How To Use Blue-black In A Sentence
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Madonna Santissima!" baaed the woman with the blue-black hair.
A Spirit in Prison
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The blue glow dulled to blue-black, pulsing like a bruise, an open sore on the solar system.
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His hair was short and wavy, and oh, so black, a true blue-black, such as Pamela had rarely seen before.
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The village witch doctor coated Mr. Holm's burns with a blue-black paste of boiled snake, tree bark and herbs.
Looking Back On the Spy Life
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It was a pretty animal, fairly large and muscular for a cat with a silky, dark blue-black coat and violet eyes.
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The water was very smooth below us, the hard colour of some blue-black stone.
"If looks could kill, they probably will..."
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The adult plumage of penguins is blue-black or gray dorsally (back) and white ventrally (front).
Penguins
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The sky, a gloomy purple, was overlapped by stratus sheets of blue-black clouds.
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He had a powder green shirt under an emerald vest, his blue-black hair just barely touching his shoulders.
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There are still some fat, red berries among the hawthorns, though, and blackthorn bushes have their own blue-black berries known as sloes, which make delicious sloe gin.
Plantwatch: Traveller's joy and old man's beard herald Father Christmas
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The body of humpback whales is usually blue-black or black overall with irregular white coloration on the throat and sides.
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She looked down and saw that the hand on the edge of the blanket was calloused, and scarred blue-black.
THE WHITE DOVE
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They get their name not from their skin color, which tends to be olive to gray, but rather from the blue-black color of the inside of their mouth, which they display when threatened.
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I topped it off the look with a close-fitting black velvet cocktail hat that ended with a pompon of shiny blue-black cock feathers at my right temple.
Dancing with Werewolves
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They include the bananaquit, the blue-black grassquit, the blackfaced grassquit, and the St. Lucia black finch.
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The partial inclusions of hematite take the form of microscopic rosettes of thin, splendent blue-black plates (pers. observation).
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We hiked, went sledding, watched skiers shush down the sides of white on blue-black mountains.
FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
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Though some of these works are significant Samuel Palmer's Arcadian landscape bathed in a pink-and-gold sunset; Arthur Melville's nightscape of Venice, golden stone rising through a velvet blue-black sky, they form in aggregate the least interesting body of work in the show.
Medium is message at Tate Britain 'Watercolour' show
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Adult plumage is blue-black or gray dorsally and white ventrally, sometimes with distinctive coloring or plumes on the head.
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She looked down and saw that the hand on the edge of the blanket was calloused, and scarred blue-black.
THE WHITE DOVE
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The hen has the appearance of a kind of bulbul, being chestnut-hued with a white breast and a metallic blue-black crest.
A Bird Calendar for Northern India
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It is these adult shoots that produce the flowers and berries - clusters of tiny, nectar rich blossoms, followed by round, blue-black, yellow or orange fruits.
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It shifts to darkest blue-black and fades to a lighter, almost periwinkle blue.
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We will swear with oneself blue-black soul : We know efforts strive for the champion.
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There are now 500 of these large, blue-black birds with yellow beaks and feet, in the centre.
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Cultured Mussels have blue-black shells and brown hairs called byssal threads attached to their shell.
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She had wavy blue-black hair, and surprisingly royal blue eyes.
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Here the funeral procession, muted in blue-black as it is, nonetheless has the same kind of psychological and aesthetic impact.
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Which premise logically entails the fifteenth day of March and sails - a street of blue-black sails like shark.
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The sky had darkened considerably since their leaving the meadow; bands of blue-black and deep purple traced themselves across the wide expanse, tiny pinpoints of light breaking through.
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She has the same creamy coffee skin and shiny blue-black hair that gleams in the light.
SEA MUSIC
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Mukti was a tannish, goatishly good-looking man in his late thirties with thick blue-black hair that grew low on a brow contorted with furious concentration.
The Guardian World News
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It was a strange blue-black and looked like a soft, tarry gloop.
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We hiked, went sledding, watched skiers shush down the sides of white on blue-black mountains.
FROM THE TEETH OF ANGELS
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Every frame - beautifully rendered in blue-black scratchboard and watercolour, somehow stark and soothing at once - deserves a long, slow look.
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Blue they were, blue of a peculiar vibrancy, and blue were the glistening threads that ran down from blue-black circular convexities set within each of the points visible to me.
The Metal Monster
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Tawny golden was she, with golden-brown eyes, and her hair that fell to her knees was blue-black and straight, with just the curly tendrilly tendency that gives to woman's hair its charm.
THE PRINCESS
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The sky was clear and blue-black, with the layer of clouds below blocking any chance of seeing the ocean at the cruising altitude.
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Some of the most attractive contain spraylike aggregates of velvety malachite in and on lustrous blue-black azurite crystals.
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No dragons even graced the plain that night, it was dead silent, the silver moon still in the blue-black, star-studded sky.
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The birds spun like a blue-black dust devil before resettling out of sight.
Slice Of Cherry
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After washing the print is immersed in a solution containing 0.5 parts of chloride of gold for 2,000 parts of distilled water, and then fixed in a bath of sulphocyanate of potassium, which tones the image blue-black.
Photographic Reproduction Processes
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White barnacles, blue-black mussels and red seaweed can also be found as well as pink corraline algae and a band of kelp which includes oarweed and dabberlocks.
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His smooth skin was coppery, his blue-black hair a shimmering curtain around his shoulders.
