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... grey , and so drab and melancholy was its colour that it seemed a work of man . It was a colour of infinite sorrow . St. James's Park . A The sky was grey , even and low ; and the sun , a narrow circle of white shining through ...
... grey , and so drab and melancholy was its colour that it seemed a work of man . It was a colour of infinite sorrow . St. James's Park . A The sky was grey , even and low ; and the sun , a narrow circle of white shining through ...
Page 218
... grey moustache and a week's growth of grey beard on his chin . His teeth are badly broken and discoloured . He talks indistinctly , partly owing to his lack of teeth and partly owing to the heavy moustache , so that it is an effort to ...
... grey moustache and a week's growth of grey beard on his chin . His teeth are badly broken and discoloured . He talks indistinctly , partly owing to his lack of teeth and partly owing to the heavy moustache , so that it is an effort to ...
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... grey hair and bushy grey eyebrows . He has a good profile and you can imagine that in youth he was good - looking . His blue eyes are tired now and his mouth with its thin lips is peevish . He speaks as though he had no teeth in his ...
... grey hair and bushy grey eyebrows . He has a good profile and you can imagine that in youth he was good - looking . His blue eyes are tired now and his mouth with its thin lips is peevish . He speaks as though he had no teeth in his ...
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