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Examples
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There was CCTV footage of Tomlinson stumbling along Cornhill clutching his side before he collapsed at 7.23pm, but where he was walking from, Royal Exchange Buildings, was a CCTV black-spot.
Ian Tomlinson: key evidence that police withheld from coroner, IPCC and family 2011
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That time it was a fair, or an exposition, or whatever the hell you call the gathering where the Lottery villagers eat fried beaver tails, drink beer and compare brood mares and quilts before they select the heavy stones and pass 'round the black-spot bag.
Irrational Fear? IRRATIONAL? Rogers 2007
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That time it was a fair, or an exposition, or whatever the hell you call the gathering where the Lottery villagers eat fried beaver tails, drink beer and compare brood mares and quilts before they select the heavy stones and pass 'round the black-spot bag.
Archive 2007-06-17 Rogers 2007
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Circ. 27 is now a standard fungicide for brown-rot and black-spot or scab of the peach.
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Alas, it is a well-spring, as we said, this black-spot; and will not tread down!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Consider rightly, it is the apex of the everlasting Abyss, this black-spot, looking up as water through thin ice; -- say, as the region of Nether Darkness through your thin film of Gironde Regulation and Respectability; trample it not, lest the film break, and then --!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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-- The Gironde has touched, this day, on the foul black-spot of its fair Convention Domain; has trodden on it, and yet not trodden it down.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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This is the second grand attempt by our Girondin Friends of Order, to extinguish that black-spot in their domain; and we see they have made it far blacker and wider than before!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Patriots: -- and yet behold, the black-spot will not trample down; it will only, as we say, trample blacker and wider: fools, it is no black-spot of the surface, but a well-spring of the deep!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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In addition, it was also becoming a black-spot because CCTV-5 is easily obtainable with a satellite dish anywhere in the world.
BBC Ouch! Blog BBC Sport 2011
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