Looking for sentences and phrases with the word ebon? Here are some examples.
Sentence Examples
It was nearing nighttime now, and the ebon coloration of the building coupled with the equally dark landscape rendered it invisible after dusk.
He was a raven, and he whipped his dirty ebon wings against the breezes as a washer woman would beat a carpet.
The ruby one blazed and then shuddered into a feminine shape, and the sparkly ebon one swirled into a crouching figure with a long black mane.
The other male had dark, ebon skin, and long scarlet hair that waved gently in the fiery breeze.
She was in a dark room, so black that she could feel its ebon weight upon her shoulders.
A decidedly diminutive parrot's head protruded from the pocket, ebon eyes madly agleam.
Dark curls of ebon feathered around his face in need of another trim soon.
There, under ebon shades... in dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Examples from Classical Literature
There was the tawny, but intelligent Mandingo, and by his side the Jolof of ebon hue.
Sweat glistened upon their smooth, ebon skins, beneath which rolled rounded muscles, supple in the perfection of nature's uncontaminated health.
The boy shook himself free, and with a shout of greeting ran forward toward the ebon players.
Regardless of the foolish belief of the peoples of the outer world, or of Holy Thern, or ebon First Born, I am not dead.
The ebon cloud was breaking, but torrents of rain continued to descend.
The black thread crept like an ebon stain into the woof of the carpet.
An expression of displeasure passed over the ebon countenance.
As for the inhabitants themselves, they are of an ebon black.
The old man, caught in the whirlpool of ebon, was swept down, screaming.
His three remaining teeth were ebon from excessive betel-chewing.
On duty, they stood like ebon statues and opened not their mouths.
Bobbing up and down in that sea, Pip's ebon head showed like a head of cloves.
The ebon form of the Krooman giant seemed everywhere at once.
With him were a score of his ebon warriors, but far too slow for the ape-man was the progress of these trained and hardened woodsmen.
Higher he raised his spear, tensing his muscles, rolling beneath his glistening, ebon hide, and then from the jungle just beyond the palisade came a thunderous crashing.
Pain, shame, ire, impatience, disgust, detestation, seemed momentarily to hold a quivering conflict in the large pupil dilating under his ebon eyebrow.
Full upon the breast of the painted savage the great beast struck, burying sharp talons in the black flesh and sinking great yellow fangs in the ebon throat.
So one glorious tropical morning Waziri, chief of the Waziri, set out at the head of fifty clean-limbed ebon warriors in quest of adventure and of riches.
