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  • The gleaming, ultra-modern W New York Downtown Hotel & Residences is anything but deferential to the historical grey-stone architecture of Manhattan 's financial district over which it towers.

    Downtown, The New Kid Stands Out Anthony Klan 2010

  • Then I turned off towards the familiar grey-stone building with the dome, where Justice stood, blindfolded and carrying a sword.

    Rumpole and the Reign of Terror Mortimer, John 2006

  • Louis moved into an attic room of an L-shaped, grey-stone building known as the Third Court.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • Louis moved into an attic room of an L-shaped, grey-stone building known as the Third Court.

    Ancestral Passions Virginia Morell 1995

  • The tempest poured its full strength against the grey-stone house.

    VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

  • The combat had taken place at the very gate of the grey-stone house, and the old lady in the black satin and the costly yellow lace had flown out at the finish of it in time to hear the threats and innuendoes which had brought such trouble to her boy.

    VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

  • It was a quarter to twelve when his taxi swept up the drive toward the big grey-stone, turreted building, sedately lonely in the midst of its valuable acres.

    Murder at Bridge Anne Austin

  • There was no sleep in the grey-stone house on the Beacon Hill, on that eventful night on which Polson Jervase left his home, for anybody except the domestics, who were ignorant of the blow which had fallen on the household.

    VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

  • After weeks of feeding and pampering and drilling and equipping and shining of brass buttons and showing off, when the order came for them to prepare to march off to the fighting front, the S.B. A.L. held a soviet in their big grey-stone barracks and refused to get ready to go out because they had grievances against their B.itish officers.

    The History of the American Expedition Fighting the Bolsheviki Campaigning in North Russia 1918-1919 Harry H. Mead

  • The wind was blowing the rain against the windows of the grey-stone house on Beacon Hill, and

    VC — A Chronicle of Castle Barfield and of the Crimea David Christie Murray

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