What is "grey-haired"

Usage examples of "grey-haired".

He skipped breakfast, settled with the lady of the house, a plump, grey-haired little woman, and headed out in search of a business centre, a cybercafe, anywhere to plug into his e-mail.

One of them, seated at the desk, was elderly, grey-haired, drably clad, drooping and physically frail, irresolute and in definably unworldly of aspect.

Edgar Hoover shaking hands with a somewhat less grey-haired Richard Haines, and then he was being waved to his seat.

Stephen, speaking to a grey-haired seaman from Shelmerston, a shipmate on former voyages and a member of the Sethian community, renowned for truthfulness.

The last Elder, Toyama, was in his middle fifties, grey-haired with heavy dewlaps and blind in one eye from a hunting accident--an old man as ages went in Japan.

She was grey-haired and elderly and, Annis saw with a sinking heart, of majestic appearance.

At the same moment, the neatly dressed, grey-haired Flaherty pushed his way into the tavern.

The driver was a grey-haired Dubliner, with a decade’s commerce with culchies in his approach.

He stepped aside for a grey-haired man who counted solid gold coin into his palm.

Mr Leering, the smooth, grey-haired master of the drill, who seemed perpetually tanned from a trip to his holiday home in Ibiza, was fiddling about inside my mouth while subliminal baroque music tinkled on the cassette player and the blonde nurse looked on with well-simulated concern.

As it went along, the walls grew lower until they disappeared altogether, and the houses, smaller and poorer until they degenerated into a maze of huts and kitchen gardens, with here and there pigsties, each home to a clutch of small grey-haired pigs.

This elegantly-suited grey-haired Anglo sported a tie with a scorpion in a plastic clasp which seemed like an intentional parody of local colour.

There was a fair amount of custom in the smoky room: a table-full of sailors drinking by the door, a couple of longshoremen eating bread and bacon by the hearth and jesting with a grey-haired woman who already looked drawn and pale with exhaustion, here an hour before noon.

Before the hearth stood the princess, an old grey-haired woman, with Lina a little behind her, slowly wagging her tail, and looking like a beast of prey that can hardly so long restrain itself from springing as to be sure of its victim.

Ayres, the grey-haired master gunner, could not hear him from the forecastle, but he had seen his young captain's hand slice down.