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While the rest of the island was green with meadow and spruce, here was a mass of granite-gray cliffs, rearing high above the tumble of rock to the sea.
The Summer I Dared Barbara Delinsky 2004
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While the rest of the island was green with meadow and spruce, here was a mass of granite-gray cliffs, rearing high above the tumble of rock to the sea.
The Summer I Dared Barbara Delinsky 2004
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Five of Charlie's fellow keepers staggered up to the Horntail at that moment, carrying a clutch of huge granite-gray eggs between them in a blanket.
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire Rowling, J. K. 2000
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Her granite-gray mare snorted and sneezed as the thin swordswoman jerked alert.
Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998
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- An arrow scratching across the black-blue-white exhaust plume of fizzing hydrogen-a granite-gray asteroid riding the roaring blowtorch -
Across The Sea Of Suns Benford, Gregory, 1941- 1984
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"Granny will eat from your hand," exclaimed Uncle Daniel, "You see, she is just like granite-gray stone, but we call her Granny for short."
The Bobbsey Twins in the Country Laura Lee Hope
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The color of the trunk is a dark granite-gray and the bark is rough.
Among the Trees at Elmridge Ella Rodman Church
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The Idiot's granite-gray face showed no new emotion.
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The granite-gray of his face had softened into the ruddy, sun-burned coloring of a healthy young soldier, long in the field, and she could not resist the strong arms that he opened to her.
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If his glance fell, now and then, upon the face of Browett, he saw it only through the haze of his own fervour -- a patch of granite-gray holding two pricking points of light.
The Seeker Harry Leon Wilson 1903
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