lamp-black

Of a different black were his teeeth, which were deep black, or, perhaps better, lamp-black.

MAUKI 2010

It was Catnach who first availed himself of greater mechanical skill and a larger capital than had previously been employed in that department of the trade, to substitute for execrable tea paper blotched with lamp-black and oil, tolerably white paper and real printer's ink.

James Catnach, Ballad-monger, Part 1 Steve 2009

Henna stains white hair orange red; and the Persians apply after it a paste of indigo leaves, the result is successively leek-green, emerald-green, bottle-green and lastly lamp-black.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

“Khizáb” a paste of quicklime and lamp-black kneaded with linseed oil which turns the Henna to a dark olive.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Now he had six slave-girls, like moons one and all; the first white, the second brown, the third fat, the fourth lean, the fifth yellow and the sixth lamp-black; and all six were comely of countenance and perfect in accomplishments and skilled in the arts of singing and playing upon musical-instruments.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

If he walked the streets with downcast eyes, he would recoil from the very stones of the pavement, made eloquent by lamp-black lithograph.

Reprinted Pieces 2007

These ruled barriers along which the traced words, run, march, halt, walk, stumble at doubtful points, stumble up again in comparative safety seem to have been drawn first of all in a pretty checker with lamp-black and blackthorn.

Finnegans Wake 2006

These rocks have a singular appearance, from being dislocated and twisted in every direction, and covered with a thin black glaze, as if highly polished and coated with lamp-black varnish.

A Popular Account of Dr. Livingstone's Expedition to the Zambesi and Its Tributaries 2004

Their bodies, unlike those of Egyptian children, were slim15 and straight, but their ribs stood out with curious distinctness; the colour of the skin was that oily lamp-black seen upon the face of a European sweep; and the elf-locks, thatching the cocoa-nut heads, had been stained by the sun, wind, and rain to that reddish-brown hue which Hindu romances have appropriated to their Rakshasas or demons.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

Hindus called it Anjan, and formed it by applying lamp-black, made of a certain root, and mixed with oil to the palm of a footling child, male or female.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003