it was a garden-variety wraith - a lost soul who had died in pain. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I will require some time to prepare a player of my own,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “These are entirely wrong for his coloring. He needs a grey. A nice deep grey.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Bod reached out his hand and found himself touching fingers with, and gazing into the grey eyes of, the lady in the cobweb dress. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Perhaps your elephants would sooner be nightingales. Instead of sweet song, Meereen’s nights would be filled with thunderous trumpetings, and your trees would shatter beneath the weight of great grey birds.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The waves ran white-tipped on the grey sea, and grey clouds streamed overhead on the north wind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He remembered seeing the Red Keep looming ahead of him in the first grey light of dawn. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Its eyes were grey with almost no whites. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It wasn’t a clean white, more of a washed-out grey. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If I’m lucky enough to fade back into the grey. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Bedwyck stood no more than five feet tall, but the grey streaks in his hair showed his age. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was a short wiry man, near fifty and grey of beard but stronger than he seemed, and he had the best night eyes of anyone Jon had ever known. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His own beard was as grey as the winter sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A spray of dark red leaves sprouted from his skull, and grey mushrooms spotted his brow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Stone-faced, the small grey man had begged leave to sew the boys' heads back onto their shoulders, so they might be laid in the crypts below with the other Stark dead. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The eyes were grey and set rather close together. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The bride was garbed in white and grey, the colors the true Arya would have worn had she lived long enough to wed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Gaunt and bent and crooked, with a left shoulder half a foot higher than his right, he had a scrawny neck, squinty grey eyes, and yellow teeth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All of them wore grey camouflage T-shirts, faded black jeans, black athletic shoes and utility belts as if they were going camping or hiking ... or hunting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Even as they looked out in dismay towards the setting sun, it sank before their eyes into a white sea, and a cold grey shadow sprang up in the East behind. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Their great grey trunks were of mighty girth, but their height could not be guessed. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit nods and pulls a handkerchief from his coat, picking up the ring without touching it and placing it in his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The grey stubbly man wore black rags too, he saw with a sudden start. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was cloaked in shadows too, in wisps of ragged grey mist, half-seen, sliding across his face and form with every step he took. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The tops of the striped tents are visible through the trees some distance away, a bright punch of white against grey sky and brown trees. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit shrugs, then lifts the bottle of wine from the table to refill his own glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The day ended, and the night passed with cold rain whispering over the sea all through the dark hours, and a grey dawn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Inside it was filled with a grey dust, soft and fine, in the middle of which was a seed, like a small nut with a silver shale. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “Well, the weather is not ideal, as I’m certain you’ve noticed,” August says, gesturing up at the heavy grey clouds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Beneath the great grey cliffs a horse was dying noisily, struggling to rise on a broken leg and screaming when he fell. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Far over the Great River, and the Brown Lands, leagues upon grey leagues away, the Dawn came, red as flame. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z But outside her chambers she found Utherydes Wayn waiting with two women clad in grey, their faces cowled save for their eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The huge moon rose and the smaller mold-colored moon and they were joined by a ruby-red moon, and the grey wolf ran at a steady lope beneath them across the desert of bones. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z ‘Speak and be comforted, and shake off the shadow! What has happened since we came back to this grim place in the grey morning?’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z One contained nothing but a boiling grey smoke that flickered sporadically. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Back where the press was thickest at the center of the column rode a man armored in dark grey plate over a quilted tunic of blood-red leather. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The grey light of evening had come into the sky. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z “A big grey one. She has a web across the top of Wilbur’s doorway. She catches flies and sucks their blood. Wilbur adores her.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z The cars, their colors washed grey from the toxic water, were strewn about like playthings. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z My father was unconscious and his face looked an oddly grey colour. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Chunks of reddish grey flesh and clumps of internal organs were strewn about. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He wore a tall pointed blue hat, a long grey cloak, and a silver scarf. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The white of House Stark was seen everywhere, the grey direwolves seeming to run and leap as the banners swirled and streamed from the high staffs. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His grey shorts were sticking to him with sweat. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Passersby do not look at him, not even a glance is spared despite his height and his pristine grey suit and top hat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "Bring me my doublet, if you would. The grey, with the direwolf sigil. I want this armorer to know who I am. It might make him more forthcoming." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z At daybreak, as grey light welled up in the east from the sea, the two young men set forth in Lookfar from the harbor of Ismay, raising a brown, strong-woven sail to the north wind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The hall was as it had always been, grey and silent and austere, with the portraits and the weapons on the wall. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z His wife, about the same age as he, was dressed in a simple brown cotton dress and a grey wool sweater worn at the elbows and buttoned in the front. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z On the middle finger, the grey had crept up past the second knuckle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There were two fireplaces, in which the ashy logs of wood turned from grey to red as the sunlight retreated. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z It had a grey slate roof and one small chimney, and there were two little windows at the front. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit considers this for a moment before he nods. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Speckled grey they rose, and moss-spotted, yet thick and strong and higher than any wolf could hope to leap. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Beneath a fuzzy Xeroxed photo of what appeared to be a chicken was a description of a missing African grey parrot that had flown out of the store when a customer opened the door. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A long grey road wound back out of sight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The world had tightened around them, but beyond the walled wood still stood the great grey caves of manrock. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Death had made her look older and different The stem, grey face in the barge was evidently not Elaine—who had gone elsewhere, or vanished. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His robe was grey wool, trimmed with white fur, the Stark colors. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was twilight: the cold dawn was at hand again, and chill grey mists were about them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Eight months after Pa’s birthday drawing, it is a rainy, grey autumn day, October 1, 1864. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The sun rose grey and smoky that morning. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Lord Gyles, more grey of face than ever, stammered out a tale of seeing the High Septon spilled from his litter, screeching prayers as the crowd swept over him. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “You hated it, didn’t you?” he asks without turning away from the mirror, addressing the ghostly grey reflection. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I mustfind the girl again, the grey girl on the dying horse. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He stared at the parlour that was dead and grey as the waters of an ocean that might teem with life if they switched on the electronic sun. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Victoria pursed her perfect lips, and blinked her grey eyes, and said, "Yes, Tristran. We shall be having rice pudding." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Where there had been a foot of solid grey stone before, there was now a gaping hole big enough to drive a cart through. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z As they peered out from among the bushes, they could see the Road, faint and grey in the failing light, some thirty feet below them. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His hood and his grey rags were flung away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit does not wear a mask. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was an old man with a long grey beard and brass spectacles large as an owl’s eyes over his nose, and he wore a dirty grey robe whose long sleeves covered his hands altogether. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There was no sun, no stars, only the ground below coming up to smash him, and the grey mists, and the whispering voice. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He was not standing so much as being held up; the cast over his broken leg was grey and rotten. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He stepped down from the rock, and picking up his grey cloak wrapped it about him: it seemed as if the sun had been shining, but now was hid in cloud again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Ice had formed in its shaggy grey fur, and the faint smell of corruption clung to it like a woman's perfume. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Maesters and septons alike agreed that children marked by greyscale could never be touched by the rarer mortal form of the affliction, nor by its terrible swift cousin, the grey plague. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His nose was flat, his cheeks baggy with jowls, his hair grey and brittle. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Up the length of the street they came shouting, and never knew they had run right through the village, as the empty huts and houses loomed and disappeared again in the writhing grey fog. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She reached the square, and the horse stopped, and the woman in grey slipped off it easily and stood on the earth, facing them all, the living and the dead of them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Only old Benjamin was much the same as ever, except for being a little greyer about the muzzle, and, since Boxer’s death, more morose and taciturn than ever. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z The waters were grey and thick like porridge. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z While the grey light lasted, they cowered under a black stone like worms, shrinking, lest the winged terror should pass and spy them with its cruel eyes. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes it seemed to Vetch that his friend saw, across the waves and miles and grey days yet to come, the thing they followed and the dark end of their voyage. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Bod was a quiet child with sober grey eyes and a mop of tousled, mouse-colored hair. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The trousers were black with thin pinstriped grey lines running down them. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z So soon they struggled on once more, until the dawn began to spread slowly in the wide grey solitude. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit greets her with a polite nod. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His grey hair was clipped close and he had a neatly trimmed white moustache. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z Turning he saw a man dressed in grey, who carried a staff of heavy wood that was not a wizard’s staff. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The morning sky was streaked by thin grey clouds, but the pale red line was there behind them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “The grey death is what we call it.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When they reached the bottom it was so cold that they halted and got out cloaks and hoods, which soon became bedewed with grey drops. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z From my seat I could look down on Thornfield: the grey and battlemented hall was the principal object in the vale below me; its woods and dark rookery rose against the west. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He came back to Frodo, and then of his elven-rope he cut a short piece to serve his master as a girdle and bind the grey cloak close about his waist. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A hush fell upon all as out from the host stepped the Dúnedain in silver and grey; and before them came walking slow the Lord Aragorn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Qhorin's long grey braid swung slowly with the motion of his horse. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He looked for playmates, but found no one and saw nothing but a large grey dog, which prowled the gravestones, always keeping its distance from him, slipping between gravestones and through shadows. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z It is not immediately apparent why until the clouds of grey begin swirling through the green of her gown. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As the mage stood by the spring looking out over the falling lands and the harbor and the grey distances of the sea, wings beat above him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z "I never did," the boy exclaimed, turning from grey to white. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Arya had her father’s eyes, the grey eyes of the Starks. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z After she has stood for more than an hour, as still as one of the circus statues, a man in a grey suit approaches her. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit replaces the now empty handkerchief in his pocket. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The green and grey he normally wore was wet and red with blood. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A grey girl on a dying horse, fleeing from her marriage. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And her betrothed looked at her with the cool grey eyes of a Stark and promised to spare the boy who loved her. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The singer’s beard was brown, though his long hair had largely gone to grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He could see her now, as the sky lightened into a dawn grey. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The mother did not know that the handsome, greying professor at her side knew her daughter at all; she thought he was just someone interested in her poetry. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z His skin was pallid, with an undertone of grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He pulled distastefully at his grey shirt and wondered whether he might undertake the adventure of washing it. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Riding slowly behind on a small grey pony, and seeming to nod in his sleep, was Bilbo himself. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “A girl in grey on a dying horse. Jon Snow’s sister.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sky was a heavy, suffocating blanket of grey cloud, but without promise of rain. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They gave the prince the best of the three horses, a big grey gelding so pale that he was almost white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And there came Gandalf on foot and with him one cloaked in grey; and they met before the doors of the Houses of Healing. