"Silvery-grey" Quotes from Famous Books
... road that is! It was like passing through a gallery hung with Renaissance tapestry, all in freshness of colour. The sea deep blue and green like a peacock's neck, the mountains pale yellow, as shown in tapestry, with blue shadows; the silvery-grey olives, the glossy orange trees with their fruit—exactly as in tapestry. Surely the old weavers of those wondrous webs studied this coast and copied ... — In Troubadour-Land - A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc • S. Baring-Gould |