Oh, Randal's hair was coal-black when he gaed awa '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference

That it turned all the feathers coal-black on his breast.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

I would be her Prince Charming, with my coal-black horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tory Maid] Reference

Then arose my advocate, with pale face and coal-black eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance Of Giovanni Calvotti From Coals Of Fire And Other Stories, Volume II. (of III.)] Reference

But there comes a coal-black rider upon a coal-black horse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference

Ruiz, the coal-black cook, served a good supper at sundown.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tom Swift and His Giant Telescope] Reference

Icy, coal-black water began pouring down my throat and ears.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Shadow] Reference

It's an uncommonly odd thing; coal-black hair and a red beard! '.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Carpenters of Freiberg A Tale of the Thirty Years' War] Reference

The trooper, a coal-black African, had picked up a great deal of.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference

They were coal-black, and had horns on their heads and long tails behind.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day] Reference

Tuoni, and journeyed on and on until at length he came to the coal-black river.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

Close behind him was a chariot of ebony drawn by two plunging, coal-black horses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

A rosy look came over her face, and her coal-black eyes flashed with hidden fires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference

He is a turfman, with carefully brushed side-whiskers dyed coal-black, and hawk-like eyes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference

So the six months passed happily away, and then Hermes came with his coal-black horses to take.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

They are perfectly matched -- coal-black all over, except their little noses, and are quite small.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference

Meanwhile Lemminkainen's mother had raked a long time in the coal-black river, but could find nothing.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finnish Legends for English Children] Reference

Where, except in Italy, do you ever see such fine black eyes, and such a splendid head of coal-black hair?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 6, June, 1862 Devoted To Literature and National Policy] Reference

"The coal-black eye, that mocks the coal-black veil?" that pleasant lightning which warms, but scathes not.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833] Reference

A coal-black face peeped out, which, in a cracked, broken voice, I addressed, asking the privilege to dismount.    From Wordnik.com.  [Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America] Reference

The complexion of a murderer in a band-box; consisting of a large piece of burnt cork, and a coal-black peruke.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tatler, Volume 1, 1899] Reference

Then Hermes left Persephone, and the coal-black horses drew the chariot away again to the dark home of King Hades.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference

A wealth of coal-black hair shaded his massive forehead and a long but neatly trimmed beard set off his handsome face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference

The third was a chariot of ebony drawn by two prancing coal-black horses whose leathers and housings shone and jingled.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference

His coal-black hair, streaked with gray and hanging loose over his shoulders, looked as if it had not been combed for days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference

The thatch of coal-black hair was only moderately streaked with gray, and it streamed in profuse ringlets to his shoulders.    From Wordnik.com.  [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference

And with the gas-light lighting up red-robes, jewels, coal-black tresses and a smile all cruel, she was about to leave him.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference

On closer examinations he found that each of these nodules contained a few granules of the coal-black melanin of malarial fever.    From Wordnik.com.  [Insects and Diseases A Popular Account of the Way in Which Insects may Spread or Cause some of our Common Diseases] Reference

The brilliancy leaves the coal-black eyes, and they become as lifeless and limp as a professional politician at a prayer meeting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Campaign Pictures of the War in South Africa (1899-1900) Letters from the Front] Reference

He traced the course of the veins, ran his coal-black finger along each wrinkle of the palm, and all the time muttered to himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Uncle Jeremiah and Family at the Great Fair Their Observations and Triumphs] Reference

The Hadj sighed deeply, and paused while fresh tea was brought by a coal-black woman slave, whose colour was accentuated by the scarlet.    From Wordnik.com.  [Morocco] Reference

And really -- with his fine features, his tall stature, his dark eyes, and coal-black hair and beard -- he was an exceedingly handsome man.    From Wordnik.com.  [A True Friend A Novel] Reference

It was not the face of the old lady which I had feared to see, but that of a man with a coal-black beard, which seemed very familiar to me.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Queen's Error] Reference