grey-white

• “Now, that James Buchanan, he looks wonderfully presidential with his noble head of grey-white hair.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Our Obsession With 'Looking Presidential'

• “A pall of grey-white smoke rose over the plant, operated by Tokyo Electric Power, and it was reported that four workers had been injured.”

  The Guardian: Japan nuclear fears as systems fail at second reactor

• “It was well lit by enormous picture windows, a smoggy grey-white day illumining an abundance of infra-office ferns and broad-leafed bushes, a reception desk, and a wide polished red granite tile floor, leading up to a bay of automatic glass doors I figured was the exit and entrance.”

  Fictionaut: Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri

• “Next, a stout, grey-white stone; it's the colour (and shape) of old-fashioned underwear.”

  The Guardian: In search of the real Philip Larkin

• “The sky is a deep grey-white, with the faintest hint of that shade of purple that I still know of as "periwinkle," because that's what it was called in my box of 100 Crayolas, when I was a kid.”

  The Entry That Almost Wasn't

• “Now, as I watched this grey-white blob of mucous advance across my herb pot, I suddenly had to find out if that was really true.”

  Slugs and Snails

• “On that Tuesday, on the grey-white underpainting, I lightly drew in pencil the head of a still-young woman, with a face already strongly defined by character, a face of good bone structure, of intelligence, of purpose.”

  Fictionaut: They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff

• “The grey-white streets -- such as the famed "Rue Norvins" (1909) -- have a rainy melancholy even when there is no rain.”

  Karin Badt: Now in Paris: Valadon and Utrillo

• “Denny licked his lips and tried to remember what alcohol tasted like as an icy gust of wind caught the steam of his breath: rising and dissipating, and then fading into the grey-white sky.”

  Fictionaut: Scattering like light

• “Morbidly obese, with flecks of black in her matted grey-white hair, and dressed in unwashed sweats; a filth like that of a cockroach nest.”

  Fictionaut: The Garbage House

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