30 examples of gray-blue in sentences

he asked drowsily, his small, gray-blue eyes blinking in the yellow sun-glare and still sluggish from the nap disturbed by the noise of Skinny's arrival.

She had gray-blue eyes that were steady and frank yet clearly accustomed to being obeyed.

Her hair was pale brown, worn in ringlets; her figure was slight, her head massive, her mouth large, her jaw square, her complexion pale, her eyes gray-blue, and her voice rich and musical.

But on this cliff we could see, even with the naked eye, tall Aloes, gray-blue Cerei like huge branching candelabra, and bushes the foliage of which was utterly unlike anything in Northern Europe; while above the bright deep green of a patch of Guinea-grass marked cultivation, and a few fruit trees round a cottage told, by their dark baylike foliage, of fruits whose names alone were known to us.

A little farther up the stream one passes through a massive megalithic gateway and finds one's self in the presence of the astounding gray-blue Cyclopean walls of Sacsahuaman, described in "Across South America."

About a mile northeast of Sacsahuaman are several small artificial hills, partly covered with vegetation, which seem to be composed entirely of gray-blue rock chipschips from the great limestone blocks quarried here for the "fortress" and later conveyed with the utmost pains down to Sacsahuaman.

An hour later the Telegraaf III took the river's turn, swinging past Fort St. Philippe, until we could see the gray-blue spire of the Cathedral of Notre Dame with its intricate network of stone silhouetted against the autumn sunset.

There was a moment's embarrassed pause, then the rattle of a sabre as the tall man in gray-blue rose to his feet.

Whatever men might be doing, however awkward or inconvenient it might be, whether any one saw them or not, they stopped short at the sight of these long, gray-blue coats and stiffened, chin up, eyes on their superior, hands at their sides.

Then came a sound of band music, and down the road, outside the high wire fence, a little procession led by soldiers in gray-blue, playing Chopin's "Funeral March."

Dick's eyes were steady gray-blue; Alan's, shifty gray-green.

The gray-blue eyes were dancing.

I was wondering why I found no lavender, when I saw a gray-blue tuft above me, and welcomed it like an old friend.

After a time the editor wheeled, displaying a young, smooth, fat face, out of which peered gray-blue eyes with pin-point pupils.

Across it a patrol of cavalry, smart in a gray-blue uniform, were cantering sharply.

Her gray-blue eyes, under noticeable eyelashes, expressed the same acute sensitiveness as her long, thin, beautifully shaped hands.

Her gray-blue gown is cut in a stiff, long-waisted style of the eighteenth century, yet still showing the slim grace of the maiden.

" Again the girl laughed, and I noticed the dimple in her cheek, the gray-blue eyes glancing up at me mockingly.

The sun was upon his face, clear-cut, proud, aristocratic, and his eyes were the same gray-blue as his daughter's.

I remembered looking up at her, and seeing tears in the gray-blue eyes.

Teague was a sturdy rugged man with bronzed face and keen gray-blue eyes, very genial and humorous.

He had a bronzed face, always chapped, a hooked nose, gray-blue eyes like his father's, sharp and keen.

The green of their foliage somewhat resembled cedars, but their berries were gray-blue, almost lavender in color.

The strict analogy is broken in this case by a dash of delicate gray-blue in the sky and gray-red in the figures, the slightest possible accompaniment to his golden-brown melody; but these were not needed, and we find earlier drawings which adhere to the strict monochrome.

There the two beautiful hands holding the open paper, but the eyes, those marvellous gray-blue doors to an immortal soulthey were closed forever.

30 examples of  gray-blue  in sentences