单词 | slate-grey |
例句 | “You were caught with live fire among my books,” he said, emotion touching the edges of his voice like a hint of red sunset against the slate-grey clouds. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z He was a head taller than Davos and three stones heavier, with slate-grey eyes and a haughty way of speaking. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z The rain had stopped, though a wall of slate-grey clouds hid the setting sun as it made its descent into Slaver’s Bay. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Clouds stack and shift on the horizon, slate-grey and a mild deceptive rose; leading them from early afternoon is a slivered moon as mean as a clipped coin. The Year in Novels So Far; Plus, Hilary Mantel! 2012-05-16T15:37:58Z Johan Inger is a Swedish choreographer and his dissolve in this presents us with a slate-grey set and a floor strewn with what look like graphite chips but are actually soft packaging. Nederlands Dans Theater; Counterpoint; Slow Dancing 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z He began to read in a slow, slate-grey voice. RS Thomas, my favourite religious poet 2010-04-29T16:50:00Z “When my father opened the hatch to come below, the howls intensified and I could see hail streaking across the slate-grey sky.” She spent her childhood traveling the world on a family boat. It felt like prison 2023-10-19T04:00:00Z As drizzle fell from a slate-grey sky, mourners added colour to the occasion as they were invited to wear the shirts, scarves and ties of Bennett's beloved teams - Felinfoel, Llanelli, Wales and the Lions. Rugby greats and fans gather for Bennett memorial 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z Under slate-grey skies, the countryside stretching out before him, Jones prepares to send another throw off into the distance. 'I want people to know I'm part of LGBTQ+ community' 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z The weather’s slate-grey bleak in most of Britain today. Premier League team news and more: weekend football countdown – live! 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z Or why, metaphorically speaking, the skies above Old Trafford are suddenly not quite so slate-grey. José Mourinho must bin blame game and learn from his failings at United | Daniel Taylor 2019-01-20T05:00:00Z Water streams off the edges of her giant ears, runs in rivulets down the wrinkles of her slate-grey skin. Elephants unchained: 'The day has gone by when this was entertainment' 2017-08-12T04:00:00Z The slate-grey skies of east London have turned blue; lambs gambol in the fields; the river Dyfi winds its way gently towards Aberdovey; the inviting beach at Borth hints at the possibilities of summer. ‘We want our country back’: a visit to the most Eurosceptic and Europhile places in the UK 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Try a camel coat with a kelly green or slate-grey puffer or a dark tweed topper with an olive nylon layer. A Cool Way for Guys to Stay Warm This Winter 2015-11-23T05:00:00Z The only bad news for England: slate-grey clouds are building over Edgbaston. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day one – live! 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z As the Sicilian skies turn a menacing slate-grey, a bulky mastiff guarding the neatly-piled nets and ropes in Catania port wakes up to bark at the approaching storm. Destination Sicily: Life on the migrants' island of hope - BBC News 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z It’s slate-grey overall with unusual reflective, silvery patches on the undersides of its wings and an especially stubby bill. Tubenosed seabirds that shear the waves: of Calonectris, Lugensa, and Puffinus (petrels part VII) 2013-02-10T21:45:00.213Z Today, they live in a tiny flat outside the evacuation zone — one of dozens in a series of slate-grey temporary buildings in the northeast section of Fukushima prefecture. Fukushima: Fallout of fear 2013-01-16T18:21:12.720Z With rain beating against the training ground windows as Koné's new team-mates conclude a morning session under a slate-grey sky, the next question is obvious. Arouna Koné: wherever in the world I play I can find goals 2012-11-23T12:29:19Z The only bad news for England: slate-grey clouds are building over Edgbaston. Ashes 2015: England v Australia, third Test, day one – live! 2015-07-29T04:00:00Z There was something in her aspect, in her dull, slate-grey outline, that reminded one of an enormous cat that creeps upon a bird lying helpless with a broken wing. Submarine U93 2012-04-07T02:00:34.693Z A bank of slate-grey cloud lying heavily over it. The Mountainy Singer 2012-02-20T03:00:20.273Z Until, that is, some angry slate-grey clouds decided, at 2-1 in the second set, it was time for some unpleasant tricks. Murray beats Federer to retain title 2010-08-15T23:17:00Z Only between their lower rim and the slate-grey sea, an occasional glimpse of horizon showed where a thin line of molten pallor ran. Beggars on Horseback The breeze ahead grew stronger, and in the early morning, the sky being quite grey, a slate-grey sea was running in sizable crests and valleys and tossing the spray high aboard. The Bonadventure A Random Journal of an Atlantic Holiday Some thirty-four feet in length, the enormous, slate-grey monsters hopped leisurely about, their warty hides and huge luminous eyes betraying their reptilian origin. Astounding Stories, March, 1931 The minutes of pounding through the slate-grey seas seemed interminably long, and the flying clouds of icy spray stung every exposed part of the human frame. 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 Forward, a white man and two Siwash were standing about the windlass, and when the bows went up a dreary stretch of slate-grey sea opened up beyond them beneath the dripping jibs. Hawtrey's Deputy The mountains have the gloomy barrenness, the slate-grey colour of volcanic ranges; they encircle the town in a gigantic amphitheatre, rugged and overbearing like Titans turned to stone. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia The stream was strong without rage, there was a dull curtain of slate-grey overhead, and a light breeze was blowing in your teeth, but not enough to make casting twenty-five yards of line a hardship. Lines in Pleasant Places Being the Aftermath of an Old Angler The Philatelic Record calls it “slate-grey” but evidently the tint now generally classified as “blue-grey” was meant. The Stamps of Canada To those in northern seas came the blinding sleet, the slate-grey combers and the innumerable hardships and dangers of winter patrol. 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 It was the gloaming of a late March day when the reefed top-sails of the Good Intent showed up against the horizon of bleak slate-grey which was the Irish Sea. Patsy He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half sheet of slate-grey paper. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 28, April 1893 An Illustrated Monthly Plumage slate-grey, with black spots upon the wings and back. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology Yet still, as of yore, the autumn storms roll the slate-grey breakers against the shores; and still on bright summer days the blue waves glisten, silvered by the sun. From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People The woman's single, slate-grey eye stared into his expressionlessly. Murder at Bridge With his prominent nose, small head, and bright little slate-grey eyes, he looked rather like a stork. The Red Redmaynes When the green cool abyss of fathomless sky melts into pale slate-grey in the west, and the high tide of darkness pauses before it begins to ebb, then is the watershed of day and night. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 The lawyer wore a plain kimono of slate-grey silk. Kimono With a long disintegrating screech there came up a slate-grey box on wheels. The Soul of the War Directly behind him, as a hound at heel, came the slate-grey thoat, his white belly shadowed by his barrel, his vivid yellow feet merging into the yellow of the moss beneath them. Thuvia, Maid of Mars The train was jolting slowly over cross- tracks in some dismal suburb, full of long soot-smeared warehouses and endless rows of freight cars, beyond which lay brown marshland and slate-grey stretches of water. Three Soldiers Here, a massive bridge of reddish-yellow stone spanned the winding, slate-grey Mulde; a sombre, many-windowed castle of the same stone as the bridge looked out over a wall of magnificent chestnuts. Maurice Guest Pale slate-grey clouds whirl up from the sunken sun. The House of Dust; a symphony Paris way a slate-grey and dove-color lay spread out like a Turkish carpet, with a silvery band of mist where the river was, out of which the Eiffel Tower stood up like a man wading. Three Soldiers |
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