| 单词 | greyness |
| 例句 | A sunken temple loomed up out of the greyness as Yandry and Duck leaned upon their poles and paced slowly from prow to stem, pushing. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z But the crack was much thinner than he'd thought, now he got down to it, he could see nothing except a faint greyness. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z To his disappointment he could not see them at all: only a vague greyness, rolling down towards them. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Still, everything ahead of him was shrouded in mist, but the greyness of the sky was a bit paler. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z A few dim lights shone indistinct through that greyness. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Be decisive, put your trainers by the door and try not to think about the cold/drizzle/greyness. How to stay fit for ever: 25 tips to keep moving when life gets in the way 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z The opening and closing sentences, their stiff and twined structure; the repetition of that vague "sometimes"; the gross sibilance of "windless greyness"; the frenzied chiming of the "day. stay.they.they.day" string. Colm Toibin's new novel may not be a beauty, but greatness abounds 2014-10-10T04:00:00Z You and your sister seem at the opposite ends of the memory spectrum: hers dark, yours all bright, “and you may need to live with the greyness of things,” Burke says. My half-sister has rejected my parents. Who is really to blame? 2020-07-03T04:00:00Z The Tyneside it portrays isn't one of hen parties in Bigg Market, but of poverty that grinds Newcastle and its inhabitants into an inescapable and unendurable greyness. Get Carter: No 7 2010-10-17T10:49:00Z He reflected that the brightness contrasted with the greyness of Soviet everyday life, where an individual should not stand out. Valentin Yudashkin: Russian fashion icon dies at 59 2023-05-02T04:00:00Z In the greyness of the court and the grind of the legal process, Charlotte hopes her depiction of her David will provide some colour. Brussels attacks: Trial begins over 2016 attacks that killed 32 2022-12-04T05:00:00Z “They played poorly, but with passion,” wrote DJ and music critic Diego Manrique, who added that their sheer loudness, both in volume and colour, contrasted wildly with “the greyness of the Franco regime.” 'Bless the chaos': La Movida Madrileña, Spain's seedy, wild post-Franco underground 2020-02-11T05:00:00Z The greyness of the Brezhnev era, with its endless queues and empty shops, started to be recalled as a peaceful, prosperous time. Vladimir Putin’s Russia is rehabilitating Stalin. We must not let it happen | Irina Sherbakova 2019-07-10T04:00:00Z She distils phenomena, laws and principles, from heat, light and Earth’s gravitational pull on the Moon to Eigengrau, the greyness seen in perfect darkness. Worldwide wayfaring, the human cost of the big thaw, and marine die-offs: Books in brief 2019-04-09T04:00:00Z It’s not the greyness, though I have realised that 90% of my wardrobe is grey and unless I dress carefully, I look like a stumpy column of house dust. Glad to be grey: Is it time to embrace the real me? 2019-03-31T04:00:00Z “There’s only ‘like’ or shame, pleasure or pain, all extremes, no grey… which is funny, because it was our greyness that made us human all along.” Newness is a movie about how dating apps changed everything and nothing 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z The city tried to soften the monotone by painting the balconies in pastel colours, but the washed-out pinks and blues only enhance the greyness. 'If I became an informer the chemotherapy could continue' - BBC News 2015-12-12T05:00:00Z Totems of British greyness – bad food, terraced housing, tatty pubs and rain-drenched football – were all given glamorous makeovers. Inside the Mind of Tony Blair: The Newsweek Interview 2015-04-10T04:00:00Z In those early spring days, I remember greyness and rain. Revisiting Kurdistan: 'If there is a success story in Iraq, it's here' 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z Her expectations of a new and glamorous life were dashed by the puddingy greyness, the bitter cold, and the competent, casually cruel people. 'Every hour a glass of wine' – the female writers who drank 2014-06-13T04:00:00Z Then, after a cigar, he lighted his lamps, and drove her home through the greyness, the dusk, and the dark. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z The sun was invisible, except for a bright concave dome, immediately overhead, which showed like the reflection of a furnace in the midst of the all-pervading greyness of the heavens. The Fire-Gods A Tale of the Congo 2012-03-26T02:00:32.267Z Gone was the apathy, gone were the dulness of soul and the greyness of outlook with which Sophia had risen from her bed. Sophia A Romance 2012-03-18T02:00:22.773Z Austin glanced up at the lowering heavens, but there was no change in their uniform greyness, and no drift of cloud. For Jacinta 2012-01-27T03:00:20.840Z The weather had cleared next morning to mild greyness, that softened even the asperity of half-past eight breakfast. Further Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-11-24T03:00:44.527Z She was nearly persuaded that the greyness had vanished from behind her ears; her hair certainly did seem thicker. Between the Dark and the Daylight 2011-11-11T03:00:37.893Z She wanted Life's colour, not its greyness; she greatly preferred the garnish, incredible Mackie. The Story of Louie 2011-10-26T02:00:27.053Z The inner radiance had streamed forth to brighten the outward greyness; the April bloom of her spirit was spreading over the earth. The Builders 2011-09-19T02:00:09.067Z Outside I now can see the flat countryside, desolate in the greyness of early morning. 'Green Balls' The Adventures of a Night-Bomber 2011-09-13T02:00:34.080Z She had death soon, poor thing! but before the cold greyness was upon her she told her father, an' the minister that was there, that she knew Donnacha Bàn had murdered his brother. The Divine Adventure Volume IV 2011-09-04T02:00:03.717Z I met this discovering morning as your ambassador while you still slept, and betrayed not, I hope, any greyness and bleared satiety of ours to its pure, frail, and lucid regard. The Sea and the Jungle 2011-08-30T02:00:30.350Z Ghosts of the unpleasant-looking Lipari islands standing a little way out to sea, heaps of shadow deposited like rubbish heaps in the universal greyness. Sea and Sardinia 2011-08-28T02:00:30.857Z While, on the other side, the marsh stretched out beyond sight, confused in the distance with grey clouds its lines of bare spectral poplars picked out upon its green and the greyness of the sky. Limbo and Other Essays To which is now added Ariadne in Mantua 2011-08-25T02:00:33.233Z The sky on that far shore was a mass of rosy clouds, rosier still to Beryl's eyes, accustomed as she had become to the greyness and mist of the country of Time. The Village of Youth and Other Fairy Tales 2011-08-06T02:00:04.530Z The sparrows and the pigeons failed even to bring home to him the greyness of life in a London square. The Men Who Wrought 2011-07-26T02:00:16.320Z He also said his gap year travels to the Soviet Union showed him the "greyness of life under Communism" and contributed to his political awakening. David Cameron tells of his big brother experience 2011-07-24T12:14:54Z Despite the greyness, stress and pollution of the capital, a flash of international colour can always be found just around the corner. Wild man 2011-07-23T11:29:16Z There is no beauty there, no light and shadow, no colour, only the greyness of unliving outline. The Hearts of Men 2011-07-19T02:00:20.477Z The blinds are drawn, but still some faint mysterious greyness creeps between them and the window. