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Sentence Examples Designers are showing us flames in exotic woods like ebony or interesting burls with more complex finishes and more sculptural shapes. One of the main features is the red ebony solid timber in the staircase and ground flooring. Stam's choice would be this black bamboo whose arching canes can have the gleam of polished ebony. Maria, a tall and statuesque young woman with enchanting eyes and incredible ebony legs, takes me to her hairdresser's house. Next on the scene are the striking and regal Steller's jays with their ebony crested heads and shoulders melding to indigo. Her slender fingers raked into her ebony hair, holding the rebellious locks away from her face. Aaralyn came a second later, wearing a black version of Ilandere's dress, hair pinned back in a cascade of ebony curls. She let her head hang down and her velvet, ebony hair cascaded down her shoulders. Typical of their classic styling, the rifle features a beaded cheekpiece and contrasting ebony forend tip. Its wood, which is very heavy and of a fallow colour, has the grain and smell of ebony. Her eyes blazed out of a heart-shaped face under a long, white pageboy haircut, ebony lashes framing their violet fire. Ashtaye's long, ebony hair was still windswept, and Tara's equally long, white hair was still silky. Two hoops of ebony wood hung from her ears, dangling just above the level of her chin. Previous results indicate that females often encounter paloverde seeds prior to colonizing Texas ebony in central Arizona. There are 34 full-color photographs of beautiful gages made of ebony, rosewood, boxwood, mahogany, cherry, applewood, whalebone, ivory etc. Egg size affects the larval survivorship of beetles on seeds of Texas ebony. I showed them how they could draw with the conte or the ebony pencil, then mix the two by sweeping the area with a little turpenoid on a brush. The rifle also features an exhibition-grade claro walnut stock with ebony tip, cap and gold swivels. She had waist length, ebony hair and her skin complexion wasn't too pale nor too dark. For this, the three brilliant flautists will use bass flute or piccolo and also bamboo flute from Vietnam or ebony flute. Show More Sentences His skin was jet black and gleamed like polished ebony, and he wore swathes of a fine dark grey cloth draped over his body in loose folds. Rainfall is heavy, and the area is dense with rain forests with mahogany, teak, and ebony trees. Its paleness escapes looking bland thanks to contrasting inlays of ebony, walnut and amboyna, a wood distinguished by bird's eye curls. He also incorporated decorative details such as string inlays of contrasting woods, usually holly and ebony. The centrepiece of the pavilion was a grand piano designed by Ruhlmann and made from such exotic materials as amboyna wood and Macassar ebony. You wouldn't know that beneath her stripy shirt lurk stomach muscles which appear to have been carved from ebony with precision tools. This guitar also has an ebony arm-rest to keep your arm from damping the sound from the top. She remembered the way he looked when she'd first met him-like a dark God, his ebony body tall and strong, hard and sweaty. Blue eyeshadow painted her eyelids while dark ebony traced her closed eyes. He was standing on the front step, his emerald green eyes once again veiled by his curtain of ebony black hair. Details are achieved by applying either direct line work with the conte or ebony pencil, and little or no turpenoid to diffuse it. It was a mixture of curvy furniture and extravagant materials, including lapis lazuli, ivory, amazonite, ebony, horn, and rose quartz. With his bright blue sapphire eyes and ebony black spiked hair he stunned the school's female population, excluding Amanda and her friends. Jonathan strode in, his black cloak swirling around him, his dark ebony hair disheveled by the wind. The Indian furniture was usually of ebony, padouk, or rosewood with the floral borders and motifs either inlaid or engraved on ivory veneer. Her ebony black hair was loose on her shoulders and I noticed that she wore no make up. One creature looked sort of elfish, except for its darker dark navy color that was almost ebony. Before she left, she was given an array of presents from former students, including an ebony carving of a Masai family. Many of the islands are mountainous and heavily forested with teak, ebony, and sandalwood. A sudden flash of ebony and ivory caused me to scream shrilly without intention as the bird, a magpie, flew directly at my exposed face! Show More Sentences This is a Federal-period game table by Robert G. Stevenson of mahogany, primavera, satinwood, ebony, holly, and pine. Donna was probably the third most beautiful with her ebony black hair and dark, mysterious eyes. Copper, horses, and cloth were also traded for gold, malagueta pepper, carved