Liquid ozone is bluish black and solid ozone is violet-black. From Wordnik.com. [Oxygen] Reference
In the violet-black sheen of the mirror, where the sunlight crawled, was the vaguest shadow. From Wordnik.com. [In Other Worlds]
The gray eyes were violet-black in their intensity. From Wordnik.com. [Thoroughbreds] Reference
Thus treated, marks in logwood ink turn dark violet or violet-black. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
Blue-black and violet-black writing and copying inks of the class made by the "Antoines" are the principal kinds. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
'Mellish's Own Invincible Fumigatory' -- a heavy violet-black powder -- 'the result of fifteen years' scientific investigation, Sir! '. From Wordnik.com. [The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling] Reference
There were finches of a violet-black, with orange-colored breasts and heads, some blue or golden-throated grossbeaks, and birds adorned with. From Wordnik.com. [Aventures d'un jeune naturaliste. English] Reference
It had drawn back for an hour or two from the drenched valleys, even from the high peaks that stood violet-black against a space of rainy light. From Wordnik.com. [Helbeck of Bannisdale — Volume II] Reference
Ulamhala slowly and noiseless as a cat stepped to the window, and, leaning out over the marble railing, looked up into the violet-black heavens. From Wordnik.com. [A Friend of Caesar A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C.] Reference
The last bars of day had long since dimmed in the west when before them loomed the hill of Munychia clustered also with tents, and beyond it the violet-black vista of the sea. From Wordnik.com. [A Victor of Salamis] Reference
The moon hung low in the western sky; the horizon to the eastward was paling from violet-black to pearly-grey; and the stars in that quarter were beginning to lose their lustre. From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Merchantman] Reference
They are best known as the makers of the French copying ink, of a violet-black color, made from logwood, which was first put on the market in 1853 under the name of Encres Japonaise. From Wordnik.com. [Forty Centuries of Ink] Reference
It was through the transparent darkness of a cloudless April morning, a little before sunrise, that he saw again the mountains of his native land, -- far lofty sharpening sierras, towering violet-black out of the circle of an inky sea. From Wordnik.com. [Kokoro Japanese Inner Life Hints] Reference
The faint ranges of hills which bound the distant horizon take on those diminishing shades which their respective distances assign them, and stand delicately, ethereally, against the waning colours of the sunset, whilst the foreground rocks are silhouetted violet-black against the desert floor. From Wordnik.com. [Mexico Its Ancient and Modern Civilisation, History, Political Conditions, Topography, Natural Resources, Industries and General Development] Reference
Then there was a run of a few yards, a sudden stoppage, and a round, red missile was thrown with considerable force after a blackcock, which rose on whirring wings from among the heather, his violet-black plumage glistening in the autumn sun, as he skimmed over the moor, and disappeared down the side of a hollow coombe. From Wordnik.com. [Crown and Sceptre A West Country Story] Reference
Invincible Fumigatory "-- a heavy violet-black powder --" the result of fifteen years 'scientific investigation, Sir! ". From Wordnik.com. [Plain Tales from the Hills] Reference
"" black make it appear violet-black. From Wordnik.com. [Color Value] Reference
Plant strong and vigorous, with remarkably large, deep-green foliage; flowers bright lilac; the pods are straight, seven inches long, half an inch wide, streaked and spotted with purple when sufficiently grown for shelling in their green state, nankeen-yellow when fully ripe, and contain six seeds, which are nearly straight, rounded at the ends, a little flattened on the sides, three-fourths of an inch long, a fourth of an inch thick, and of a violet-black color, variegated or marbled with drab. From Wordnik.com. [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference
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