A good blue-black ink is the best for all writing.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Etiquette of To-day] Reference

Their splendid clusters, blue-black and pale green.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference

His uniform was blue-black, and he wore long boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afghanistan and the Anglo-Russian Dispute] Reference

 Between their empty limbs, the sky was blue-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nielsens (part two)] Reference

Her face was bloated and blue-black with suffocation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Doctor Jones' Picnic] Reference

Add to all this, blue-black hair in great silky masses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Valentinois 'eyes, and they shone like blue-black steel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orrain A Romance] Reference

 Above us, a slice of moon high in the blue-black night.    From Wordnik.com.  [True Romance '66] Reference

A brighter green may be formed by omitting the blue-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

Down past the shoulders flooded a mass of blue-black hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [Riders of the Silences] Reference

It's raining at two in the morning and the sky is blue-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Out On The Waves] Reference

Chardonnet Converted into a blue-black charcoal, retaining the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Researches on Cellulose 1895-1900] Reference

The sky, star-filled and blue-black, arched in unbroken splendor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Janet of the Dunes] Reference

She has translucent skin, inky blue-black hair and six missing teeth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bridging the Gap] Reference

Her eyes were so dark in her face that they looked like blue-black ink.    From Wordnik.com.  [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference

Above the steep roofs, a blue-black sky was alive with brilliant stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Daughters of Danaus] Reference

 Sharp as a tack but looks like a dolt, square-headed, blue-black skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nielsens (part one)] Reference

It was she! the girl of the blue-black hair and slender silken ankles.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Her Own Right] Reference

They wear their helmets and their blue-black overcoats, but both are wet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

And she had painted blue-black shadows around her eyes, as Egyptian women did.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Saracen: Land of the Infidel] Reference

And behind him, near the horizon, the tiny sun glowed orange out of a blue-black sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gold in the Sky] Reference

In some positions the stones, as the name implies, appear blue-black or blackish gray.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public] Reference

Her eyes -- they are blue-black, not black -- met mine, with a laugh in them, as she said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orrain A Romance] Reference

To-day, the effect of strength was further enhanced by a week's growth of blue-black beard.    From Wordnik.com.  ['Smiles' A Rose of the Cumberlands] Reference

  She was very pretty I thought, with wild, blue-black hair and little hands balled up in fists.    From Wordnik.com.  [My Date With Satan] Reference

They are deep blue-black, somewhat triangular, and similar in size and form in all the varieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Field and Garden Vegetables of America Containing Full Descriptions of Nearly Eleven Hundred Species and Varietes; With Directions for Propagation, Culture and Use.] Reference

A skeletally thin figure, hunched in what could be midmotion, stands in a darkened blue-black room.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beyond 'The Scream'] Reference

After a little she drew back; there was a lovely smile on her lips, and the blue-black eyes were sparkling.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orrain A Romance] Reference

"I'll come with pleasure," Croyden answered, thinking of the girl with the blue-black hair and slender ankles.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Her Own Right] Reference

A coarser ink will act in a similar manner, but make the water somewhat opaque, with a blue-black, or dull, ashy color.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference

It had hit its mark, I knew, for the King began to hum and haw, and Diane gave me a look from those blue-black eyes of hers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Orrain A Romance] Reference

This is also prepared in the same proportion, as in receipt No. 261, using lamp-black or blue-black, instead of Spanish brown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference

In the same circumstances tannin (gallo-tannin) produces a blue-black image; catechu-tannin (43) and quino-tannin give green, etc.    From Wordnik.com.  [Photographic Reproduction Processes] Reference

They were opposite Carrington's, and down the walk toward the gate was coming the maid of the blue-black hair, and slender ankles.    From Wordnik.com.  [In Her Own Right] Reference