21.   It was a gray January day, with a freezing drizzle falling intermittently outside.

22.   Mary and I found that as gray day turned to urban-lit night, all pretense of order disappeared.

23.   No one sitting in the Housing Works waiting room that gray day was without a place to stay, but all were in tenuous situations.

24.   On a gray day in Northport, Ms. Van Winkle swung from humor to anger at the way she had been treated.

25.   On a gray day, a hopeful Wimbledon crowd pulled for a mammoth upset by Voltchkov.

26.   On a gray October day, they seem as earnest as a homemade plaque.

27.   One gray day Giles escapes a London downpour by ducking into a cinema showing an adaptation of an E.M. Forster novel.

28.   One gray Michigan day, I was basking in the warmth of the rich tan leather, walnut trim and glowing dash lights.

29.   One brisk gray day last spring, five clay-model cars sat on worktables in one of the studios.

30.   Outside the sliding glass doors to their back garden, a feeble sun was making no headway against the gray English day.