Definitions
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- Black or dark as hell.
Examples
“In hell-black night endurd, would have buoyd up,”
“Godll pardon the hell-black raven and horrible fowls of the air,”
“There was hell-black darkness, and silence of the dead.”
“God ill pardon the hell-black raven and horrible fowls of the air,”
“This might be acceptable to a certain class of Democrats at the South, but the Democrats at the North would abhor and denounce it as a bloody and hell-black policy.”
“Social equality does not necessarily follow from civil equality, and yet for the purpose of a hell-black and damning prejudice, our papers still insist that the Civil Rights Bill is a bill to establish social equality.”
“It was the simple gratification of a hell-black spirit of revenge.”
“Resting their platforms upon the fugitive slave bill, they have boldly asked this people for political power to execute its horrible and hell-black provisions.”
“We have laid the heavy hand of the constitution upon the matchless meanness of caste, as well as upon the hell-black crime of slavery.”
“The recently-attempted assassination of James Abraham Garfield has made us all too painfully familiar with the shock and sensation produced by the hell-black crime to make any description necessary.”
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hell phrases/words
how hell is used
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hernesheir "In hell-black night endur'd," -- Shakespeare, King Lear, 1605. Dec 6, 2012