| 单词 | grey-brown |
| 例句 | He was tall and haggard, with a deeply lined face and a shock of grey-brown hair. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Corpses lined the benches below, grey-brown flesh sloughing off their bones as they raised their cups to toast, worms crawling in and out of the holes that were their eyes. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Seven were adults, big grey-brown beasts, savage and powerful, their mouths drawn back over long yellow teeth by their dying snarls. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z It was rainwater, murky and grey-brown, but soon, he knew, it would drain away. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z The list includes one rule that is somehow uptight and poetic at the same time: “Colors to be shades of grey, brown, grey-brown, brown-green.” SCI-Arc show cleverly tweaks the myth of the all-powerful — and typically male — architect 2017-05-22T04:00:00Z Oh, and his stool, described in the medical records as “dirty grey-brown, very thin and mushy”. Hitler’s Hidden Drug Habit; Downton Abbey review – high Hitler, and hang Bates 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z But there was one obviously sub-standard aspect to the game: its graphics, with a washed-out grey-brown filter applied to ape the TV series' look, were pretty unimpressive. The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct preview 2013-01-11T15:08:38Z The fields are square, and all the places where green stuff might normally be are full of grey-brown granite instead. ‘I’m not doing as much as I used to’: meet the man with 20 jobs 2016-02-27T05:00:00Z There is the water, grey-brown and rippling, and far off in the distance there are mountains, a lighter grey-brown, and that’s about it. One step beyond: the ascent of mountain runner Kílian Jornet 2020-09-06T04:00:00Z Females of the species have a red-brown carapace, while males have a honey-red outer layer and grey-brown abdomens. Trapdoor spider: New giant species found in Australia 2023-03-23T04:00:00Z Now these same hills form a ghostly, grey-brown landscape topped with blackened tree stumps as though sketched in charcoal. Drone footage shows devastation after wildfires ravage Turkey's pine forests 2021-08-09T04:00:00Z Having made his morning coffee, William Hart steps out of his home in Paradise and notices the darkening grey-brown sky. The day Paradise burned down 2018-11-16T05:00:00Z Looking from space, the eye is drawn to the grey-brown line of the Piray river and to the great patch of pink roof tiles. Satellite Eye on Earth: April 2016 – in pictures 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z He indicated a graceful, grey-brown framework in the window. Kipps The Story of a Simple Soul 2012-03-18T02:00:19.567Z It was the reflection of the sainted spinster, Hilda Slaighter, in the widow's mirror; a reflection with a bonnet fallen backwards, and to it attached a thick rope of grey-brown hair. The White Peacock 2012-01-14T03:00:21.627Z Of a lake which is one of the loveliest in all the world in the sunlight, nothing was to be seen save a stretch of grey-white, wind-whipped waters beating upon grey-brown rocky shores. Down the Columbia 2011-12-10T03:00:16.583Z The German uniform is to be changed to a grey-brown. Mr. Punch on the Warpath Humours of the Army, The Navy and The Reserve Forces 2011-11-28T03:00:24.727Z Then they saw a grey-brown animal about the size of Scrub, with a stubby tail. Girl Scouts in the Rockies 2011-11-16T03:00:25.047Z The upper storeys of these grey-brown walls overhang and are supported by huge wooden cantilevers. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z One who reads this will never forget the odor of the lilac, "the lustrous western star" and "the grey-brown bird singing in the pines and cedars." Walt Whitman An Address 2011-09-26T02:00:30.337Z Arrived the inevitable meat—this long piece of completely tasteless undercut in innumerable grey-brown slices. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z She had removed her sunbonnet, and her grey-brown hair proved to be in perfectly smooth braids wound about her head. Carolyn of the Corners 2011-08-10T02:00:14.997Z It has a dead bough almost at the bottom of its bole, and upon it there sits a grey-brown bird. The Confessions of a Poacher 2011-08-05T02:00:44.470Z To our left is a mat of grey-brown roofs, out of which rise hundreds of curiously shaped chimneys. Cathedral Cities of Italy 2011-10-12T02:00:42.597Z And then again they will hear the song of the grey-brown bird in the limitless dusk amid the cedars and pines. Walt Whitman An Address 2011-09-26T02:00:30.337Z She was looking up at him in expectation, her great luminous grey-brown eyes burning with an inward hungry fire which thrilled him. Rose of Dutcher's Coolly 2011-04-10T02:00:07.273Z My costume consisted of a long white cotton coat and a pair of white cotton pants, both dyed a dirty light grey-brown with coffee. 