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z His face was paler than usual; indeed, here and there a trace of greyness had crept into the bronze, and his eyes were heavy. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z "I will never forget the greyness of life under Communism, the lack of choice, freedom and expression," he added. David Cameron tells of his big brother experience 2011-07-24T12:14:54Z No vegetation, either, to relieve the all pervading, depressing greyness, save where a ragged juniper or pistachio had found anchor along a ledge, or fringed the lip of some dark chasm aforesaid. The Ruby Sword A Romance of Baluchistan 2011-07-05T02:00:28.367Z After that weary grind of inland towns and cities, differing one from another only in degrees of griminess, greyness, and dullness, New York seemed Paradise Regained to Joan. Joan Thursday 2011-06-25T02:00:19.897Z The neutral greyness which he has taken for the natural, commendable view of things, changes and falls away. House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court 2011-07-15T02:00:24.257Z Moving shakily, with her hand on Eveline Annersly's arm, she turned towards the house, as the pearly greyness crept into the eastern sky. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The place was informed by a momentary greyness. A Butterfly on the Wheel 2011-06-21T02:00:24.683Z A greyness settled over the land, and at night the Northern Lights flared brighter in the heavens. If Any Man Sin 2011-06-12T02:00:05.887Z All her maidens did the like; and as they danced she grew young again—the sourness passed from her looks, and the greyness from her hair. Granny's Wonderful Chair & Its Tales of Fairy Times 2011-04-12T02:00:26.413Z Even in the older streets where renovation and repairs are very infrequent there is never a suspicion of that uniform greyness that the big cities of Britain produce. France 2011-03-27T02:00:11.847Z And he looked as if he had been picked up in the arms of Time, and flung across the unseen gulf into the greyness and feebleness of age. A Daughter of the Vine 2011-03-09T03:00:47.790Z This greyness is punctuated by the odd moment of colourful humour - usually about the way we are getting rid of human waste. Life after the quake 2011-03-07T11:34:22Z I liked that, and all together we hastened through the livid greyness along the Avenue de Commerce, towards the Breda Gate. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z Outside, the greyness which follows the deep colouring of the sunset was slowly assuming a darker hue, across which darted every few seconds a pale blue flash light. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z She was wrapped in a red velvet dressing-gown and its warm colour contrasted painfully with the greyness of her face and lips. Who? 2011-02-09T03:00:47.380Z And there was an atmosphere of greyness about them. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z By imperceptible degrees a greyness touched the back of the waves, more a dreariness than a dawn, but more welcome than thousands of gold and silver. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z It was only his greyness that acknowledged age. London Days A Book of Reminiscences 2011-01-03T03:01:01.297Z The wind whispered in the pines behind, while the sun went out and the colours slowly faded into greyness. Menotah A Tale of the Riel Rebellion 2011-02-14T03:00:35.553Z I was fed up with the political greyness and the political stagnation, and all the news full with negativity. Primary colours 2010-03-15T12:25:00Z The pale winter sun was sinking, and scarcely able to illumine the monotonous greyness of the snow-covered fields with its feeble parting rays, though here and there there trembled over the landscape a crystalline-blue reflection. The Undying Past I dimly discerned in the greyness the more solid greyness of the shore. Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. 2011-01-16T03:00:24.113Z The road was thick with velvety white dust, for it was some time since rain had fallen, and the black of Senath's skirt was soon powdered into greyness. Beggars on Horseback Grey rain was falling in straight thin lines upon the landscape, suddenly changed from its splendour of sun-bright sands and blue gleaming river to a blotted greyness. The Sword of Deborah First-hand impressions of the British Women's Army in France The reason he embarked on his latest project, he says, is because "I was fed up with the political greyness and the political stagnation, and all the news full with negativity". Primary colours 2010-03-15T12:25:00Z He saw the faces of all those who from various schools would encounter with him the greyness and the grace of Oxford, and among them was Alan. Sinister Street, vol. 1 As we laboured along at a walking pace the greyness of the sky grew denser, and it began to rain. The Adventures of Elizabeth in Rügen It was the one ineffaceable sunspot in the greyness of their lives. Patricia Brent, Spinster With that he banged the doors to, barred and padlocked them, and sat on the tail-board watching the greyness of the dawn steal through the trees, as he struggled to keep awake. Bindle Some Chapters in the Life of Joseph Bindle In the afternoons, when Martin walked there, sunset would stain the gentle greyness with pink or, in angrier mood, would stab dark clouds and leave great rifts of red. Years of Plenty The sky is grey to its farthest limits—an unrelieved greyness which presses upon one's spirits. Windyridge Behind, some three or four hundred yards, rose a low ridge of rocks, whose dull greyness was relieved by the vivid green of sugar-bush. John Ames, Native Commissioner A Romance of the Matabele Rising For that long day came to an end at last, and then, instead of the bright threads of sun-dart through the crevices, there came greyness as though the shades of evening were falling. The King's Assegai A Matabili Story Griffin's opaque eyes shifted from the greyness which had encircled the plane, and met the dancing grey ones of the detective beside him. Castle of Terror The spires and minarets of its more pretentious architecture, something scantily, relieved the greyness of the formal rows, barracks, warehouses and whatever else. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday The sky returned to its greyness as the night shades rose, and a bitter breeze shuddered through the woods and along the valleys. In the Brooding Wild They live in a world of noble dreams, of elevated thoughts, enveloped though they are in the greyness of life. Contemporary Russian Novelists In the greyness of the night sight and smell lost their keenness, and familiar objects assumed unnatural forms, grotesque and indistinct. "And they thought we wouldn't fight" Behold and see What a great heap of grief lay hid in me, And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn Through the ashen greyness. The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume IV After that nobody dared open 112 their mouths about the unpleasantness of the weather; in dogged silence they dipped their paddles and pushed out into the greyness. The Campfire Girls on Ellen's Isle The Trail of the Seven Cedars The sky was brilliant in contrast with the greyness of the world beneath it, and the sun shone high in the blue vault. In the Brooding Wild But, looking back from the cool greyness of later life, one sees a wistful pathos, and, too, a certain stirring fineness in the