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  • When he was entirely naked, he took a short run and dove into the coal-dark Styx, immersing himself completely.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • When he was entirely naked, he took a short run and dove into the coal-dark Styx, immersing himself completely.

    Masked Lou Anders 2010

  • He was scarcely larger than an olive-skinned elf, and had eyes that burned with coal-dark rage.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • He was scarcely larger than an olive-skinned elf, and had eyes that burned with coal-dark rage.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • He was scarcely larger than an olive-skinned elf, and had eyes that burned with coal-dark rage.

    Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009

  • It trapped tens of thousands of frightened workers and visitors in coal-dark elevators and smoke-filled offices and stairwells.

    The Hunt Begins 2008

  • He bowed low, nictitating membranes rolling up to protect his coal-dark eyes.

    The Demon Loren L. Coleman 2004

  • The camera operators were covered completely in black blankets and slid about silently like great coal-dark ghosts.

    Dead Famous Elton, Ben 2001

  • But it was his eyes that held fascination and power, coal-dark eyes in a face made interesting because it was slightly off center, the left eyebrow lifted into the domed forehead, the jutting high-bridged nose with a lumpy middle, the thin mouth so long tilted in a quizzical moue that it never changed.

    Death on the River Walk Hart, Carolyn 1999

  • Yulan was not calm; Miraj's coal-dark Captain of the Air often wore a scowl for the rules that seldom let him touch the reins of a raken anymore, but today his frown went bone deep.

    The Path of Daggers Jordan, Robert, 1948- 1998

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