gray layer

She could see nothing but the air itself, the pale gray layers of it shifting over the night.

She vigorously peeled away a year's worth of dead skin in gray layers.

She fought her way up through grey layers of unreality.

She began to scream and flail, trying to avoid contact with the gray layer by changing the line of her fall.

With her other hand she touched the soft gray layers of her new hairdo.

We see not only the delicate grey layers of the paintings but also the precise remaining white parts where the artist makes his greatest effort.

Like there were thousands and thousands of other dead people floating up here, too, in a great hazy gray layer.

Smoke still curled overhead... but it was a thinning gray layer which no longer covered the sinking sun.

Willums fired the braking rock- ets as they pierced a gray layer of clouds.

She opened her eyes to sunrise, distant crags like arthritic fingers reaching up into pink and grey layers of sky.

As we drew closer to New Orleans, the clouds closed up the holes of blue between them until there was an ominous gray layer above us.

A gray layer of clouds scudded overhead, dropping an occasional splatting drop of rain.

'Now I see his weakness,' he hissed, scratching at his raw grey layers of jaw muscle where they fused on to the bone.

Neither stack had been disturbed for over a hundred years, according to the universal dates on the boxes, and the thick gray layers attested to that fact.

However, within the inner sublayer of the intermediate gray layer (InGi) there were two or three clusters of responsive cells.

There were vast black plumes of churning smoke lifting into the air from a dozen points and spreading into a gray layer, the color of despair.

Each reposes within a turtle-shaped opening that is cut out of the top gray layer and separated from it by orange, the color of the underlying fabric.

The spring warmth was eating away at the vaulting blue-white ramparts streaked with gray layers deposited by volcanoes and dust storms eons years ago.

Nuclei colliculi superioris are groups of large cells in the middle gray layer of the superior colliculus and more laterally near the midbrain tegmentum.

The higher they climbed the colder it became; driving sleet stung their faces and covered Thane's shoulders and Stumble's quarters with a grey layer of wet ice.

Hermandad de la Piedad Habit: gray tunica, dark gray layer, light gray capirote, founded in 1977, processions over the same name, a copy of Michelangelo.

It's the whole idea of the peach-blue layer; the silver, purple, lavender layer, and then the gold, white, gray layer, all framed and illuminated by the silver-blue layer."

Ash drifted down, turning the rocky ground into a field of gray smoothness over which the mammoths toiled like fat brown ghosts, every footfall leaving a crater in fine gray layers.

A twilight that was misty and seemed perpetual lay in silvery gray layers over the green lushness of Naboo as the Federation landing ships descended out of the black infinity of space to settle slowly planetward.

In turn, zinc hydroxide reacts with carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to yield a thin, impermeable, tenacious and quite insoluble dull gray layer of zinc carbonate which adheres extremely well to the underlying zinc, so protecting it from further corrosion.