situation. The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography His face was rather round than long; his hair black, yet with the promise of greyness, with what might be baldness in the crown, or a priest’s tonsure. Callista : a Tale of the Third Century Nurse had come with their mother from the south, and she didn't take kindly to the greyness, and the smokiness, and the grimness at all. The Thirteen Little Black Pigs and Other Stories Outside the glowing bars he could now discern the luminous greyness separating. Astounding Stories, April, 1931 The dark day ripened; and, as the dull sun crept out from behind the greyness, and revealed the frost in the air, the temperature dropped lower and lower. In the Brooding Wild It was getting dark rapidly; the lights of Dover twinkled through the greyness. The Phantom Lover On the morning of November 11th it was raining heavily and the train ran through a depressing greyness. Westward with the Prince of Wales He was wearing his robe and the pinched greyness of his face told Corinne he had been up half the night. Weak on Square Roots On the other hand, we find in criminaloids certain characteristics, such as premature greyness and baldness, etc., which are never exhibited by the born criminal. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso And then there was nothing to do but resign themselves to that universal greyness—and to hope. hey noticed that Cain seemed to be watching Parrish's movements with unusual interest. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 The early morning greyness and chilliness had faded; the sun had risen and cleared away the mists. The Phantom Lover But, even in spite of the trees and the blue shine of the distant lake, there is an atmosphere of industrial greyness that differentiates it from other cities. Westward with the Prince of Wales In the ghostly greyness he got a clearer and clearer sight of the monster. The Planetoid of Peril Precocious greyness and baldness are common in the insane criminals, and cretins, on the contrary, show these initial signs of senility at a much later period than normal persons. Criminal Man According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso He pressed a lever, and the greyness dissolved into its component parts of light and darkness. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 The C.O. pulled the peak of his drenched cap farther over his eyes and gazed out into the opaque greyness ahead. Submarine Warfare of To-day How the Submarine Menace was Met and Vanquished, With Descriptions of the Inventions and Devices Used, Fast Boats, Mystery Ships Crowds waited in the streets, in spite of the greyness, the damp and the cold. Westward with the Prince of Wales She saw him leaning against the side of the stall, with a greyness in his face, which 249 had an angry red scar down one side of it, and her eyes shone with compassion. The Greater Power In the misty greyness of the night, these floating ruins of the winter's silence assumed curious and terrifying shapes. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Their anticipations of an unclouded dawn, when the present night has worn itself into the streaky greyness of morning, are certain to come to pass. England and Germany The fascinating greyness was accompanied by a tendency to high forehead, due probably to incipient baldness rather than to abnormal intellectual development. Daisy's Aunt When the first mystic greyness, hard like steel and transparent like glass, began to reveal strange 4 vistas among the ancient trees, the fire died down. The Backwoodsmen The girl’s eyes had grown compassionate as she watched him, for there was a suggestive greyness in his face. The Greater Power It was a violation to plunge into the dust and greyness of the town. The Rainbow An ashen greyness had been stealing across the old officer's face, and Mrs. Holl was terrified at seeing him suddenly fall forward across the table. Captain Bayley's Heir: A Tale of the Gold Fields of California He had taken off his hat, and stood bare-headed as he handed her out of the cab, exposing that fascinating greyness above the temples which Daisy had spoken of. Daisy's Aunt He shut his eyes and saw the whole scene, then opened them again, and still saw it—the dingy walls disappearing, the greyness of the afternoon giving a depth and distance to the limited space. The Marriage of Elinor The greyness and rawness of their environment are not touched upon. Australian Writers The opaque grey sky lost its greyness and was struck to a lurid yellow. Hurricane Island He stared about him in the greyness, striving to make out some object. The End of the Rainbow She knew the look only too well, poor soul, and her attitude was deprecating as she sat there gazing up pitifully at the strip of level greyness above the houses opposite. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Beyond this shimmer where the bright leaves fall, Behind this haze of silver shot with gold, There is a greyness waiting for it all,— A little longer ... and the world is old. Ships in Harbour The view up and down the quays has the cool, neutral tone of colour that one finds so often in French water-side places—the bright greyness which is the tone of French landscape art. A Little Tour of France But the livid flames of the burning hell that is in Saxham throw upon the greyness a leaping reflection that is red like blood. The Dop Doctor The greyness had rolled away now, and the evening grown exceptionally lovely, with clear skies overhead and great banks of pearly tinted clouds on the horizons. The Rhodesian The greyness of the long June day was darkening down to night now, but there was no change in the sultry stillness of the air. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius Across the valley dim ghosts of hills lighted by evanescent gleams rose out of the east wind greyness with shadowy grandeur. Hawtrey's Deputy He turned at the corner, by Simmons’ store, while the memories faded; the customary greyness, like a formless drift of cloud obscuring a mountain height, once more descended upon him. Mountain Blood A Novel A grey veil seemed to have descended between him and the sun,—there was greyness everywhere, and dimness, and uncertainty—in his mind, in his eyesight—and sometimes the vagueness was in his speech. Athalie Directly she saw him she realised that he had drawn back into his shell further than ever, and the increased greyness on his temples spoke for itself of anxious, troubled hours. The Rhodesian I thought of the city that never rested, of London with its unceasing roar, the endless streets, the greyness. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Low clouds hung upon the sky, and on the horizon the greyness of the heavens mingled with the greyness of the sea. The Explorer The thin, high-bridged nose, the fallen cheeks, the shadows under eyes gloomy and retrospective—these were marks of the town; above all, perhaps, that sallow greyness of the skin which speaks of confinement.... The Wonder His earlier books were strongly influenced by the work of George Gissing; they have something of the same fatigued greyness of texture and little of the same artistic completeness and intense vision of Nocturne. When Winter Comes to Main Street She saw no future, and rebellion was impossible; there was nothing to rebel against—except the dulness and greyness of life. The Ghost Girl The sergeant who had ridden her was lying on his back at the edge of the cornfield, and the greyness of his face told that he was dead. With Haig on the Somme There was no ship in sight, and the sea-gulls were motionless upon its even greyness. The Explorer The greyness, the vast space, the haunting notes of the "Last Post" echoing along the troopdecks, the lonely body deserted on the wide sea, left a deep impression on those light-hearted adventurers. The Tale of a Trooper The greyness is gone, and look how blue is the sky, and how bright and warm the sun. The Unknown Wrestler What, after all, did a grey year signify to him, as long as its greyness did not touch her. Antony Gray,—Gardener The wintry sunshine, in fitful gleams, pierced the greyness of the leaden sky. The Mistress of Shenstone She gazed at him with an almost breaking heart, for her instinct told her that the greyness of his face and the sudden paling of his lips were the forerunners of death. Chinese Folk-Lore Tales I suppose it really does cleanse one's linen to bang it with a stone in the river, but the appearance of greyness makes one doubtful.' Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir They moved across the churchyard, and all the graves of the drowned flickered round their feet in the gusty greyness. Tongues of Conscience Yet presently it would depart, mocking him; or fade into nothingness leaving a blank greyness in its stead. Antony Gray,—Gardener Avenues of pines resembled huge scrub; they cast strong shadows even in the greyness of the day. A Tramp's Notebook The vivid colours of the earth were all gone, and in place of them was the painful greyness of the dead trees, and the yellow of the parched soil. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 The youth and girlhood of which fate had cheated her had come to her with love; the future had looked rosy with promise; now it had darkened with dourness and greyness. Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1905 to 1906 Touches, however, of his natural cheerfulness relieve the greyness of the situation, and at times one can almost hear the lightheartedness of a schoolboy speaking. Letters of Lt.-Col. George Brenton Laurie (commanding 1st Battn. Royal Irish Rifles) Dated November 4th, 1914-March 11th, 1915 Sick of London greyness would be quite good enough, though certainly not entirely true. Antony Gray,—Gardener The waning moon had hidden her light behind a heavy bank of clouds, a dull greyness pervaded the whole landscape, causing it to look weird and forlorn in the gloom. "Unto Caesar" But Amboise was no longer dull, the rose garden no longer a mere relief from the greyness of the hours spent behind the grim walls which circled it. The Justice of the King As through infinite mists of greyness he looks back on the sharp hatreds and wringing desires of his life. One Man's Initiation—1917 On the Franciscan side of the Loggia there was no chanting and no flame-colour: only silence and greyness. Romola In those eyes you may read the redness of fury or the greyness of terror; in either case it is you or him. No Man's Land Some touch of fatigue in the movement, some slight greyness in his face, caught Mrs. Purchase's sisterly eye. Shining Ferry So Stephen La Mothe gilded his gold, painting his lily lover-fashion time out of mind, and whitewashed into a pleasant greyness all the ugly smirchings with which Villon had so cheerfully daubed himself. The Justice of the King A little leprous greyness filtered into the dugout. One Man's Initiation—1917 It seemed that the sun was going to chase away the greyness. Romola The dismal Bond Street holds one, another stands cheek by jowl with Marlborough Police Court, and the other two are stuck deep in the melancholic greyness of Wigmore Street. Nights in London Now by the lamplight she noted the extreme greyness of his face and the hard brilliance of his eyes, usually so dull and fish-like. Shining Ferry The greyness of the street seemed to have entered the room—to have entered her heart. The Love Affairs of Pixie As if in answer to the gloomy query, the lights were once more switched out, and a strange vapoury greyness took possession of the ship. Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa And all the earth is gone into a dust Of greyness mingled with a fume of gold, Covered with aged lichens, pale with must, And all the sky has withered and gone cold. Amores Poems The little, softly lighted toy and sweetstuff shops gleamed upon us out of the greyness, and the tins of hot saveloys and baked apples, which the hawkers were offering, smelt appetizing. Nights in London The great bedchamber, with its hangings of pale blue plush and its silver-mounted furniture, was dim and shadowy in the greyness of a midwinter afternoon. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida He read what was neatly type-written upon the other side, and his gross, empurpled face was seen to change, to assume a patchy greyness. The Sins of Séverac Bablon They were prominent landmarks rising from the limp greyness of his skin. Planet of the Damned He sat, his head bent, his hair falling disordered, its greyness showing, oh! so plain. Agatha's Husband A Novel I am not of those who share the prevailing opinions of the Isle of Dogs: I do not see it as a haunt of greyness and distress. Nights in London I discussed the greyness of his beard, and he complimented me upon the beauty and blackness of mine. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan Before her stretched the desert, an undulating ocean of greyness, a dry ocean parched by a merciless sun. The Sins of Séverac Bablon Yes, a faint greyness, very slowly working in secret against the power of the gaslight: timid, delicate, but brightening by imperceptible degrees into strength. Clayhanger Miss Valery made no further remark, but sat a long time, absently gazing over the low-lying sweep of country which gradually melted into a greyness that looked like sea. Agatha's Husband A Novel But Daddy Skinner was once more gazing into the dark rafters, his jaws apart, the greyness of death settling about his mouth. The Secret of the Storm Country If I was happy, in a luxuriously mournful sort of way, I knew that he was not—that he grieved persistently over something that cast a greyness over his thoughts in keeping with the atmosphere. The Spinner's Book of Fiction The day was not yet fled; but the light abroad—a sullen greyness, splashed with angry red in the west, where the mist was thinning—was fading fast and fearfully. Doctor Luke of the Labrador It had the greyness of a rain cloud, yet rather that of a column of smoke. Brood of the Witch-Queen But to-night a fearful greyness was mingled with the brown, his lips were purple ... and there were marks of strangulation upon the lean throat—ever darkening weals of clutching fingers. The Devil Doctor It made Miss Baring's fresh, clear complexion a shade too bright in the carmine, which took off the greyness of the flaxen hue and relieved the cold and steel-like gleam in her grey-blue eyes. Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes It seemed to him that this pretty child, alone in the greyness and rain of the big foreign city, was like a spring flower thrown carelessly into a river to float with the stream. The Golden Silence The hard grey of his eyes met the soft greyness of hers. Wolf Breed One by one he threw the white pellets into that vapoury greyness. Brood of the Witch-Queen There was no fairy wood any longer, there were only bare branched trees standing holding out naked arms to the greyness of the world. Robin The north needed acute brilliancy as a contrast to external greyness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series Their grim view of human destiny, its all-pervading greyness, is presented with appropriate austerity; and this restraint and detachment increase their vividness and force.... Krindlesyke A certain greyness crept into his hollow cheeks. From the Housetops It had some remote semblance of a man; but its unique characteristic was its awful greyness. Brood of the Witch-Queen Sometimes he would see bleared faces looking down upon him out of the dizzy greyness. "Contemptible", by "Casualty" Rain still fell fretfully in scuds and fleeces; but where for hours there had been nothing but a monotone of greyness, suddenly fire broke and radiance and storm-clouds in commotion. