What is "greyness"

Usage examples of "greyness".

The rows of sash windows emphasized the Georgian symmetry of the building, and its greyness was the greyness of an English sky.

Snow lay on the onions now, dimming the blues and greens and golds that sparkled on the picture postcards, but I stood there wondering how a nation which had produced a building of such joyous, magnificent imagination could have come to its latter-day greyness.

Her memory of little Willie and the breadman was fading away like a lurid sunset into the tender greyness of forgetfulness.

The greyness of city homes gave way to the leafdom of suburbia, the road signs informing him that Kent was the destination.

She was barrelling through solid greyness, seeing little, receiving sharp outlines of sound.

By the continued greyness he could tell that his physiological time and external time had not yet met.

He was like a fine rugby scrum-half gone to seed, and yet the heaviness of his body wasn't fat, for, apart from the greyness of his skin, he looked fit.

It had settled on his senses like a film of soot from a smoking lamp, coating them with a greyness of depression.

Gradually through the greyness of dawn he had let the army pass him by, making sure that Uathach did not notice.