ebon

Example Sentences

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

From Literature

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

From Literature

“And the sedge—we’ve dyed it, you know—is it the proper gray and ebon?”

From Literature

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

From Literature

When abroad, a small crimson cap, in which was placed a single ostrich feather, reposed upon his head: its snowy plume strangely contrasting with his ebon complexion.

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