slate-grey

• “Until, that is, some angry slate-grey clouds decided, at 2-1 in the second set, it was time for some unpleasant tricks.”

  The Guardian: Andy Murray beats the rain and Roger Federer in Toronto Masters final

• “There were compensations: a superb black sesame ice cream, the slate-grey shade of an expensive kitchen floor, and an equally pleasing plum wine sorbet.”

  The Guardian: Restaurant review: Sushi of Shiori

• “I pulled off my slate-grey shimmery dress and threw it over a chair.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Woman I Was Born to Be

• “They watched as a wave sucked three of the Tho-Mooraine into the boiling, bottle-green, slate-grey sea.”

  Archive 2010-06-01

• “Smothered with snow, the Lakeland fells two weeks ago were more redolent of the Alps than an English autumn; early morning views above the slate-grey roofs were enough to rattle the teeth.”

  The Guardian: Eskdale, Cumbria

• “The Spirit Level" closes with an image straight out of Yeats territory: "inland among stones/The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit/By the earthed lightning of a flock of swans.”

  Newsweek: The Second Coming

• “Heaney invokes a drive to the west country, an ocean "wild with foam and glitter" to one side and on the other, "the earthed lightening" of a flock of swan that churns up the still surface of a slate-grey lake.”

  Tamsin Smith: PS from (RED)

• “I see you again and again tumbling out of the sky, in your slate-grey suit and pressed white shirt.”

  September 2006

• “Bodies were scattered all around her, under a slate-grey sky from which snow fell in sporadic squalls.”

  Archive 2008-06-01

• “The valley floor stretched below us, a level slate-grey waste!”

  Dwellers in the Mirage

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