greyness

Tumultuous waves of the great river rise And seem to storm the skies, While snow-bright peak and prairie mist combine, And greyness softens the harsh mountain line.

Presently, as I went on, still gaining velocity, the palpitation of night and day merged into one continuous greyness; the sky took on a wonderful deepness of blue, a splendid luminous color like that of early twilight; the jerking sun became a streak of fire, a brilliant arch, in space; the moon a fainter fluctuating band; and I could see nothing of the stars, save now and then a brighter circle flickering in the blue.

The fire had crumbled down to greyness, and one of the lamps made a gurgling appeal for attention.

Sometimes, as the road was cut through the pine woods that seemed in the darkness to be closing down upon us, great masses of greyness which here and there bestrewed the trees, produced a peculiarly weird and solemn effect, which carried on the thoughts and grim fancies engendered earlier in the evening, when the falling sunset threw into strange relief the ghost-like clouds which amongst the Carpathians seem to wind ceaselessly through the valleys.

They have never entered into mine, but into yours, we thought--Haven't we all to struggle against life's daily greyness, against pettiness, against mechanical cheerfulness, against suspicion?

Healthy and muscular, he yet gave her the feeling of greyness, of tragedy that might only find solution in the night.

After days of rain and greyness the weather had turned over a new leaf.

The greyness of the figure in focus with her sensual moves lends it a single dimension, but that single dimension is achieved with such skill that the undulating figures appear to be carrying myriads of emotions within them.

We've been blessed in the last few weeks with some beautiful weather but the greyness has begun to creep in of late.

This new production by Opera North follows the more recent trend of restoring the Swedish setting, but its time shift to the 1930s adds nothing except a sparse, dour greyness to what should be a glittering, gossipy court scene, as well as ignoring all the gothic resonances signalled so clearly by the music in the fortune telling and graveyard scenes.

There is a greyness about the city, its people are not particularly welcoming, and you have to be a hardcore, dedicated fan to follow your team to Russia.

These gardens were places where the greyness of the world could be driven out and where, through careful guardianship, better worlds could be made in miniature.