13 Days The Chronicle of an Escape from a German Prison 2011-04-01T02:00:33.827Z Far back the whole wide expanse was wrapped in a vast rolling cloud of grey-brown smoke. Sergeant Silk the Prairie Scout 2011-02-07T03:00:22.570Z One species only is known, the meerkat or suricate, S. tetradactyla, a small grey-brown animal, with dark transverse stripes on the hinder part of the back, from South Africa. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 4 "Carnegie Andrew" to "Casus Belli" They reached the doors of the Mus�e in the grey-brown dusk of a February evening. Man and Maid In all these Poplars the male catkins are three inches to four inches long, chiefly grey-brown in colour; the scale-like bracts, however, are suffused with a reddish shade. Trees and Shrubs for English Gardens The small but speedy Renault car scooted along the broad dusty French road like a grey-brown bug fleeing for its life. Dave Dawson at Dunkirk The old shades of grey-brown elephant and mole will disappear, but in deference to the views of the pacifists a pale pink will be substituted for the unpopular red. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, June 23, 1920 The blue wood-smoke, the pinkish tiles, the grey shutters, the grey-brown plane trees, the pale blue sky, the yellowish houses, and above all the clean forms and the clear air. Another Sheaf He was a rather tall, exceedingly thin man, with straight, thick, grey-brown hair, parted in the middle, and plastered down on either side of his head. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius The gnarled and twisted vines scarcely showed now, upon the grey-brown background of the soil, but in a few places, where the snow had not yet melted, the tangled black threads were visible. Master of the Vineyard There was a daintiness, a delicacy in her little face with the softly moulded, yet firm features, the grey-brown eyes with dark lashes, the arched fine brows, which would have made a plain face distinguished. Love of Brothers As we were dropping, I saw its grey-brown fellow upon the opposite side, dragging his tedious way to the height we had left. Jonah and Co. The grey-brown husk encloses a fibrous, dry, yellow-colored fruit with its kernel. Travels in Peru, on the Coast, in the Sierra, Across the Cordilleras and the Andes, into the Primeval Forests Then exclaimed the Lord of Pohja, "Go, my daughter, to discover Why the grey-brown dog is barking, And the long-eared dog is baying." Kalevala, Volume I (of 2) The Land of the Heroes So we said goodbye, and went on through the grey-brown streets with hardly any shops, and those only very small and common, and we got to the alley all right. New Treasure Seekers or, The Bastable Children in Search of a Fortune We had got into a barren, lakeless, treeless district where the world was one monotonous expanse of grey-brown prairie. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 Advancing stiffly towards us and wagging his scrap of a tail was a small grey-brown dog. Jonah and Co. One which we watched was of a graceful form, with a long fine beak, its plumage being grey-brown above and white beneath. In the Wilds of Florida A Tale of Warfare and Hunting He was dimly aware of a wide stretch of grey-brown bog, of drifting grey clouds and of a single whitewashed cottage near the railway line. Lady Bountiful But the expression of her grey-brown eyes was different; they were steadfast, calm eyes, which moved more slowly; they were softer than her brother's. There was a King in Egypt Miss Pinnegar, a poor, patch-cheeked, rather round-backed figure with grey-brown fringe, stood as if she did not quite know what to say or do. The Lost Girl One was a tall, thin, middle-aged woman, with grey-brown hair pulled away from her forehead and done in a knob at the back of her head. Lady Betty Across the Water She shaded him as much as herself while they threaded their way through the shrubs that seemed to simmer in the grey-brown heat. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa Such touches are rare, and Paris seems best to suit what Mme de Sévigné admirably calls "the grey-brown" thought of La Rochefoucauld. Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France She had wondered if he would start, if he would look amazed, if his grey-brown eyes would light with pleasure! Emily Fox-Seton Being "The Making of a Marchioness" and "The Methods of Lady Walderhurst" For example, it seems certain that the general grey-brown tint of European rabbits serves to render them indistinguishable in a field of bracken, stubble, or dry grass. