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Ebony
"Ebony" in a Sentence (18 examples)
His locks were as black as ebony and fell upon his neck which the sun had tanned; but one might have imagined that it was the shadow of his hair that thus darkened the colour of his skin.
The moon was low upon the right, and the jagged pinnacle of a granite tor stood up against the lower curve of its silver disc. There, outlined as black as an ebony statue on that shining background, I saw the figure of a man upon the tor.
Her eyes were as black as ebony and as deep as the sea.
The organ of this cathedral is made of ebony, except the pipes of course.
The cat's fur shimmered with a deep ebony hue.
Victorian hosts entertained in a gloomy drawing room crowded with elaborately patterned wooden chairs, thick carpets, massive mirrors rimmed with gold, sparkling silver cutlery and polished ebony tables.
The unicorn's horn is ebony.
King Solomon made himself a palanquin out of wood from Lebanon. He made the columns of silver, the canopy of gold, the seat of purple. The back is inlaid ebony.
“You live up the road past the ebony tree, right?” he asked, looking past me.
Near-synonyms: onyx, raven
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At dawn the hunters were off. There were fifty sleek, black warriors, and in their midst, lithe and active as a young forest god, strode Tarzan of the Apes, his brown skin contrasting oddly with the ebony of his companions. Except for color he was one of them.
Ebony and ivory / Live together in perfect harmony / Side by side on my piano keyboard / Oh lord, why don't we?
Tony had gone into the storage room and gotten two more standing lamps, one placed near the ebonies and ivories.
Near-synonyms: onyx, raven
Seats are trimmed in a grey and blue moquette and tables are finished with grey Vyanide tops, gilt edging and ebony legs.
He called the ebony mistress of the establishment to him, and speaking to her kindly and winningly, as any dutiful husband should, told her to make the change, which she did.
No attempt was made in her new home to discontinue or even to conceal the presence of an ebony mistress and a thriving family of little mulattoes...
Want to watch my gorgeous ebony friend, Almond Joy, naked and online 24/7? She recently ended a long-term relationship and is now fully enjoying being a 25 year-old single gal in Beverly Hills.
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