cinerous

• The Freckled Dolphin NATIVE NAME.--_Bolla Gadimi_, Telegu HABITAT.--Madras coast DESCRIPTION.--Body fusiform, as in the last, but with smaller pectoral and dorsal but larger caudal fin; the back is straighter and not so much rounded on the shoulders, and the colour is bluish-cinerous or slaty, freckled with small irregular spots of brown or plumbeous, and longitudinal streaks of the same flecked with white; the under parts a shade lighter than rest of the body. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• Seen in mass, and at a distance, the woodlands are a soft cinerous purple. —  Some Spring Days in Iowa
• -- Body fusiform, as in the last, but with smaller pectoral and dorsal but larger caudal fin; the back is straighter and not so much rounded on the shoulders, and the colour is bluish-cinerous or slaty, freckled with small irregular spots of brown or plumbeous, and longitudinal streaks of the same flecked with white; the under parts a shade lighter than rest of the body. —  Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon
• The neatly plaited folds of the leaves of the oak display a greenish or cinerous purple, a soft and delicate presentment of the stronger colors which come in October, just as the overture gives us faint voicings of the beauty which the opera is to bring; just as Lowell's organist gives us —  Some Spring Days in Iowa

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