Inkily

By the time the novel opens in 1885, the family fortune has disappeared, and all that remains is the family pride and the family traits—a thin parrot nose, sunken cheeks, and “inkily shadowed eyes.” ❋ Unknown (2009)

Happy to be here once more, Sara leaned back against the rock, which felt warm, kindly, and familiar; then, removing her sun-bonnet, fanned her flushed face, and looked dreamily away to the pale opaline horizon, against which some sails showed inkily, like silhouettes. ❋ Fannie E. Newberry (N/A)

Beyond it, in the enemy's country, the veldt too was silvered over with moonlight and was blotted inkily with shadow from the kopjes. ❋ G. W. Steevens (N/A)

Where there were application-blanks to be filled in she would pore inkily over them and, after a while, slyly crunch hers up in her hand and steal out. ❋ Fannie Hurst (1928)

Then, in a palpably conscientious effort to be kind as well as just, she began to prattle inkily again about the pleasant, warm, sunny weather. ❋ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1915)

It was inky black in there; so inkily black he never suspected that the recess held another tenant. ❋ Unknown (1910)

His French waistcoats develop an unexpected garishness on being displayed away from their native habitat and the writing outfit which he picked up in Vienna turns out to be faulty and treacherous and inkily tearful. ❋ Unknown (1910)

The sky shaded down at the sea level to the white of opals; the sea itself, insolently, inkily blue, drew all about them the uncompromising wheel of the horizon. ❋ Lloyd Osbourne (1907)

His latest work, Brilliant Corners, features a plain stage, inkily lit by himself, with 10 dancers in khaki-hued casuals, possibly their own as no costume designer is credited. ❋ Sarah Frater (2011)