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Example sentences for "velvety black"

  • Its colour is a velvety black, with dark and glossy grey between the segments.

  • In colour the caterpillar is velvety black, dotted with white, and its body is covered with short bristly spines.

  • The colour of the caterpillar is velvety black, finely dotted with white, and the spines are yellow or orange, tipped with white.

  • The caterpillar is blackish, or dark slate colour, with two series of velvety black spots, or dashes along the back; head reddish brown.

  • The caterpillar is greyish, with a broad whitish or yellowish stripe along the back, divided down the centre and edged by blackish lines; a velvety black mark on ring seven; raised warts and hairs dark greyish.

  • The upper part of the breast is decorated with a triangular patch of velvety black, the cheeks, base of the beak, a streak upon the head, and the tufts being of the same rich deep shade.

  • The head, back of the neck, and an arched line which passes from the nape over the breast, are bright yellow, while the rest of the plumage is velvety black.

  • The Blackbird is all over of such a dark, glossy, velvety black, and his bill is such a lovely, deep, orangy gold.


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