ebony

• The cavernous gloom which followed was filled with swishings and slappings, as the ebony-cloaked, green-belled figures charged Cash's gun was dislodged, and went clank-clanking across the pavement His raincoat tore. —  009 - The Czar of Fear
• Bridges are usually ebony, and though ebony is a very hard wood is is wood, and wood deforms from the string pressure. —  Mandolin Cafe News
• Woods such as ebony, sandalwood, cherry, brier, box, pear-tree, lancewood, and many others, are all good for the carver, but are better fitted for special purposes and small work. —  Wood-Carving Design and Workmanship
• The difficulties of execution are sensibly lessened when due attention is paid to this requirement The finger-board is of ebony, and varies a little in length according to the position of the sound-holes. —  The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators
• His hair was smoothed till it shone like ebony, and he wore the latest designs in standing collars, high on his slim neck. —  A Little Norsk; Or, Ol' Pap's Flaxen

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