Furthermore, the hue fuligin, which is darker than black, admirably erases all folds, bunchings, and gatherings so far as the eye is concerned, showing only a featureless dark.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

"The oubliette is a dirty place, and fuligin doesn't show bloodstains.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

We had penetrated the fabric of time, and the fuligin vortex marked the end of the universe.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

I was soaked to soddenness, and no longer cared whether my mantle covered my fuligin torturer's cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

Dartun had ducked in time before he heard the gentle explosion, bringing his fuligin cloak over his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2010-01-01] Reference

I did so, and though they looked a trifle surprised at my fuligin cloak, they served me without objection.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

It could be drawn tightly about the neck, and when it was worn so, my fuligin guild cloak was invisible beneath it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

There are masts beyond counting; every mast carries a thousand spars, and every spar spreads a sail of fuligin and silver.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

He had been stripped of all his finery now, and I waited to receive him wearing the fuligin mask in which I had fought him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

I looked there and saw, not our Urth, but a growing, spinning, swirling vortex of fuligin, the color that is darker than black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

I did not know what to say to her, and I was terrified that she would recoil in horror at the sight of my sword and fuligin cloak.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

Now I, looking aft toward the vanishing of Briah, thought to see such creatures again, but of silver, not fuligin as the notules were.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

She took the wax head from Master Gurloes and pretended to replace it on her shoulders, slipping it by some sleight into the fuligin cloth, then standing before us radiant and whole.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

They could not see me there, or did not, wrapped as I was in my fuligin cloak, and I was able to pretend I did not know what they were; they might have been at a party, all a little drunk.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

A crowd of a hundred or so was milling before it, and since the people pointed and elbowed one another when they caught sight of my fuligin, we retreated again to the courtyard where the destriers were tethered.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

I knew that the sword in falling would do her no harm - I would direct it to one side, tripping an ingenious mechanism that would elevate a wax head smeared with blood while the maid draped her own with a fuligin cloth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

I selected a pair of loose, dark trousers bound at the waist with a russet sash, a tunic with an open neck and large pockets, and a cloak of the true fuligin of that guild of which I am still officially a master, lined with particolored brocade.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

A startled glance from a woman carrying a dulcimer told me the mantle I had bought from Agia's brother was in disarray, permitting the fuligin of my guild cloak (which must have looked like mere empty darkness to the poor woman) to be seen through the opening, As I rearranged it and reclasped the fibula I said.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

Then higher still to the room of the glass roof, with its gray screens and strangely contorted chairs, and up a slender ladder until I stood on the slippery panes themselves, where my presence scattered blackbirds across the sky like flecks of soot and our fuligin pennon streamed and snapped from the staff over my head.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

He was happy enough to seize the opportunity to relieve himself and handed over his wide-bladed carnificial sword (which I in theory was not supposed to touch) and his fuligin cloak (which I was forbidden to wear, though I was already taller than most of the journeymen) so that from a distance it would appear that there had been no substitution.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

He's big, I know, but his size is like my fuligin clothes - it makes him look much worse than he is. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

I had talked to the sailors and learned to sail a bit myself; and so when it came feast time, I couldn't go through with it, couldn't put on fuligin. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

Like a brother of the guild, she wore a cloak of fuligin, spreading it over all that fair world as I watched, so that I recalled she had been the mother of Noctua in the tale I had once read Jonas from the brown book, that dire-wolves had frisked about her heels like puppies, and she had passed behind Hesperus and Sirus; and I wondered what made the ship fly on as it did, outracing the night, when its sails were furled and no light could urge it forward.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

I pulled up the hood of my cloak as I had once drawn up the hood of my guild cloak when I strode smiling down the Water Way to exile, and although this cloak (which I had taken from my stateroom on Tzadkiel's ship upon a morning that now seemed as remote as the first dawn of Urth) was fuligin purely by chance, I smiled once more at the realization that the Water Way stretched along this very river and the water lapping our sides must soon wash its dark curbs.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Urth of the New Sun]

"It is the fuligin of the torturers.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

You have not put on fuligin. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow of the Torturer]

"fuligin" for black, "carnifex" for torturer, "destriers", which are sort of super-horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk] Reference