The children I saw every day in the streets, following organs, blackening boots, selling flowers, sweeping walks, or carrying ponderous harps for old ruffians.
Its coming silenced them and for a space they watched the headlands of the solemn landscape blackening against the sky, and the river breaking into silvery disquiet.
Finally all sides showed the moving mass, blackening the plateau, lining the water's edge in an endless undulation of backs and heads, foaming down the faces of the sand slopes.
Consequently the layer of ink on the slab or pad on which the finger is pressed for the purpose of blackening it, must be very thin.
An ideally perfect material for blackening would lie loosely on the slab like dust, it would cling very lightly to the finger, but adhere firmly to the paper.
The most desirable blackening of the fingers corresponds to a snowfall which covers all the higher passes, but descends no lower.
A cake of blacklead (plumbago), such as is sold for blackening grates, when rubbed on paper leaves a powdery surface that readily blackens the fingers, and shows the ridges distinctly.
Custom has laid the foundation of wrong, the law protects it, and a free government tolerates a law that shields iniquities blackening earth.
He never made man after his own image to imprecate the wrath of heaven by blackening earth with his foul deeds.
This is an operation in which you cannot help blackening your fingers.
It produces much the same appearance of wreck and ruin as blackening the teeth does in Japan, and makes a smile a thing to be dreaded.
If he had wished to disguise himself by blackening one side of his face, would he not have presented a similar appearance?
I doubt much whether the custom of blackening the teeth was originally suggested, as Gomara supposed, by absurd notions of beauty, or was practised with the view of preventing the toothache.
The early historians of the conquest state that the blackening of the teeth was effected by the leaves of a tree which the natives called hay, and which resembled the myrtle.
The habit of blackening the teeth, from the age of fifteen, by the juices of certain herbs* and caustic lime, attracted the attention of the earliest travellers; but the practice has now fallen quite into disuse.
If, however, sulphur preparations are given by the mouth, there is then blackening of the stomach, and there may also be ulcers.
In small quantities it is always present in the air of towns, as shown by the blackening of any silver ornament not kept bright by frequent use.
And for the helping of her will, that she the light may leave, She seeth, when mid the frankincense her offering she would lay, The holy waterblackening there, O horrible to say!
There is a thicket on my height wherein men worship me, Dim with the blackening of the firs and trunks of maple-tree: These to the Dardan youth in need of ship-host grudged I nought, But in my anxious soul as now is born a troubling thought.
And here is Elinor blackening her reputation with the pig settlers to whom she must look for a living, making reconciliation impossible!
The flames roared high and fiercely, blackening the prison wall, and twining up its lofty front like burning serpents.
In the silvery mist which enveloped the island, Jack saw confusedly lines of great poplars and tall chimneys, whence issued a thick filthy smoke, spreading over all, blackening even the sky above it.
He had happily provided himself with letters of recommendation from a number of leading men in the isle of Teneriffe to whom he had done services, and in return for blackening their suits they did their best to whiten his character.
The huge south polar cap of hoarfrost melting, blackening the soil with brief moisture, while the frost line retreated toward the highlands.
First there was the dizzying, mind-blackening centrifuge test, to see if you could take enough Gs of acceleration, and still be alert enough to fit a simple block puzzle together.
My point is this: don't you write any lies to your friends thinking that you're going to whiten yourself by blackening Karen.
Above their heads floated myriads of the insects in a great blackening mass.
Petrus could already see a blackening cloud in the distance overcasting the sky.
The flames roared high and fiercely, blackening the prison-wall, and twining up its loftly front like burning serpents.
The glare of the flames had sunk into a fitful, flashing light; and the gentle stars, invisible till now, looked down upon the blackening heap.
Half-way betwixt the house and the beach, they saw the bodies of Nanty Ewart and Cristal Nixon blackening in the sun.
The fine powder of this metal is as intimately mixed as possible with the moistened gall-mass into a paste, which is preserved in a damp place, by which it acquires the blackening property.
By way of personal adornment, few practices are of more ancient origin than that of painting the face, dyeing the hair, and blackening the eyebrows and eyelashes.
Cold, dead, and blackening mid the gloom Of those eternal sepulchres.
I feel forced to set to work again in blackening score-sheets--and first of all the "Christus Oratorio" shall be proceeded with.
However, I have not been altogether idle, and during the last weeks have been busy blackening some sheets of music paper which you shall see in print and hear me play.
They succeeded in blackening for all time the fame of a far better man than Henry Tudor.
Beyond the trees and pagodas that fringed the top of the titanic wall, I saw outlined against the blackening sky the lofty white peak of the “Lord of Heaven” tower, in the O Shira, or innermost castle.
It was my earnest desire that my bride should come to the wedding without the customary shaving of eyebrows and blackening of teeth.
Gusts of rain began to dash upon us out of the blackening sky.