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I started much more naturally then, to find myself confronted by a man in a sober grey dress. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Some were brightly painted, and shone with silver and gold and green, but most were either white or grey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The hair of the homeless people, even the young ones: grey. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Everything would be better once she was home again, safe behind Winterfell's grey granite walls. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The great grey beast was lying near the fire, but when Catelyn entered he lifted his head, and his golden eyes met hers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z General was a pleasant looking man who wore his grey hair at shoulder length and had a neck hung with beaded ropes. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Ravens soared through a grey sky on wide black wings, while carrion crows rose from their feasts in furious clouds wherever he set his steps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z "This is Valyrian steel," he said when the link of dark grey metal lay against the apple of his throat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The brothers are each much happier when the grey of winter fades and the colors of spring bloom: yellow sun; blue sky; purple, pink, red blossoms; green leaves; new life. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He was a young-looking man, in spite of his perplexities and his very grey hair, and his manner seemed quite natural. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Many a man had sacrificed one arm or foot, only to find the other going grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There Denethor sat in a grey gloom, like an old patient spider, Pippin thought; he did not seem to have moved since the day before. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z His visor had been removed from, his helm, to better show his dour face; pouchy bags under his eyes, a wide sour mouth, rusty hair spotted with grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Dawn was growing in the sky, and the dell was filling with grey light, when Strider at last returned. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Her eyes grey as the sea were hard and fell, and yet tears were on her cheek. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z At first I thought it might be soundproofed like Alder Whin’s, but looking around I saw the walls and ceilings were bare grey stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It is a grey Saturday morning, and Bailey is up earlier than the rest of the family, which is not unusual. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Bigger saw that she was old and her grey eyes looked stony. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He had lost the grey colour now, and the old unpleasant smile was forming on his lips. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The pent waters spread out into a long oval lake, pale Nen Hithoel, fenced by steep grey hills whose sides were clad with trees, but their heads were bare, cold-gleaming in the sunlight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He could see them clearly now: they appeared to have cast aside their hoods and black cloaks, and they were robed in white and grey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z And then they knew him, changed as he was, so high and glad of face, kingly, lord of Men, dark-haired with eyes of grey. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z So foot by foot, like small grey insects, they crept up the slope. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He had now dressed, and he flung his grey cloak about his shoulders; and the three passed out together towards the ruined gate of the Burg. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The children and their parents stared at the little grey strip lying in the drawer. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Slowly in the East the dark faded to a cold grey. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Hallis Mollen went before them through the gate, carrying the rippling white banner of House Stark atop a high standard of grey ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It was overcast, and in the grey light the town looked awful, soot and ash everywhere. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was an old man on the ground a few feet away, moaning and staring up at the grey belly of the clouds. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They found themselves face to face with a large grey wolf, but before the beast could even snarl Hylla punched it between the eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z When had that good man grown so old and grey? A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z An interminable dawn faded the stars out, and at last light, sad and grey, filtered into the shelter. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z He ran his fingers through his thick grey hair. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "He never makes a sound. That's why I named him Ghost. That, and because he's white. The others are all dark, grey or black." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He liked the burnished black head with its neat waves of hair, and her eyes, cool, impersonal and grey. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z They passed a crofter's cottage, deserted and overgown, and skirted a flooded quarry where the still water had a sheen as grey as steel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She had her dog with her, the big grey hound she rode in the mock jousts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It sounds like if grey could make noise.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z That night drew to its end, but clouds were now over moon and star, and they knew of the coming of day only by the slow spreading of the thin grey light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The men of the West were trapped, and soon, all about the grey mounds where they stood, forces ten times and more than ten times their match would ring them in a sea of enemies. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z From behind the hills, through the low grey cloud, a rumble of thunder. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z His grey fur morphed into a cloak of woven animal pelts. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “That land has something of a dark name,” Ged said, looking ever at the man in grey, trying to judge what kind of man he was. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Doubt was in the grey eyes that gazed steadily at Frodo. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At last they reached the crest of the grey hill, and a sudden breeze blew in their hair and stirred their cloaks: the chill wind of dawn. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A hard frost was settling over the castle, and Jon could hear the soft crunch of grey weeds beneath his boots. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then morning comes, the wavering grey turns to gold, there is a stirring within me as the sleepers awake, and he softly departs. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Its body is smooth and pale grey, it has bulging round eyes on top of its head and four spindly legs with enormous flat feet. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His fur was white, where the rest of the litter was grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Their waiter stops at their table and converses briefly with Widget, paying no notice to the man in the grey suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The air outside was cold and bracing, though the sky was a dull grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sky was a featureless grey sheet of cloud that looked as if it wanted to rain but couldn’t quite work up the energy. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The woman watched the ends of the incense redden and turn grey. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Then one morning she spied three women in the cowled grey robes of the silent sisters loading a corpse into their wagon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit slips easily through the crowd of circus patrons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z That grey, silent cottage, with the rain pattering on the roof. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Outside the air glistened misty grey, and in the dark recesses of the yard, toads and tree frogs still serenaded the night. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z In one, full of thick paint and lots of color, he is wearing a grey felt hat. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I was aware of it on my right hand; grey and quiet. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I ran a hand over the smooth grey stones of the wall. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Kathy adjusted her hijab in the front window, tucking in stray hairs—it was a nervous habit—while watching Zeitoun leave the driveway in a swirling grey cloud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Marco picks up a ball from the billiard table and hurls it at the man in the grey suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “These words say this,” said King Pellinore, “so far as I can understand from that old friar of orders grey.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Black and white and grey, all the shades of truth. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He remembered walls of pale red stone festooned with patches of nitre, a grey door of splintered wood, four inches thick and studded with iron. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z There was no sun, only a mass of thick grey cloud, lowering over the countryside, and still, close, thundery air. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z He had never seen the godswood like this, though—grey and ghostly, filled with warm mists and floating lights and whispered voices that seemed to come from everywhere and nowhere. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And then they were standing on the true path: a swath of green sward running through the grey wood. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z All the color had been leached from Winterfell until only grey and white remained. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In Ged's eyes there was a dark vision that overlapped and veiled the grey sea and the grey sky, and the darkness grew, and the veil thickened. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She took the unicorn's head by the horn and placed it beside the body, on the rock; thereupon she looked with her hard, grey eyes into the red pool she had made. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z By daybreak his dark face was grey with weariness, and he was so cramped with cold that he could hardly stretch out to rest. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Then all at once speaking aloud he called the magewind strong and sudden into his white sail, and his boat leapt across the grey waves straight at the lowering thing that hung upon the wind. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Pretty Meris stood cradling a crossbow, her eyes as cold and dead as two grey stones. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Shaking his old grey head, yet trying to hide a smile, Abbot Mortimer bent and helped to gather up the fallen nuts. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Ramsay Bolton stood beneath them, clad in high boots of soft grey leather and a black velvet doublet slashed with pink silk and glittering with garnet teardrops. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Wmterfell’s inner wall was the older and taller of the two, its ancient grey crenellations rising one hundred feet high, with square towers at every comer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The leap had shattered one of his legs, and a jagged piece of pale bone jutted out through the rotted cloth of his breeches and the grey meat beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z As Frodo drew near he threw back his hood, showing a shaggy head of dark hair flecked with grey, and in a pale stern face a pair of keen grey eyes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They said the words together, as the last light faded in the west and grey day became black night. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z She had had no more than ten grey hairs before all of this. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Wearing his green and grey jester’s motley, Trip could say just about anything and get away with it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But on that morning in Ten Alders village and up on the High Fall, the dank grey fog had clung a while, and then suddenly it blew and drifted and melted away. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z She changes from her bloodstained gown to a flowing one in moonlight grey, bound with ribbons in black, white, and charcoal, which had been one of Friedrick’s particular favorites. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z My grandmother was tremendously old and wrinkled, with a massive wide body which was smothered in grey lace. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z In the distance I could see the first grey roofs of Kerrith, while to the right, in a hollow, lay the deep woods of Manderley and the sea beyond. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z West of the road were flint hills, grey and rugged, with tall watchtowers on their stony summits. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z These feathers were not grey, as were the feathers on top of the snake-eating birds, but were colored red and green. The Girl Who Married a Lion: and Other Tales from Africa 2004-12-07T00:00:00Z Not until the grey of dawn did he allow them to halt. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z When he opened his mouth to speak, his lies turned to pale grey moths and took wing. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It is set back from the street, a cobblestone alcove formed by grey stone walls. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And then black despair came down on him, and Sam bowed to the ground, and drew his grey hood over his head, and night came into his heart, and he knew no more. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z As always, the man in the grey suit refuses to enter the flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A wind that had sprung up in the night was blowing now keenly from the North, and it was rising; but the lands about looked grey and drear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The sky was a pale grey, and smoke eddied all around them. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Today we are Cinderella because our feet fit exactly, and we laugh at Rachel’s one foot with a girl’s grey sock and a lady’s high heel. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They ate the grey stuff, and it was, indeed, delicious. Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z The sword gleamed silvery grey in the dawn light, almost new. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Satin had his horse saddled and bridled and waiting for him, a fiery grey courser with a mane as black and shiny as maester’s ink. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The foundation and the lower walls were solid grey stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I whirled and saw a huge grey truck coming right at me! Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The shifting light catches and releases the brightness of his shirt, the grey of his hair, illuminating the disapproving glare on his face as he watches the Carousel over his daughter’s shoulder. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Grim it stood above the northern cliffs, grey were the clouds over the seas of winter, endless the lists and ranks and rounds of names that the Namer's eight pupils must learn. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The curtains had been drawn here too against the dull grey evening. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was summer when we came up, the trees were still green, now it is autumn and the night is grey and wet. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The lower part of the long face was covered with a sweeping grey beard, bushy, almost twiggy at the roots, thin and mossy at the ends. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The three in the grey cloaks were strangers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z When the big grey wolf wrenched free, he took most of the creature’s throat out in an explosion of pale rotten meat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mr Hooper stood back, smoothing his hair, very tall and thin and grey, like some sort of terrible bird. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Marco escorts the man in the grey suit through the library, sliding the stained glass open to access the empty game room and continue their conversation. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And he stared hard at Shasta again with that curious expression, almost a hungry expression, in his steady, grey eyes. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The storm lashes us, out of the confusion of grey and yellow the hail of splinters whips forth the child-like cries of the wounded, and in the night shattered life groans painfully into silence. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She could only make out a hazy smudge of grey. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He lay until the darkness in the room thinned just perceptibly to grey. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Robb came back to her on a different horse, riding a piebald gelding in the place of the grey stallion he had taken down into the valley. