The second was a brisk little grey and black fellow, with a loud, indignant chuck, and a broad tail which he incessantly opened and shut, like a Spanish lady playing with her fan.

As I moved along, I noticed that the floor was composed of solid rock, in places covered with a damp mould, in others bare, or almost so, save for a thin coating of light-grey dust.

Another variety of the rabbit, however, called the "silver-grey," has been lately introduced to this country, and is still more valuable.

Into his eyesthose dull grey eyesflitted terror and horror.

Innumerable villages, nestling amid groves of plantains and feathery rustling bamboos, send up their wreaths of pale grey smoke into the still warm air.

One of the hunters had charge of a carriage on which was fixed a cage containing two dozen birds of a dark greenish grey, about the size of a crow, and with the slender form, piercing eyes, and powerful beak of the falcon.

Arrived in the presence of Aurelian, and at the conclusion of his complimentary harangue, the chief envoy produced a cedar casket, from which he drew a purple robe of such surpassing refulgence, that, in the words of the historian who has recorded the transaction, the purple of the emperor and of the matrons appeared ashy grey in comparison.

His eyes rolled, his teeth chattered, his frame contracted in a strong convulsion, and the black of his complexion had faded to a washed-out dirty grey, revolting to contemplate.

To left and right the cloudbanks were a deep purple blue, fast fading into the dim warm grey of an Italian night.

It was a large reddish-grey stone building, pretty old, I should say, and surrounded by a graveyard.

Yellowish-grey granite, with brown mica; "from the summit of the hill."

"Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!" A fearful man, all in coarse grey, with a great iron on his leg.

The river swirled along, glassy no more, but dingy grey with autumn rains and rotten leaves.

Her eyes, large and humid, a sweet grey and once more almost childlikeeyes to remind a man that here, after all, was no woman of the world, but only a young girlrose to King's and met his long and searchingly.

There are some images of rural life in it that have the appearance of being drawn from nature, and which therefore please. Hail, meek-eyed maiden, clad in sober grey, Whose soft approach the weary woodman loves, As homeward bent to kiss his prattling babes, He jocund whistles through the twilight groves.

The grey varieties are the early grey, the late grey, and the purple grey; to which some add the Marlborough grey and the horn grey.

A minute later the light gave some flickering flashes, failings, and sputters, and then the wick tottered, and out popped the flame, leaving us with the chilly grey of a March evening creeping up in the corners of the room.

They made a bier of the broken bough The sauch and the aspin grey, And they bore him to the Lady Chapel, And waked him there all day.

Colour light olive grey.

It had been quite clear and bright when I entered the house, but now the sky was settling down into a colourless grey, the light was failing and the houses dwindling into dim, unreal shapes that vanished at half their height.

Generally speaking, a sky of a dappled grey like the great cart-horses that plodded past, invested the quiet suburb with a gentle melancholy.

he asked, with his eye on the exquisite grey trousering.

Pissarro exhibited a group of girls gathering apples in a gardensad greys and violets beautifully harmonised.

" Callandar's eyes softened, melted into misty grey.

He was neatly dressed in black, and his sandy-grey hair was carefully brushed.