ivory, and ebony. His ebony face was highlighted by the moon's glow as he looked up into it, his eyes drinking deep of its milky beauty. Her skin was flushed becomingly and her hair flowed against her back in thick silky waves of ebony. He chafed a begrimed hand across a similarly soiled mouth, maw gaping wide in a grin, to reveal ebony teeth with fallow flashes of gold. Gold, silver, Boulle marquetry of brass, pewter, porcelain, tortoiseshell, ebony ivory, and rare woods were all used. The diamond-patterned tortoiseshell panel, offset with faux dentils of ivory and macassar ebony, recalls patterns he also used for wall hangings. I promptly filled the sink with water and dunked my head in, letting my ebony locks flop messily to the sides of my face. His trim body was covered from head to toe with symmetrical beads of sweat, which looked like little, glassy jewels sprinkled on his ebony frame. Diamonds sparkle in the radiance of my headlamp as snow sifts from an ebony sky. The grain-painted case imitates mahogany and ebony inlay, and the face is decorated with Masonic imagery. I would have perhaps whiled the time away in such a state had not a scent, borne on the ebony breezes, suddenly caught my attention. Fingering the silver skull on the top of his ebony walking stick, he waited. A single lash emerged from the ebony handle, but it had been wickedly inlaid with tiny adamantine barbs. Like ebony, mpingo is also a heavy, dense black hardwood, and it is plentiful in East Africa. The shirts tucked into tight, ebony brown rawhide pants, trousers designed to keep the warmth in and the cold out. A small ebony throne, decorated with gold leaf and ivory is a poignant reminder of his extraordinary childhood. He was truthfully longing to sit in the King's throne, a large ornate thing, ebony and mahogany edged with gold and silver. The table they had set up was dark ebony with rather comfy chairs surrounding it. Show More Sentences It is usually much less ambitious and is most frequently found in small self-contained panels set within veneers of walnut, olive, or ebony. Castings with a pedestal of ebony or mahogany add grandeur to the commission. Recorders are made from hardwoods such as maple, rosewood, or ebony as well as the plastic versions. With his ebony talons came a splatter of that liquid heat and a chunk of flesh. Carved vines snaked their way up the posts, twining round the dark ebony. She had dark ebony hair that waved down to the end of her shoulders. After a little while, I realized my face was looking a little dull, so I used some more product on my face to bring out the natural bold radiance of my ebony skin. The set sounds very beautiful, with the board made from ebony that was probably imported from India, and playing pieces made from locally quarried agate and turquoise stone. Once in a while the really dense woods, such as boxwood and ebony can fool me, and I really have to work hard to tell the difference between Madasgar and Honduras rosewood. Soon thereafter she gave birth to a little daughter who was as white as snow, as red as blood, and her hair as black as ebony. Afterward, ebony went to the apartment where her mother had made such a valiant stand. The key in this region is to revegetate corridors between remnant stands of native trees and shrubs, such as acacias, cacti, Texas ebony, and guayacan. In the first half of the eighteenth century ebony rosewood, and padouk were inlaid with floral designs ivory that was then engraved and highlighted with lac. The King John Library is a baroque delight, with acres of gold leaf, faux marble, rosewood and ebony tables and of course stacks and stacks of books. It is a superb piece, made of mahogany and rosewood and inlaid with ebony spikes to the corners, raised on three lyre supports, each with splayed legs and brass lion-paw feet. The latter is composed of two major blocks, a horizontal one lacquered white, juxtaposed with a more vertical unit made of Madagascar ebony with satinwood and maple interiors. But I still prefer my own, a Victorian ivory and ebony conductor's baton. His eyes were blue and shone through a shock of thick ebony black hair. He blinked his ebony black eyes, the irises twinkling with delight. The bed itself was framed in dark ebony, its dusky twists spiraling towards the ceiling, while the rest of the room was swathed in black and shades of maroon and blood red. Show More Sentences The furniture makers in and around the city of Trapani often used blackened pearwood instead of ebony, and much mother-of-pearl and coral, for which Trapani was famous. Chinese dominoes are longer than Western ones and are divided into two types and were originally carved from bone or ivory with the indented pips made of ebony. Fine details carved in boxwood, bone, ivory, brass and ebony. Myers estimated that logging for tropical hardwoods such as ebony and mahogany was causing the