Where ebon pines a shade under the starlight wove. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley] Reference
Then raise the ebon flag! with Spring's warm breath. From Wordnik.com. [Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive] Reference
It seemed spun of minute translucent ebon corpuscles. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
There were all colors -- white, tawny, and ebon black. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
Three ebon eyes that seemed to drink in light held her own. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Triumphant]
He turned his attention to the figure in the ebon-black chair. From Wordnik.com. [The Hour of the Dragon]
Eyes encircled with ebon aurioles, olfactory quite demolished. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
They have clear ebon skins, not coal-black, but of an inky hue. From Wordnik.com. [How I Found Livingstone] Reference
The buildings across the street disappeared behind an ebon wall. From Wordnik.com. [Knight of Shadows]
It cut through the silence of the ebon pit like a whimpering arrow. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
Nightingales; and lazy ebon negroes, musical as birds, sang lilting. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
They saw the ebon sky, the black and lustrous sea, the motionless ship. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
Tlingel's delicate, ebon hoof moved to advance the Black King's Pawn to K4. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
From the ebon gloom emerged a titanic figure, robed and haloed in purest light. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
There was a storm ahead, ebon clouds building against the darker surrounding. From Wordnik.com. [The Brothers' War]
The men were ebon, the canoes vague gray, and the water like sheet ice under the moon. From Wordnik.com. [Montlivet] Reference
The quick darkness of these low latitudes had pulled an ebon blanket over the landscape. From Wordnik.com. [Operation Haystack] Reference
Locking his eyes on the horizon, a thin line where sable merged into ebon, he trudged on. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Magnificent]
The ebon shadow had vanished from above and down into the room was pouring the silvery light. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
It flowed across the hallway in that eye-wrenching way, ebon cloak hanging in denial of motion. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of Chaos]
Steadily the ebon rift expanded; spread suddenly wide open in two sharp-edged, flying wedges —. From Wordnik.com. [The Metal Monster] Reference
Even her feet were covered in ebon cloth, with the big toe separated like the thumb on a mitten. From Wordnik.com. [Conan The Magnificent]
"However, I happened to chance upon this ebon worm as he was aiming his little toy at your back.". From Wordnik.com. [The Day of the Dissonance]
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN GATES OF DOOM They lift the gory, dripping fruit Before the seething ebon cloud. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
They were tall, ebon, and skeletally built except for the huge rib cages and water-storing humps on the shoulders. From Wordnik.com. [The Day of Their Return]
Tamils of ebon blackness drive picturesque teams of humped white oxen in red waggons laden with purple sugar-cane. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE BLACK LABYRINTH Red eyes flamed as the blood-mad horde From the ebon mouth of the tunnel poured. From Wordnik.com. [Conan Of The Isles]
McGuire was still sitting there, a bright blue needle that reflected the distant sun as it moved across the ebon sky. From Wordnik.com. [A Spaceship Named McGuire] Reference
More than once he was dubbed "Po 'white!" by some haughty ebon creature from whose mouth he was supposedly taking the bread. From Wordnik.com. [The Way of the Wind] Reference
It is a mystic deity with ebon features -- so different from the lovely Child presented to us on canvas by the great masters!. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
Larry had been looking at the figure, as it shone forth in ebon and ivory in the light and shadow of the now high-careering moon. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828] Reference
No flames now in their ebon eyes — for the flickering fires were quenched in great tears, streaming down the marble white faces. From Wordnik.com. [The Moon Pool] Reference
As Martin sat before the ebon horn on Tlingel's bowed head, like an insect about to be pinned, he realized that his playing was off. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
Every moment the sky grew darker, and as gloom gathered above so it increased below, till all the sea spread out a smooth ebon mass. From Wordnik.com. [Cord and Creese] Reference
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