Blue Black

A close-fitting blouse of moose - skin, fantastically beaded, outlined faithfully the well-rounded lines of her body, while a silken kerchief, gay of color and picturesquely draped, partly covered great masses of blue-black hair. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The sun gleamed off her long, blue-black hair, as if reflecting off a pool of water. ❋ Elizabeth Woods (2011)

The village witch doctor coated Mr. Holm's burns with a blue-black paste of boiled snake, tree bark and herbs. ❋ Charles McCarry (2011)

Peter was lean and tall with the thick blue-black hair that was typical of most Martians tied back behind his head. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Her eyes were cold black beads in her pale face, and the wings detached from long spidery arms and trailed in the dust like a blue-black cloak. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The birds spun like a blue-black dust devil before resettling out of sight. ❋ Dia Reeves (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Great blue-black clouds rolled in from the west and just at dusk I saw one raven slide into the lower level of the chimney. ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

His wings spread out, a gloriously iridescent blue-black, and a moment later we were soaring out of the cave, up and up into the night sky. ❋ Kristine Douglas (2011)

He always enjoyed the feel of her rough, blue-black skin even as it was encrusted with barnacles. ❋ Unknown (2009)

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. ❋ L. A. Banks (2011)

He slicked his hair back in the way that men with blue-black hair often did. ❋ Susan Gibb (2011)

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. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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 (2010)

The water was very smooth below us, the hard colour of some blue-black stone. ❋ Greygirlbeast (2009)

Great antlers swept up—wicked, glittering, and crystal pale—bursting from his brow and tangled in the blue-black of his hair. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)