elimination of about 20,000 square miles of tropical forests per year. His Chinese collection was housed at his home, Fonthill, in a specially designed room in which the chimney piece and fittings were entirely made of ebony inlaid with ivory. Females not exposed to paloverde seeds during egg maturation produce progeny that are very much less capable of developing on seeds of Texas ebony. A plain yellow pencil tapped just outside a bright color photograph of a pretty young girl, around sixteen years old, with a wonderfully curvy figure and ebony skin. Special attention was given to the altar screen, which is made using an extremely complicated technique of thin and delicately carved ivory, ebony and mahogany plates. I'm that student with the blonde hair and stunning ebony black eyes. The ebony veneered case was probably made by one of the other Flemish artisans active in Rome in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The serving table, attributed to Thomas Seymour, is topped by two extremely rare American knife cases that employ charred poplar to simulate ebony. During Victorian times, the use of more exotic timbers like mahogany and ebony became popular, meaning trees were exported from Africa, Asia and the Americas. The walls were stained with dark colors like crimson and ebony. Most of their hair is dyed ebony black along with their fingernails. A cape was draped upon his broad shoulders, a dark shade of ebony as well, in a circle around him reaching mid back and joined in the front by a large red jewel set in silver. She was a beauty at Nineteen with long black ebony hair, with silver high light that flowed down the center of her back stopping with a neat trim at her waist. Even though all that could be seen of him was his light brown cloak, black scarf and icy ebony hair, the people staring at him had their shoulders tensed in hostility. Masses of glittering stars that shone from an ebony sky lit our trail. An ideally positioned bar and lounge under an open-thatch roof is cooled by the silent swish of punkahs, and decorated in harmonious green, cream and ebony. Very sought-after for furniture, cabinetwork, and veneers and a substitute for ebony in woodwind instruments. Show More Sentences That did not preclude ebony Jones from speaking about her mother. Areas of heavy rainfall contain stands of bamboo, ferns, ebony, mahogany, and rosewood. Persimmon, white ebony, bara bara, boa wood, butter wood, possumwood, date plum. Every element was custom-created for the store, including the rounded Makassar ebony and bronze display cases that Shawmut installed. A silver portal opens in the sky and a ebony alicorn stallion gallops from it the silver tips on his black wings shine in the sun's light. Also called the Ebony Mosque because of its two ebony pillars, it was mentioned in the writings of Ibn Battuta and Ibn Jubayr. Wil looked up at Marie, tears sliding down his cheeks, eyes a lackless dark ebony. Taken as a prize off the Pacific coast of Mexico, it was made of enamelled gold and bore an African diamond and a ship with an ebony hull. But despite regular root touch-ups, Kim reverted back to her usual ebony shade within three weeks. Luxury goods traded along the Incense Route included Indian spices, ebony, silk and fine textiles. The ebony was inlaid with a floral pattern of abalone bordered in mother-of-pearl and used for the guitar's bridge, finger-board and pickguard. The black pickguard as well as the ebony fingerboard and bridge are all inlaid with a dramatic Purple Martin motif. Matthews also contributed a twisting, vine-like design to the ebony peghead. Logging is a significant industry on the larger islands with Seram producing ironwood and teak and ebony are produced on Buru. They wore strapless cocktail-length dresses in ebony peau de soie with a sweetheart neckline. Crafted from materials such as seasoned pearwood and ebony, with real sheep gut strings, it took several months to make. Also brought back from India were dyes like lac, indigo and dyewood and precious ornamental objects and materials like ivory, ebony and pearls. There are superb examples such as cedar furniture inlaid with ebony and ivory which can be seen in the tombs at the Egyptian Museum. The Dutch established a small colony on the island in 1638, from which they exploited ebony trees and introduced sugar cane, domestic animals and deer. He called the ebony mistress of the establishment to him, and speaking to her kindly and winningly, as any dutiful husband should, told her to make the change, which she did. Examples from Classical Literature The dishes were crystallized lotus leaves and flowers, and the chopsticks were of the rarest ebony. Among the tempting wares of Seville are Albacete knives, with gorgeous handles of inlaid ebony, tortoise, or ivory. In the fifth figure the color of the darkest fly is due to a factor called ebony, which is an