The two cubes fused in a single, silvery grey oblong.

You could not expect a delicately-nurtured girl, accustomed to all the comforts of a home, to be bright and sunny with a platoon of rats crawling all over her. . . . The grey oblong that was the doorway suddenly darkened.

Felix's finger beat Miriam's to the gray oblong with the red dot in its center.

It formed a dim gray oblong, the result of a trifling glow reflected from the wall of the opposite building.

The light clicked off and a burly figure bulked momentarily against the grey oblong of the doorway.

He placed a gray oblong on the table; a red light blinked at one end.

Kai watched as Tor's rod placed on his chest a small gray oblong, its grill toward his mouth.

It was a gray oblong, featureless except for the airlock blister and four windows.