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Third series The winter sun was sinking in the west behind a pall of purple cloud in a lacquered sky—the one touch of colour in the sombre greyness. Leaves from a Field Note-Book In the gathering greyness of twilight a bulky form was seen rising aft, and began marching on all fours with the movements of some big cautious beast. The Nigger Of The "Narcissus" A Tale Of The Forecastle But to-day, in this terrible greyness, this melancholy, this chilly pallor, she could not trust it. Bella Donna A Novel The roads of approach are curious and even picturesque in their harshness, emphasised by the greyness of the weather. Letters of a Soldier 1914-1915 It was a strange mingling of the Heaven of my life with the sordid greyness of the world. The Wings of Icarus Being the Life of one Emilia Fletcher Quest was dark, with no sign of greyness in his closely-trimmed black hair. The Black Box In the desert much the same causes operate, in a slightly different way, in favour of a general greyness or brownness as against pronounced shades of black, white, red, green, or yellow. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science Almost suddenly, as often happens in such cases as hers, the roseate hue faded from her life and a greyness began to fall over it. Bella Donna A Novel Let us go back for a little to the twilight before the full sunrise, nay, to the earliest streak upon the greyness of night, to his first original published composition. Life of Charles Dickens After the lapse of countless ages there are grey horses and black, bay and chestnut, presumably because greyness and blackness and the rest are incidental characteristics of a horse. International Language Past, Present and Future: With Specimens of Esperanto and Grammar At the thought the glow died down, and greyness spread over the vague budding schemes that had begun to swell life out. Secret Bread Here also the closed shutters gave the room a curious, eerie look of desolate greyness. The Chink in the Armour The greyness had gone out of her face. Bella Donna A Novel This greyness was suddenly developed; let me tell you how. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II No race that shaves can shirk the sense of p. 93passing time, or be unaware of the approach of wrinkles, of “crow’s-feet,” of greyness. Lost Leaders The air reeked with the rich scent; the greyness of sky and land became one neutral tone for the onslaught of those pools of flaring molten gold that burnt to heaven with their undestructive flame. Secret Bread The next day the great heat had moderated, and the sky was covered with a thin pearly veil of gossamer greyness which afforded a delightful relief after the glare of the past week. Austin and His Friends I no sooner paused here to look forth at the greyness than there came back to me a hard tale I heard before I left Gloucestershire. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality And this notwithstanding the greyness of his beard, which indeed is, in my own mind, very becoming to him, the argentine touch giving a character of elevation and thought to the whole physiognomy. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II I've never asked a female to marry me until this hour; and I have not waited into greyness and ripeness to hear a negative. The Spinners Ishmael said good-bye at the Vicarage and went home again, his mind floating through greyness even as his body was passing through the grey of the weather and surroundings. Secret Bread There was no wind to clear away the misty greyness, but yellow leaves without its aid dropped from the disconsolate trees. Red Money His earlier books were strongly influenced by the work of George Gissing; they have something of the same fatigued greyness of texture and little of the artistic completeness and intense vision of Nocturne. Nocturne But it was fastened immovably—his responsibility was as baldly apparent as the February noon, its greyness now blotted by a wind-driven, metallic shift of snow. The Three Black Pennys A Novel Little by little the eye becomes accustomed to the bareness and greyness of this Proven�al landscape; and then we find that the scenery round Avignon is eminently picturesque. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The sun had died away, but the mist had not returned, and a still greyness held the world in the low-lying part of the moor which they had reached. Secret Bread "Up there," said Garvington, pointing directly over the narrow door, which was painted a rich blue color, and looked rather bizarre, set in the puritanic greyness of the walls. Red Money I am sorry for this, because after a rough passage it was very pleasant to glide in the early morning steadily up the Maas and gradually acquire a sense of Dutch quietude and greyness. A Wanderer in Holland It is over while we look; the fog writhes and twists down and all is greyness again. A Midsummer Drive Through the Pyrenees This undulating champaign, green with meadows and watered with clear streams, is very refreshing to the eyes of Northern people, who may have wearied of the bareness and greyness of Nice or Mentone. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series The breeze, too, seemed not to stir there, as though the pearly greyness that seemed to tinge the very air were a blight that lay on sound and motion as well as sight. Secret Bread The dusk had already settled; ahead of her the lights of the city shone blurred through the greyness, while above the housetops Auriga was driving higher in the east. The Wheel of Life The white meadow that she crossed so swiftly gleamed like the sea, and the cows loomed through the greyness like peaceful apparitions. Muslin Yeovil said nothing, but into the sallow greyness of his face there crept a dark flush, that faded presently and left his colour more grey and bloodless than before. When William Came The port is empty enough now; but from the pier you look back on San Remo and its circling hills, a jewelled town set in illimitable olive greyness. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series Ishmael was too young to be depressed by dirt, which he rather liked, but the greyness of it all settled on him like a blight. Secret Bread Alton clutched the balustrade, and a greyness crept into his face. Alton of Somasco Her colour was gone, and her face had the greyness of the dead. The Magician The Shadow glides between; The garland's vernal green Shrivels to greyness in its spectral hand. Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 23, 1892 He saw it; and things—age, greyness, lasting and immovable calamity—I don't know what—frightful things—came down on his face like the dust of ashes settling on a polished surface. If Winter Comes Further and further sank the city behind; it was a patch now: greyness on black. Lord of the World Three chief champions, in their first greyness, are therein. The Harvard Classics, Volume 49, Epic and Saga With Introductions And Notes Gradually their range of vision enlarged, and Steve, peering into the greyness, drew Bert's attention to a darker hulk that lay a few hundred yards up the harbour. The Adventure Club Afloat It was the time when the cornstacks would once have begun to grow indistinct, and slowly turn grey in the greyness, and homesteads one by one would have lit their innumerable lights. Unhappy Far-Off Things In the utter greyness of her desert—she had walked alone. The Lamp in the Desert A faint greyness had begun to show beyond the lamp in the window. The Tidal Wave and Other Stories The greyness in the east became tinged with rose. Left Tackle Thayer She was part of the stillness and greyness that was creeping over the hillside. Waysiders Everything was disappearing in a dull greyness that was beginning to blot out the rocky cliffs, and he turned to the girl. Sweetapple Cove Even her hair felt it, and settled down unchecked to greyness. The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight A. For this reason, because that through great motion they disperse and dissolve the superfluous phlegm that breeds greyness. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy To-morrow it shall be my goal To throw myself away from me, To lose the outline of my soul Against the greyness of the sea. Twenty He disappeared, instantly, in that shivering curtain of greyness. The Night Horseman Softer than rainfall at twilight, 5 Bringing the fields benediction And the hills quiet and greyness, Are my long thoughts of thee. Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics This feeling, to which I was too proud to yield, was probably partly due to the extreme greyness and grubbiness of my surroundings. Annie Besant An Autobiography A. Because greyness is light and shining in itself, and the spirits with which we see are weakened in the day-time and strengthened in the night. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy The Sunday dinner may have had its share in his despair—and the greyness of the sky. The Country of the Blind, and Other Stories Then, why leave the pleasant warmth for the chilly greyness of the day outside? The Night Horseman In The Professor you wander through a world where there is no sound, no colour, no vibration; a world muffled and veiled in the stillness and the greyness of the hour before dawn. The Three Brontës What were those little glints and flashes in the greyness of it? The Soul of the War A. Age is nothing else but dryness and want of humours in the body; grief then causeth alteration, and heat dryness; age and greyness follow immediately. The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy An unusual sense of the greyness of a teacher's life, of the greyness indeed of the life of all studious souls came, and went in his mind. Love and Mr. Lewisham The barometer did not go down, nor was there any rain, but an unusual greyness wrapped earth and sky. A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen The strange greyness of The Professor, its stillness, is not due altogether to Charlotte's deliberate intention. The Three Brontës But there was no glint of humour in the Philosopher's eyes when he stared at the greyness of the Strategist. The Soul of the War That all-pervading greyness seemed to have lifted from the man at the desk. Cheerful—By Request And in the melancholy greyness of the dawn he looked down into the street and wondered what the end would be. Vain Fortune Of the depressing effect which this greyness exercised upon myself personally, greyness exercised upon myself personally, I will not speak. A Beleaguered City Being a Narrative of Certain Recent Events in the City of Semur, in the Department of the Haute Bourgogne. A Story of the Seen and the Unseen It is the stillness, the greyness of imperfect hearing, of imperfect seeing. The Three Brontës Whence it happened that on this morning my thoughts were tinged with a certain greyness. The Red Thumb Mark Their names differed, but long pain had touched them with a common greyness. Trailin'! As we walked along the white road, that stretched between uniform hedgerows of a shadowy greyness, I saw that he had something on his mind. The Ghost Ship The swarthiness of his complexion showed that his face had long been acquainted with Transcaucasian suns, and the premature greyness of his moustache was out of keeping with his firm gait and robust appearance. A Hero of Our Time The light too had changed; gone were the dancing, sparkling atoms and the silver had faded to a soft, almost ashen greyness. The Moon Pool This greyness was suddenly developed—let me tell you how. Life and Letters of Robert Browning Do you know how I explained your greyness to myself? Trailin'! The fire had crumbled down to greyness, and one of the lamps made a gurgling appeal for attention. The Age of Innocence Did he know the rain, the greyness, the desolation of the world? The Shuttle Tumultuous waves of the great river rise And seem to storm the skies, While snow-bright peak and prairie mist combine, And greyness softens the harsh mountain line. A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China Over those seamed cheeks there was a certain pallor, a greyness caught from many a vigil. The Troll Garden and Selected Stories The nearer boughs were beaded with the mist to the greyness of aged men, and the rusty- red leaves of the beeches were hung with similar drops, like diamonds on auburn hair. Far from the Madding Crowd They threatened to cover and obscure his life with chilly greyness. Sister Carrie: a Novel And it is not my own extremity I remember best—a vision of greyness without form filled with physical pain, and a careless contempt for the evanescence of all things—even of this pain itself. Heart of Darkness The nearer boughs were beaded with the mist to the greyness of aged men, and the rusty-red leaves of the beeches were hung with similar drops, like diamonds on auburn hair. Far from the Madding Crowd The greyness deepened over Austin's face and the pain in his eyes. Viviette Mr. Don looks into the greyness from which this voice comes, and he sees his son. Echoes of the War The lights across the valley must be veiled, The smoke lost in the greyness or the dusk. Georgian Poetry 1911-12 The light of the March evening was dying, dying in a stormy greyness that promised more rain for the morrow. Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume I The cinders fell together with a crumbling sound, and a greyness crept into their glowing depths. With Edged Tools Her eyes were now wide with fear, with doubt, the light was dying from her face, a shadow of terrible greyness was returning. England, My England Through the greyness we see him very well beyond it in the glow of the fire. Echoes of the War Out of doors London shivered, houses and sky and the expanse of Trimmer's Green, with its leafless trees and iron railings, livid, a greyness upon them as of fear. The Far Horizon The greyness had lifted and the sky was blue. The Woman with the Fan He is the one man alive who can cover twenty feet of wall or vaulted roof with decoration that will neither deform the grandeur nor jar the greyness of the masonry. Modern Painting In a surprisingly short time he came back, the greyness all gone from his face, though his eyes still glittered with the dry, hard light of starvation. Barlasch of the Guard Happiness flickered up through the old greyness of the face. Esther Waters The two men were alone in the greyness lit from without by the brilliant sun as though it had been a stage setting. The Cathedral And their greyness surely closed in a little upon the boat, the rowers, the veiled woman who was being taken to Casa Felice. The Woman with the Fan A gull, shrieking dismally, cleaved the greyness with a white flash. The Misses Mallett The Bridge Dividing A very old wooden temple it is, unpainted, dilapidated, grey with the greyness of all forgotten and weather-beaten things. