Blackness

(n.) The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

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• The grim blackness of the stones told by what fate the Hall had fallen--by conflagration: but how kindled? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He stared at her, groping in a blackness through which a single arrow of light tore its blinding way. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• I tell you, he's a regular hearse for blackness and sobriety, and will drive you like a funeral, if you want. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Paul, for light enough still lingered to show the velvet blackness of his close-shorn head, and the sallow ivory of his brow) looked in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• It was the blackness the bright fire leaves when its blaze is sunk, its warmth failed, and its glow faded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Close around them loomed the impenetrable blackness of the jungle. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The lightning, darting and flashing through the blackness, showed wildly waving branches, whipping streamers and bending trunks. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The hotel where he was known to live when condemned to that region of blackness, was the stake to which he was tied. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• There was no date, but the blackness of the ink proved the writing to be comparatively recent. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• We never know how deep, how wide it is, till misery begins to unbind her clouds, and fill it with rushing blackness. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was very tall, with a dark, Spanish complexion, fine, expressive black eyes, and close-curling hair, also of a glossy blackness. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Her face, encompassed by the blackness of the receding heath, showed whitely, and with-out half-lights, like a cameo. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Filling my lungs with air, I dived beneath the surface and swam through the inky, icy blackness on and on along the submerged gallery. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Peering through the gloom, I saw the vague outline of a man, a shade blacker than the blackness of the open door. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• In another instant she was gone, and the dim light which had filled the cell faded into Cimmerian blackness. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.

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