Meanings of piercing gray in English

Poluski's piercing gray eyes peered at him under the shaggy eyebrows.

The general looked up sharply from his writing-hehad a piercing gray-blueeye-andsaid:

But there was a look of cold intelligence in his small piercing gray-violet eyes.

They take it for weakness until he captures them with his piercing gray eyes.

She looks back at me through those piercing gray eyes.

Or do you? The piercing gray gaze, suddenly looking very much like Garek's, swept over her.

Under a broad brow his piercing gray eyes darted here and there, and then were quiet in study.

His voice was clear and cold, and his piercing gray eyes seemed to read into the depths of her soul.

Every time she spoke to him, every time he encountered her piercing gray eyes he felt himself to be a worse than Judas.

This was a robust young fellow, with a big round face, piercing gray eyes, fiercely up-sprouting red mustache, and a double-pointedreddish beard.