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series And yet, with it all, with the dreariness and greyness and fierceness and dirtiness of it all, he would not change it for those earlier things—this was growing, this was growing up! Fortitude Mrs. Combermere paused, partly to get her breath, partly to enjoy for an instant the shining, glittering grass, dotted with figures, stretching like a carpet from the vast greyness of the Cathedral. The Cathedral And the worm paled in his anger to a greyness ill to behold, for for three thousand years he had tried to destroy that line and still its melody was ringing in his head. Fifty-One Tales The clear light had a mild greyness, the sheen of silver, not of gold, was in the work-a-day sun. Madame De Mauves I have come out of the greyness of the North. Memoirs of My Dead Life But where that clandestine boat had glided into gloom and greyness, a fosse of Nature's digging, deeply lined with wood and thicket, offered snug harbourage to craft and fraud. Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War Watch, originally jet-black without a spot, became quite grey, the greyness being most marked on the head, which became at last almost white. A Shepherd's Life Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs It played a large part in the sad and strange appearance, the appearance as of a kind of greasy greyness, which Mrs. Wix had presented on the child's arrival. What Maisie Knew His eyes were grey, of a cold greyness, like the eyes of a bird. Triumph of the Egg, and Other Stories From where he sat, the Oldest Member had a good view of the ninth green; and presently, out of the greyness of the December evening, there appeared over the brow of the hill a golf-ball. The Clicking of Cuthbert All along the port rail there was a queer, undulating greyness, that moved downwards inboard, and spread over the decks. The Ghost Pirates We watched while peak after peak faded into cold greyness; until Kangchenjunga towered, alone, rose-red into the heavens, sublime in its "valorous isolation." Olivia in India Then he heard his sweetheart blow him a kiss out of the greyness of the big, unlit hall and he knew that she had followed him from the boudoir. Carnacki, the Ghost Finder The sad greyness of the landscape was in keeping with her own great sorrow. The House of Whispers And in the eleventh hour, we did go creeping from bush unto bush, and did be as shadows that went in the mixt greyness and odd shinings of that Land. The Night Land The sun went beneath the sea, and the thing I had seen became merged, as it were, into the monotonous greyness of the coming night. The Ghost Pirates There came a faint greyness before the window. The Bars of Iron From the Ypres Tower of Rye or the Gun Garden below it, you look only across the level and empty Marsh which sinks beyond Camber Castle imperceptibly into the greyness and barrenness of the sea. England of My Heart : Spring O this life I would be leaving, With the greyness of its grieving, And the deeps of its deceiving, Tober Mhuire. Elves and Heroes Always, it seemed to me when I awaked into the Future, into the Everlasting Night that lapped this world, that I saw near to me, and girdling me all about, a blurred greyness. The Night Land And even now looking back, I know that the shadow was only like a faint-seen greyness in the daylight, against the whiteness of the decks, clinging against Tammy. The Ghost Pirates The gathering greyness of an autumn twilight added to the dreariness of the scene. The Hampstead Mystery The blinds were drawn down over the windows; a sort of blank whiteness, greyness, was in the place, which no one ever entered. Old Lady Mary A Story of the Seen and the Unseen Presently came a gap in the trees, and I looked down in the last greyness of dusk on a strange and beautiful sight. Salute to Adventurers And presently this, the greyness, would clear and fade from about me, even as a dusky cloud, and I would look out upon a world of darkness, lit here and there with strange sights. The Night Land And, suddenly, all the moving greyness resolved into hundreds of strange men. The Ghost Pirates As we sat, in the greyness of twilight, in front of our tents, a curious sound came over the lake from the opposite shore, so like civilization that it startled us for a moment. Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod As before, the fog fell, only to be succeeded by squally rain-showers that cut out the vista into a checkerboard pattern of visible sea and impenetrable greyness. The Mystery Through the greyness of the swift evening, I saw the silver crescent of the moon, falling out of the Southern sky, toward the West. The House on the Borderland And, in verity, there went a strange greyness of fury before mine eyes, and I then to fight as I did never fight before; and I did smite as it did seem forever. The Night Land The oblong of ribbed glass over his flap-table showed a greyness of morning, as he asked himself that thing. The Lord of the Sea I took a cooling draft, and counted in feverish agony forty-four, and fifteen, till the daylight came creeping in at the windows, filling with sepulchral greyness the room. Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod Over to starboard a little beach shone with Quaker greyness in that spectacular display. The Mystery Eastward, the shadows of every seen thing crept toward the coming greyness. The House on the Borderland After days of rain and greyness the weather had turned over a new leaf. The Man Upstairs and Other Stories He had been working, in his curious way, All through the night; and, in the morning greyness Went down to chapel, leaving on his desk A lighted candle. Watchers of the Sky The greyness of twilight came stealing over the water, and grew into darkness in the beautiful valley where that lake lay sleeping. Wild Northern Scenes Sporting Adventures with the Rifle and the Rod When the first greyness began filtering into the car, they all stood up and stamped and pounded each other and wrestled to get warm. Three Soldiers Finally, however, the greyness began to fade, even as had the green, into a dead white. The House on the Borderland The weather for a month has been perfect, the sky an extravagance of blue, the air lively enough, the nights cool, nippingly cool. and the whole ancient greyness lighted with an irresistible smile. Italian Hours Is there no way of infusing colour into this depressing greyness, a martial timbre into this anaemic note? Without Prejudice The greyness seemed to lift from the view that stretched beyond the window; she even looked for the sun in her eagerness. The Hollow of Her Hand In the distance a steeple and a few red roofs were etched faintly in the greyness. Three Soldiers Something loomed out under a great peak, a shape of greyness. The House on the Borderland The light green stripes in the wall paper were leaden in colour, the darker border above was almost blue in its greyness. Her Weight in Gold Only with the greyness of the hair comes clear wisdom, and that great aptitude for unprejudiced reflection which makes of all old men philosophers and often even sages. The Crushed Flower and Other Stories There came a smothered thudding like the soft sound of guns at sea; and then her voice again, and a greyness as if a swift cloud had passed across the sun. In Secret In the covered ways all seemed to be asleep, the ashy greyness was streaked by yellow bars of sunlight falling through the high windows. The Fat and the Thin A shadow loomed up, moving in the greyness, solitary, very bulky, and yet constantly eluding the eye. Lord Jim But the greyness of commonplace existence became more bearable when they listened to tales of the heroic deeds of the past. Seven Icelandic Short Stories In a few moments I found myself in the greyness of the autumn afternoon wandering on the Thames Embankment like a lost soul on the banks of Phlegethon. