The room was in inky darkness, save where a small window admitted a faint gray light that indicated the outer world. From Wordnik.com. [Jacqueline of the Carrier-Pigeons] Reference
They have a disease over there called inky root consequently new plantings have largely ceased, though there are some going on. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association, Report of the Proceedings at the Fourth Annual Meeting Washington D.C. November 18 and 19, 1913] Reference
She has translucent skin, inky blue-black hair and six missing teeth. From Wordnik.com. [Bridging the Gap] Reference
The tone by this process easily turns to an inky blue not very agreeable. From Wordnik.com. [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference
Beyond, the pines stood up against the sky, full of sombreness and inky shadow. From Wordnik.com. [Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught] Reference
It's about seduction, and either you succumb to its inky entrapments or you resist. From Wordnik.com. [A Feast Of Rats, Blood And Wild Rice] Reference
But then again only a fool infers a night has to equal impenetrable inky blackness. From Wordnik.com. [Rooftop] Reference
Even whilst the children were tumbling in the snow the atmosphere became inky black. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale of Lal A Fantasy] Reference
They would have been an inky wash of colors: purple-black, yellow-blue, orange-green. From Wordnik.com. [Color Wheel] Reference
The advancing thunder-clouds had wholly hidden the moon and put the prairie in inky darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
But we saw birds, and Molly claimed to have caught a glimpse of a crocodile sunk in an inky billabong. From Wordnik.com. [The Macphersons: Week 45: Looks Like Home] Reference
The third story, behind me, cut off the neon glare from the Strip and left the place in inky darkness. From Wordnik.com. [Vigorish] Reference
But the old Doctor is a sly fox, he has seen the inky little finger, and determines to keep his eyes open. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Hit me far, far away! , but Morgan is beaten for pace and can only send it skewing into the inky London sky. From Wordnik.com. [England v Pakistan – as it happened] Reference
It emits dense clouds of inky fluid when disturbed, and is able to effect its escape under cover of this screen. From Wordnik.com. [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference
The effect was unsettling: for a few minutes I found myself swimming in the inky blackness of her dilated pupils. From Wordnik.com. [The Cat's Chair] Reference
She's crafty with words like a savant spider of letters, dancing across paper with inky booties on all eight legs. From Wordnik.com. [Ice Cold Melon] Reference
After her departure, Nattie changed her inky dress, and put on her hat to go out for something forgotten until now. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
The sea, no longer stagnant and glassy, was fretted by short inky waves, with creamy crests, that gave it altogether. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
Turns out there was more in WORTHINGTON EVANS'S assumption of "the inky cloak, good mother" than on Monday met the eye. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914] Reference
The big oaks shouldered themselves in black umbels against the horizon; pointed conifers shot up inky spires between them. From Wordnik.com. [Judith of the Cumberlands] Reference
As the sun set and the owls called all around us, and the world grew inky around the edges, we stood in the woods, waiting. From Wordnik.com. [Specters And Ghosts In 'Haunted Wisconsin'] Reference
His black hair was pushed back off his head, and a few inky strands spilled gently over brown eyes I wanted to swim through. From Wordnik.com. [The Taste in My Mouth] Reference
The clouds ballooned slowly up into the stratosphere, like an inky infusion of food coloring diffusing through a glass of water. From Wordnik.com. [Bootstraps] Reference
Half way up, the inky darkness -- for the narrow windows were few and far between, frightened Shirley and she begged to go back. From Wordnik.com. [Rainbow Hill] Reference
With an abruptness equal to that of Montfanon, he took up the volume and grumbled as he turned it over and over in his inky fingers. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Keep an eye out," advised park biologist Keith Langdon, glancing over his shoulder one recent afternoon at the inky woods behind him. From Wordnik.com. [The Search For Hidden Life] Reference
He dives into the inky depths of her large, lovely eyes — eyes as black as onyx, as black as a starless night, as black as eternity. From Wordnik.com. [The Night Bird] Reference
I wrung the water out of my blanket and groped about in the inky darkness and went into the engine room, where I stayed until morning. From Wordnik.com. [A Soldier in the Philippines] Reference
The moon was not yet up, but the stars were scintillating in the inky sky and the deep silence of the clouds and desert was about them. From Wordnik.com. [The Air Ship Boys : Or, the Quest of the Aztec Treasure] Reference
Some of his most beautiful works, inky black patterns on green, iridescent cloth and gold mesh, are enlarged and distorted printing errors. From Wordnik.com. [Beyond Shock Value] Reference
Ellenor lifted the latch, and, flinging the door wide open, she stood on the threshold and looked out into the inky blackness of the night. From Wordnik.com. [Where Deep Seas Moan] Reference
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