"Grayness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... hill stood a curious structure, actually small, but looming large in the grayness. The main body of the building was elevated upon posts, and was smaller at the bottom than where the spreading walls met the peaked roof. This roof spread out on both sides into broad verandas, and under these two wing-like shelters some three or four score of people were clustered in ...
— Jersey Street and Jersey Lane - Urban and Suburban Sketches • H. C. Bunner
... exact antithesis of all that, but you are threatening to fade into its grayness—and to deaden all the glow that was on the palette with which ...
— The Tyranny of Weakness • Charles Neville Buck
... his head, he found himself again on the edge of that shallow pool in the marshes where fate had overtaken him. The brown retriever was sitting on his haunches close by, regarding him amicably. The man was fastening one end of the tether to a stake at the water's edge, and from the east a grayness touched with chill pink was ...
— The Watchers of the Trails - A Book of Animal Life • Charles G. D. Roberts
... the sun shone through the misty grayness, bathing the road before them, and lighting up the bare hedges on either side until it really seemed that spring had come, that the fresh morning air was certainly full of the scent of primroses and violets, and the sweet earthy smell of moss. The birds evidently thought so too, for they came fluttering ...
— Kitty Trenire • Mabel Quiller-Couch
... careful way out of the rocks, then hurried down the slope. In the grayness Joan saw the dark shape of a cabin and it resembled the one Kells had built. It disappeared. Presently when Jim led her into a road she felt sure that this cabin had been the one where she had been a prisoner for so long. They hurried down the road and entered the camp. There were no lights. The ...
— The Border Legion • Zane Grey
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