Adjective, : inky shadows. ,The solution was an inky liquid. ,inky fingers. From Dictionary.com.
In the inkiness, in the masquerade, he was a creature of the night. From Wordnik.com. [One-ClickBuy:SeptemberHarlequinBlaze]
LeConte shouted amidst the blessed inkiness of it, and I felt him tug at my hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Winged Men of Orcon A Complete Novelette] Reference
Its blackness was disconcerting, an inkiness that looked as if it could swallow you whole. From Wordnik.com. [The Elf Queen of Shannara]
Abruptly there was darkness, not the ordinary darkness of the night but absolute Stygian inkiness. From Wordnik.com. ["The Barrier" by Harl Vincent, part 1] Reference
As eyes readapted, the plain changed from inkiness to a ghostly gray, and stars trod splendidly forth. From Wordnik.com. [Three Worlds To Conquer]
The Mechanic R "A striking-looking work, combining an arty inkiness with a retro-graininess that more or less screams 1970s, albeit without the cliches and flatness.". From Wordnik.com. [On screen this week: 'Biutiful,''Barney's Version,''The Mechanic'] Reference
If he had to go there -- if he was that committed to digging deep and pulling up the perfect character to illustrate the blend of inkiness/luckiness that is Obama -- what made Felix so special?. From Wordnik.com. [David Steele: Felix the Cat] Reference
Chris followed Frad out into the half-light of the warehouse, which seemed brilliant after the stuffy inkiness of the hole, and thence into the intolerable brilliance of late-afternoon sunlight. From Wordnik.com. [Cities In Flight]
Only an occasional big staring buffalo skull relieved the inkiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Voyage of the Rattletrap] Reference
The inkiness of the night made the road visible only feet in front of me. From Wordnik.com. [QueerClick] Reference
He wants the gloom of Haxard's death to remain in unrelieved inkiness at the end. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of a Play A Novel] Reference
Meantime, Midget had thrown off her coat, and stood revealed in all her dreadful inkiness. From Wordnik.com. [Marjorie's Busy Days] Reference
Varney slid out of the seat and stood waiting in the black inkiness beside the unlighted car. From Wordnik.com. [Captivating Mary Carstairs] Reference
There wasn't quite an inkiness going on, but definite shades of violet came through in the color. From Wordnik.com. [~ Through The Walla Walla Grape Vine ™~] Reference
The light breeze blew the straying raven hair away from her temples, leaving the face clearly chiselled out of the night's inkiness. From Wordnik.com. [Nedra] Reference
The waters that lap the quays and wharves of Old Cadiz, green as jade and quiet as farm-yard pools, were darkening into inkiness toward shore. From Wordnik.com. [The Lighted Match] Reference
Through the inkiness of space ran a faint blue thread, a tiny line that stretched from the ship and away until it was lost in the darkness of the void. From Wordnik.com. [Empire] Reference
But the next week, from certain little affectations of tremendous mystery on Dolly's part, and the absence of the library copy of 'Illusion' from the morning-room during one whole afternoon, after which it reappeared in a state of preternatural inkiness, Mabel had a suspicion that her suggestion was not so disregarded as it had seemed. From Wordnik.com. [The Giant's Robe] Reference
For at the last moment nature had thought better of the fine weather which man had been enjoying for the past month, and drawn a vast curtain of inkiness over the luminaries from one horizon even unto the other, and sent a great puff of wet fog up the valley of the river from the ocean, so that teeth chattered and the ends of fingers became shriveled and bloodless. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin O'Brien] Reference
” As if this weren’t enough, the Chinese reporter sneaked a look at a colleague from The New York Times, who was writing “Her eyes are limpid pools of midnight inkiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Empress] Reference
For it is when shadows start to close off the visible world, the one we think we see and therefore think we understand, that the film speaks of Tourneur's ambient terrors and atmospheric menace, the irrational spilling out of the inkiness and insulating our generic heroes and heroines even as its dark cushion suggests the awful unknown hiding in its folds - the war. ". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
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