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  • He could really believe that was the doomed spaceship dropping silently out of the jetblack sky towards the Europan icescape, and coming to rest beside the discoloured band of recently frozen water that had been christened the Grand Canal.

    2061 Odyssey Three Clarke, Arthur C. 1987

  • The meal was half over, but two girls immediately set a plate heaped with fried potatoes and bacon and flanked by a mighty cup of jetblack coffee on one side and a pile of yellow biscuits on the other.

    Trailin'! Max Brand 1918

  • Of a sudden the man impatiently threw down his hoe, but through the battered straw hat that bobbed up and down on the boy's head, one lock tossed on like a jetblack plume until he reached the end of his straggling row of corn.

    The Heart of the Hills John Fox 1891

  • Not long ago, that cloud had turned jetblack when Flora, his mother, entered a retirement home.

    LXer Linux News 2010

  • Laughing off my worries, he offered to send me seeds of a "stunning" jetblack opium poppy he grew in his Vermont garden.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Digg 2009

  • N.B. LOOK! skin: Hana 2 Redgrave hair::: 69:: J. LO - jetblack

    Fashion World of SL 2009

  • (jetblack seeds) to obtain resistance to loose smut, a severe fungal disease.

    13. Other Cultivated Grains 1996

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