"Grayish-brown" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... little over six feet in diameter. The average height of mature trees throughout the entire belt is probably not far from fifty or sixty feet with a diameter of two feet. It is a well-proportioned, rather handsome tree with grayish-brown bark and crooked, much-divided branches which cover the greater part of the trunk, but not so densely as to prevent it being seen. The lower limbs, like those of most other conifers that grow in snowy regions, curve downward, gradually take a horizontal position about half-way ...
— The Yosemite • John Muir
... large, oblong, slightly curved, and a ridged and streaked grayish-brown. They retain their vitality ...
— Culinary Herbs: Their Cultivation Harvesting Curing and Uses • M. G. Kains
... searched with sensitive finger-tips its exquisite tracery until a cunningly hidden spring responded and the lid, splitting in two, sank down into its walls. In the pocket thus revealed were many pills, apparently hand-moulded, of a grayish-brown substance, putty-soft. ...
— Red Masquerade • Louis Joseph Vance
... room Frank found the latter busied in "pricking out" the ship's course on the chart, and was thus able to survey him at leisure. Captain Gray's plain black suit and standing collar, his grayish-brown hair, close-cut whiskers, and mild expression, made him look more like a preacher than like one who had led a forlorn hope over the ruins of Fort Sumter, and had captured, single-handed, the ringleader of a dangerous mutiny in ...
— Harper's Young People, April 6, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... but young very different, being grayish-brown above with many white or buff spots, and white below with ...
— Citizen Bird • Mabel Osgood Wright and Elliott Coues |
