Which preposition to use with gray

of Occurrences 108%

They naturally were affected most of all by the colorsthe intense azure of the sky, the purplish grays of the granite, the red and browns of dry meadows, and the translucent purple and crimson of huckleberry bogs; the flaming yellow of aspen groves, the silvery flashing of the streams, and the bright green and blue of the glacier lakes.

in Occurrences 92%

Belts miles in extent are thus killed and left standing with the branches on, peeled and rigid, appearing gray in the distance, like misty clouds.

with Occurrences 69%

The compact ice appeared on all the lower portions of the glacier, though gray with dirt and stones embedded in it.

as Occurrences 31%

Her emotions were in that nebulous, formative stage when but a touch would be needed to show her whither the regard tended, yet till that touch should come, she as unashamedly adored Gray as any child of five could have done.

on Occurrences 21%

We could see its great round towers, standing grim and gray on the hillside commanding the whole of the valley, long before we approached it, and when we drove into the grounds we found a gay party in summer toilettes assembled on the ancient bowling-green, now transformed into a modern tennis-lawn.

to Occurrences 21%

" She glanced over her shoulder; Passmore had got Gray to the top of the declivity, and was attempting to help him down.

at Occurrences 18%

Hence, presently, the stranger in cinder-gray at the table, moved by its creeping influence, unbuttoned his waistcoat, threw himself back in his chair, spread his legs, and made his presence felt in various ways.

like Occurrences 8%

The trunk was all knots and buttresses, gray like granite, and about as angular and irregular as the boulders on which it was growinga type of steadfast, unwedgeable strength.

over Occurrences 8%

He wears dark bluish-gray over the back and half-way down the sides, bright buff on the belly, with a stripe of dark gray, nearly black, separating the upper and under colors; this dividing stripe, however, is not very sharply defined.

under Occurrences 7%

Beattie he quotes under weak, and Gray under bosom.

for Occurrences 6%

The departure at a somewhat earlier date of May Gray for her native country, gave rise to evidence of another kind of affection.

from Occurrences 4%

The man who entered was a short, middle-aged Jew of the type that writes political reviews for magazinesblack morning coat, straw hat, gold pince-neza neatly trimmed dark beard beginning to turn gray from intense mental emotionnearly balda manner of conceding the conventions rather than argue the point, without admitting any necessity for thema thin-lipped smile that apologized for smiling in a world so serious and bitter.

against Occurrences 4%

His suspicions aroused, the airman would have risked the anti-aircraft guns and dropped a few hundred feet and narrowly searched each hillside and wood for the telltale gray against the green.

by Occurrences 4%

For sky and water were all one lambent gray by this.

into Occurrences 4%

Uncle Pros, yet gasping, was trying to help Gray into the seat; but with his hampering manacles and the jerking of the car, the younger man was still on his knees, when the chase burst through the bushes, scarcely more than three hundred feet behind them.

nag Occurrences 4%

[Illustration: man feeding horse] MY OLD GRAY NAG When the farm work's done, at the set of sun, And the supper's cleared away, And Ma, she sits on the porch and knits, And Dad, he puffs his clay; Then out I go ter the barn, yer know, With never a word ner sign, In the twilight dim I harness him That old gray nag of mine.

around Occurrences 3%

Just at that moment Stuart Lambert approached, a tall fine looking man, with the same blue eyes and fresh coloring as his son and brown hair only slightly graying around the temples.

beneath Occurrences 3%

The gray of the old man's hair mingled with the gray beneath Angeline's little bonnet.

about Occurrences 3%

Among the other white "slummers" there came into the "Club" one night a clean-cut, slender, but athletic-looking man, who would have been taken for a youth had it not been for the tinge of gray about his temples.

above Occurrences 3%

His black hair was just beginning to gray above his temples, and several lines, caused more by thought than age, scored his lean face.

along Occurrences 2%

The morning of the day was clear and fine, a perfect example of early spring, with silvery pearls showing on the tips of the red-twig osiers, and pussy-willows gleaming gray along the margins of swampy places.

through Occurrences 2%

The distant headlands appeared spectral and gray through the vapor, while the waters beyond took on the tint of purple shadows.

than Occurrences 2%

The hair of the two that were related to Elteacteal was no more gray than those of women of fifty-five years in France.

past Occurrences 1%

" Breaking in upon this speech, there came the quick, smooth purr of an automobile with all its parts functioning perfectly, a streak of dark gray past the shutters, the sigh of an engine stopped suddenlyMolly Sommerville sprang from behind the steering wheel and ran into the house.

before Occurrences 1%

"I rather think I shall have to wait till both of us are gray before that time.

Which preposition to use with  gray