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He wore grey plate, a fur- trimmed cloak of cloth-of-gold flowing from his broad shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I pulled the curtains to darken the room, but the grey morning light found its way through the gaps at the side. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He crammed what little food was left, into the breast of his grey jacket. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z He had replaced the jeans in the gardener’s hut—he was more comfortable in just his grey winding sheet—but he had kept the jacket. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z As we entered, the latter eyed me suspiciously on account of my school uniform: long grey flannels, white shirt, shiny black shoes, a blue-and-gold blazer with a matching tie. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z They drew the skin-covers over their boats to prevent them from being flooded, and drifted on; little could be seen before them or about them through the grey falling curtains. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The most they saw that day was a school of silver pannies swimming south, but never a dolphin leapt nor did the flight of gull or murre or tern break the grey air. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He stood up, ran one hand through his grey hair. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z At the grey tea hour there were always rooms that throbbed incessantly with this low sweet fever, while fresh faces drifted here and there like rose petals blown by the sad horns around the floor. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He is about my age, early to midthirties, with dark hair, greying at the temples. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The September sky is grey from days of rain. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit gives her a polite nod. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Not even an eagle poised against the sun would have marked the hobbits sitting there, under the weight of doom, silent, not moving, shrouded in their thin grey cloaks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Then Frodo stepped up to the great grey net, and hewed it with a wide sweeping stroke, drawing the bitter edge swiftly across a ladder of close-strung cords, and at once springing away. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Actually his view was screened by a tall line of beans on poles; but above and far beyond them the grey top of the hill loomed up against the sunrise. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z "The black one is full of fear and rage, but the grey is strong . . , stronger than he knows . . . can you feel him, sister?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then Victoria called over a respectable gentleman, greying at the temples, who was smoking a black cheroot and who grinned as if he had the toothache. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “Did he tell you that?” the man in the grey suit asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z When it was done the bride stood naked, her bridal finery a heap of white and grey rags, about her feet. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The fog had closed and thickened all over the village, greying the light, blurring the world till a man could hardly see his own hands before him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z After the performance has concluded, the man in the grey suit navigates the crush of patrons in the theater lobby with ease. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z True to form, they are clad almost entirely in black and white and grey with bright touches of red on ties or handkerchiefs. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It is a pleasure to see you too, Hector,” the man in the grey suit says, closing the door quietly behind him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “This is my daughter, Celia,” Hector says to the man in the grey suit, placing his hand on the girl’s head. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He squinted at the window above, saw the same grey sky, heard the same strange quiet. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Miss Honey stared hard into the other woman's wet grey eyes, and she allowed the silence to hang in the air until Mrs Wormwood became uncomfortable. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z On the right of the stream there was a long slope, clad with grass, now grey in the twilight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Behind us lay rainy weeks—grey sky, grey fluid earth, grey dying. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Low, grey clouds hid the mountains from sight. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The grey sand turned yellow and twinkled as if it was strewn with diamonds. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z She was on her knees, struggling to shove the mattress into the flames as thick grey smoke eddied around her and filled the room, when the door burst open and she heard her maid gasp. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The air was breezy, the low sky smudged brown and grey. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The door to the inn was opened, flooding the grey world with warm yellow light. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Like dark water poured from a bucket, tons of fine grey sand spilled across the floor in a sudden rush, burying Elodin’s feet up to his shins. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And now, bounding toward them across the desert floor in the shadow of Ghulheim, a huge grey beast, like an enormous dog. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Back by the fire, a bald man with a grey beard chuckled. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But she now shivered beneath the starry mantle, and she looked northward, above the grey hither lands, into the eye of the cold wind where far away the sky was hard and clear. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Luwin was hopelessly untidy, but his clutter of books and scrolls and bottles was as familiar and comforting to Bran as his bald spot and the flapping sleeves of his loose grey robes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The wind had dropped but the sky was grey. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Can they smell the grey on me, the fumes of Jankburg? Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z They gave themselves up to the spell and fell fast asleep at the foot of the great grey willow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The light, though no more than a grey dusk, was now enough for them to see that they were deep in the valley between the mountains. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It had become one of those hot, grey days when there seem to be twice as many flies as usual. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z They had been made to put on their best long, grey trousers. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z She looked at him with bright golden eyes, and he ruffled her thick grey fur. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Light was growing, and the tall columns and carven figures beside the way went slowly by like grey ghosts. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A dozen guardsmen lined the grey stone walls beneath tall narrow windows. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Every weekday huge, grey trucks arrived to dump garbage from white people’s homes. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Even now, if I’m driving on a long grey road and my thoughts have nowhere special to go, I might find myself turning all of this over. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘The scouts have found naught to report beyond the grey wood, lord,’ he said, ‘save two men only: two dead men and two dead horses.’ The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The gaunt man with the grey stubbled face laughed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I kept my eyes to the right and saw Miig’s hands suddenly dark on the grey. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z His hair had gone to grey, but the little pointed beard at the end of his chin was still black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It showed grey and pale, a line of fading light through the wood. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His uncle was sharp-featured and gaunt as a mountain crag, but there was always a hint of laughter in his blue- grey eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Long before anyone else Telemakhos caught sight of the grey woodsman coming from the door, and called him over with a quick jerk of his head. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It was Jasper: Jasper’s insolent handsome young face, and silver-clasped grey cloak, and stiff stride. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Silas produced a grey sweater the color of Bod’s winding sheet, a pair of jeans, underwear, and shoes—pale green sneakers. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The walls were bare grey stone, lit with the distinctive unwavering reddish light of sympathy lamps. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A solitary white glove that has gone rather grey from a combination of age and being kept in a small box with rocks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He could see the grey line as it came dangling down, and he thought it had a faint silver sheen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He sprang away from the wall, loped off beneath the trees, the shadows of branch and leaf dappling his grey fur . . . and then he turned and raced back in a rush. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There were no bright scratches skittering along its dull grey side. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She carries it with her always though she has a separate deck for circus readings, a custom-made version in black and white and shades of grey. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Without warning, the man in the grey suit tosses his cane at the boy. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit stares at the boy without comment for some time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He picked up his trowel, slid a thin layer of cement on it, and leveled it on the floor, smoothing and stretching it in arcs that formed half circles, like grey rainbows. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Penny had vaulted off her dog, a big grey brute called Crunch. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Names are not of nearly as much import as people like to suppose,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z We walked past the rows of brick structures with corrugated iron roofs to a big grey building in the back of the compound. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Dawn came glimmering, and slowly a grey light grew about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Now it was the deep blue of frozen rivers, now the dirty white of old snow, and when a cloud passed before die sun it darkened to the pale grey of pitted stone. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Like a chain of grey islands, the marks of his hunting dotted the green grass sea. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A girl as grey as ash, and even as I watched she crumbled and blew away. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She still rode the grey ^garron that Mully had given her the day she left the Wall, a shaggy, stunted thing blind in one eye. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When a grey light crept back over the western heights, long after day had opened in the lands beyond, they went into hiding again and slept a little, turn by turn. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Bran itched under his grey and white woolens, and suddenly he wished he were anywhere but here. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They sprang up as the travellers approached, and Frodo saw that they were tall and clad in grey mail, and from their shoulders hung long white cloaks. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Gleams of sun were striking through the hurrying clouds, and the forest now looked less grey and drear. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Every now and again, a plain grey cardboard box was dished out to each boy in our House, and this, believe it or not, was a present from the great chocolate manufacturers, Cadbury. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit leans into the table, as though he might whisper his words conspiratorially, but the tenor of his voice does not change. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Just before the boy turns nineteen, the man in the grey suit removes him from the town house without notice, setting him up in a modestly sized flat with a view of the British Museum. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "Do remind her to dress nicely today. The grey velvet, perhaps. We are all invited to ride with the queen and Princess Myrcella in the royal wheelhouse, and we must look our best." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The other boy is then brought into the room to speak with the man in the grey suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His hair fell from beneath his helm in a heavy braid touched with hoarfrost, and the blacks he wore were so faded they might have been greys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Her dress was grey wool bordered with white satin; over it she wore an ermine cloak clasped with a silver wolf’s head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And now the Entwives are only a memory for us, and our beards are long and grey. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The silk is undeniably black and white, the transition between the two a soft fade of grey, distinct fibers visible in the weave. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They had laid him out on a trestle table and covered ' him with a banner, the white banner of House Stark with its grey direwolf sigil. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z By the time the little column had dwindled in the distance, the eastern sky had gone from black to grey and the snow was falling heavily. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the afternoon he arrives in Chatham, and through the grey fog he can see the ships on the river Thames. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Daggers in the dark. I know. You will forgive my doubts, my lady. A grey girl on a dying horse, fleeing from a marriage, that was what you said.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Black-and-white stripes on grey sky; countless tents of varying shapes and sizes, with an elaborate wrought-iron fence encasing them in a colorless world. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They reminded her of hairless grey mammoths, though their tusks had been bobbed and gilded, and their eyes were sad. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Many eyes in the room were fastened upon Bigger now, cold grey and blue eyes, eyes whose tense hate was worse than a shout or a curse. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z As the Shy Maid drew closer, Tyrion could see the shapes of stone men moving in the light, shuffling aimlessly around the lamps like slow grey moths. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The face in the mirrors is lined, the hair significantly greying. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Some of her little grey cousins were afraid of men, even dead men, but not her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Vincent grows tired of Paris life, and now of the cold, grey days. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The brown pelt was well salted with grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He headed outside, was on his way to sit on the grey wooden bench, when he saw something and he hesitated. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z They scrambled to their places by the rowlocks and all in line dipped oars in the grey sea. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z From it he removed and handed to my father several small pouches filled with roots, ointments and bottles containing drops of the grey, misty brew—medicines for all his problems. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I went into my own room and drew the curtains, but there was little to notice; my window opened into the courtyard, all I could see was the warm grey of quickening sky. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z There was blood on the chopping board, the room smelled of raw meat, the steak was still sitting out on the countertop, turning grey. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When she saw the guardsmen on the third pier, in grey woolen cloaks trimmed with white satin, her heart almost stopped in her chest. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He wore a grey cloak with hood thrown back. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z “Do you even know what the challenge you are alluding to was?” the man in the grey suit asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “And no, in any case. Have you been to north Norfolk? It’s not the Adriatic. It is restless and relentlessly grey.” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He sat a sorrel stallion, his standard-bearer a dapple grey. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z On its further side the woods gathered again, blue and grey under the sullen evening, and marched on southwards. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z In the dream they were only shadows, grey wraiths on horses made of mist. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Except that more of them are dressed in the greys and blacks of widowhood, the aunts seem little changed since five years ago when Yolanda was last on the Island. