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  • Louis Vuitton has created a truly flattering shearling by ingeniously stripping tightly cropped mouse-gray sheepskin onto leather to create a wonderful cord-like effect on their form-fitting knee-length Crombie.

    The Great Winter Coat Tina Gaudoin 2010

  • Until recently, Dad's illness was all about frustration: he drove his mouse-gray Buick Century into cars that had stopped short, he got lost on trips to the store, he forgot his grandkids 'names.

    Do We Need To Go There Again? 2009

  • “Bruno, two cat eyes, pointy teeth, and mouse-gray hair with two bare spots, as if from alopecia or impetigo.” deuteragonist The person second in importance to the protagonist in a drama.

    More Vocabulary from Eco « So Many Books 2005

  • The ‘galactic’ ships of North American technocracy are a mouse-gray insult to the divine, therefore delirious, chaos of the universe.

    Jodorowsky On His Unmade "Dune" 2005

  • The ‘galactic’ ships of North American technocracy are a mouse-gray insult to the divine, therefore delirious, chaos of the universe.

    WFMU's Beware of the Blog: 2005

  • Snagging the old man by the collar of his mouse-gray robes-now brick-reddish robes'the dragon hauled the old man up out of the ruin.

    Into the Labyrinth Hickman, Tracy 1993

  • She was a muscular, athletic looking woman, with the body of a born horsewoman, mouse-gray hair, a strong face that could have been used as the model for a heroic monument, and the direct and challenging gaze of the professional soldier.

    Oathbreaker Lackey, Mercedes 1989

  • By then, the mouse-gray horse and its rider had taken a dead aim on the cow and had maneuvered into position to make the throw.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • Unhooking his leg, he pushed the toe of his boot into the stirrup and waited while she swung the mouse-gray horse around and eased it in beside his horse.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

  • She pulled steadily on the bit to back the mouse-gray horse away from the corral fence.

    Calder Born, Calder Bred Janet Dailey 1983

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