'Why,' said he, addressing me, as a new thought seemed to strike him, 'why, your head is growing grey!

Anything frightful, sudden, or surprising, upon soft, timorous natures, not only shews itself in the continuance, but produces sometimes very troublesome consequencesfor instance, a parliamentary fright will make even grown men bewray themselves, scare them out of their wits, turn the hair grey.

The Bey surprised Captain B. by sending him a handsome black horse as a present; he also sent a grey one to the Frenchman, who, when complaining of it, saying that it was a bad one, to the Bey's mamelukes, his Highness sent for it, and gave him another.

Against the russet-tinted woods in the background the old court house stood out grey and silent under the shadow of the church tower, preaching as good a sermon as any I ever heard.

Outside in the street he heard the crackle of musketry and saw the Seine running grey under the lowering smoke-cloud of burning Paris.

Our spirits showed grey before our hairs.

Hermit hoar, in solemn cell Wearing out life's ev'ning grey, Strike thy bosom, sage, and tell What is bliss, and which the way.

Hermione stayed in the room till her task was over, and then rushed up stairs to the nursery, and stopping at the door, half opened it and rolled the great grey worsted ball so cleverly in, that it hit the old Nurse's foot as she sat (once more rocking the baby) over the fire.

3. puts grey colour upon children, they be childish eyes, dull and heavy.

With my inward Eye, 'tis an old Man grey, With my outward, a Thistle across my way.

It is painted the life-saving grey, but has not the life-saving freshness.

And up beyond the land rose grey and hazy to the hills, and the sky behind them red, like a furnace mouth.

We all know the great grey and melancholy Gare du Nord, at half-past six in the morning; and the miserable carriages, and the tall, haggard city.

He nodded his grey head significantly, but he went on with the bare evidence: "When John J. Healy make last trip down this fallNicholas pilot you savvythey let him take his sister, Holy Cross to Pymeut.

I am a young Man, I confess, yet I honour the grey Head as much as any one; however, when in Company with old Men, I hear them speak obscurely, or reason preposterously (into which Absurdities, Prejudice, Pride, or Interest, will sometimes throw the wisest) I count it no Crime to rectifie their Reasoning, unless Conscience must truckle to Ceremony, and Truth fall a Sacrifice to Complaisance.

In Mr. Irving's exquisite representation, Macbeth's anxieties and perturbations, his rapid alternations of courage and cowardice, make delicate but obvious record of themselves in deepening the grey of his hair, and ploughing more deeply the lines of his face.

The walls were distempered a pale, greenish grey; the floor was of bare and dirty planking, and the only suggestions of dignity or display were those offered by the canopy over the judge's seatlined with scarlet baize and surmounted by the royal armsthe scarlet cushions of the bench, and the large, circular clock in the gallery, which was embellished with a gilded border and asserted its importance by a loud, aggressive tick.

"I hate the stone, I fear the water; I dread the grey, the moaning sea; I pray thee bid thy lady daughter To fetch some wine to me.

For all his brightness he found life a little grey and dull, I think.

Grey shadows followed itthe grey of fear.

I saw half-a-dozen cuckoos, gliding silvery grey and beating the hedges for nests.

There it was upon the sand, and holding the candle nearer to it with a certain caution, as though it would spring up and bite me, I saw it was a great full black beard, more than a foot long, but going grey at the tips; and had at the back, keeping it together, a thin tissue of dried skin, like the false parting which Aunt Jane wore under her cap on Sundays.

I was standing there kidding Herb, the stock boy, when down the aisle comes a man in a big hat, like you see in the western pictures, hair a little grey at the temples, and everything, just like a movie actor.

It is true that we cannot bring to London, with this movement, the indefinable charm that haunts the grey and venerable quadrangles of Oxford and Cambridge.

Henry invited her to ride with him, and her beautiful Sullensifadda stood pawing at the door, richly caparisoned, while the groom held her father's dapple grey by the bridle for Henry.