leaden-hued

The question of the moment was, Is it possible to cross the leaden-hued water before thunder-charged clouds make mischief?

Last Leaves from Dunk Island 2003

This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.

Father Goriot 2003

Banks of watery, leaden-hued clouds rolled lumberingly from the south-west; beneath a slow depressing drizzle the orchard became a melancholy vista of dripping branches and sodden muddied grass.

Pushed and the Return Push George Herbert Fosdike Nichols

The nurse sat beside the fire, watching the flames flicker on the dark walls, and idly wondering if the leaden-hued sky portended a snow-storm.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861 Various

On the left hand, serenely sleeping, wound, amid a thousand green islands, the leaden-hued Fiord, bearing on its quiet surface a fleet of lazy ships, whose white sails made them look, at distance so remote, like snowy swans, or froth from neighbouring rapid.

A Yacht Voyage to Norway, Denmark, and Sweden 2nd edition William A. Ross

There was a sound of feet running rapidly up-stairs, and then there burst into the room Burevsky: bare-headed, leaden-hued, eyes aflame, his left hand hanging, crushed and bloody, at his side, in his right a pistol, its barrel glinting in the light.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

I had so worked upon my imagination as really to believe that about the whole mansion and domain there hung an atmosphere peculiar to themselves and their immediate vicinity: an atmosphere which had no affinity with the air of heaven, but which had reeked up from the decayed trees, and the gray wall, and the silent tarn: a pestilent and mystic vapor, dull, sluggish, faintly discernible, and leaden-hued.

Selections from Poe J. Montgomery Gambrill

Processions of shapes, obscure and indistinct, passed across the leaden-hued panels and vanished in the dusk corners.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various

Nor were their surroundings of a sufficiently enlivening character to banish the little maidens 'despondency, the fire in the drawing-room grate having died out long since from inattention, making them feel cold and comfortless, and it had got so dark within that they could not distinguish the various articles of furniture, even papa's armchair in the chimney-corner; while, outside, in the gloaming, the snow-flakes were falling slowly and steadily from a leaden-hued sky overhead.

Teddy The Story of a Little Pickle

Above, a long, monotonous sweep of waves, leaden-hued, anxious and jaded and sullen, if you can imagine such an expression in water.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 24, October, 1859 Various