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  • Without looking up he threw the tissue onto the sidewalk, right where the homeless man had been, now replaced by a grayish-yellow puddle and that morning's newspaper.

    Steven Weber: For My Father 10/3/25 - 3/6/87 2009

  • The smoke from the north, which Jiang had explained came from a still-burning fire ignited when miners broke through into a pocket of inflammable natural gases, hung low over the city, giving the sky a sickly, grayish-yellow cast.

    Asimov's Science Fiction 2004

  • By spreading out the sap on a wooden scoop, and shaking it in the smoke, its coagulation is almost immediately obtained; it assumes a grayish-yellow tinge and solidifies.

    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon 2003

  • The wounded beast slid the spike through the handle, barring the portal, as grayish-yellow ichor gushed from the gaping wound in its side.

    Conan The Hunter Moore, Sean A. 1994

  • Before they left her valley for the last time, she and Jondalar had collected as many of the grayish-yellow metallic stones as they could, not knowing if they would ever find them in any other place.

    The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990

  • Beyond the treetops rose a distant pedestal of grayish-yellow rock crowned by a city.

    The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

  • Daoud suddenly realized that droplets of moisture had appeared on the grayish-yellow wall near his face.

    The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963

  • The wall was made of the same grayish-yellow stone Orvieto was built on.

    The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

  • Once he stopped to look at the leaden waters of the lake, rimmed with ice; and up at the leaden sky that seemed to be shutting down close upon them like a lid; and around at the gray waste of frozen ground, the meadows covered lightly with snow and pools of surface ice that here and there showed the long bleached grass pricking through in grayish-yellow tufts.

    Flamsted quarries Mary E. Waller

  • The discharged sergeant was a tall old man, straight and strong, with grayish-yellow whiskers, unshaven chin, a network of wrinkles on his forehead and cheeks.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

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