Lampblack

To a tea cup of molasses stir in lampblack until it is black, then add the white of two eggs, well beaten, and to this add a pint of vinegar or whiskey, and put it in a bottle for use. ❋ Unknown (1865)

However, he doesn't mention the effort to press premium audiophile LPs out of clear vinyl without the addition of the lampblack, which is said to result in the same enhancement of the sonics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

That in starting the fire it did not smoke and cover the tire with carbon or "lampblack," which is a non-conductor of heat. ❋ Various (N/A)

In 1834, a beauty book from the period stated that some people used, "lampblack," commonly known as soot. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Anodynes of theft and memory's feeding tongues all neatly razored at the root defy our lampblack salt. ❋ Matt Dennison (2012)

On the night of Dec. 16, 1773, dozens of men wrapped themselves in blankets and covered their faces in lampblack and soot. ❋ Benjamin L. Carp (2010)

One of the tricks whalers used when they became icebound was to mix lampblack with oil and paint a path out of the ice with it. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Egyptian kohl and sometimes ordinary soot or lampblack was used in eye makeup. ❋ Riku Campo (2010)

The oil lamps had recent lampblack, so the boy spent a lot of time here. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Like the first, his arms were bare, and he had a mask of ink or lampblack. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The wax was formerly made with resin and lampblack, and cost four livres the pound. ❋ Unknown (2008)

THE silent black disk that makes noises when needled is chiefly shellac, lampblack and limestone. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Scott's mechanism was simplicity itself: A recording horn funneled vocal sound waves to a diaphragm (think of a kazoo) connected to a vibrating bristle stylus, which left the visible pattern of the sound waves along the surface of a revolving paper cylinder coated with lampblack. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Novamont of Italy makes a bioplastic called Mater-Bi from corn, wheat and potato starch that went into cups at the Turin Olympics and replaces lampblack and silica in Goodyear's BioTred tires, giving them (Novamont claims) better grip and fuel efficiency with less noise. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Worn out by all his troubles, Ascyltos commenced to nod, and the maid, whom he had slighted, and of course insulted, smeared lampblack all over his face, and painted his lips and shoulders with vermillion, while he drowsed. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The widow mourned her husband in the most becoming bombazeen she could muster, and had at least half an inch of lampblack round the immense visiting tickets which she left at the houses of the nobility and gentry her friends. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Even a “self-contained, intelligent” child might well panic at being snatched from her bed by a strange woman with lampblack smeared on her face and carried off a second time into the night. ❋ King, Laurie R. (2006)

In the dark of night the magistrate secretly had his servants smear lampblack on the bell. ❋ Jeannette L. Faurot (1995)

Mr Seracini said Da Vinci created the under-drawing as an underpainting because he used a brush and a mixture of lampblack and watery glue. ❋ Unknown (2005)

He carried them to his room, rubbed his thumb in the lampblack on the gas-fixture, and smeared the magazine covers, then cut the leaves and ruffled the margins to make the magazines look dog-eared with much reading; not because he wanted to appear to have read them, but because he felt that Istra would not permit him to buy things just for her. ❋ Unknown (2004)

[That shit] was [so funny] I [went] lampblack. ❋ (2020)