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z He wore grey, although she could not have described his clothes. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z His horse is white and his armor is grey, there are dark clouds in the background. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The sky above is grey but bright, despite the soft rain that is beginning to fall. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Behind the dais a kraken and grey leviathan were locked in battle beneath the painted waves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His sandy blond hair turned grey prematurely, which many thought made him look even more dignified. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Sunlight was still shining in the sky, but long shadows reached over Isengard: grey ruins falling into darkness. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Suddenly they came out of the shadow of the trees, and before them lay a wide space of grass, grey under the night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z I asked, as the grey- bearded man tuned his lyre. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The scabbard was soft grey leather, supple as sin. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The gasping pools were choked with ash and crawling muds, sickly white and grey, as if the mountains had vomited the filth of their entrails upon the lands about. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z I loaf around until the company comes back in the early morning, grey, dirty, soured, and gloomy. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z He removed that as well, revealing a plain grey shirt of homespun. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The day broke, humid and overcast, with the wind warm and the sky a dense blanket of grey clouds that looked like bunched-up, dirty cotton sheets. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Then a grey blur flashed past her, and suddenly Nymeria was there, leaping, jaws closing around Joffrey's sword arm. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z ‘I know . Annabeth’s grey eyes reflected the green of the olive trees. ‘It’s just . Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The grey moss grew thickly here, covering the fallen stones in great mounds and bearding all the towers. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The door was grey wood studded with iron, and Theon found it barred from the inside. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their grey coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She began to walk up it, step by step, climbing ever higher, as though there were invisible stairs cut into the grey sky. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z On the wind over the grey waves they doubled, snapped, swooped, lunged, till smoke roiled about them red-lit by the glare of their fiery mouths. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Behind them stood low crumbling cliffs, and chimneys of grey weathered stone dark with ivy; and beyond these again there rose high ridges crowned with wind-writhen firs. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z In the distance could be dimly seen a line of bare cliffs, and in their midst, taller than the rest, one great grey wall. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She ignored him, turning to the large party in blue and grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z “This has gotten out of hand,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z On a cold grey morning in 1968 I woke up and found the world deep in mourning. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Dancer was draped in bardings of snowy white wool emblazoned with the grey direwolf of House Stark, while Bran wore grey breeches and white doublet, his sleeves and collar trimmed with air. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His eyes were flinty too, black and sharp, but the years and the salt winds had turned his hair the grey of a winter sea, flecked with whitecaps. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Beneath that mass of pale grey stone, the encircling army of Lord Stannis Baratheon looked as small and insignificant as mice with banners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As they walked I saw a flash of grey robe beneath their cloaks: Tehlin priests. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The breeze is fresh and cool, the pale hour makes our faces look grey. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The nail on his middle finger had turned as black as jet, he saw, and the grey had crept up almost to the first knuckle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When I followed their gaze, I saw a thick cloud of grey smoke rising from the thatch, to become lost in the darker grey of the sky. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The other two, one black and one grey, continued to eat. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Immediately to the east of Wall is a high grey rock wall, from which the town takes its name. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The water below turned from green to grey to black. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The direwolf moved toward the meat, a gaunt grey shadow sliding from tree to tree, through pools of moonlight and over mounds of snow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The morning is grey, it was still summer when we came up, and we were one hundred and fifty strong. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z She plays over in her mind the impression of the man in his grey suit with his pale eyes and harsh features, trying to figure out why the name does not fit on him properly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Now there is not a great deal of unoccupied territory left, but there is still room for chord V which I have marked with a grey line. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z His master was gaining on him; already he was some twenty strides ahead, flitting on like a shadow; soon he would be lost to sight in that grey world. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z High up above the tall cliffs were steep slopes upon which trees climbed, mounting one head above another; and above them again were grey faces of inaccessible rock, crowned by a great spire of stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His robe was tattered and dirty, but it might have been the proper grey long ago. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Behind it a steep shoulder of the land lay grey and bare, and beyond that the dark shapes of the Barrow-downs stalked away into the eastern night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The old man exhaled a grey cloud of smoke and squinted. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I looked round the convent-like garden, and then up at the house—a large building, half of which seemed grey and old, the other half quite new. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z The sky above them was striped with grey and white bands of cloud, through which patches of blue could be seen. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Ben, old, grey, and portly, with his lined face and half-burned eyebrows. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z There was Manderley, our Manderley, secretive and silent as it had always been, the grey stone shining in the moonlight of my dream, the mullioned windows reflecting the green lawns and the terrace. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with grey turning, gold turning light. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Of soft grey moss they made his seat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I could see the terrace below me grey and indistinct in the white wall of fog. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z Shireen was a homely child, made even uglier by the greyscale that had left her neck and part of her cheek stiff and grey and cracked. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sky overhead with grey and lilac and blue and white. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But they marched up like a phantom company, grey distorted figures in a mist, only dreams of fear with pale flames in their hands. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Crying farewell, the Elves of Lórien with long grey poles thrust them out into the flowing stream, and the rippling waters bore them slowly away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z But there was no sign of him; and there was a grey mist on the Barrow-downs southwards, and a deep veil over the Old Forest far away. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z I took the scale and walked over to one of the grey- stones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z In the late afternoon it rained and the entire world was dark grey. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Yet the man in the grey suit looks out of place. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She has gathered that the man in the grey suit whom her father called Alexander also has a student, and there will be some sort of game. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He stood up, very tall and stern, his grey eyes glinting. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z On the further side it reared up again, many fathoms at a single leap: a great grey cliff loomed before them, cut sheer down as if by a knife stroke. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Once our eyes adjusted we could make out lighter rectangles of grey on the far extremes of the space. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Fish spiralled down towards it until a shark’s long grey shadow cut across its path and it vanished. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z There was even a grey muslin flag hung at half-mast by the bent bough archway into our spot. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z All the lands were grey and still; and ever the shadow deepened before them, and hope waned in every heart. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Half of them had collapsed, pulled down by the weight of the grey moss that draped them and the thick black vines that snaked upward from the water. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The reflection’s hair is longer, though it is a similar shade of grey. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “There’s no blood. No organs. It’s just grey inside.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z At the first hint of grey light under the skirts of the canopy of shadow they hid themselves again in a dark hollow under an overhanging stone. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Through the purple twilight he watched fires waken one by one in the great stepped pyramids, as the many-colored bricks of Meereen faded to grey and then to black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Mr. A. H— arrives in his customary grey. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He leaves her on the platform, and when she turns after him to see which way he went, the grey suit is nowhere to be found amongst the crowd. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z There was a thin, grey mist everywhere, it seeped damply through his clothes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The stars were pale in the greying night before I lay down beside my husband. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Its grey- white metal shone against the dark road behind it. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The faces of the others were set and Harker’s grew ashen grey; perhaps he guessed better than any of us what was coming. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z She was the same one who’d said the meat was grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But it was grey, murky shadow, tiny dots, nothing more. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit turns his attention to Celia. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “One of these days I’ll make you all proud for all the help,” I told Uncle Piet after he had bought me a new white shirt and a pair of long grey flannels. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z And suddenly the Shadow Host that had hung back at the last came up like a grey tide, sweeping all away before it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The next morning, a sleek merchant on a grey mare reined up by Yoren and offered to buy his wagons and everything in them for a quarter of their worth. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The garments the sisters took from them were decorated with black hearts, grey lions, dead flowers, and pale ghostly stags. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was old grey wood, splintery and plain . . . but it stood to the right of the door through which she'd entered. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Geographic isolation might have solved some of the “grey finch” problem—by restricting interbreeding between particular variants. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z At first it was grey, then faintly yellow, then golden, and the floor of the woods was rust-coloured, where the dead leaves lay. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Above her brow her head was covered with a cap of silver lace netted with small gems, glittering white; but her soft grey raiment had no ornament save a girdle of leaves wrought in silver. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was still grey and dark when the meeting finally ended. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The Winterfell men looked especially fine in their silvery mail and long grey cloaks. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His grey shirt hung in loose tatters except where it was stuck to his body, stained a dark, sullen red. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Jory's armor was blue-grey plate without device or ornament, and a thin grey cloak hung from his shoulders like a soiled rag. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z And that’s what I’m staring at, frozen: an ant path of cabs, a city of yellow where everything would be grey back home. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Jon's eyes were a grey so dark they seemed almost black, but there was little they did not see. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z All the bright dyes had leached out from the surcoats of the slain; they were garbed in shades of white and grey, and their blood was black and crusty. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The window blind blew back with the wind that rushed in, and in the aperture of the broken panes there was the head of a great, gaunt grey wolf. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Closed Due to Inclement Weather it says, in a fancy script surrounded by playfully painted grey clouds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He wandered through a tent full of mirrors and saw hundreds and thousands of Baileys staring, wide-eyed, back at him, each in matching grey caps. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey shirt stuck to him and his hair was plastered to his forehead. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z The last time Catelyn had seen him, his hair and beard had been brown, well streaked with grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The roof had given way, and everything inside was covered in the same grey mud. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z “Bindings are permanent, my boy,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z King Joffrey followed on a tall grey palfrey, a golden crown set upon his golden curls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The gowns and crinolines and veils worn by the dolls were all faded to beige and grey and fawn, and the faces were almost worn away. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Clouds streaked the sky like tattered banners, grey and white and tom. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Dozens of wolves - grey wolves like the ones in Portugal - surged into the warehouse. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He was of middling height, his shrewd peasant’s face weathered by wind and sun, his grizzled beard and brown hair well salted with grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Blackfish was a tall, lean man, grey of hair and precise in his movements, his clean-shaven face lined and windbumt. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit does not contest this point, he only watches Celia with the same scrutinizing gaze. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He woke, not knowing where he had been or where he was or what was the faint grey light in the air about him, which was the light of dawn coming to the world. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Standing in the shadows was a glowing, vaguely human figure outlined in grey flames. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z The men were silent, bent over, poking into the pile of grey ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z They would not carry me down that steep path through the woods to the grey cove and the deserted cottage. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z He could dimly see the grey forms of two elves sitting motionless with their arms about their knees, speaking in whispers. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A shadow detached itself from the shadow of the wall, to become a tall man in dark grey armor. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In this city of splendors, Dany had expected the House of the Undying Ones to be the most splendid of all, but she emerged from her palanquin to behold a grey and ancient ruin. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z If only he could see the boy again, sit and talk with him . . . pain shot through his broken leg, beneath the filthy grey plaster of his cast. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He wore a slashed velvet doublet in cream-and-silver, a grey silk cloak trimmed with black fox, and his customary mocking smile. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z It had been expanded, improved upon, excavated and tunneled into by successive Masters of Stormhold, until the original mountain peak now raked the sky like the ornately carved tusk of some great, grey, granite beast. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “Are there any questions?” he repeated, as he sat with his back against the great grey stone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And sure enough there she was, moving along the opposite pavement, dressed in her neat grey suit, just like the ones she’d always worn. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The building is as grey as the pavement below and the sky above, appearing as impermanent as the clouds, as though it could vanish into the air without notice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Up there, for once, were clouds, great bulging towers that sprouted away over the island, grey and cream and copper-colored. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Southwards to their left they could see the forest falling away down into the grey distance. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Scooping up handfuls of the sunburnt dust he sifted it over his grey head, and groaned, and the groan went to the son’s heart. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he got up, drew the grey elven-cloak about him, and to keep his mind occupied, began to walk to and fro, prying and peering into every corner of his prison. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Very neatly dressed in a little black suit with a French grey shirt, the smooth waves of her dark head were neat and unruffled. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Plumes of grey smoke snaked up from the rebuilt kitchens and reroofed barracks keep. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘Now is the time for resting. Some things are ill to hear when the world’s in shadow. Sleep till the morning-light, rest on the pillow! Heed no nightly noise! Fear no grey willow!’ The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Her heart-shaped face, and her dancing deep grey eyes, and the brown curling mass of her hair. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z This temple was a small structure, not higher in all than a man’s shoulder and made of grey bricks and roofed with tile. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Is done away with before He has a single grey hair on His head? Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z They grew longer and more pointed and soon were covered with grey hair. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z His eyes were grey, and quick, and saw much. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The grey windows disappeared as the house glowed full of light. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Uncounted layers of drab brown paint covered her hull; her sails were grey and tattered. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The autumn day had turned from sunny to grey, and a light patter of rain ran down the grubby shop window. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Its sides were now dark and sullen, and its head was in grey cloud. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He was mounted on an armored destrier and had donned his plate and mail, and a grey steel greathelm with a horsehair crest. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Three small grey boats had been made ready for the travellers, and in these the Elves stowed their goods. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z “So proud, so proud!” moaned Miss Havisham, pushing away her grey hair with both her hands. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z One wore a raggedy silken gown that looked like it had once been white, the other wore a stained grey suit too large for it, the sleeves of which were shredded into shadowy tatters. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Money for the cement and cinder blocks that rose out of the ground in solid, grey walls and flat square roofs. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z The grey evening light cast queer shadows on the floor. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit walks on as though he had not paused, making his way through the curtains of velvet that separate the courtyard from the world outside. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His hair was grey, what little the years had left him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I stayed there until the van drove off, until I couldn’t hear the engine anymore, until the day filled up with grey, until the grey turned indigo. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Drawing his grey hood well over his face, Sam crept stealthily towards the cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Two grey trunks rubbed each other with an evil squeaking that no one had noticed by day. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z "So that my girls start saving their money to take care of us, Mami"—he gave her a wink—"when we're old and grey." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z They put Bran in his father's oak chair with the grey velvet cushions, behind a long plank-and-trestle table. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She has not noticed him approach, but the man whose name she still cannot recall the proper pronunciation of is standing by her shoulder in his distinctive grey suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Through the swaying draperies, Dany caught glimpses of him astride his grey stallion. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The moon was waxing, and in the early night-hours a cold grey light lay on the land. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Bod put his head on one side, and stared at her with eyes as grey as thunderclouds. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “Is something wrong?” the man in the grey suit asks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Ashes floated lazy on the breeze like fat grey snowflakes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z When he lowered it over the face she loved so well, a tall young knight sat on his grey stallion where her son had been. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Far, far away, in the South the clouds could be dimly seen as remote grey shapes, rolling up, drifting: morning lay beyond them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z A spark flew where the steel bit into the stone man’s calcified grey flesh, but his arm tumbled to the deck all the same. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Love her as in childhood Though feeble, old and grey. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z “And how many of your own students have chosen to end the game themselves?” the man in the grey suit asks, turning back. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Even on a cold grey day like this, the harbor was a busy place. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The covering of them was torn and filthy and the wadding stuck out of the holes, grey and sodden. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It was a grey day, damp and misty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “The rock around here is dark ...” .. and the stones of the house are grey,” she finished. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z But now, with most of the rivers cut into pieces and lakes left as grey sludge puckers on the landscape, my own history seemed like a myth along the lines of dragons. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I gestured to the gaps between the grey buildings Elodin had shown to me. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z They walked very quietly across the grey carpets of the department store, towards School Outfitting, and the rooms smelled of perfume and new cloth. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z Calm as still water, Arya told herself, but even when she gave her eyes a moment to adjust, there was nothing to see but the vague grey outline of the door she had come through. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The door swung in and a tall, big-faced man with grey eyes came forward hurriedly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Their backs were a rich ultramarine and their stomachs snow white, colours that vanished to grey or black when they were at any depth, but which close to the surface sparkled with surprising brilliance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z “One day I shall. It can’t be helped. I shall have grey hair, and lines and things.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z My only regret is that the clouds had blown in while we walked, leaving the sky flat and grey as slate. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit cracks a smile, the only noticeable change his expression has displayed the entire evening. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Even on his bench, caught up in the mighty rhythm of the rowing, one oarsman among sixty in a ship racing over void grey seas, he felt himself exposed, defenseless. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The grey day had become an early night while he was inside the storeroom, and it came as no surprise to him when a familiar shadow swirled beneath the street lamps. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The smoke coiled above the treetops, a single cumulous bloom of grey far enough to the west that it looked manageable. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It was a very grey day; a most opaque sky, “onding on snaw,” canopied all; thence flakes fell at intervals, which settled on the hard path and on the hoary lea without melting. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Summer prowled through the silent woods, a long grey shadow that grew more gaunt with every hunt, for living game could not be found. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He looked to be a powerful man, though well into the winter of his days now, his mane of hair grey going to white. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She was grey as the winter sea, with a mane like silver smoke. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He knew it too,- the grey face, the hollow eyes, the limp. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He makes several of his drawings on grey paper instead of plain. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit’s past stretches back a long, long time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And every time she winced or flinched Tristran felt guilty and awkward, but he calmed himself by thinking of Victoria Forester's grey eyes. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The trophy was filled with some kind of grey dust that looked like ashes from the fireplace. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z He only stands in the hall and fixes Marco with a cool grey stare. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I came towards them a little way, then stopped and waited, there in the open, under the grey sky. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z No one answered him; but he saw their faces grey with fear and the horror in their eyes, and he laughed again, for it seemed to him that his sport went well. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Before them a wide grey shadow loomed, and they heard an endless rustle of leaves like poplars in the breeze. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z They were close to the gate of the great house now, but it was locked fast, the iron doors reared full to their height and the stone lions grey and windbitten on either side. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Manet ran a hand idly over his wild, grey beard as he eyed the heat waves rolling off the brick kiln. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Expressionless, motionless, he sat until there was nothing left but grey ash and dully glowing coals. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A wall of wavering, writhing grey lay blank across the path, hiding all that lay behind it. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z I left him to finish up and joined Rose, who was now dressed in a pair of jeans and a grey shirt. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The long unbraided hair hung down in grey wisps round his face. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Before they had finished breakfast the clouds had joined into an unbroken roof, and a straight grey rain came softly and steadily down. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z He said, “There’s a big grey dog in the graveyard sometimes. It came when you did. Is it your dog?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z A little grey cat sits in the entrance. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I set my travelsack on the leeward side of one of the grey- stones and the two of us began to set up camp. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The light came grey and pale, and they did not see the rising of the sun. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Penny rode her big grey dog, her striped lance waving drunkenly as die beast bounded across the deck. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Kingshaw was in the middle of them all, pressed in by the arms and legs and backs of the others, smelling the boys' smell, of hair and grey woollen jerseys. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z “I cannot say I approve of such exhibitions,” the man in the grey suit says, taking off his gloves and dusting the chair with them before he sits. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Bailey stares out at the grey sky with a mixture of comfort and excitement and nervousness that he cannot reconcile. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The western sky went green, then grey, then black. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But above the grey land and the spasms of bleak dust which drift endlessly over it, you perceive, after a moment, the eyes of Doctor T. J. Eckleburg. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Beyond it the shore rose sheer into a grey cliff, and there was no further passage for those on foot. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A description: She had her mother's grey eyes and heart-shaped face, her father's curling chestnut hair. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z And as lords and ladies never notice the little grey mice under their feet, Arya heard all sorts of secrets just by keeping her ears open as she went about her duties. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z First, the color changes in the face, shifts from white to grey, and then there are clouds that float across it, disappearing when they reach the opposite side. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The grass was scanty, coarse, and grey; and the leaves in the thickets were faded and falling. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z She reads the two words on the grey paper several times. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Stories have changed, my dear boy,” the man in the grey suit says, his voice almost imperceptibly sad. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Where all had looked so shabby and grey before, the wood now gleamed with rich browns, and with the smooth black-greys of bark like polished leather. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “That will be clear at the time,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z It was now dark and the falls were pale and grey, reflecting only the lingering moonlight of the western sky. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The leading company was halted, and as those behind filed up out of the trough of the Stonewain Valley they spread out and passed to camping-places under the grey trees. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The face of the clock becomes a darker grey, and then black, with twinkling stars where the numbers had been previously. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The Tombs—far bigger and nearer than he had thought they would be—looked grey in the moonlight. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z A face swam up at him out of the grey mist, shining With light, golden. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Then Círdan led them to the Havens, and there was a white ship lying, and upon the quay beside a great grey horse stood a figure robed all in white awaiting them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As twilight edged from grey to purple there was a noise in the spire, like a fluttering of heavy velvet, and Silas left his resting place in the belfry and clambered headfirst down the spire. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Her captor - a teen girl in grey camouflage - lay dazed on the floor, a knife at her belt. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There were about four hundred of them in the grey vicinity—very beautiful creatures, the wild White- fronted Geese, whom, once he has seen them close, no man ever forgets. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z His eyes were grey and greedy, his teeth yellow, his forked beard a tangle of snow and silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The two men could only stare at the grey walls, the black floor, at the baby blue bars, or at each other. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She motioned to me to follow with a tilt of her head, her long hair loose against her faded grey T-shirt. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Big grey elephants were not uncommon either—huge beasts with castles on their backs. