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Meanings of blacken by in English

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Usage of blacken by in English
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And my body was to blacken by the road-side,-thesable birds of prey were to be my mourners.
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, and His Romaunt Abroad During the ...
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The ceiling of the crypt is blackened by the smoke of lamps.
Byeways in Palestine
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It's been purgatory this year, frogspawn frozen, broad beans blackened by frost.
The Guardian
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In spots the sea was blackened by charred and sometimes smoking fragments.
Ben-Hur
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The ruins are still charred and blackened by the West Saxon fires.
Science in Arcady
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And then the muted spits would come, pockets blackened by powder burns.
The bourne identity
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And I picked up a little stone, still blackened by the flames.
Original Short Stories — Volume 02
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Fine lace and damask curtains, all blackened by the smoke of battle.
"Co. Aytch," Maury Grays, First Tennessee Regiment / Or, A Side ...
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The grass looked grey, as if it were slightly blackened by soot.
Faerie Wars
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It was a mean expanse, blackened by soot and defiled by refuse.
The Fortunate Youth
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Like all lead and copper colours, it is blackened by impure air.
Field's Chromatography / or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as ...
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Thus the soul blackened by sin must be cleaned by God's grace.
Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 / An Explanation of the Baltimore Cat...
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My mind misgave me, for Calderon's name is blackened by many curses.
Calderon the Courtier, a Tale
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It's a broken old high-heeled leather shoe blackened by seawater and rain.
The Irish Times
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Two empty candle scones, both blackened by old smoke, frame her head.
Wastelands
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And then, in a mood blackened by poverty: Edgerton, pick up line one.
Homicide: a year on the killing streets