Word: blackly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...next day I went in, dressed in calling costume, - black coat, &c., - and was met by a chorus of disapprobation. "How ungraceful these modern garments are! Why did n't you wear something flowing?" I mildly suggested that I had nothing in that line except a dressing-gown, and that I had not undertaken to make a guy of myself. So the class proceeded to array me in various garments belonging to the studio. A piece of embroidered mummy cloth was draped artistically over me, like a Roman toga; a sort of parti-colored cap, like those found in snapping...
NEARLY EVERY MEMBER of the Senior Class in Harvard University has a black eye or a broken head. A few nights ago about THIRTY of the boys went to Boston to attend a party, and concluded to walk home. On the way they encountered an amiable policeman, who, after a brief discussion with them on the subject of making less noise, waded in, and with club, revolver, and fist, put the whole party to rout. They claim that they were only singing a little ditty, but he swears that they were drunk. - From a St. Louis Paper...
...rounded form of a Venus; the rich red blood of the South shining through the clear, olive-tinted skin. She was not one of those hoydenish creatures that one meets here, but seemed surrounded by an atmosphere of perfect repose. One involuntarily turned to look for the black slave with the sherbet, and through the open casement half expected to see the dancing wavelets of the Golden Horn, dotted with many a gay caique." I think he said caique; he may have said cacique. "But the course of true love never did run smooth, and so we parted." Her father...
...condescends to black my boots...
...lamp-black letters mixed with kerosene...