Beneath the grimy, dew-dripping surface of an elevated structure, a hunched-up man was shambling along in inconspicuous fashion.

A message was incised on I smoothed out the wr all and surprisingly the grimy white surface, written in sm elegant lettering.

A message was incised on the grimy white surface, written in small and surprisingly elegant lettering.

It is no ordinary wall: on its grimy surface are sketches by James Thurber, drawn as he was coming to terms with impending blindness.

As Beatrice stepped through the opening, the grimy surface slithered back in place again, so neatly that the protruding bricks interlocked like clenching teeth.

He crossed the room and put the side of his head to the wall's grimy surface.

He carefully counted out his fare to the hunchback, then climbed to the grimy surface of the wharf and made his way to the train platform.

"ZigZag," adapted from a novel by Landon J. Napoleon, hides a sentimental, melodramatic heart beneath its grimy, naturalistic surface.

The production on the rallying "Taree" (among others) removes nearly all the song's rough edges and sandblasts away its grimy surfaces.

I wiped my finger across the poster's grimy surface, blew at it to remove some of the dust and lifted it off the wall.