When the redbird spread his sable wing, And showed his side of flame; When the rosebud ripened to the rose, In both I read thy name.
But already the sable wing was before the old man's eyes; the long hooked bill at his head: with a scream, the black hawk darted away with his prize.
Hrim-faxi is the sable steed, From the east who brings the night, Fraught with the showering joys of love: As he champs the foamy bit, Drops of dew are scattered round To adorn the vales of earth.
Lurid lightnings, as they fly, Streak with blood the sable pole.
It was, therefore, with no small degree of impatience that they awaited the pleasure of their sable master, who explained to them that when the waters reached their height he would proceed.
The sable fugitive, with all his recklessness, did the very best thing that could have been done under the circumstances.
Leland had good cause to fear success for himself and his sable companion in this attempt.
Beyond the tip end of Nova Scotia there's Sable Island, that used to be haunted by pirates and privateers.
The two sable gondoliers wore themselves out in Kitty's service, and Margaret's kind, round face grew more and more puzzled and distressed.
Having been bidden enter, a burly knight mounted upon a giant percheron rode into the lists, all cased in sable armour and carrying a shield which displayed Atlas supporting the globe.
Arms of Clopton, sable a bend silver and two cotises dancetty gold, from a brass c.
Under the torn, twisted sablecap one little eye was hidden completely, but the other eye loomed up rakish and bruised as a prizefighter's.
One sable sleeve was wrenched disastrously from its arm-hole, and along the edge of the vivid little purple skirt the ill-favored white ruffles seemed to have raveled out into hopeless yards and yards and yards of Hamburg embroidery.
Out from an unseasonable snuggle of sable furs and flaming red hair a small, peevish face peered forth at her with frank curiosity.
Once more--for the last time--did the sable robe inwrap us.
Rising, I beheld for the last time the gaunt form of the Martyr standing on the deck,--a bar sinister sable blazoned athwart the golden shield of the climbing sun.
No poor résinier from his heights on the sea-coast, no coal-miner from the depth of his sable gallery, but will rejoice in higher wages and increased prosperity.
Ah, smite thy bosom, and in sable pall Send shivering through the air thy bitter cry For Adonaïs dead, while all the Loves reply.
Her brocade gown of a deep shade of red, with a border of dark sable on cuffs and collar, suggested a portrait by Velasquez.
He was a man of foreign appearance, wearing a cloak lined with sables, and a sable cap, which he removed as Lady Maulevrier approached.
Too sullen for speech, Lord Maulevrier sat back in his corner, with his sable cloak drawn up to his chin, his travelling cap covering head and ears, his eyes contemplating the whitening world with a weary anger.
He was expensively dressed, wore a big sable overcoat, and had on his fingers a number of rings set with precious stones.
Into the room boldly walked a man who wore a sable overcoat, had hair of snowy white, and eyes of deepest midnight.
The wiser and honester shake off these sable stains, measure their stature with that of the great and good, and give up the race before they have either become broken-winded or are made a laughing-stock to the spectators.
Her sable dress was ridged with manifold flounces, from beneath which a small foot showed itself from time to time, clad in the same hue of mourning.
On the 14th of September they neared the coast of Nova Scotia, and were in dread of the dangerous shoals of Sable Island, the position of which they did not exactly know.
A storm off Cape Sable dispersed the ships, two of which some days later made their way to Annapolis Basin in expectation of finding some of their companions there.
The survivors used the clothing of the dead as gifts to the neighboring Indians, who in consequence were attacked with such virulence by the disease that of the band at Cape Sable three fourths are said to have perished.
And week by week, as I went into the kitchen with my Bible, I saw a larger circle; found the room better lined with dark forms and sable faces.
With a stiff brush--sable is the best--paste the protruding edge of the lower gore, turn it over the edge of the upper and smooth it down with a duster.
A small camel-hair brush, from a penny upwards, would do; but it might be sable in preference, from sixpence upwards.
Out of doors, all looked cold and comfortless, and I was obliged to betake myself to bed again, and there await patiently the advent of my sable physician.
Although his fanciful dress was discarded for a plain blue livery, I easily recognised my sable friend; and the negro's intelligent countenance brightened as he saw me, and offered a silent welcome.
I was assuring my sable follower how truly I estimated his worth, and how deeply I felt the necessity that should deprive me of his services, when Captain Raleigh joined us.
Should business have called me from home, you will find Isidora, and her sable genius, Dominique.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
