blue-grey

Across the bed she would be lying, one bare foot keeping time to the music's flirty tempo, pulsing blue-grey circles through her lips and tongue.

Immiscibility Sally Houtman 2012

When she was a child, she kept on her bedroom mantelpiece a little oblong blue-grey leaden plate saying: "danger of death".

Short stories: Margaret Drabble and Katherine Mansfield 2011

At any rate, the eastern sky was a bank of pale clouds that shed soft, spread rays of blue and white upon a blue-grey sea.

CHAPTER XXIX 2010

The first migrant was a pair of wheatears and, as always, I was surprised at just how colourful they look, especially the male, with the blue-grey back, black wings and orange flush on the breast.

Country Diary: Loch Bunachton 2011

The species has an overall blue-grey or cream colour and its individual polyps are small, numerous and a shade of brown.

In pictures: The world’s most important corals in need of conservation 2011

When she was a child, she kept on her bedroom mantelpiece a little oblong blue-grey leaden plate saying: "danger of death".

Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

I like the retro-romance novel cover look, and the lush blue-grey & bronzish hues .. which are certainly strong signifiers that you're in wold Newton territory.

Book Cover Smackdown! Harsh Oases vs. The Evil in Pemberley House vs. Open Your Eyes 2009

As we looked down from Thorpe's Brow, the clouds re-grouped and an advancing shower appeared to offer a blue-grey ladder to heaven.

Country diary: Langsett 2011

She had long been familiar with these extraordinary structures, these geometric blue-grey slabs rising against the backdrop of the cement-grey, yellowish, bruised waves of the Bristol Channel.

Margaret Drabble | Trespassing 2011

In that world of white they seemed even more beautiful: the soft, dove-like blue-grey of his crown, and the rich warm ginger of their upper parts.

Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk 2011