How To Use Coal-black In A Sentence
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Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow - brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing colour, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket.
That Spot
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I didn't witness the circle of darkness, growing from the antisolar point like the mouth of a coal-black cosmic worm, gaping to swallow the world.
Free Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Quarantine 1 - Greg Egan
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 As the Shadowpact head home, the last image we see is Nightmaster, riding his coal-black steed into battle with a dragon, Sword of Night held high, laughing …  “Now THIS is the life!”
Shadowpact #22 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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Orange flames burst from the root of his right wing and billowed back toward the tail, turning into coal-black smoke.
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Orange flames burst from the root of his right wing and billowed back toward the tail, turning into coal-black smoke.
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His wavy, coal-black hair is pushed into his face by the blasts of cold wind; his eyes look wary but clearer than she's seen them.
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It was a small Labrador puppy, with coal-black fur, sitting on its hind legs and looking up at her.
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A beautiful coal-black face, strong, intense, with a thin, carefully trimmed mustache.
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_ Coal-black, shining; antennæ tawny; thorax slightly tomentose; spines of the scutellum and legs white; wings blackish grey, paler towards the hind border, veins black; halteres testaceous.
Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
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But now that he could look at her properly, he could see two coal-black eyes, glaring furiously at his own green ones.
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Now they fared over that neck somewhat east, making but slow way because the ground was so broken and rocky; and in another hour's space Sure-foot led down-hill due east to where the stony neck sank into another desolate miry heath still falling toward the east, but whose further side was walled by a rampart of crags cleft at their tops into marvellous-shapes, coal-black, ungrassed and unmossed.
The Roots of the Mountains; Wherein Is Told Somewhat of the Lives of the Men of Burgdale
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Orange flames burst from the root of his right wing and billowed back toward the tail, turning into coal-black smoke.
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After nearly half an hour, the lorry rolls out of hiding, belching charcoal-black smoke.
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A hound it was, an enormous coal-black hound, but not such a hound as mortal eyes have ever seen.
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AND, INDEED, THE Dark Ages did turn out to be extremely dark: coal-black and jet-black, pitch-black and ink-black.
Bubble in the Bathtub
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Graham, riding solitary through the redwood canyons among the hills that overlooked the ranch center, was getting acquainted with Selim, the eleven-hundred-pound, coal-black gelding which Dick had furnished him in place of the lighter Altadena.
CHAPTER XXI
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This was a small man, very pale and dark, with coal-black eyes.
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She bushed a stray lock of long, coal-black hair behind one ear and extended her right hand.
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She was so stunned that she just stared into those strange, unblinking, coal-black eyes.
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Each drawing, a veritable webbing of wispy white lines that merge, plait, and even throb across their surfaces of coal-black paper, offers a new and semiopaque supernatural vision of worlds -- of creatures, of material, of flora -- that only our imaginations can rightly access.
ArtScene: Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest
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They were wrapped in coal-black tissue paper that rustled when she touched it.
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Not a dozen feet away another Shetland, a coal-black one, was behaving as peculiarly as it was being treated.
CHAPTER XXV
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He felt his heartbeat pump overtime as a pair of coal-black eyes gazed at him with contained fury.
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His coal-black eyes once again flashed with dark, primal anger.
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Only the odd light burned, a warning to any other craft travelling the canals on the coal-black night.
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On shore, there are coal-black carvings fashioned from tree ferns for secret warrior ceremonies.
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Slowly, he pulled up his hood up so that the coal-black mark was once again hidden from view.
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It's a harrowing bit of wit, a chunk of coal-black comedy that's extremely well handled.
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The moon was almost full, so there was plenty of light to steer by, although a coal-black cat nearly crossed my path, and I had a nasty swerve trying to avoid it.
The Dark Side of Innocence
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Anderson captures the coal-black essence of the film magnificently.
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The most popular dance hall in the neighborhood was owned by Pete Williams, described as a “well-to-do, coal-black Negro, who has made an immense amount of money from the profits of his dance-house.”
A Renegade History of the United States
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So he came round to the door with the coal-black horse with eyes of fire, and off they went as fast as before, or perhaps a little faster, till they came to Dame Goody's cottage, where the squinny-eyed old fellow lifted her down and left her, thanking her civilly enough, and paying her more than she had ever been paid before for such service.
English Fairy Tales
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The next moment she passed out, and as the crowd followed to see whither she went, she was seen to spring on a coal-black horse which stood unhitched before the door, and on it she rode at wild speed away toward the north-west, while a saddled but unridden mustang followed close behind her.
Wild Bill's Last Trail
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He smoothed back his disheveled coal-black hair as he tried to catch his breath.
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He ran a hand through his coal-black hair and played with his earring.
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Only the odd light burned, a warning to any other craft travelling the canals on the coal-black night.
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He had a coal-black beard and dark eyes that twinkled merrily.
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Her eyes, her beautiful coal-black eyes, were drowning in their own tears, her raven-black hair flying behind her as she came closer and closer.
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Nicola peered into the underbrush and made out a family of weasels peering right back at her, their coal-black eyes gleaming.
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The teeth were worn down by the constant friction of the metallic brads, while they were coal-black and rotten.
FRYING-PAN ALLEY AND A GLIMPSE OF INFERNO
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Jeremiah wandered down Woodward Avenue until he reached the riverbank, then sat watching whitecaps flash and chop in the coal-black water.
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He is a turfman, with carefully brushed side-whiskers dyed coal-black, and hawk-like eyes.
Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915
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As she was buying the things she wanted, who should she see but the squinny-eyed old fellow who had taken her on the coal-black horse.
English Fairy Tales
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He had coal-black curly hair and dreamy hazel eyes that drove women wild.
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The prettiest bird was a tiny manakin, coal-black, with a red-and-orange head.
VI. Through the Highland Wilderness of Western Brazil
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He wasn't husky, nor Malemute, nor Hudson Bay; he looked like all of them and he didn't look like any of them; and on top of it all he had some of the white man's dog in him, for on one side, in the thick of the mixed yellow-brown-red-and-dirty-white that was his prevailing color, there was a spot of coal-black as big as a water-bucket.
That Spot
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Regin supposed his thick coal-black hair was nice, and his features were attractive enough.
Dreams of a Dark Warrior
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He was just ‘a youth, with coal-black hair, in the early stages of life’ when he left the world.
