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Example sentences for "ebon"

Lexicographically close words:
eber; ebery; eberybody; eberyting; eble; ebonite; ebonized; ebony; ebria; ebrietas
  1. In the dying light Conan saw a black body and ebon countenance, hideous in the blue glare.

  2. Voices reached him; torches bobbed and their flare shone on glossy ebon shoulders.

  3. There were all colors--white, tawny, and ebon black.

  4. Her large eyes, blue and pensive, contrasted harmoniously with hair of ebon hue, which curled about the delicate neck, and on which the sweet jasmines died away with pleasure.

  5. My heart is a bare and empty ruin where the loathsome bats and shrieking night birds of remorse flap their ebon wings in the haunted darkness.

  6. They have clear ebon skins, not coal-black, but of an inky hue.

  7. The ebon sentinels had, directed by the barking of their canine associates, discovered, under a holly hedge on one side of the yard, a man lying upon the earth, and almost buried in the snow he seemed not to have strength to throw off.

  8. Her disdainful eyes wandered to the farther end of the portico, where Alfred Branch, in his natty suit of white grasscloth, plucked at his ebon whiskers with untanned fingers, and talked society nothings with the ever-complaisant Imogene.

  9. Hebrew youth, To ebon locks confessing, The sturdy yeomanry of Bucks In honey'd phrase addressing.

  10. The moon went down in the west towards the black line of land, and when it hung a rusty-red over the ebon shadow under which trickled the blood-like flakes of its reflection, the dawn broke.

  11. Her face had blanched to a whiteness which made the ebon lines of eyebrows and lashes seem unnatural.

  12. A man set his Wish all odds before, With sword, with pen, and with gold he stirred Till the Wish and he met on a conquered shore, And frae one to the other gaed an ebon bird, An ebon bird.

  13. They have clear ebon skins, not coal black, but of an inky hue.

  14. I have four youthful Mercuries, of ebon color, attending me, who, on the march, carry my personal weapons of defense.

  15. Or that dull red, seared with its ebon spots?

  16. The other joy; Sprung from herself: she fought the darkness well, Thinning the great cone-shadow of the earth, Paling its ebon hue with radiant showers Upon its sloping side.

  17. To triumph whilst I die, To triumph whilst thine ebon wing Enfolds my shuddering soul?

  18. Heaven's ebon vault, Studded with stars unutterably bright, 5 Through which the moon's unclouded grandeur rolls, Seems like a canopy which love had spread To curtain her sleeping world.

  19. Upon a Turkish tabouret In Dresden cups of peerless blue Gleams on a pretty Cashmere tray The fragrant Mocha's ebon hue.

  20. There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, .

  21. Radisson leading Hortense by the tips of her dainty fingers, the ebon faces of the two blackamoors grinning delight behind.

  22. An ebon head poked past the door curtain, looked about, and withdrew without detecting me.

  23. On a table were several volumes, an ebon cross was fixed in a niche, and leaning in a high- backed chair, sate Ursula Trafford.

  24. As the moon's orb is slowly lifted, the grand mountain-chain which lies beyond the head waters of the river shows clearly defined in majestic gloom and ebon shades.

  25. The rain had ceased, but the heavens were ebon black and murky.


  26. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ebon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.