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel She was looking intently at the quiet cheek close beside her own, with its little flush of pink, and the greyness of the hair that lay beside it. Mr. Achilles For years, I have been struggling in this greyness. Underground The little church on a hill had the mossy greyness of a rock seen through a ragged screen of leaves. Lord Jim The days passed in a dull stupor of grief, mechanically, grimly, in a sort of ghastly greyness. The Altar Fire In the monotony, weariness and greyness of life the glory of the Vision began to grow dim. The Fortunate Youth A few minutes later, a greyness crept into Miss Nippett's face. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl It was a grey day, the third day of greyness and stillness. Women in Love A figure was crouching before the large grate and by its leanness and greyness he knew that it was the dean of studies lighting the fire. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man Pensive, plaintive, refined by sickness, of exceeding delicacy, it must from the first have been best suited to the greyness of an hour like this. Gaston de Latour; an unfinished romance One or two happy gleams of brightness, however, lightened his darkness and prevented the Vision from fading entirely into the greyness of the factory sky. The Fortunate Youth He lay awake maturing his little plan, seeing the greyness pass away and the sky fill up with pink and fleecy clouds. The Untilled Field But Birkin felt a slight sickness, looking at him, and feeling the slight greyness as an ash or a corruption, in the aristocratic inscrutability of expression a nauseating, bestial stupidity. Women in Love Already his lips had lost their greyness, and were pink; there was a suggestion of blood under the skin of his pale face. Arsene Lupin Below in the hall it was black darkness save for a greyness at the entrance of the verandah passage; but the defence was soon aware that the place was thick with men. Huntingtower Moreover, however bright were the colours used, they were toned delightfully by the greyness which the innumerable joints between the tesserae spread over the whole surface. Hopes and Fears for Art To Laura, who came from a township of one-storied brick or weatherboard houses, it seemed vast in its breadth and height, appalling in its sombre greyness. The Getting of Wisdom He leaned forward over the saddle peak, and rode away in the luminous greyness towards the desert. The Garden of Allah A faint greyness on the brown walls of the cave, and a brighter greyness cut off sharply by a dark line, showed that round a turning or angle of the cave there was daylight. The Enchanted Castle Darkness had all but fallen, and the House was a black shadow against the dusky sky, while a confused greyness marked the sea. Huntingtower The greyness and inaction of domestic life, even when relieved by occasional excursions with Sidi Habismilk and the Son of the Miracle, were irksome to his temperament, ever eager for occupation and change of scene. The Life of George Borrow I reviewed its beginnings in the greyness of Mondolfo, under the tutelage of my poor, dolorous mother who had striven so fiercely to set my feet upon the ways of sanctity. The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza And the silence, and the emptiness, and the greyness under the long arcades, all seem to make a tremulous proclamation; all seem to whisper, "I am very old, I am useless, I cumber the earth." The Spell of Egypt The broad park lay stretched before the children in growing greyness and a stillness that deepened. The Enchanted Castle The deepening shroud of evening was now upon all, transmuting white and yellow walls alike to a pearly greyness. The Sea-Hawk For years he had been accustomed to sun- warmed Spain, and the gloom and greyness of England depressed him. The Life of George Borrow Hidden was all the greyness; only the gold and coloured spires and cupolas, with heightened barbaric splendour, gleamed through the white snow. Ten Days That Shook the World Now they went making due south toward the mountains, whose heads they saw from time to time rising deep blue over the bleak greyness of the down-land ridges. Wood Beyond the World Then a faint greyness touches the top of that round hole, creeps up the side. The Enchanted Castle Over the opposite parapet, where a lattice had been set, rioted a trailing rose-tree charged with blood-red blossoms, though now their colours were merged into the all-encompassing greyness. The Sea-Hawk They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought—Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion? Howards End They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion?� Howards End The limber porters trundling their barrows, the greyness of the station and the good stolid humour clinging to the people, air, and voices, all brought to him the sense of home. The Island Pharisees The man was light in his colouring, fair-skinned, with fair hair which already showed a tendency towards greyness, especially in the moustache, for he wore no beard. Benita, an African romance It laid a first vague greyness on the high wall, which spread slowly down, and brightened till the lichen and the grasses up there were visible; then crept on, silvering the dark above their heads. Saint's Progress Healthy and muscular, he yet gave her the feeling of greyness, of tragedy that might only find solution in the night. A Room with a View "Reassure yourself," answered Marius, with a sneer, a greyness that was of jealous rage overspreading his face. Saint Martin's Summer Outside the first greyness of dawn was in the sky. Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches There may be a suggestion of greyness here and there, the natural result of deep thinking. They and I Quiet peace, as of the greyness of a summer evening, is the desired end. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology Behold and see What a great heap of grief lay hid in me, And how the red wild sparkles dimly burn Through the ashen greyness. Sonnets from the Portuguese He stared blankly out of the window, at the greyness and blackness of the sky. Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story The eyes, as if glowing with the light of a hidden fire, had a red glint in their greyness that gave a scrutinizing ardour to the steadiness of their gaze. The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows They emerged sudden from the impeccable greyness, to which they afforded an heroic contrast. A Book of Scoundrels Had we been a smaller and swifter company, we should have arrived an hour before the first greyness shows the shapes of things. A Monk of Fife I feel sure it was you, in spite of your side whiskers and the greyness and the thinness of your once clustering golden locks. Paul Kelver, a Novel As if the little light could reach the veil which hangs between us and Eternity, or penetrate the greyness which never parts save for a passage! Lavender and Old Lace A certain Gothic greyness and flatness and muddiness through which the Cambridge spirit struggles to its destiny, he concealed from her. The Research Magnificent |
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