Blacked
[blækt]
Definition
(imp. & p. p.) of Black
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Examples
- Tom, a ridin' round de country--boots blacked--pass in his pocket--all grand as Cuffee--but who he? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- The governor, said I, has not yet _blacked_ them enough. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Again his lordship passed us, and again Lambton growled at him, with his eyes fixed on his own well-blacked shoes. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- He paused a moment before Dolph; then spitting a discharge of tobacco-juice on his well-blacked boots, and giving a contemptuous umph, he walked on. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- All the advertisements were blacked out, supposedly to prevent communication in that way with the enemy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- This one blacked his shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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