allelomorph of sooty. Among the rocks gleam ebony seeds of the blackberry lily, whose star of orange and umber is about to set. He led a happy life, with a perch and ring of ebony and silver, the freedom of the house, and chow-chow four times a day. The fair Georgian jostled the ebony form of the merchant of Dongola or Sennaar. He was looking at a faded picture in an ebony frame which hung by the side of the bed. The sleepers of the Monterey and Mexican Gulf railway are nearly all of ebony. One suit was inlaid with enamel, black as ebony, and the other with red gold. The fronds of the ebony spleenwort usually face the sun, even if so doing necessitates the twisting of its stalk. I seemed to see the ever-loving lady, followed by her chosen maidens carrying the heart in its ebony and silver box. It is a representation of the Roman fasces in ebony, and is surmounted by a globe and an eagle in silver. The neck and fingerboard are made of hard wood, such as ebony, beech or pear. Chippendale snatched his fretwork in his brackets and the angles of his chairs from the Chinese worker in ebony. He rested his hands on their shoulders, where their ebony fur was frosted with gray. A Steinway grand-piano was prominent in the chamber, and before the ebony instrument stood a mechanical pianoforte-player. He raised his head for a moment when his father entered, and Neangir and sumi both saw that this hand was of ebony. Furniture of ivory, of ebony and lemonwood, preciously inlaid, gave to the place an air of cunning confusion. Every one was mother-naked, and their ebony skins shone like those of a school of gambolling porpoises. They preferred the small clocks in ebony or alabaster casings with ormolu mounts. Show More Sentences These belong to the 'poor white trash,' as the coachman would tell you with a curl of his ebony lip. They are sometimes seen ornamented round the purfling with ebony, diamond and lozenge shape. And upon this she rose, and took up an ebony cane, herself to reconduct him and to see to his entertainment before he left. The litter stopped before a baldachin under which was an ebony throne on an elevation. Simultaneously my free hand shot out for the black throat, just within reach, and the ebony finger tightened on the trigger. Their panels of ebony were decorated with bronze applications in the centre. High pieces of furniture, of black violet ebony inlaid with brass, supported upon their wide shelves a great number of books uniformly bound. In other words, though carved in ebony, he also was in the image of God. Lord Henry stroked his pointed brown beard and tapped the toe of his patent-leather boot with a tasselled ebony cane. The man with the ebony skin, the eyes of jade and the astrakhan cap bent over Raoul. My nig, as black as ebony, knows well the taste of his flesh. The rosewood on Taylor guitars hails from East India and Brazil, while the ebony used for fingerboards comes from India and Africa. The master suite is lined with satinwood built-in closets with ebony inlay and a matching satinwood home office. Against the ebony background of his skin they blazed out with a peculiarly accentuated effulgence. His face was black as ebony while his teeth were pearly white. Mr. James presented us with some ebony, and a few grebo books. After the shuck has been removed the double nut is found, black as ebony. And as those who came up before her throne greeted her, so she pointed now with the wand of ivory in her right hand, and now with the wand of ebony in her left hand. Archer turned from the fascinated contemplation of a small painting representing two Cardinals carousing, in an octagonal ebony frame set with medallions of onyx. At one end of the court was a platform, and on the platform stood an amber throne supported by four ebony columns, garnished with pearls and diamonds. Show More Sentences We did not buy any wooden images of the Lion, nor any ivory or ebony or marble or chalk or sugar or chocolate ones, or even any photographic slanders of him. At this moment the tapestry moved aside, and a Nubian, black as ebony, and dressed in a plain white tunic, made a sign to his master that all was prepared in the dining-room. High oaken sideboards, inlaid with ebony, stood at the two extremities of the room, and upon their shelves glittered china, porcelain, and glass of inestimable value. So soon as he could get breath and look around him, he saw that he was between two natives as black as ebony, who held him, with a firm gripe, and uttered strange cries. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of ebony? Words that rhyme with ebony What is the plural of ebony? What is the adjective for ebony? What is the noun for ebony? Translations for ebony Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words ebonize ebonite Ebonics ebonics ebon Ebola Ebony ebook e-book eBook ebooks e-books 5-letter Words Starting With e eb ebo ebon