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Blue-gray   /blu-greɪ/   Listen
Blue-gray

adjective
1.
Of grey tinged with blue.  Synonyms: blue-grey, bluish-gray, bluish-grey.






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"Blue-gray" Quotes from Famous Books



... awoke some recollection of the past in Erica, and, as she kissed the little girl, she looked at her closely. Yes, it was the same fascinating little baby face, with its soft, pink cheeks and little pointed chin, its innocent, blue-gray eyes, its tiny, sweet-tempered mouth. The sunny brown hair was longer and Dolly was an inch or two taller, but she was undoubtedly ...
— We Two • Edna Lyall

... the handkerchief into his pocket and stared at her with a glint of anger in the blue-gray of his eyes. He lifted his broad shoulders. "Or wise man enough to do my own work when needs be, and when I'd have no bungling? I'm going to square with you, girl. Square with you for meddling, for a bullet-hole ...
— Judith of Blue Lake Ranch • Jackson Gregory

... a moment before, all around us, the cold of a dense whiteness which engulfed the scene. The first of the great Glacial periods? Ice coming down from the Poles? The axis of the Earth changing perhaps? Our spectral cage hummed within the blue-gray ice, ...
— Astounding Stories, May, 1931 • Various

... Central Station in New York. As he waits apart from the small crowd assembled to welcome, he attracts observing attention. His face appears thirty; he is thirty-six. The features are finely cut, the chin is especially good. The eyes are blue-gray, and a slight pallor probably adds to his apparent distinction. His attitude is languid, the handling of his cane gracefully indolent, the almost habitual twisting of his chestnut-brown mustache attractively ...
— Our Nervous Friends - Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness • Robert S. Carroll

... metal (den. 11.33) which has a brilliant silvery luster on a freshly cut surface, but which soon tarnishes to a dull blue-gray color. It is soft, easily fused (melting at 327 deg.), and quite malleable, but ...
— An Elementary Study of Chemistry • William McPherson


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