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Out beyond were other crumbling remains of old activity—a stone span across the dried course of a water way, and a wide bank, showing through a hardy vegetation the grey-brown inequalities of slag. The Three Black Pennys A Novel "Shall I see Mr. Bennett?" she asked him eagerly, as they paused by the parapet, looking down upon the grey-brown water swishing under the fast incoming tide. Marcella We may see here sometimes the bright brown of avarice, the grey-brown of selfishness, and the grey-green of deceit. A Textbook of Theosophy The main surface was a rough sort of thing, and, on regarding it closely, it looked as if it was made of frozen porridge, being slightly rough, and of a grey-brown colour. Bullets & Billets Away to the right was something that looked like a grey-brown hedge, and from beyond it blue smoke went up to the bluer sky. The Story of the Amulet But then I perceived the resemblance of its grey-brown, shiny, leathery integument to that of the other sprawling bodies beyond, and the true nature of this dexterous workman dawned upon me. The War of the Worlds At last, his swiftly roving eyes lighted upon an object, just darker than the grey-brown of the night-ridden land. The Octopus : A story of California Her grey-brown hair was taken smooth back from her brow and her high temples; her face was rather pale. Sons and Lovers Then, instead of the familiar grey-brown haystack, one sees in almost every meadow a neatly-built stone house with an upper storey. Yorkshire His face was as if carven out of oak, set and grey-brown. The Trespasser An inscription upon the old theatre, the usual neat building of white and grey-brown basalt, informs us that it was built in 1852, ad honorem of two deputies. To the Gold Coast for Gold A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Volume I In a sheltered hollow some hundred feet below the level at which they were, a hooded figure in pure white was startlingly splashed upon the grey-brown of the dry hills. Rest Harrow A Comedy of Resolution And the singer so shy to the rest received me; The grey-brown bird I know received us Comrades three; And he sang what seemed the song of Death, and a verse for him I love. Poems By Walt Whitman At the farthest of these sat the City Editor—thin, precise-looking, with yellow skin, hollow cheeks, ragged grey-brown moustache, ragged scant grey-brown hair and dark brown eyes. The Great God Success The bare slope descended to the water's edge, a grey-brown granite, and white slatey clay, steep, beaten by wind and rain. Tales of the Wilderness On the other side there are two thousand yards of grey-brown water about three or four feet deep. The Adventure of Living : a Subjective Autobiography Her eyes were lost again in the pinkish glow spreading over the grey-brown sand of the desert, over the palm-covered island near. The Weavers: a tale of England and Egypt of fifty years ago - Complete To the tally of my soul Loud and strong kept up the grey-brown bird, With pure, deliberate notes, spreading, filling the night. Poems By Walt Whitman The big grey-brown dog with his paws on the back of the front seat, was eagerly watching her approach. Quill's Window The under sides of the front wings are a warm creamy tan, crossed by wide bands of dark brown and grey-brown, ending in a delicate grey mist at the edges. Moths of the Limberlost A wave of colour flushed his bronzed face up to the very roots of his grey-brown hair. God's Good Man Nevertheless I resolved to have one gaze at Riversley, my aunt Dorothy, and Sewis, the old grey-brown butler, and the lamb that had grown a sheep; wonderful contrasts to my grand kings of England career. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete Looking up from the end of the veranda, Lady Bridget could see an irregular line of grey-brown boulders, jagged and evidently of volcanic origin, marking the line of gully. Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life Stones lay everywhere upon the pale yellow or grey-brown earth. The Garden of Allah The antennae, dark, grey-brown on top, and white on the under side, turned back and drooped beside the costa, no doubt in the position they occupied in the pupa case. Moths of the Limberlost The grey-brown eyes had in them a wistful look. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail Accordingly they drifted through a series of those grey-brown streets, neither commodious nor picturesque, in which the eastern quarter of the city abounds. A Room with a View The grey-brown bushes and trees started almost with visible progress into the tender green shade which is the forerunner of the bursting leaves. A Dark Night's Work Gyp went along till she could see no outer world for the grey-brown tree-stems streaked with gum-resin; and, throwing herself down on her face, dug her elbows deep into the pine dust. Beyond The grey-brown eyes of the stranger never left Cameron's face while he was speaking. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail |
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