Biography, Michael Shelden expended effort in blackening the character of.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orwell still revered figure: Book proves love of author thrives] Reference

Finally, the vampire can wait no longer, skin blackening and sloughing off his arms.    From Wordnik.com.  [Strangeways – Behind the Scenes – 04 | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment] Reference

Yet one can go too far in blackening the name of a man who did such an excellent job of blackening it on his own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Usurper: the dark shadow of Victoriano Huerta (1845–1916)] Reference

• Check all lights for any signs of damage, fraying or "blackening" to the socket.    From Wordnik.com.  [LAFD News & Information] Reference

In blackening heaps screened Morvem's distant shore.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 370, May 16, 1829] Reference

Any sulphide causes a blackening of the lead acetate paper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handbook of Soap Manufacture] Reference

All those electronics, crisping and curling and blackening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference

Therefore not every blackening of a good name is backbiting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

It was a cloud which encompassed them, suddenly blackening down.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pool in the Desert] Reference

I beheld that final struggle of the blackening form -- and I fainted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858] Reference

So the stranger, shaving the hair from his head and blackening his face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and Kabbala] Reference

Now backbiting by its very nature aims at blackening a man's good name.    From Wordnik.com.  [Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province] Reference

Ihjel broke into a blue nimbus of crackling flame, his skin blackening, charred.    From Wordnik.com.  [Planet of the Damned] Reference

This wound Kazem had given him was a blackening of perspective as well as the eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corpus of a Siam Mosquito] Reference

On being dug up it was found that the potato was rapidly blackening and melting away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Reminiscences of an Irish Land Agent] Reference

Here is a physiological trouble that causes blackening of the young nuts on the inside.    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

No painting of the body is resorted to other than the blackening of the lips with soot.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir] Reference

In the first place, the elector may vote by blackening the spot at the head of the list.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

And hence the universal exercise of the blackening art on the men rather than the women.    From Wordnik.com.  [Samoa, A Hundred Years Ago And Long Before] Reference

Arrived there, she offered sacrifice, and left the dying embers blackening the sacred altar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

Pictures like this as sharply defined are frequent and throw in shadowed blackening on shadow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Freedom, Truth and Beauty] Reference

He could see the blackening circle spreading in the ceiling and flames licking around its edges.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

The immediate result to the fair driver was a sprained ankle, contused face, and fast blackening eye.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bluebell A Novel] Reference

For miles over the vastness of the desert they rushed in swarms, blackening the earth, eclipsing the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Way of the Wind] Reference

Mass., has made a steel covered projectile which he prevents from rusting by blackening by a niter process.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 821, September 26, 1891] Reference

Sergeant gently rubbed an already blackening eye, while the woman was engaged in drawing her sleeve across her mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Red-Tape and Pigeon-Hole Generals As Seen From the Ranks During a Campaign in the Army of the Potomac] Reference

In speculation they hold horrible theories, blackening the day; yet they trust the good which their lips unwittingly deny.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864] Reference

Its destructive action on artists 'pigments, e.g., the blackening of vermilion, was recorded 2,000 years ago by Vitruvius.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 810, July 11, 1891] Reference

I haven't the least intention of blackening myself in the eyes of the woman I love for the sake of Tim -- or of twenty Tims.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hermit of Far End] Reference

He wrote a poem in which he endeavored to clear the murderer by blackening Giulio's character and concealing the motive for the crime.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference

Secondly, the elector may vote by blackening the white spot against the name of one of the "effective" candidates on one of the lists.    From Wordnik.com.  [Proportional Representation A Study in Methods of Election] Reference

Long rows of stakes and lines were erected, and upon these the buffalo meat was hung in strips, and was fast blackening in the hot sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography] Reference

These shadow pictures Dr. Morton carefully distinguished from the ordinary blackening effects on the film produced by electrified objects.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896] Reference

Even when the weapon is fired quite close there may be no blackening of the skin, and the hand is not always blackened in cases of suicide.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aids to Forensic Medicine and Toxicology] Reference