slate-coloured

His eyes were slate-coloured and muddy, his shaven face was sickly yellow.

CHAPTER V 2010

To each house there is but one entrance, the front door; and each house is about eighteen feet wide, with a bit of a brick-walled yard behind, where, when it is not raining, one may look at a slate-coloured sky.

JOHNNY UPRIGHT 2010

Rain squalls drifted across their russet face, and the heavy, slate-coloured clouds hung low over the landscape, trailing in grey wreaths down the sides of the fantastic hills.

The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

He was dressed at the height of fashion, in a rocquelaure and slate-coloured moire full-trimmed silk coat with large decent cuffs and buttons of hammered silver.

Archive 2009-03-01 Young Geoffrion 2009

He was dressed at the height of fashion, in a rocquelaure and slate-coloured moire full-trimmed silk coat with large decent cuffs and buttons of hammered silver.

Saint Lazare Young Geoffrion 2009

When he had done, he carefully snuffed out the candle; and the cold, slate-coloured, miserable day looked in upon us.

The Poor Relation’s Story 2007

There are a few slate-coloured cockatoos and other birds, which lead me to hope that, in the morning, I may drop across some water.

The Journals of John McDouall Stuart 2007

On one side of him was a battered pint saucepan without a handle, which was his make-believe pail; and on the other a morsel of slate-coloured cotton rag, which stood for his flannel to wipe up with.

A House to Let 2007

When he had done, he carefully snuffed out the candle; and the cold, slate-coloured, miserable day looked in upon us.

The Poor Relation’s Story 2007

They were parti-coloured with extraordinary irregularity, smeared with a sort of plaster that was sometimes grey, sometimes drab, sometimes slate-coloured or dark brown; and it was the sight of this wild plastering first brought the word “blind” into the thoughts of the explorer.

The Door in the Wall, and other stories Herbert George 2006