Up to this moment Julia had seen no sign of life, but as she urged The Prince forward towards the shut front door gleaming dingily green between the vivid colours of the cedars, a monstrous dog appeared from somewhere and disputed her passage with a low growl and bristling hackles.
"The Man from Jericho"
Edwin Carlile Litsey
She remained at the parsonage, dingily persistent, for several days on the pretext of initiating Ingeborg into the ways of the house; and each time Herr Dremmel, who seemed a little shy of embarking on controversy with her, mentioned trains, she burst in his presence into prayer and implored aloud on his behalf that he might never know what it was to be a widow.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
Compared with the eggs of the other Pericrocoti, they are very dingily coloured.
"The Nests and Eggs of Indian Birds, Volume 1"
Allan O. Hume