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Grayish blue with a red hue at its center.

From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr

Grayish green salt bushes had taken over the areas between the crisscross of big arroyos.

From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko

Grayish brown streaked with white; below white streaked with blackish; outer webs of primaries, pale rufous.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.

There's one that's hard and brittle, Grayish or silvery white; 'Tis used in bells and mirrors To make them clean and bright.

From Harper's Round Table, August 6, 1895 by Various

Grayish olive-green; below yellowish white; a narrow white line over eye; white wing-patch small, sometimes barely showing above coverts; tail with a bluish tinge.

From Color Key to North American Birds with bibiographical appendix by Chapman, Frank M.