But it's his hair: it's not inky-black any more, or cobalt-blue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marc Jacobs Gets Hair Transplant, Says He Isn't Married] Reference

#2: Not too bad, aside from the inky-black, badly placed writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [No, No, No! THIS is How You Resign with a Cake.] Reference

But the feature of the place was a quiet, inky-black pool that filled most of the floor.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Past Through Tomorrow]

For certain of his public appearances he wore makeup including inky-black mascara lightly brushed against his eyelashes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Close Read] Reference

It's not the stars themselves that have vanished, but rather the inky-black backdrop against which they used to be visible.    From Wordnik.com.  [Want to see better? We'd have to turn out the lights.] Reference

She wore an aquamarine shalwar kameez that was at once diaphanous and utterly modest, and had inky-black hair that streamed down her back.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreaming in French] Reference

As it was, the people on the coast looked out across the water toward Japan, and saw three inky-black clouds stretching from the sky into the sea.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of Stories for the Story-teller] Reference

Through the mask's eye-slits he watched the ceiling extend, becoming the inky-black stretched membrane of a bat's wing opening to the hot heavy sky of the Amazon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Soul] Reference

Aquaman and Manta tussle as they are wont to do, and it ends with Manta releasing some sort of inky-black cloud from a piece of equipment, temporarily blinding Aquaman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Adventure Comics #435 - Oct. 1974] Reference

It was an inky-black night, and occasionally rainy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Roughing It] Reference

The ship heaved and lurched in water now inky-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gudrid the Fair A Tale of the Discovery of America] Reference

Down the inky-black stairs we crept, scarcely breathing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Explorers of the Dawn] Reference

The rain falling from the inky-black sky was beyond torrential.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stuff.co.nz - Stuff] Reference

Madame Deberle's hair was inky-black, and her skin of a milky whiteness.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Episode] Reference

No "rose-pink or dirty-drab views of humanity" were theirs; all was inky-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sabbath in Puritan New England] Reference

A long, low-lying bank of almost inky-black clouds hung over a blood-red horizon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Anderson Crow, Detective] Reference

Howling winds blast cold rain against every exposed surface, and four-foot, inky-black w.    From Wordnik.com.  [News on Anchorage Press] Reference

She's wearing an inky-black, sheer lace evening dress, thigh-high leather boots and a dramatic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

They are readily recognized by their inky-black color, which extends throughout the whole mass.    From Wordnik.com.  [Special Report on Diseases of the Horse] Reference

Rising out of the waves in place of the usual sun will be an inky-black hole surrounded by pale streamers splayed across the sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space Business and Industry News at SpaceMart.com] Reference

She's wearing an inky-black, sheer lace evening dress, thigh-high leather boots and a dramatic Philip Treacy feather plume headpiece.    From Wordnik.com.  [Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph] Reference

In one barn Megan Glaeser, 11, Freedom, cuddled with her fat cat, Max, stroking his inky-black fur to keep him calm and competition ready.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Appleton Post-Crescent Latest Headlines] Reference

Wouverman's wharf, giving his orders in whispers, while she swung round moored tugs and night-watchmen hailed her from the ends of inky-black piers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captains Courageous] Reference

I summoned up enough courage once to ask a small inky-black urchin whether he had disobeyed his nurse very often in order to be condemned to sweep chimneys.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Days Before Yesterday] Reference

In the meantime Stanley made a short excursion up the tributary, the water of which was inky-black owing to the dark tree roots which wound about its bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Pole to Pole A Book for Young People] Reference

But just then an instinctive dread prompted her to turn round, and indeed there lay Jeanne, lowering upon them with deadly pale face and great inky-black eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Love Episode] Reference

There, very far away and very small, yet clearly visible in swarms upon the inky-black expanse of waters, a hundred, a thousand little points of light were moving.    From Wordnik.com.  [Darkness and Dawn] Reference

It is now, and has been for years, an inky-black stream or drain running between stone walls, where it does not hide its foul waters for very shame beneath an arched culvert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Vanishing England] Reference

A thousand miles into the air: there was a most awful thunder-clap, and everything grew inky-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Just So Stories] Reference

To the west a vast and inky-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West] Reference

1916: inky-black later: black.    From Wordnik.com.  [This Way to Christmas] Reference

“No. There was an inky-black shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tied Up in Tinsel]