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Women brought children on their shoulders; small black boys learned on their back little brothers equally inky, and, gravely depositing them, shook hands.

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  1. Consisting of ink; containing ink; smeared or stained with ink; resembling ink; black. 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, … That can denote me truly. Shak., Hamlet, i. 2. Seing these North-easterne Seas are so frozen and impassable, I will therefore in an inkie Sea finde an easier passage for the Reader. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 435. Peter had a son, who … would needs exchange the torn and inky fustian sleeves for the blue jacket and white lapelle. Scott, Redgauntlet, ch. i. Strew'd were the streets around with milk-white reams, Flow'd all the Canongate with inky streams. Byron, English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.

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  • He had always felt so responsible for everything Inside was pleasant contrast to the inky, angular black exterior. —  F ;SF; - vol 086 issue 06 - June 1994
  • Women brought children on their shoulders; small black boys learned on their back little brothers equally inky, and, gravely depositing them, shook hands. —  Army Life in a Black Regiment
  • Caenis came to be regarded as a kind of inky-fingered duenna. —  Davis, Lindsey - The Course of Honor
  • But, if that don't convince the "Pork" mantra of the Right wing "conservatives" ... let's go ahead invade Venezuela or Iran, or some other inky-dink country and get the Republican House and the Congress to approve their 1.8 trillion dollars in warfare funding. —  Newsvine - Get Smarter Here
  • And the whole inky, shadowy theme worked for the black-hearted —  chicagotribune.com - Sports
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