ash-grey

They laughed when they flew over Connemara, where the wild, greedy Atlantic takes long, blue bites out of the green land, and that laugh alone destroyed a field of yellowing oats, turning it ash-grey.

show me how to lie

Their porcelain-white necks are revealed as two slender pale parallel lines against the ash-grey water.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk

The Wellesley coach, who was red-faced just a moment before, turns ash-grey when he sees the traditional Japanese swords borne by the yakuza.

Girls U-10 Soccer Yakuza

From an ash-grey sky finely-wrought snowflakes descended, fluttering angularly in the calm air like the scraps of paper that Americans pour over their heroes – God was blessing the Revolution – and fighter planes flew overhead in formation, while others flew low over the highest towers of Russian history.

Archive 2009-09-01

It quickly becomes a representation of something entirely other, when a door appears overnight, a door which opens into an ash-grey corridor that cannot possibly be there given that the door has appeared in an exterior wall.

Top Three Reads - 2004

It quickly becomes a representation of something entirely other, when a door appears overnight, a door which opens into an ash-grey corridor that cannot possibly be there given that the door has appeared in an exterior wall.

Archive 2005-01-01

The prisoners, ash-grey, gazed with black, glittering eyes, making not a sound.

The Plumed Serpent

There are dead that sit under the trees, watching with ash-grey eyes for their victims.

The Plumed Serpent

He had dreamed about her countless times, on that same staircase, with that same blue dress and that same movement of her ash-grey eyes, without knowing who she was or why she smiled at him.

The Shadow of the Wind

His skin was an irregular brown, or maybe even dark ash-grey, and it was only as Steff drew nearer and caught a glimpse of his profile behind a gap in his crusty hair that it became apparent that the man was white.

Not the End of the World