The New York streets were at their worst--sloppy, slippery, and sodden; the sky lowering over those murky streets one uniform pall of inky gloom.
My friends, he was masked like a Venetian bravo, and wore a romantic inky cloak, like a Roman toga, that swept the floor.
But no sound came forth: the tumult of wind, and sea, and rain had the inky night all to themselves.
Through the inkydarkness the rays from the street-lamp sent long lines of light and shade across the pavement.
Not a breath of air moved, not a leaf rustled; but from the inky pall of deepest gloom overhead, short, fitful flashes of lightning at intervals blazed.
He sees one of the figures raise his arms; and presently there comes floating across the inky water: "Halloo, there!
Altogether, what with the uncertainty of their position, the inky darkness, and the ominous roar of the breakers all round them, it was a very anxious time for everybody on board the Flying Cloud.
It was not his custom to be abroad in the daylight, for beavers as a rule love the dark and do most of their work in inky darkness, but the two-year-old felt restless.
They went in the inky night, before the moon had risen.
The floor above closed silently over her head, and she found herself alone with the inky man in almost total darkness.
The reflection of the clouds will turn its blue to a dark indigo tint, and even to inky blackness.
When we came down that five-mile reach by daylight, we saw and realized all the beauties which had been hidden from us under the inky cloak of night during the toiling ascent.
The inkylittle girl, so earnestly explaining why she was inky, was a funny sight, indeed.
She laughed until the tears ran down her own cheeks, for Marjorie was really crying now, and her little handkerchief only served to spread the inky area around her features.
She straightened herself up, with a bewildered air, aghast at the state of things, and as her curls tumbled over her forehead, she brushed them back with her inky hands.
Her inky hands were in her coat pockets, her apron was covered by her outer garment, and her face was obscured by the thick brown veil.
Miss Lawrence turned sharply to see what the commotion might be, and, when she saw the inky child, she had hard work to control her own merriment.
So the inky little girl cuddled into her mother's arms, which somehow opened to receive the culprit, and she told the whole dreadful story.
The inky Agaric is frequent about barn-yards, gardens, and old stumps in woods, and usually grows in such crowded masses that the central individuals are compressed into hexagonal shape.
In the eatable stage the caps are drooping, as shown in the cluster on the plate, while the mature specimen expands considerably before its inky deliquescence.
Write Father down as choosing to smell like 'the nice inky lithograph smell of the first Garden Catalogues that come off the presses 'long about February'!
There aren't any of them that are worth the nice inky lithograph smell of the first Garden Catalogues that come off the presses 'long about February!
The ocean looked like a vast plain of snow, illuminated by blue fire and overhung by heavens of almost inky blackness.
For a mile above the cataract the river runs, an inky ribbon, between banks of amazing solitariness; no clearing is there, no sign of human habitation, hardly any vestige of animal life.
The moonlight showed it all iron-gray, except where some elephants stood upon it, and their shadows were inky black.
It was Bagheera, the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk.
I could see the distant horizon, defined by India-inky woods, relieving a lighter sky.
There was very little light; for the night had grown darker as it wore on, and the few stars that had glimmered faintly had hid their diminished heads behind the piles of inky clouds.
It does not make much difference after all, my little friend, whether I spend the next half-hour in the inky blackness of this place or the blood-red grandeur of your royal court.
A small batteau lay close to where Ormiston stood; in two seconds he had sprang in, shoved it off, and was rowing vigorously toward that snow wreath in the inky river.
Edging the narrow circle of firelight, walls of rock and naked trees were sketched flat and grotesque against the inky void beyond them.
Henderson saw two figures detach themselves from the inky void and come forward.
I think it will be rather stylish to have it dark and inky on the end.
As he spoke the Monkey put the cork back in the ink bottle and wiped the inky end of his tail off on a piece of blotting paper in the desk.
But she couldn't, for he held her tightly, and the inky end of the tail was coming nearer and nearer to her face.
Her face was red, her hair was tousled, her fingers presentedinky signs of a recent writing lesson.
She was writing at her own inky desk; and she looked up in confusion, when her father appeared.
Imbros, which had an inky black cloud hanging overhead.
Just as the inky darkness was beginning to be dispelled there was a change in these lazy flashes.
From the ten huge, red stacks columns of inky black smoke poured out as the stokers crammed the furnaces beneath.
An inkycurtain seemed to have fallen from the sky.
Clear and bright it shone in the inky blackness framed by the window.
Suddenly there appeared from out of the inky blackness of the heavens a huge crescent, stretching across the sky far above us.
What did you say it was, Pork Chops, you inky pirate?
Inroad of boy in holland, very dejected and inky of aspect, also exclaiming "Pa!
A boy in a holland blouse was smearing his face with his inky fingers, and wrestling with a problem in Euclid, while his father stood on a step-ladder exploring a high shelf of dusty books.
Abruptly the flare was extinguished and the ways were an inky darkness once more, a tumultuous mystery.
A shadowy, huge mass of masonry rising out of the inky water, brought to Graham's mind the thought of the multitude of ways and galleries and lifts that rose floor above floor overhead between him and the sky.
As she was descending the lane she noticed, about twenty paces from the door, on the further side, a dense mass of Portugal laurel that hung over the opposite wall, casting a shadow of inky blackness into the lane.
A little snow had fallen and frosted the ground, making everything unburied by the white flakes to seem inky black.
