lead-coloured

'There now!' said Uriah, looking flabby and lead-coloured in the moonlight.

Charles Dickens and Uriah Heep hradzka 2010

The swollen lead-coloured under lip trembled with a shameful whine.

Our Mutual Friend 2004

Till a lead-coloured fog gathered up from the deep,

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

The toy is a tiny spherical basket of neatly interwoven thin strips of cane from one of the creeping palms, in which is enclosed one of the smooth, hard, lead-coloured seeds of the CAESALPINIA BONDUCELLA.

My Tropic Isle 2003

The day was lead-coloured; the road had stone factories alongside of it, — grey, dull-coloured rows of stone cottages belonging to these factories, and then we came to poor, hungry-looking fields; — stone fences everywhere, and trees nowhere.

The Life of Charlotte Bronte 2002

Elric followed the navigator's gaze but saw only the same lead-coloured sky.

The Fortress of the Pearl Moorcock, Michael, 1939- 1989

The thing that came out of the cave was something he had never even imagined - along lead-coloured snout, dull red eyes, no feathers or fur, a long lithe body that trailed on the ground, legs whose elbows went up higher than its back like a spider's cruel claws, bat's wings that made a rasping noise on the stones, yards of tail.

The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Lewis, C. S. 1952

"Look yonder!" cried Carleton, and he pointed to the line of the horizon, which had hitherto been of grey, lead-coloured vapour.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

Opposite the student was a middle-aged fat "Assessor," with a small girl in long frilled drawers and short petticoats; and on the other side of the gangway were two homely-looking women in lead-coloured garments.

A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes Harriet Julia Campbell Jephson

In the bed of the river, near the sea, is a mine of silver; the ore is in very small particles, like lead-coloured sand, intermixed with mud.

An Account of Timbuctoo and Housa Territories in the Interior of Africa Abd Salam Shabeeny