Crimson Wind
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In Cyclop, a vertical canvas nearly 8 feet high, a lower section washed and scumbled in earthy pigments is topped by a configuration of wide white strokes circling a blue-black core.
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As she swooped viciously down, he lunged up and forward with a half-leap, half-forward fall, and came within an ace of striking the trailing blue-black abdomen with his reaching fangs.
Children's Literature A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes
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Tawny golden was she, with golden-brown eyes, and her hair that fell to her knees was blue-black and straight, with just the curly tendrilly tendency that gives to woman's hair its charm.
THE PRINCESS
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Over my shoulder a blue-black storm built in the east.
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There are plenty of images of horntails on the Internet, but very few, if any, of the solid blue-black types.
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My neighbor says she's having a Western-themed party, and I have visions of cacti bristling with emerald-green jimmies, cowboy hats in white or blue-black sanding sugar, boots, jalapenos, and silver stars shining with dragees.
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Did you know that great curassows - 36-inch-tall blue-black birds with yellow bills - mate for life?
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I stared at the stars, twinkling white against a blue-black night sky.
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She stood slowly, wiping her mouth with the back of her wrist, then stared out at the blue-black water and the odd beauty of the downtown skyline framed by light-pollution haze and dim stars.
Surrender the Dark
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There are still some fat, red berries among the hawthorns, though, and blackthorn bushes have their own blue-black berries known as sloes, which make delicious sloe gin.
Plantwatch: Traveller's joy and old man's beard herald Father Christmas
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The proposal uses light color and brunet collocation, be like black, bottle green , blue-black feel more easily dirty, must cooperate white to use so.
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Graham calls it blue-black, but it looks about as close to black as I've ever seen a flower.
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Mussels are covered with blue-black shells and brown hairs called byssal which are attached to their shell.
Products & Shopping
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Which premise logically entails the fifteenth day of March and sails - a street of blue-black sails like shark.
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I appear to have dyed my hair a rather frightening blue-black…
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At autopsy, the jejunum revealed multiple blue-black areas in the bowel wall and mesentery.
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The tall man with long blue-black hair leaped lightly from the deck of the riverboat… not wishing to wait on the mooring and the gangplank.
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During the absence of the moon the blue-black vault appears like a robe of imperial purple, besprent with innumerable diamonds of a lustre unknown to earth's feeble gems.
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The sun gleamed off her long, blue-black hair, as if reflecting off a pool of water.
Choker
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Dark clouds were gathering on the horizon, a grayish-purple that barely stood out against the blue-black of the night sky.
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Recent studies of blue-black grassquits and blue grosbeaks suggest that structural plumage coloration is dependent on nutritional condition and thus could reliably signal mate quality.
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In the presence of iron and water, the naturally-occurring tannins in redwood react to form a dark, blue-black iron tannate precipitate.
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A few wisps of cloud remained, but now the sky was inky blue-black, with a sparkle of stars.
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Her hair was black and straight instead of the blue-black ringlets he remembered.
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A deer being chased by a wild dog, hurtling across some large featureless plain beneath a sky the deep blue-black of ink, interspersing its run with elegant bounds, that delicate prettiness even in its death-flight.
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Mussels come with blue-black shells and brown hairs called byssal threads attached to their shell.
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I was pretty good at drawing diagrams of leaves and stuff, and I liked dropping iodine onto things that contained starch and watching them turn blue-black, but not much else.
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First there's the tui, a grackle-size bird with blue-black and purple hues, filamentous white feathers woven through its nape and a white, tufty throat pompon worn like a bow tie.
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Ophi-rean knights in gilded mail leaped their horses over mounds of corpses to slash at the solitary figure; squat Shemites with blue-black beards, and dark-faced Kothian knights ringed him on foot.
The Conan Chronicles
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He had unique eyes, large and blue-black like the early evening sky.
THE BROKEN GOD
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Using watercolor, Caramelle painted, washed off and repainted sections of blue, red, yellow and blue-black.
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His blue-black hair was sleeked back from his face, his golden eyes reflecting the blazing sparks of the fire.
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Painted in nocturnal blue-black tones, it depicts Valerio's wife stretched out in a blue bathrobe on a daybed before a window.
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The fruit of the bilberry plant is blue-black or purple and differs from the American blueberry in that the meat of the fruit is purple, rather than cream or white.
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Soluble and insoluble proteins were stained specifically in blue with naphthol blue-black and polysaccharides were stained in red with periodic acid.
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The original pigment -- say blue or blue-black ink -- is placed in the ink, to make the writing visible at first, and gradually fades, giving place to the black of the tannate which is formed.
The Silent Bullet
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Yet, in our morning conversations, we both acknowledge that my talent with a Beretta pistol or his with a blue-black machine-gun pistol are not real.
Miguel Guhlin: In Loco Parentis
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They looked out at a glittering white world, sculptured by blue-black shadows, dotted with skeletal trees.
WEEKEND FOR MURDER
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Hopeful, ablaze in tonal the beauty that revealed Moroccan ceramic tile and mosaic, sapphirine color, blue-black with light green color innovation goes a kind of unusual elegant combination.
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The thinner outer branches catch, singing the brown and green bark to blue-black ash, coiling the leaves into wilted cigars.
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The blue-black tongue, the bluer the better, bespeaks a sweeter meat; and a straight hind leg yields more meat.
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The drupes are metallic blue that later turn blue-black to black and ripen in October.
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Most impressive when in flower, the strongly fragrant golden spikes shine like beacons across the winter garden, followed by clusters of blue-black berries.
