ebon

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Before them a pale lord in ebon finery sat dreaming in a tangled nest of roots, a woven weirwood throne that embraced his withered limbs as a mother does a child.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Daenerys Targaryen awaited him upon the ebon bench that she had made her throne.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

He laid his hands upon my shoulders, our two heads encompassed by the mirror; my ebon frock-coat glistening anew in the candlelight.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson

She had to don her crown again and return to her ebon bench and the arms of her noble husband.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë