Usage examples (36)

• It was fearfully swelled (in those days our coat-sleeves were made very large), and as black as ebony from the shoulder to the wrist.
• Very little of the so-called ebony is genuine, most of the ebony of commerce consisting of fine-grained hardwood, stained black.
• Shadow is described as an elf having masses of "ebony" hair all the way down to the floor, which she braids and coils about her head p.
• We were only there to exchange a shelf component - we'd grabbed "ebony" instead of "birch" - so I could appreciate the pathos of it all.