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then it faded into the West, and dusk came early, followed by a grey and starless night. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A few revellers had decayed bodies with grey flesh, matted clumps of hair and nasty wounds. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z He set out one grey day in the second month of the new year to look at it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z "This is folly," the small grey man said while she dabbed at the wolf bites with a stinging ointment. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit will not say, though the move clearly marks the end of formal lessons. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I don’t know what the dogma is, but I know it nearly turned my brother’s hair grey.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Nearby the boat rocked on the grey waves, empty. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Three by the fire wore the red stallion badge of the Brackens, and there was a large party in blue steel ringmail and capes of a silvery grey. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Theon chose plain boots and plainer clothes, somber shades of black and grey to fit his mood. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was cramped and miserable, having nothing to do but stare at the winter-lands crawling by and the grey water on either side of him. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and a grey, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z He rubbed his eyes wondering if sleep and shadow had deceived him; but the great grey shapes moved steadily onward. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z After a year without a sign, without any word or a single glimpse of the grey top hat, Marco decides to call on him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Her hair was grey, although her face seemed too young for grey hair. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z By afternoon the sun had gone, and the day turned grey and gusty. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His horse and his armor were grey, but his cloak was the rippling blue-and-red of Riverrun, and a shiny black fish, wrought in gold and obsidian, pinned its folds against his shoulder. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z That was where his brother was, the grey brother who smelled of summer. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "One is drunk on seawater, after all, and the other is a great grey bullock so dim he'll probably get lost." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His voice was like a sheet of smooth grey slate, without the barest hint of inflection or emotion. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z It was a cold grey day near the end of December. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His voice came up clearly from below, but Frodo could not see him; his grey elven-cloak had melted into the twilight. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The corpse's cloak was grey wool trimmed with white satin, she saw with sudden terror. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The leaves of trees were glistening, and every twig was dripping; the grass was grey with cold dew. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The light was still grey as they rode, for the sun had not yet climbed over the black ridges of the Haunted Mountain before them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The whole world grey, everywhere you look, everything grey except the eyes of the bride. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A girl in grey on a dying horse, he thought. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I peered through the doorway and saw the grey stone of the walls charred black. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The treated canvas burned fitfully, and the acrid grey smoke hung close to the ground in the quiet evening air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The light faded from the cave door, and the grey veil of falling water grew dim and was lost in gathering shadow. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “You,” said the third washerwoman, an older woman, deep-voiced, with grey streaks in her hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Then they just faded silently away in the grey light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Twitching aside his grey cloak, Pippin drew forth his small sword and laid it at Denethor’s feet. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Clegane had no splendor about him; his armor was steel plate, dull grey, starred by hard use and showing neither sigil nor ornament. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Saturday dawned grey and gloomy, in keeping with my mood. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The sun was a hot white penny, shining down upon the grey river as it rushed around the charred bones of sunken ships. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit lifts his hand to knock again, but then lowers it and walks away instead. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They were clad in cloaks of dark grey, and their hoods were cast now over helm and head. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z “I cannot say I find this behavior appropriate,” the man in the grey suit says to Marco. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He could see Frodo below him, a grey forlorn figure splayed against the cliff. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The petitioners clustered near the tall doors, the knights and high lords and ladies beneath the tapestries, the smallfolk in the gallery, the mailed guards in their cloaks, gold or grey: all stood. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Wisps of smoke still rose into the grey sky, but no more than might have risen from Winterfell's chimneys on a cold autumn afternoon. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z At last the sky above grew faint with the first grey of morning. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Instead of a dazed demigod, he was now a dazed grey dragon. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z “I beg your pardon, Yollo. You need not look so pale, I was only playing with you. The Prince of Sorrows does not bestow his grey kiss lightly.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sky was a brutal grey, the winds swirling and cool. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z His surcoat was new, dark grey wool with silver buttons, and a heavy silver pin fastened his fur-trimmed cloak at the shoulders. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The old knight looked at her son with a faint flicker of amusement in his watery grey eyes, though his gelding whickered uneasily and sidled away from the direwolf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His fierce eye gazed out across the mighty army: black rats, brown rats, grey rats, piebald rats, skulking weasels, furtive stoats and sinuous ferrets, all gathered round, their weapons glistening and dripping with the rain. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit leans forward and whispers something in her ear, too low for her father to overhear. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Signs and figures were carved above its wide arch too dim to read, and fear flowed from it like a grey vapour. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He’s wearing tracksuit bottoms and a stained grey T-shirt, his hair is greasy, his skin slick, as though with fever. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The views atop the hill were bracing, yet it was the ringwall that drew Jon's eye, the weathered grey stones with their white patches of lichen, their beards of green moss. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Sam fell over, and the long grey coils slithered silently down on top of him. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Their eyes were the colorless grey of extreme age, and they squinted at the organs on the slab. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z By day thin plumes of smoke hung against the sky like ragged grey ribbons. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Soon they struck a narrow road, that went rolling up and down, fading grey into the darkness ahead: the road to Woodhall, and Stock, and the Bucklebury Ferry. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It took her back to her childhood, to long grey days at Riverrun. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit takes a handkerchief from his pocket and drops it on the table, where it lands with a muffled thump, something heavier than silk hidden in the folds. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Weese was sprawled across the cobbles, his throat a red ruin, eyes gaping sightlessly up at a bank of grey cloud. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Cayn helped him with his clothes; white linen tunic and grey cloak, trousers cut open down his plaster-sheathed leg, his badge of office, and last of all a belt of heavy silver links. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He is trying to make the darker colors seem light, but he can't help but paint in somber shades of brown and grey. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z And now I can recall the picture of the grey old house of God rising calm before me, of a rook wheeling round the steeple, of a ruddy morning sky beyond. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Each man wore a new cloak, heavy grey wool with a white satin border. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z What I was chained to, and how heavily, became intelligible to me, as I heard his hoarse voice, and sat looking up at his furrowed bald head with its iron grey hair at the sides. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z “I wish I could have seen all the cities of the Archipelago,” Ged said as he held the sail-rope, watching the wide grey wastes before them. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Sansa threw a plain grey cloak over her shoulders and picked up the knife she used to cut her meat. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Everything here is a different color of grey. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The harbour-master went back in his grey motor-boat, taking some men with him, and the diver who had come to the surface for the second time. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z With the weather windy and grey, and so many people sharing a small house, tempers were flaring. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She knelt beside him, wrinkling her nose at the smell, and pushed back his dirty grey hair to feel his brow. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z There was a woman riding on the horse’s bare back, wearing a long grey dress that hung and gleamed beneath the December moon like cobwebs in the dew. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She saw a horse, a great grey stallion limned in smoke, its flowing mane a nimbus of blue flame. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Beyond there glimmered far away, as if floating on a grey cloud, the white head of tall Methedras, the last peak of the Misty Mountains. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The very air seemed brown, and all things about were black and grey and shadowless; there was a great stillness. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Faces floated in the air—the judge's face crowned with that mockery of grey wool—the cold dead face of Mrs. Rogers—the convulsed purple face of Anthony Marston. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z There was a tiny trickle of smoke drifting up from the chimney, which I could hardly see against the grey sky. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The grey dawn creeps in through the windows, casting soft shadows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The first grey light of day was in the room, and a cold air was coming through the open window. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A great quietness rules in this blossoming quadrangle, the sun lies warm on the heavy grey stones, I place my hand upon them and feel the warmth. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And now there they lay, tiny, oblong pieces of white bone, cushioned in grey ashes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The meeting place was a grassy sward dotted with pale grey mushrooms and the raw stumps of felled trees. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Of that lean and terrible red ship he saw no sign, but his father's Great Kraken was there, her bow ornamented with a grey iron ram in the shape of its namesake. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The black stones had turned to grey and the eastern sky had gone indigo when Stonesnake spied the rangers below, wending their way upward. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Each put on a coarse straw bonnet, with strings of coloured calico, and a cloak of grey frieze. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z He pointed to the roads that left gaps between the grey buildings. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The wind of the world blew now from the West, and the great clouds were lifted high, floating away eastward; but still only a grey light came to the dreary fields of Gorgoroth. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The seal was a mockingbird, in grey wax. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The old woman, small and grey as a mouse, never said a word, but the girl made up for it. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Arya could see a wisp of grey smoke drifting up off the torch, writhing like a snake as it rose. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Mr. Dandy looked up into the boy’s grey eyes, and he swore. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The path led them into a grey wood of thin, pale birch trees. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z When at last day came to Braavos, it came grey and dark and overcast. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It shone a dull grey- white in the room’s autumn light. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z And then they were beneath the bridge, white walls heavy with curtains of grey fungus looming to either side, water foaming angrily around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The mold-eaten carpet under her feet had once been gorgeously colored, and whorls of gold could still be seen in the fabric, glinting broken amidst the faded grey and mottled green. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “Here we are!’’The tinker turned around holding up a shirt of plain grey homespun. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit stands alone, unnoticed, in the lobby for some time. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Arya recognized the Hound, wearing a snowy white cloak over his dark grey armor, with four of the Kingsguard around him. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The titanic grey line of it was unwavering and solid. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In their white faces burned keen and merciless eyes; under their mantles were long grey robes; upon their grey hairs were helms of silver; in their haggard hands were swords of steel. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z From Ben’s descriptions I knew what it would look like: featureless, grey, and square as a block. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit stands, brushing invisible dust from his sleeve. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "Nothing, Father. It is as Primus told you. The evening sky hangs above us, the color of a bruise, and clouds carpet the world beneath us, all grey and writhing." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Whether or not the wily Mr Coombes had chalked the cane beforehand and had thus made an aiming mark on my grey flannel shorts after the first stroke, I do not know. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She still wore her dark uniform from the Medica, but had added a grey cloak from her room. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit tips his hat to Prospero and slips out the door and then out of the theater, moving like a shadow onto the busy street. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit takes the boy for a week in France that is not precisely a holiday. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was mounted on a shaggy grey stallion, his shield hung from the horse's side; wood banded with iron, white and grey, and on it the snarling face of a direwolf. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The police helicopters were rising so far away that it seemed someone had blown the grey head off a dry dandelion flower. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Under the snow lay grey ash and cinders, and here and there a blackened beam or a pile of bones adorned with scrhps of skin and hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I kept to the tar and tin, knowing that red tiles or grey slate made for treacherous footing. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The grey mists howled around him as he plunged toward the earth below. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z City and sky become one, merging into a single plane, a vast sea of unbroken grey. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z TTie wolves were grey, and so were the silent sisters; together they stripped the flesh from the fallen. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Robb turned the big grey stallion and walked him slowly away from her, Grey Wind shadowing his steps. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Eventually she emerged from the car and came towards us, dressed in her usual grey suit, her briefcase held tightly to herself in both arms. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z As soon as the land faded into a formless grey under coming night, they started out again. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Their dappled grey coursers were swift, strong, and beautifully trained. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The bones on the floor of the pit were deeper than the last time she had been down here, and the walls and floors were black and grey, more ash than brick. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z That is why the Tehlin priests wear robes of ashen grey. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Bod, in his grey winding sheet, felt dowdy and drab. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z He watched the cracks along the Wall go from red to grey to black, from streaks of fire to rivers of black ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Like a little grey rat, she thought, he would not let go. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Tall and thin, with fierce black eyes and a beak of a nose, the priest was garbed in mottled robes of green and grey and blue, the swirling colors of the Drowned God. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The stars, burning diamonds in the cloudless sky, turn the road beneath their feet a silver grey. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z “Bring the grey linen gown with the pearls on the bodice. Oh, and my white lion’s pelt.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z A few white hairs were all that separated him from baldness; his forked beard was equal parts white and grey, but always ragged. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “It was really spooky,” I said, “because she looked exactly the same. Maybe her face was slightly older. But otherwise, there was no real difference. Same clothes even. That smart grey suit.” Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s almost dawn, the light outside is just beginning to tinge grey, and the rain of the last several days is still battering against the window. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z In spite of these notable lacks, the expanse of grey stone was undoubtedly a door. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I saw the grey, drawn flesh and the hooded eyes, deep sunken in their sockets, and I made to turn away but she held me. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “Magic,” the man in the grey suit repeats, turning the word into a laugh. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Her hair was mostly grey, now, and her face was pouched, and wrinkled at the throat and eyes and at the corners of the mouth. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit’s smile brightens considerably. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I suppose that is a valid argument,” the man in the grey suit says after some consideration. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z That afternoon, when the wind had died down and the barnyard was quiet and warm, the grey goose led her seven goslings off the nest and out into the world. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z He stares at the ground near the man in the grey suit’s feet, looking for his shadow, though he is thwarted by the ever-shifting light. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It sounds nice. But do you think you arc romanticizing? ‘The restless grey sea’?” The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “An innocent man died here tonight,” the man in the grey suit continues. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His old clothes were folded and put away, but he was permitted to keep the grey cloak of Lórien, though not to wear it when on duty. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z The walls around them were made of bricks of half a hundred colors, but the shadows turned them all to grey until touched by the light of the torch that Gerris carried. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Airy was a fierce little boy with a sword, and I’m just a grey mouse girl with a pail. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It stretched out long and grey and very high, and against the base the small mat sheds clung like fleas to a dog’s back. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z There were septons as well, and holy sisters in white robes and grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The Old Lord stood there coughing and staring, a dirty grey satin robe wrapped about him, from which hung an edge of bedraggled fur. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The smoke was rolling from the furnace now in heavy billowing grey clouds, filling the basement. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z She was lean, hard muscle, where Reek was loose, grey skin and brittle bones, a white-haired starveling. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Wilson's glazed eyes turned out to the ashheaps, where small grey clouds took on fantastic shape and scurried here and there in the faint dawn wind. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Everything glowed strangely in shades of black, grey and white. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Jan was paired with dour Eddison Tollett, a squire grey of hair and thin as a pike, whom the other brothers called Dolorous Edd. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z All round the place of assembly the grey trunks rose, straight or leaning, and supported the low roof of leaves. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z Its steep slopes were grass-grown; but all was grey in that hour, for the sun had gone, and far below lights twinkled in the homes of Men. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z He climbs over a grey mound of snow left from the plows and catches up with me. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z Then turning from the city of Morgul, now no more than a grey glimmer across a dark gulf, he prepared to take the upward road. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Her face was ashy grey and I saw her glance down at that hand of hers that didn't have a thumb. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z ‘Did you see them again, Mr. Frodo?’ asked Sam, as they sat, stiff and chilled, munching wafers of lembas, in the cold grey of early morning. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z At daybreak I stepped outside to look at the brazier; nothing was left but ashes, now grey and powdery. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Coarse grey stubble, going white in patches, covered his cheeks and chin. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His clothing took fire, and for an instant the khal was clad in wisps of floating orange silk and tendrils of curling smoke, grey and greasy. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The room was clearing; the smoke thinned to a grey pall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z It was silent and windless; the grey east wind had passed away. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Then suddenly he threw back his grey cloak, and cast aside his hat, and leaped to horseback. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z The grey wolf put her head down and drank, and Bod scooped water up in his hands, drinking the water in a dozen tiny gulps. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit signs papers and responds to the headmistress’s questions with answers she does not entirely follow, but she does not protest the transaction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A bentback old crone in a shapeless grey dress approached him warily. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They filled their bottles and the small camping kettle at a little fall where the water fell a few feet over an outcrop of grey stone. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A corpse stood at the prow of a ship, eyes bright in his dead face, grey lips smiling sadly. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z When he flapped his wings, a cloud of grey ash filled the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He watches as he crosses into the foyer, retrieves his grey top hat and silver cane from the butler, and leaves by the front door. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His small beard was well peppered with grey, and he wore a leather glove on his maimed left hand. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z As she had spoken, I watched the Professor’s face, and saw it turn ashen grey. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z It is late and the pavement is dark despite the streetlamps dotting the line of grey stone buildings. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She chose a simple dress of dark grey wool, plainly cut but richly embroidered around the collar and sleeves. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He put back on his salt-crusted clothes, for there was not enough water to wash them, and going out into the grey windy morning looked over this place whereto the shadow had tricked him. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z He caught sight of the lady in the grey dress from time to time, as he spun and stomped his way across the municipal gardens. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The slow moon mounted, now waxing towards the full, and in its cold silver light the swelling grass-lands rose and fell like a wide grey sea. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z She was halfway now, halfway between grey wolf and woman, but her face was a woman’s face. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z A cliff frowned upon their right; to their left rose grey slopes, dim and shadowy in the late night. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z A huge white horse, of the kind that the people who know horses would call a “grey,” came ambling up the side of the hill. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z His fight with the Hunters had left him with mottled grey and pink scar tissue on his arms and face, so he looked like a bruised peach in the process of rotting. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z If a storm hit New Orleans at all, it would be greatly diminished, no more than a day of grey gusts and rain. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The thing looked like a little strip of grey cardboard. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z Ser Meryn entered from the west side of the yard, clad in gleaming white plate chased with gold and mounted on a milk-white charger with a flowing grey mane. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The trees were grey and menacing, and a shadow or a mist was about them. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Three weeks later, on a grey afternoon, Scarlett came to the graveyard, accompanied by both her parents. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit releases her wrist and she steps back, retreating into a corner and staring at her hand. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z In the dim light of the stars their stems were grey, and their quivering leaves a hint of fallow gold. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The candle, wasted at last, went out; as it expired, I perceived streaks of grey light edging the window curtains: dawn was then approaching. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Clad as serving girls in layers of drab grey roughspun, they wore brown woolen cloaks lined with white rabbit fur. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit hesitates only a moment before he nods. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His plump flabby face had turned grey with fearful apprehension. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit does not admonish him for calling. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The wound on his brpast was as healed as it would ever be, the scar that covered it grey and red and hideous. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His hair was grey, but despite that and the slow, tender manner in which he walked, he wasn’t very old. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z We see the sad trees, with their autumnal leaves dripping rain, the grey sky reflected in the puddles on the road. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The sky hung low, a cloudy canvas with swirls of dark purple and stormy greys. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Amongst the letters and cards there is a plain grey envelope. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It’s the Jankburg in my grey pores, seeping out and ticking you off and getting in the way of your Oprah mind-set.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z And Gandalf, too, was now riding on his tall grey horse, all clad in white with a great mantle of blue and silver over all, and the long sword Glamdring at his side. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z When the boy is ready, the man in the grey suit takes him from the grey stone building, and he does not return. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “This is the boundary,” said the grey wolf that was Miss Lupescu, and Bod looked up. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Memory came rushing back: the stone man reaching out with cracked grey hands, the blood seeping from his knuckles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z She tries to pull away but the man in the grey suit keeps his hand firmly around her wrist. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Hector looks to the man in the grey suit for a reaction. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He was a compact man of fifty years, spare and hard, with grey in his black hair and eyes like chips of onyx. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z In fact, the man in the grey suit barely says a word. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Its thin white light lit up the faces of the rocks and drenched the cold frowning walls of the cliff, turning all the wide looming darkness into a chill pale grey scored with black shadows. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z There were oak trees here, with enormous trunks, wrinkled and grey like the legs of elephants. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z The raven gave a cackling scream, but the Old Bear smiled through the grey of his beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The evening sky had turned the faded grey of an old cloak that had been washed too many times, and the first shy stars were coming out. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z I stood, unable to look away from Teren, the grey shirt, the red blood, the white bone. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The wind went like grey waves through the endless miles of grass. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z “I control nothing,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "Fifteen! For the prop of my old age and the delight of my eyes! Do not mock my grey beard, Tarkaan though you be. My price is seventy." The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Northward beyond the dwindling downs the land ran away in flats and swellings of grey and green and pale earth-colours, until it faded into a featureless and shadowy distance. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z It was a horse that could have carried a knight in full armor into combat, but all it carried on its naked back was a woman, clothed from head to foot in grey. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Robert looked away, off into the grey distance. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Sam unclasped his grey cloak and cast it about Frodo’s shoulders. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Faber was a grey moth asleep in his ear, for the moment. Fahrenheit 451 1953-01-01T00:00:00Z Next day he found her in the curving hall of grey marble, lit now by the westering sun, where often she spent the afternoon at games or at the weaving-loom with her maids. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z Sim waved and I headed to the Mess, where I sat down long enough to spoon up my beans and chew through a flat piece of tough grey meat. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Maester Luwin looked up at them numbly, a small grey man with blood on the sleeve of his grey wool robe and tears in his bright grey eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The river, still dark and mysterious, was spanned by bridges that were turning coldly grey, with here and there at top a warm touch from the burning in the sky. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Bricks of twenty different colors pressed close around them, fading to grey and black beyond the lantern light. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Or if they did, they shied away as if she had the grey plague. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The grey turned to black with alarming speed. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z The horizon is lost in a grey mist. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z And even as they hastened on their way the wind brought a grey rain, and all the fires sank, and there arose a great smoke before them. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Miss Havisham’s grey hair was all adrift upon the ground, among the other bridal wrecks, and was a miserable sight to see. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z Dr. Van Helsing is sleeping, Poor dear, he looks very tired and old and grey, but his mouth is set as firmly as a conqueror’s; even in his sleep he is instinct with resolution. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z The Moon now shone upon the grey face of the rock; but they could see nothing else for a while. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z His curly brown hair and beard had more grey streaks than a few months ago. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z It was made of a solid piece of grey stone the same color as the surrounding walls. