Whereas they had been grey, brown or buff-tan, here they were a slatey blue-green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Year of the Unicorn]

Blue sky showed between the slatey clouds, and there was a hint of damp in the air.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Serpent's Shadow]

His face goes whitish green, with an undercurrent of slatey grey running through it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

The animal, with head thrown back, was staring vacantly with its large, slatey-blue eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Jungle Girl] Reference

Here again the upheaved slatey rock appeared, with the same dip and direction as in the Sadong River.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago] Reference

And the minutes seemed lengthened into hours as they anxiously peered into the mass of slatey-brown water in front and around topped with yeasty foam.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek] Reference

A vein, perhaps 5 feet thick, of a slatey substance runs across just in front of us, and contains a well, which is the only sign of fresh water I have seen so far.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference

It was typewritten on paper of a dark slatey-blue shade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Streak] Reference

There was no sign of any letter written on the slatey-blue paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Streak] Reference

There was only slatey void, through which he was going on for ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life] Reference

It was of a dull, slatey colour, and belonged to the silkworm family of.    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Banks of the Amazon] Reference

This entry-level wine for the Valckenberg brand smells slatey and citrusy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Breaking News from thetimes-tribune.com] Reference

Billy Louise laughed a little, leaned, and grabbed a handful of slatey mane.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ranch at the Wolverine] Reference

He produced a white envelope and drew from it a folded square of slatey-blue paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Streak] Reference

No stones worth mentioning all the way; the river runs on a bed of soft slatey rock.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Work's Journey from Fort Vancouver to Umpqua River, and Return, in 1834] Reference

A slatey blue-gray color, maybe? nccata on February 19th 2010 at 8: 42pm view nccata's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference

Here again the upheaved slatey rock appeared, with the same dip and direction as in the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 1] Reference

Further south, at Arbol Gordo, it is sometimes a little magnesian and is usually much more slatey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Transactions of the American Philosophical Society] Reference

For you to support corporate paid thuggery is unconscionable, slatey, and really shows your true colors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

"As he practically admitted to me, that he had come for a letter written on slatey-blue official-looking paper.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Streak] Reference

"Why," asked Bruce boldly, "did old H.P. make such a mystery about these letters on the slatey-blue paper, Mr. Jeekes?".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Streak] Reference

After a late fall of snow he beheld it wrapped in ermine, standing above mud-coloured water, against a light slatey sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Masterpiece] Reference

Never pausing, turning only to shoot at wild random, the outlaws had tumbled -- stumbled -- slid down the slatey slope for the lake.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Freebooters of the Wilderness] Reference

The water runs in deep pools and streams over a blue slatey rock, which contains gold under the sand, in the worn holes and crevices.    From Wordnik.com.  [Angling Sketches] Reference

"Yes, a particular kind of blue -- a sort of slatey-blue -- Jeekes showed me one as a guide.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yellow Streak] Reference

150 yds wide & runs over a rocky bottom of soft slatey rock & is not very deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [John Work's Journey from Fort Vancouver to Umpqua River, and Return, in 1834] Reference

What a slimy little freak you are, slatey.    From Wordnik.com.  [Propeller Most Popular Stories] Reference

The slatey rocks suggested Ruathan country.    From Wordnik.com.  [DragonFlight]

Devonian, and that my slatey vein is cobalt.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Incomparable 29th and the "River Clyde"] Reference