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1798 R. Polwhele Infl. Local Attachm. (new ed.) II. 13 Now frown'd thro' battlements a greyly-pointed roof.

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 14 A hazy light Spread greyly eastward.

1833 E. Bulwer-Lytton Godolphin I. xv. 131 Its ruins, that rose greyly..from the green woods around it.

1889 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ Crooked Path III. i. 32 The lawyer..grew greyly pale.

1907 Westm. Gaz. 3 June 2/1 Its cathedral rising solemnly, Spanishly, greyly above all else.

1941 E. Linklater Man on my Back iii. 35 I saw him again, grave and greyly thin, but hale.

1951 S. Plath Jrnl. 15 June (2000) 67 A kitchen window..overlooked..the sea, even more grayly blue and distant than ever.

1995 J. Banville Athena 149 In the wintry twilight the garden stood gaunt and greyly adroop.

1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 195 The years have gathered grayly Since I danced upon this leaze.

1955 J. Kerouac Let. 12 Oct. in Sel. Lett. 1940–56 (1995) 527 I take quick peeks in clubs to see if Charley might be there gayly drinking, grayly waiting for the years.

1969 R. Broughtoni Red as Rose xxv, in Temple Bar Nov. 429 Life..must be lived somewhere; it can be lived pleasurably nowhere. Then, why not unpleasurably, greyly, negatively, at Plas Berwyn?

1998 Sunday Tel. 25 Jan. (Mag.) 54/2 ‘Fine, fine,’ they squawk every morning like a pack of Bournemouth pensioners parading for breakfast. I turn away from them muttering greyly.