Birch trees shed parchment beneath an ink-black sky. From Wordnik.com. [Middlesex]
The ink-black ass-foal did not understand standing up. From Wordnik.com. [The Plumed Serpent] Reference
Bosch saw he was dark complexioned with ink-black hair. From Wordnik.com. [The Black Ice]
It lies in field: ink-black in color, size of kerchief. From Wordnik.com. [Venom] Reference
Trips to the ink-black bathrooms were dodgy and slippery. From Wordnik.com. [The Night the Lights Went Out in N.O.] Reference
Night had mixed with fog and settled ink-black around her. From Wordnik.com. [Firestorm]
The ink-black waters soak me up and I begin to write myself. From Wordnik.com. [Infinity Pool] Reference
The sky above was ink-black and stuttering with bright blue lightning. From Wordnik.com. [Reap the Whirlwind] Reference
He stood motionless, regarding us; in the ink-black eyes a red flame of hatred. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Write it down while it is strong, strong as the ink-black espresso that fills half. From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
His slicked-back hair is still ink-black, and his glasses are still as big as saucers. From Wordnik.com. [Turning The Page] Reference
He stayed to the ink-black shadows and never exposed himself to fire from darker areas. From Wordnik.com. [Hardcase]
The ink-black nighttime photography is especially acute in sustaining the film's eerie tone. From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Cannes. Paranoid Park.] Reference
Other than the red archway with its ink-black cavern behind it, there was nothing to be seen. From Wordnik.com. [Blue System]
A flood of moonlight burst through the clouds, and his trembling shadow danced ink-black before him. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Frank strode toward the car, his ink-black shadow sliding over the copper bodies of the reclining men. From Wordnik.com. [Kahawa]
This was a bit of a steep broken hill that overlooked upon the west a moorish valley, full of ink-black pools. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
He was handsome, with a full head of ink-black hair and cold brown eyes—as cold as the dark side of the moon. From Wordnik.com. [This Family of Mine] Reference
Now, in the grave-silent, ink-black darkness where even the deepest shadows would shine brightly, the child thought. From Wordnik.com. [Time Was]
Upon meeting Mr. Lewis, what you notice first are his ink-black gunslinger eyes that seem to be waiting on you to draw. From Wordnik.com. [Killer Poised to Strike Again] Reference
The moon had risen higher now, nearing its midnight zenith, and it looked firmer, more permanent, in the ink-black sky. From Wordnik.com. [The Pull of the Moon]
He was a colorful, chain-smoking character with wild eyes and ink-black hair that hung over his eyes like a sheepdog's. From Wordnik.com. [Terra Incognita]
You might recall that my humor baselines at % 91 percent dark, and post-Katrina has taken a turn towards the wickedly ink-black. From Wordnik.com. [Less Funny Awful, More Funny Ha-Ha] Reference
As they lifted off and disappeared back into the ink-black sky, not a single member of military outpost 243 had been left alive. From Wordnik.com. [Foreign Influence] Reference
IN THE SMALL ALCOVE just inside the crummy front door was a crimson velvet rope and behind it, an ink-black stairwell leading down. From Wordnik.com. [The Quickie]
Of days when the sky turned ink-black at noon, and times when parents gave up their children because they feared they would starve. From Wordnik.com. [A Conversation with Timothy Egan about The Worst Hard Time] Reference
Some hours later, Holmes woke up his sleeping companion and pointed up at the ink-black sky, dotted with hundreds of luminous stars. From Wordnik.com. [Dennis Palumbo: Holmes and Watson in the Great Outdoors] Reference
Darkness didn't bother Nate, of course, but it startled me to step into the ink-black ballroom, switch on the lights, and -- whoops!. From Wordnik.com. [Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine]
Patsy looked more Pictish than ever thus, with a loose blown tassel of ink-black hair on her brow. From Wordnik.com. [Patsy] Reference
Our faces, arms, and legs were a mass of ink-black marks left by the stings of those vicious brutes. From Wordnik.com. [Across Unknown South America] Reference
His face, with its ink-black moustache, is blown up to the size of a wall in a mobile phone shop in Ramadi. From Wordnik.com. [NPR Topics: News]
You an 'me will have it out right here an' now -- I don't want no cougar trailing me through that ink-black canyon on. From Wordnik.com. [Bar-20 Days] Reference
He acknowledged that it was not pleasant thus to be left alone on a sinking hulk, particularly on an ink-black night. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Trail] Reference
One gets along contentedly enough, except in the bad hours, when, instead of being a mild grey, the world is ink-black. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Betty Across the Water] Reference
Calling revolves around something known as "The Black Page," an ink-black Web site that has a constantly updated hit counter. From Wordnik.com. [GameSpot's News, Screenshots, Movies, Reviews, Previews, Downloads, and Features] Reference
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