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The train is unremarkable as it chugs across the countryside, puffing clouds of grey smoke into the air. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Then slowly the cloud settled, disclosing a large black and grey Dolphin with a young one at her side. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z The gleam faded from his eyes, and they went dim and grey, old and tired. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Across half one cheek and well down her neck, her flesh was stiff and dead, the skin cracked and flaking, mottled black and grey and stony to the touch. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I was pricking through the purlieus of the forest after that Beast, you know, when I met with a solemn friar of orders grey, and he told me. It’s the very latest news.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z But he had seen something huge and grey, on the steps beneath, pursuing them. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “No, thank you,” the man in the grey suit says, shifting in his chair and resting his hands on the handle of his cane. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z His dreams were full of grey, stony hands reaching for him from out of the fog, and a stair that led up to his father. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The wood of the little boat would look soft and grey, pulpy in places. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In another place, his little sister lifted her head to sing to the moon, and a hundred small grey cousins broke off their hunt to sing with her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z In the dim moonlight I could see the dark, shapeless shadows of leaves swirling over the grey of the cobblestones below. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "I dreamed of a winged wolf bound to earth with grey stone chains," he said. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z This bombardment is too much for the poor devils, they have been sent straight from a recruiting-depot into a barrage that is enough to turn an old soldier’s hair grey. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The air became colder still and everything became paler and paler until soon there was nothing but grey and white all around them. The BFG 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z He called again, but saw nothing and no one, and, carefully, he made his way out of the tangle of greenery and of grey stones and back to the path. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z Instead it is a picture, inked in black and white and shades of grey. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The little man stoppered and pocketed the little bottle, shouldered his pack, and the two of them walked together down the green path through the grey wood. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He had slept the night away, and the grey of morning was dim among the bare branches. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Warm vapors rose from the earth, shrouding the trees in their moist breath, creeping up the walls to draw grey curtains across the watching windows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Fronted by a lush lawn and palm trees, the Union Passenger Terminal had opened in 1954, an art deco-style building once aspiring to grandness but since overtaken by a certain grey municipal malaise. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Light grey is pretty powerful but there are still some areas of the map not yet conquered by its empire. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Haldir skilfully cast over the stream a coil of grey rope, and he caught it and bound the end about a tree near the bank. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The only thing on the top of the hill was a handful of grey- stones. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit puts it in his pocket without so much as glancing at it. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The grey hood and elven-cloak they folded and placed beneath his head. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Kondrachev would approach carefully, and "in his grey, soft felt hat and smart grey raincoat he seemed almost part of the fog," Blake remarked. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He swung the dead knight against the grey stone of the tower, again and again and again, until the man’s head was red and pulpy as a summer melon. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z ‘Did you search the slain? Were there no bodies other than those of orc-kind? They would be small, only children to your eyes, unshod but clad in grey.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z They moved through the grey gloom beneath the earth. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You have no idea what you’re getting into, my boy,” the man in the grey suit says quietly. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The hair that had retreated from Mormont's spotted scalp had regrouped beneath his chin in a shaggy grey beard that covered much of his chest. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z No one saw her, and she saw no one, only a grey and white cat creeping along atop the godswood wall. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He ate the stale grey bread hungrily, but not the meat. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Looking down the street, I saw the distinctive grey of a Tehlin priest and decided to wait until he had passed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z She was no maid; if she could look on the grey wall's scenes of slaughter, why should she avert her eyes from the sight of men and women giving pleasure to one another? A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He said faintly, as if his mouth was full of grey ash. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Grey men on grey horses beneath grey banners. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z That had been Ged's advantage so far and he kept it; but the strip of seawater between him and the great grey talons did not seem much of an advantage, anymore. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit does not inquire as to what it might be. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit only sips his wine, regarding Widget over the rim of his glass. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The great grey sailcloth pavilion that the Tattered Prince liked to call his canvas castle was crowded when the Domish- men arrived. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Slowly the grey light trickles into the post and pales the flashes of the shells. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “You admit she has had lessons,” the man in the grey suit says. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The storekeeper, a lean Mosotho man with greying hair, told us we could not reopen the account, for there was no man in our house to settle it on Fridays. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Ghost grey, some men called the shade, but in truth his eyes were all but colorless, like two chips of dirty ice. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The sky went that low, November grey; the puddles grew coats of ice overnight, and one morning when I woke up the fields were white with snow. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of them raised colored tents, some of them arrived in their own caravans drawn by huge grey horses or by small, shaggy ponies. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z ‘Look, Aragorn! Did I not warn you? There is the old man. All in dirty grey rags: that is why I could not see him at first.’ The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Peering out from the edge of the dell they could see nothing but a grey land now vanishing quickly into shadow. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Away to their left, southward, against a sky that was turning grey, the peaks and high ridges of the great range began to appear dark and black, visible shapes. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z It never takes him long to spot the grey top hat again, but in the intervals between he becomes nervous to the point of shaking, fidgeting with his coat and the contents of his pockets. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Britten came close to Bigger and narrowed his grey eyes. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z He took from his girdle a small greasy pouch of grey cloth and counted the money in it. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z The sight of the silent sisters in their grey robes filled the queen with sudden terrors. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z It went from black to a charcoal grey, the rain like pebbles thrown against glass. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Standing with squared shoulders all round were policemen with clubs in hand, silver metal on their chests, faces red and stern, grey and blue eyes alert. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z And that was how Miss Kenton and I talked for the next two hours or so, there in the pool of grey light while the rain continued to fall steadily on the square outside. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z The thrust shoved them sideways, through a curtain of pale grey moss. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z His usual dress, of a grey winding sheet, was, he knew, quite wrong. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She kept her long grey hair in two braids like a little girl with a flowered kerchief tied over her head and under her round chin. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z The silver lines faded, but the blank grey stone did not stir. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A great rain came out of the Sea, and it seemed that all things wept for Théoden and Éowyn, quenching the fires in the City with grey tears. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z "How many miles to Babylon," recited Tristran, to himself, as they walked through the grey wood. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z He tours the Hall of Mirrors, countless figures in matching grey suits and top hats accompanying him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z They did not know that under the straw was a rat, and inside a knothole was a big grey spider. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z Already the eastward sky was turning pale; the stars were fading, and a grey light was slowly growing. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z To her a thing was either black or white—there was no question of it being grey or perhaps pink. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z Frank the grey dragon flew alongside with his passengers. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Away below them they could see the Road sweeping round the feet of the hills; and to their right a grey river gleamed pale in the thin sunshine. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Meanwhile the goddess with grey eyes had other business: disguised as Telemakhos, she roamed the town taking each likely man aside and telling him: “Meet us at nightfall at the ship!” The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, they looked horribly like huge people, draped in grey robes that covered their heads and faces. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Close behind came Robb, in grey wool trimmed with white, the Stark colors. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z The sun was sinking fast now; the sky had turned to a clear, purple-tinged grey, but to the west there was a ruby-red glow. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit does not enter the flat. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “I know, dearest, and it wasn’t very polite,” Hector says as he guides her closer to the chair, where the man scrutinizes her with eyes that are almost as light and grey as his suit. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Whether it was clad in stuff like green and grey bark, or whether that was its hide, was difficult to say. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z Fewer than a dozen shields remained, sad grey things with faded paint and long cracks in the wood. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The day was grey, damp, overcast, the sort of day mat made you wish for rain. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z A breeze stirred the grey haze of Daisy's fur collar. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit sitting in the stage-left box does not applaud. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z And he waited, his heart in his mouth, while Victoria Forester's grey eyes stared at him, amused. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z Ged saw a low coast lashed by rainy wind, a grey town crouching behind the long stone breakwaters that made its harbor, and behind the town treeless hills under a snow-darkened sky. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z The grey stubbly man and the one with the axe lay unmoving, but Osha was on her knees, crawling toward her fallen spear. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z His voice was diffident, careless, but his face was still grey. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z The men all roared, none louder than Chiswyck himself, who laughed so hard at his own story that snot dribbled from his nose down into his scraggy grey beard. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z His courser was as slim as her rider, a beautiful grey mare, built for speed. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Chandresh’s attention remains only on the man in the grey suit, and it does not once wander to this other man who bears a passing resemblance to his assistant. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit pours the last of the wine. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z He saw herds of humpbacks, breaching grey whales, schools of dolphins leading the ships to port. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z She made me eat two bowls of soft porridge treated with a bitter, grey powdery substance cooked in a blackened earthenware pot. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The man in the grey suit keeps his eyes on the girl, but addresses Hector when he speaks. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “And further out one sees the sea in its natural state, and that’s beautiful. Yesterday everything was grey.” Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Griff would be glad to go back to his own true colors too, though his once red hair had gone to grey. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The houses were built of whitewashed stone, with steeply pitched roofs of dark grey slate. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z An arm emerged, then a face—brown hair, tangled and matted and streaked with grey, two fierce eyes, a nose, a mouth, a beard. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her stormy grey eyes scanned the surroundings, alert for any threat. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Then Gandalf revealed the strength that lay hid in him, even as the light of his power was hidden under his grey mantle. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z As tall as trolls they were, twelve feet or more in height; their strong bodies, stout as young trees, seemed to be clad with raiment or with hide of close-fitting grey and brown. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z He caught the glint of clear grey eyes; and then he shivered, for it came suddenly to him that it was the face of one without hope who goes in search of death. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z Widget pauses, considering the change in the way the man in the grey suit watches him. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z Stretched across the upper part of the doorway was a big spiderweb, and hanging from the top of the web, head down, was a large grey spider. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z They had reached the Mountain’s foot on its northern side, and a little to the westward; there its long grey slopes, though broken, were not sheer. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z One of the Freys stepped forward, a knight long and lean of limb, clean-shaved but for a grey mustache as thin as a Myrish stiletto. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They looked up at the grey and yellow leaves, moving softly against the light, and singing. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Theon bent the bow, drawing the grey goose feathers back to his cheek. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z The grey rats are not as chaste as they would have us believe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Her hair was brown and grey in equal parts and she wore it tied behind her head in a widow’s knot. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The night was old and the East grey when they rode up at last from Deeping-coomb and came back to the Hornburg. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z In the meantime Mr. Pocket grew greyer, and tried oftener to lift himself out of his perplexities by the hair. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z It is cold, cold; so cold that the grey heavy sky is full of snow, which when it falls will settle for all winter as the ground is hardening to receive it. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Then pulling off the grey cloak he undid the heavy belt and let it fall to the ground, and the sheathed sword with it. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z And as he fell, he was certain he heard a voice coming from the general direction of the grey beast. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z |
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