Civil War color

Usage examples of gray.

I found that with each mixture there was a time of exposure which would produce the deepest blue, that with over-exposure the blue gradually turned gray, and that if a curve should be plotted, the abscissas of which should represent the time of exposure, and the ordinates of which should represent the intensity of the blue the curves drawn would have approximately an elliptical form, so that if one knew the exact time of exposure which would give the best result with any mixture, one might deviate two or three minutes either way from that time without producing a noticeable result.

One vehement figure, Harrison Gray, once the treasurer of Massachusetts, said in a letter to the press that if it were left to him, he would have John Adams hanged.

Outside poured in the gray light of the early morning sun as it tried to pierce the smog and aeroplankton flurry.

A tall, thin, hard-faced black guy with a gray Afro, wearing a white dress shirt buttoned to the neck, walked in and came to our table.

His graying hair was cut in a short afro, and he wore a long, blue-patterned dashiki.

Nicholas peered and then he could see the ship, black against dark gray, now clearly seen for what she was, a huge thing with high aftercastle, and a rear lateen spanker sail.

In the midst of that dark pavement, right before the lamplit steps, one single slab of the floor was new, hewn of pale gray granite, its surface rough against the worn, silken smoothness of the rest of the floor, though it, too, was covered with that agelong mantle of dust.

ISI agents dressed in tan and gray shalwar Kameez robes and carrying AK-47s took positions outside.

When Alae looked at him this time, her eyes were steady and frozen gray.

To the west a mile away ran a wire fence strung from pole to pole like a bad suture across the gray grasslands and beyond that a small band of antelope all of whom were watching them.

The best I could do was to keep at the Ellis Alves case and assume that the Gray Man would find me, and that when he did, I could out-quick him.

Alvaro of the Falcon was accounted the deadliest blade among the Isles - and Amra, gray with years, was an unknown adversary.

Pope, the majestic blank verse of Thomson, the terse octosyllabics of Swift, the sonorous quatrains of Gray, and the lively anapests of Sheridan and Moore.

She had the kind of big gray hair that made her look more like an American anchorwoman than a shrink.

Edward Anglesey, in the days when you also walked, that your wife would be a gray four-legged monster?