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1. "At the same time it is a stinking pesthole where most are addicts, burn-outs lie in the gutters and grey slugs of human beings lurk in the under-cellars
2. The fjord that leads to the tunnel is a wonderland in itself, great grey cliffs, leaping waterfalls and deep blue water
3. He continued to carve water into the great grey maw of the tunnel
4. The sky was a blueish grey, bright purple in the east
5. smothering life and expectation under a blanket of grey cloud
6. In his fifties, but he had been a powerful Rugby player in his time and still had that aura of invulnerable solid strength that the Rugby boys have, even if his hair was a little grey and his belly bursting out over the edge of his trousers
7. door, and a very bald and tattered grey felt mouse lying by a pot rack next to the
8. Betsy's face went a shade paler than its usual battleship grey
9. ’ Molly said, ‘with Earl Grey tea
10. he began, as he always did in such circumstances, to count the tufts in the grey and
11. ‘I can’t compete … I’ve got saggy rings under my eyes, my figure has gone to pot and my hair is going grey
12. As I was playing an elderly woman complete with grey wig, I was not overly flattered – even Emma, my daughter, didn’t recognise me in that outfit!’
13. Remembrance Day, when it arrives, is cold, grey and damp (as Janet predicted) and casts an atmosphere of gloom over The Laurels
14. Two pairs of boxer shorts, grey
15. The Doctor was in his mid forties I guessed, wearing an open neck shirt, jeans, grey at the temples, clean shaven, blue eyes, cold hands
16. I have already admired it – a shade of wool to match her name … there are a few grey hairs showing round the back of his ears, I think to myself then I suddenly realise that he’s watching me in the rear view mirror with a faint smile on his face and blush violently … the smile becomes a wicked grin as he replies to something Wally is saying
17. He speaks out, "Can I have a cup?" And in an instant, a short grey cylindrical vessel materializes on the table
18. He seemed to know instinctively that eye of the storm would come from the east, from the direction that lay behind him, in his long distant past, and slumped forward as he was, he began, as he always did in such circumstances, to count the tufts in the grey and threadbare boot carpet
19. The grey wolf was half the size
20. The grey wolf pounced suddenly with the intention of biting Sons’
21. He looked at the man standing in the doorway, whose head was illuminated by the slant of battle grey that steepled down from the high set window
22. in the fibre of the grey washed pillowcases
23. in a bare laid room, heavy with block grey walls and
24. Fat men in combat trousers and dirty grey trainers
25. ’ He said, his face grey tinged and hollow as he remembers
26. Desa was feeling a little dull and grey herself lately, and some of that was undoubtedly that she was used to some of the colors being turned up some of the time at least
27. by sweat stained men in lines of khaki and grey
28. fading we two into the grey sea water,
29. the watching grey head off the quay,
30. It didn't have fuzz however, it was covered in warty, saggy, skin, dust grey in color
31. of near horizons when the sky hangs grey and thick
32. grey in shadow and urgency, flitting this way and that, here and there,
33. within strong walls are fading grey
34. Some of the tiles are grey blanks
35. The eldest, a girl about twelve, stepped forward, her friends trailing like the children of Niobe, and guided me to the door of a large grey building back on the central street
36. I remember the late summer clouds and us sitting on the shoreline picking out the best ones when he drew my attention to the water, 'See how the light from the sky colours the sea? The clouds are making the water grey, like slate
37. cold and grey to the soft stirring sea bed,
38. It was now normal, expected, that the day was still mundane and muted, a cup was a vacation from the grey and not a way of life
39. He looked as uncomfortable as I felt as he rubbed his grey stubble
40. She was in such a frustrated lather that her mascara had run right down her cheeks and lay in a sludgy grey puddle on the kitchen table
41. ‘Well, we looked round the slate mine – it’s a terrible place, no green at all, just the grey exposed slate … I hated the atmosphere of the place – it would have been a hard life working the slate
42. Two or three long-haired senior men with grey, bushy moustaches, walking sticks and long boots sat outside at tables nodding towards sleep
43. The Speaker started to rise, intending to admonish the backbencher for his rude interruption, but thought better of it when he caught the great politician’s steel grey gaze
44. The seas towered above the bunkered land in their grey majesty, and the couple, blessed for the first time with central heating, lived as well as they had ever done
45. Stood there was a little old man, all stooped and grey, with a sour looking fox terrier attached to his wrist by means of a length of packaging string
46. Grey peaked cap on the back of his head, grey crumpled uniform over grey crumpled shirt, braided epaulettes, dusty, scuffed leather boots
47. And on a wall in a smaller room were faded painted traces of dark fat grapes and twisting in through the window, grey old straying twists of some very lively jasmine, and even wild rosemary
48. The big arms and iron grey flattop of Colonel Glayet Samrova entered his front door
49. I glance across at Alastair, engrossed in the music – he’s not what you’d by any stretch of the imagination call classically good looking but has a pleasant face and is considered attractive by many people … his hair is dark but there are grey hairs showing in places now – it needs a cut by the look of the way it’s starting to dangle over his ears
50. the flat, where Big Al steadied his company of grey haired