76 examples of blue-black in sentences

At first I thought she wept over one of his blue-black hands, which she clung eagerly to with both her own.

Their short-cropped hair looked blue-black in contrast to the faded civilian clothes they wore.

' Lesage cowered up against the table, with his agonised eyes fixed upon the blue-black square of the door.

And the bronze of her face was golden in the flickering light, her hair blue-black, her eyes jet.

He was a man of fifty years, with a once gray beard, dyed a bright red, and with his lower eyebrows stained a livid blue-black.

Then once more they cast; and Cassiopoeia was taken, Deep-bosomed wife of the king, whom oft far-seeing Apollo Watched well-pleased from the welkin, the fairest of AEthiop women: Fairest, save only her daughter; for down to the ankle her tresses Rolled, blue-black as the night, ambrosial, joy to beholders.

The personal beauty is perhaps less than one expects, though one sees some superb dark eyes and blue-black hair; they dress with a view to the latest French fashions, and sometimes rather a distant view.

Conspicuous among them all was Giulietta, her blue-black hair recently braided and polished to a glossy radiance, and all her costume arranged to show her comely proportions to the best advantage,her great pearl ear-rings shaking as she tossed her head, and showing the flash of the emerald in the middle of them.

He could see Perris clearly, in outline, for just behind him there was a rift in the circle of trees which fenced the clearing and Red Jim was thrown into somewhat bold relief against the blue-black of the night sky far beyond.

As its intention to slough away becomes evident, the red gradually gives way to a gray, or even blue-black appearance, while from around it oozes a slight discharge of pus, yellow in colour and non-offensive, or blood-stained and dark in appearance, and foetid to the smell.

So that nowwhen she shook her head at the boya wonderful long, thick, silky lock escaped its fastenings, and the wind caught it and spun it like silk into the finest blue-black floss.

The Princess Tekau was beautiful, quite like a Spanish senorita in color and feature, her ivory skin gleaming against a pale-blue bodice, and her blue-black hair piled high.

At 9,000 feet above the level of the Mediterranean the air becomes extremely rarified, and the sky exhibits a blue-black appearance.

Now, in the high Alps you have, on clear day, a deep blue-black sky, very different indeed from the blue sky of Italy or of England; and as it is the sky which is the chief agent in lighting up the shadows, not only in those regions do we have dark shadows on account of no interveningwhat I will callmist, but because the sky itself is so little luminous.

As his eye fell upon the boy he smiled copiously, protruded a very red tongue between very white teeth, and licked huge blue-black lips.

For a moment or so she stared idly at the square window with the blue-black night behind it.

And his twisted hair was blue-black and neat and long and of a fragrant scent and tied up with strings of gold.

I am sure, however, that you will be good friends with, four kinds before snowfallthe Downy Woodpecker that you saw this morning; the beautiful golden-winged Flicker; the gay Red-headed Woodpecker, so glossy blue-black and white; and the mischievous spotted Sapsucker who visits us in autumn.

Even Mrs. Kelcey, though she had rushed into the kitchen two minutes earlier by the back door, now entered formally with Patrick, her husband, by the front, and only the high flush on her cheek and the sparkle in her blue-black eye told of a sense of her responsibilities.

The long straight rangesaw-toothed limestone save for this twenty-mile sheer upheaval of the Organstretched away to north and south against the unclouded sky, till distance turned the barren gray to blue-black, to blue, to misty haze; till the sharp, square-angled masses rounded to hillocksto a blura wavy linenothing.

Among this assembly were men and women burned to an even blue-black tintcivilised people with bleached hair and sparkling eyes.

The dark wisp of hair which rose like a cock's comb, sticking through the stained cloth which swathed his brow, was no longer blue-black, but of an iron-gray, splashed and brindled with pure white.

I managed to take down my clothing, and saw a great blue-black spot on my groin.

" Thurstane's blue-black eyes studied this enigmatic being steadily and almost angrily.

Into this he thrust the gold-pan and burned it till it was blue-black.

76 examples of  blue-black  in sentences