Roger Ascham one day paying a visit to the amiable but unfortunate Lady Jane Grey found her employed in reading Plato while the rest of the family were engaged in a hunting party in the park.
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Grey translations are indirect translations. In other words, they are translations of the translations, and not translations of the main sentence (the main sentence is the sentence in big letters).
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We display grey sentences because they can be useful, but you should be careful. Their meaning may differ a little from the main sentence.
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Her grey hair makes her look older than she is.
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The "Grey Wolves" are a Turkish ultranationalist, neofascist, anti-Kurd movement that denies the genocide of the Armenian people.
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The teacher's name was Mr. Grey.
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As I stood upon the bluff before my cottage on that clear cold night in the early part of March, 1886, the noble Hudson flowing like the grey and silent spectre of a dead river below me, I felt again the strange, compelling influence of the mighty god of war, my beloved Mars, which for ten long and lonesome years I had implored with outstretched arms to carry me back to my lost love.
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The grey cat can't climb off the tree.
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All of your cats are grey.
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He loved looking at grey sky with the sun peeking through the thick clouds.
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I am going grey!
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This pencil is not grey.
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It's a legal grey area.
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The sky was grey.
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The landscape was dotted with green and grey shrubs.
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The old man had a long grey beard.
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At ten years old his hair turned grey.
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Last summer's sky was invariably grey.

His head was grey.

Can you hurry and go buy grey bread from the baker? And make him cut it!

Can you quickly go and buy grey bread from the baker? And have it cut!

Do you like Earl Grey tea?

The car is grey.

Physical activities - from raking leaves to walking to the grocery store - can help seniors retain the grey matter in their brains.

Her head was grey.

His grey and lifeless eyes burned like two hot coals.

A platinum blonde is a woman whose hair is so blonde that it seems to have the same grey colour as platinum.

Does Tom like Earl Grey tea?

My friend disappeared like a grey mule in the fog.

His hair has turned grey.

His grey eyes shone and twinkled, and his usually pale face was flushed and animated.

Worrying will send you grey, but it won't achieve anything.

When they entered the hut the cat was curled up on the floor. So they stroked her, and fed her with ham, and said to her: "Pussy-cat, grey pussy-cat, tell us how we are to get away from the witch?"

My computer is grey.

O grey pussycat, please don't purr. Grandpa might hear you.

As he pulled laundry from the dryer, Tom saw that because of static electricity a grey sock clung tenaciously to a facecloth.

The cloud is grey.

Dr. Pepperberg and her colleagues have found that Alex, an African grey parrot, can count up to 8.

Is that cat grey?

The father has grey eyes.

The grey goo engulfs everything.

The landlady had told Tom: “You'd look better with a fedora hat — a light-grey felted wool one, I think. You're tall, and you could carry it off."

His eyes were as red burning coals; long grey hair fell over his shoulders in matted coils; his garments, which were of antique cut, were soiled and ragged, and from his wrists and ankles hung heavy manacles and rusty gyves.

He was wonderfully good-looking, with his crisp brown hair, his clear-cut profile, and his grey eyes.

An old gentleman with gold spectacles and grey hair came into the room, and said, in a slight French accent, 'Have I the honour of addressing Monsieur Erskine?'

While attending Sunday mass, the grandmother wears a pink dress and a charming mantilla, and the grandfather, a grey suit with a white shirt.

Before morning he'd be up and down every chimney in New Amsterdam, filling the stout grey yarn stockings with toys, and apples, and ginger-bread, laughing and chuckling so all the while, that the laughs and chuckles didn't get out of the air for a week afterwards.

All theory, my friend, is grey, but green is life's glad golden tree.

Dionysophanes' hair was already turning grey, but he was tall and handsome, and could compare favourably with many young men.

The solitary window was so dirty that the light was hazy and uncertain, giving a dull grey tinge to everything, which was intensified by the thick layer of dust which coated the whole apartment.

There are swift-flowing rivers which dash through jagged cañons; and there are enormous plains, which in winter are white with snow, and in summer are grey with saline alkali dust.

In this great stretch of country there is no sign of life, nor of anything appertaining to life. There is no bird in the steel-blue heaven, no movement upon the dull, grey earth—above all, there is absolute silence.

My grandmother has grey hair.

Fade into grey.

He was a very tall, thin man, with a long nose like a beak, which shot out between two keen, grey eyes, set closely together and sparkling brightly from behind a pair of gold-rimmed glasses.

Over the green squares of the fields and the low curve of a wood there rose in the distance a grey, melancholy hill, with a strange jagged summit, dim and vague in the distance, like some fantastic landscape in a dream.

Still steadily rising, we passed over a narrow granite bridge, and skirted a noisy stream which gushed swiftly down, foaming and roaring amid the grey boulders.

The fresh beauty of the following morning did something to efface from our minds the grim and grey impression which had been left upon both of us by our first experience of Baskerville Hall.

He was a small, slim, clean-shaven, prim-faced man, flaxen-haired and lean-jawed, between thirty and forty years of age, dressed in a grey suit and wearing a straw hat.

The greater part of the letter was charred to pieces, but one little slip, the end of a page, hung together, and the writing could still be read, though it was grey on a black ground. It seemed to us to be a postscript at the end of the letter, and it said: ‘Please, please, as you are a gentleman, burn this letter, and be at the gate by ten o’clock.’ Beneath it were signed the initials L. L.

The sun was already sinking when I reached the summit of the hill, and the long slopes beneath me were all golden-green on one side and grey shadow on the other.

One great grey bird, a gull or curlew, soared aloft in the blue heaven. He and I seemed to be the only living things between the huge arch of the sky and the desert beneath it.

The opah's overall red with white spots and turns a silvery-grey when it dies.

Strewn here and there behold / arms, planks, lone swimmers in the surges grey, / and treasures snatched from Trojan homes away.

As he stepped into the circle of yellow light thrown by the lantern she saw that he was a person of gentlemanly bearing, dressed in a grey suit of tweeds, with a cloth cap.

He was well but quietly dressed in a dark-grey suit.

He was well but quietly dressed in a dark-grey suit, and carried a brown wide-awake in his hand.

He had picked from a drawer a little tarnished cylinder, and, undoing the tape, he handed me a short note scrawled upon a half-sheet of slate-grey paper.

The grey wolf is Italy’s unofficial national animal.

Sami saw someone in a grey hoodie standing by his car.

Sami has a grey cat.

On fly the barks o'er ocean. Near us frown / Ceraunia's rocks, whence shortest lies the way / to Italy. And now the sun gows down, / and darkness gathers on the mountains grey.

His jumper is grey.

It was a humid, grey summer day at the end of June.

"This," said he, taking a grey roll of paper from his bureau, "is the original of that secret treaty between England and Italy."

With his slight, tall figure, his sharp features, thoughtful face, and curling hair prematurely tinged with grey, he seemed to represent that not too common type, a nobleman who is in truth noble.

This house mouse is grey.

When I looked up at him I found his keen, grey eyes fixed upon me with an amused expression.

It was an odious face—crafty, vicious, malignant, with shifty, light-grey eyes and white lashes.

The grey fox had a silver tongue. He was as clever as he was smart.

The other was about fifteen years younger, short, stout, ruddy-faced, and red-haired, with an open, resolute, and cheerful eye, to which careless and fearless freedom and inward daring gave fire and expression, notwithstanding its light grey colour.

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