62 examples of blue-gray in sentences

His eyes were blue-gray, penetrating, and overhung by a heavy brow, his face long rather than broad, with high, round cheekbones and a large mouth, which could smile most agreeably, oras I was afterward to learnclose in a firm, straight line with dogged resolution.

In stony places where no grass grows, wild olives sprawl; close-twigged, blue-gray patches in winter, more translucent greenish gold in spring than any aureole.

He had blue-gray eyes that challenged destiny, and curly brown hair, that suggested flames as the westering sun brought out its redness.

The little Telegraaf III poked her nose through the blue-gray haze of a chilly October morning while the muddy waters of the Meuse slapped coldly against her bow.

She turned and he found himself looking into a pair of clear, blue-gray eyes, frank enough and yet in their very frankness possessing an alluring, indefinable subtlety.

Frank, blue-gray eyes they were, stirred to their depths now by amusement.

Some vague, indefinable shadow darkened Miss Thorne's clear, blue-gray eyes, in sharp contrast to the glow of radiant health in her cheeks, as she stepped from an automobile in front of the Venezuelan legation, and ran lightly up the steps.

If you did not do the shooting, why the necessity of escape, carrying the revolver?" There was that in the blue-gray eyes which brought Mr. Grimm to his feet.

A world-warhe had been thrust forward by his government to prevent itsubtle blue-gray eyeshis Highness, Prince Benedetto d'Abruzzia haunting smile and scarlet lips.

Miss Thorne's blue-gray eyes had grown mistily thoughtful; the words startled her a little and she turned to face him.

Instead, his memory was conjuring up a pair of subtle, blue-gray eyes, now pleading, now coquettish, now frankly defiant; two slim, white, wonderful hands; the echo of a pleasant, throaty laugh; a splendid, elusive, radiant-haired phantom.

The blue-gray eyes opened into his once, then they closed.

The stubbly blond beard on his face did not conceal the deep tan painted there by weeks of exposure in the mountains; he had opened his shirt at the throat, exposing a neck darkened by sun and wind; his eyes were of a keen, searching blue-gray, and they quested the country ahead of him now with the joyous intentness of the hunter and the adventurer.

And when they drift out into the street at last, softened and brought together by the playthe street with its lights and flags, officers in long, blue-gray overcoats and soldiers everywhere, and a military automobile shooting by, perhaps, with its gay "Ta-tee!

Two blond soldiers in blue-gray saluted, took my luggage, showed me to a carriage, and drove to a village about a mile awaya little white village with a factory chimney for the new days, a dingy chateau for the old, and a brook running diagonally across the square, with geese quacking in it and women pounding clothes.

Ever since we had crossed into Poland this sober, steel-gray stream had been mingling with and stiffening our lighter-hearted, more boyish, blue-gray stream of Austrians and Hungarians.

There, where the sweet ferns and fragrant flowers grew in profusion and a carpet of velvety moss spread upon the ground, they saw Mrs. Tom Tom Teenyweeny and Mrs. Tim Tim Tamytam with tiny brooms sweeping out a little hole in a great blue-gray beech tree.

Mrs. Teenyweeny and Mrs. Tamytam cried, and then they led the way inside the trunk of the great blue-gray beech tree.

" It was an exceedingly injudicious, not to say brutal way of putting it; and the blue-gray eyes flashed fire.

By the way, Mr. Lewes tells me that you ascribe to me a hatred of blue eyeswhich is amusing, since my own eyes are blue-gray.

It is not the blue-gray of our Confederates, but a green-gray.

A moment I gazed into the blue-gray depths where her heart was revealed, and then my arms were about her, and our lips met.

Nearer the mountains the valleys dip deep and ever deeper till they narrow into canyons through which mountain torrents pour their blue-gray waters from glaciers that lie glistening between the white peaks far away.

The faces of the sailors were blue-gray; they were afflicted with sea-cuts and sea-boils, and suffered exquisitely.

At midday, eating at the cabin table in a gloom so deep that the swinging sea-lamps burned always, he looked as blue-gray as the sickest, saddest man for'ard.

62 examples of  blue-gray  in sentences