
“Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.”
Source: Thanatopsis (1817–1821), l. 43
Longing, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Old ocean's gray and melancholy waste.”
Source: Thanatopsis (1817–1821), l. 43
“Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.”
The Adversary (Houghton Mifflin, 1984), ISBN 0-395-34410-7, p. 19 (opening lines of chapter 1)
“In the night all cats are gray.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part II (1615), Book III, Ch. 33.
“Rise in the presence of a gray head.”
Vor einem grauen Haupte sollst du aufstehen!
Über den Umgang mit Menschen (1788)
“A noticeable man, with large gray eyes.”
Stanzas written in Thomson's Castle of Indolence.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)