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  • Parch'd by their breath, the herbage blacken'd burns.

    The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II 43 BC-18? Ovid

  • I could see the way his long, white hands looked on it, and as I touched it I could hear his voice -- Oh, Thou, who Man of baser Earth didst make, And ev'n with Paradise devise the Snake: For all the Sin wherewith the Face of Man Is blacken'd -- Man's forgiveness give -- and take!

    In The Bishop's Carriage. 1903

  • And who wouldn't see right, sure they blacken'd his eye!

    The Book of Humorous Verse Various 1902

  • Thro 'tortuous lanes of blacken'd, smoking stumps;

    Old Spookses' Pass, Malcolm's Katie, and other poems Isabella Valancy Crawford 1868

  • The hiss and crackle of flames, the blacken'd ruins, the embers of cities,

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • Hence from my shuddering sight to never more return that show of blacken'd, mutilated corpses!

    Leaves of Grass Walt Whitman 1855

  • Then on they pass'd thro 'arms and blacken'd gore,

    The Iliad 750? BC-650? BC Homer 1834

  • He heard the groaning of the oak, And donn'd at once his sable cloak, As warrior, at the battle-cry, Invests him with his panoply: Then, as the whirlwind nearer press'd He 'gan to shake his foamy crest O'er furrow'd brow and blacken'd cheek, And bade his surge in thunder speak.

    Waverley Walter Scott 1801

  • I chose the broiler sampler, six filets of Cajun, "blacken'd" and sauteed catfish over Cajun rice, served with hushpuppies ($9.99).

    Arkansas Online stories 2009

  • And thus the lively hue of whiten'd bobs Is blacken'd o'er by this curfed powder TAX,

    Sporting Magazine 1796

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