The low gray sky was tangling with the treetops as murky blotches of fog rested in the yards.
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The house is green, the sky is gray, the fire engine is red.
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The water reflected the gray-blue of the darkening sky, and the lights of the water-pumping stations had come on, making them look like a line of floating gazebos.
In Jan van Goyen's 1653 "View of the Rhine" (where he made a sketching trip in 1650-51), the lowering, brownish-gray sky takes up about 60% of the picture.
The sidewalks were gray and uneven, and the sky looked like a mirror without a tain, the place where everything should have been reflected but where, in the end, nothing was.
The sky was gray near the tops of the mountains, as gray as a dark day in winter.
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The weather was gray again, with muck in the sky from the Pearl River Delta factories.
The sky had gone gray and the autumn leaves in the trees shuddered in the cooling breeze.
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The sky would go gray, with dark clouds building on the horizon.
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Their solution was to yield most of the canvas or panel to the gray, fog-and cloud-filled sky (curator Emilie Gordenker, director of the Mauritshuis, calls them "our Dutch mountains"), with blue openings torn into the gray here and there so that spots of sunlight could illuminate parts of the land or water below.
But there was a band of blue sky just above the gray, the blue you see in tropical postcards, the blue of the Mediterranean.
Massey was the subject of sexist comments made by Sky TV football analyst Andy Gray and presenter Richard Keys at the weekend.
The curtainless windows were rectangles of electric-blue sky that turned to gray and then normal daylight as the patients rose and slowly, in their thin striped cotton robes, began wandering down the corridor that led into the common room.
She looked into the sky slowly lightening to its gray beginnings of the day.
It wandered through the sky naked, corroded, and gray, more and more alien to the world down here, a hangover from a way of being that was now outdated.
It was cold and the sky was a single unchanging sheet of gray.
Outside, the rain continued to hammer away at our dismal little world, and the sky had shucked the last of its evening gray to take on an intense purplish tone that was ominous, close-in, Biblical.
In minutes, the sky would turn from a perfect blue to a foreboding gray.
Comments by the Sky Sports presenters about assistant referee Sian Massey sparked a furore which led to Gray being sacked, while Keys later quit.
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And so despite my status as a running refusenik, I found myself herded, among a crowd of far fitter, healthier, sportier types, into a pen behind the start line, part of a sea of red t-shirted runners beneath a threatening gray sky.
Gray was subsequently sacked by Sky while Keys, who said on Wednesday that his future at the broadcaster was uncertain, was suspended.
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