Their blackness was as of a black night without a star shining through,a black cloud with never a rainbow to promise hope.

That blackness is merely a shade.

She had tried to find his youth in Anne's face; but Anne's blackness and whiteness were her mother's; her little nose was still soft and vague; you couldn't tell what she would be like in five years' time.

The strong clouds set themselves like ice, Without a star to melt, The blackness of the darkness Was darkness to be felt.