1. I become dark-grey. The light no longer loves me.

2. When she went shopping to the town she wore a long, voluminous, dark-grey cloak of which she was very proud.

3. "You sit at home, " said the cat, "in your dark-grey fur coat and long tail, and are filled with fancies, that's because you do not go out in the daytime.

4. It was a hump about 25 feet (8 metres) long, covered with rough dark-grey hide like an elephant's back.

5. In the winter of Beijing, with snow still on the ground and dark-grey bare branches up in the sunny sky, a couple of kites were fluttering in the far distance, bringing me amazement and melancholy.