Inky

Examples

• She was by that time perseveringly dictating to Caddy, and Caddy was fast relapsing into the inky condition in which we had found her. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In the inky east two vast clouds, sailing contrary ways, met; the lightning leapt forth, and the hoarse thunder muttered. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I would,' with a glance and a half-smile at the table, 'arrange your papers--' Mr Boffin rubbed his inky ear, and looked at his wife. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• He had been at his books when I had found myself staring at him, and I now saw that he was inky. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Very quietly I lowered myself from the inky cell above into the inky pit below. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Filling my lungs with air, I dived beneath the surface and swam through the inky, icy blackness on and on along the submerged gallery. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• They were tall, muscular, and very dark-skinned Bedouins, with inky black beards. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You recollect that first night, when I was so unpolite and inky? Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Mr Snagsby puts up at one of these inky wells and greets the stranger with his cough of general preparation for business. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I see the moon of a calm winter night, float full, clear, and cold, over the inky mass of shrubbery, and the silvered turf of my grounds. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Then we topped the crest of the mountain and below us I saw yawning the mouth of a huge circular well, the bottom of which was lost in inky blackness. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• A vivid and blinding light flashed from the whirling, inky clouds above. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.

Typist: Ollie