Blackened

Examples

• He had ignored the whole of the industrial sea which surged in coal-blackened tides against the grounds of the house. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The rest only had their faces blackened. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The experiment by which it was illustrated consisted in pouring the solution on chalk, which became blackened by exposure to light. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• So blackened by the flying particles of rubbish as to be unrecognisable, they ran back from the gateway into the street, crying and shrieking. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• There was a worn, blackened leather wine bottle on the wall of the sentry box, there were some newspapers and there was no telephone. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The whole party, Small included, are blackened with dust and dirt and present a fiendish appearance not relieved by the general aspect of the room. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• There was a huge fireplace in the room into which they walked, and the chimney was blackened with smoke; but no warm blaze lighted it up now. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• He took it from my hand, held it up, and surveyed the bed, all blackened and scorched, the sheets drenched, the carpet round swimming in water. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The shrine is shivered, the marble pavement round split and blackened. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The walls and ceiling were blackened with flies. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Dark as it was, it seemed to me that something more solid than either night-shadow, or branch-shadow, blackened out of the boles. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• The box may be of any required dimensions, to suit the size of the drawing, which is to be fitted into a groove at _a b_, and the interior must be blackened. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• No, don't wipe it off--for God's sake, give me your blackened hand! Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I wish I could forget the roll of the red eyes and the fearful blackened inflation of the lineaments! Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• There were some fire-blackened empty tins in the ashes under it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• I looked with timorous joy towards a stately house: I saw a blackened ruin. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The cook was there with blackened face, seated on the beautiful chintz sofa by the side of Mrs. Raggles, to whom she was administering Maraschino. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The room smelt close and unwholesome; the walls were dirt-discoloured; and the ceiling blackened. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Either in humility, or to hide his blackened hands, or because it is his natural manner of eating. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Its ponderous mass, blackened stone, and high dome, made it look, not like a temple, but a tomb. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• There were the four blackened walls, and a rusted iron ring in one of them. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

Edited by Katy