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With absolute desperation, I dug my fingernails into the ebonised woodwork and wrapped both legs about it for good measure.
Black Butterfly Mark Gatiss 2008
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The little screens are made of oak, mahogany, and ebonised wood.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 353, October 2, 1886. Various
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First, however, it will have to be blacked or ebonised.
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They had this melancholy retreat to themselves, and seated on the divan enclosing the central steam-radiator, they were staring silently at the glass cabinets mounted in ebonised wood which contained the recovered fragments of Ilium.
XXXI. Book II 1920
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They had this melancholy retreat to themselves, and seated on the divan enclosing the central steam-radiator, they were staring silently at the glass cabinets mounted in ebonised wood which contained the recovered fragments of Ilium.
The Age of Innocence 1920
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They were appropriately coloured -- the apple blushing red, the grapes an inky black, emerald green leaves were scattered here and there to lend finish, and the whole was mounted on an ebonised stand covered with black velvet, and protected from dust and dirt by a beautiful glass cover bordered with red plush.
Liza of Lambeth 1919
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And Edwin interjected vague replies, pulling the chair out of the little ebonised cubicle so that they could both sit down.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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Then Stifford directed his eyes upon a square glazed structure of ebonised wood that had been insinuated and inserted into the opposite corner of the shop, behind the ledger-window.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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They were within a foot of each other in the ebonised cubicle.
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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But at five minutes past twelve -- just before Stifford went out to his dinner -- Darius entered the ebonised cubicle, and said curtly to Edwin, who was writing there --
Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899
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