slate-grey

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.

Restaurant review: Sushi of Shiori 2010

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

A Sorcerous Mist Megan Arkenberg 2010

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

Archive 2010-06-01 Megan Arkenberg 2010

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

Andy Murray beats the rain and Roger Federer in Toronto Masters final 2010

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.

Eskdale, Cumbria Tony Greenbank 2010

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

The Woman I Was Born to Be Susan Boyle 2010

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) 2008

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

9/11 2006

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

September 2006 2006

"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."

The Second Coming 2008