The sky remained a purple blue, with a slight grayness in the south, darkening toward the horizon.
"My Attainment of the Pole"
Frederick A. Cook
Ahead, the prairie rolled away, a vast dimly lighted plain, to the soft dusky grayness which obscured the horizon, and he knew that somewhere beyond the dip of the latter stood the mountain, a broken stretch of higher ground covered with birches and willows, where if Corporal Slaney held on so long he must endeavor to evade him.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
Stephen, I sometimes wish that we had never met-that I had not crossed your path, and so have left the old life, with its dull, quiet and sober grayness; but the die was cast that afternoon.
"Only One Love, or Who Was the Heir"
Charles Garvice