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Meanings of velvety blackness in English

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Usage of velvety blackness in English
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Underneath the bridge there was only a velvety blackness of shadow.
The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
2
A bat flitted before his face like a circling flake of velvety blackness.
The End of the Tether
3
The strung-up work lights ended at a turn, a deep, velvety blackness lying ahead.
The strain
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In the darkness he was safe, at one with the velvety blackness surrounding him.
Silent screams
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The soft velvety blackness of night in the heavens was giving way to a faint purple.
The Plunderer
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Beyond, like serried paper cutouts against velvety blackness, stood workbenches, cylinders, hanging ropes- ahoistand pulley.
Quantico
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Stars somersaulted behind her eyes, bringing velvety blackness.
The devil she knows
8
Graham hesitated, went down upon all fours, crawled to the edge, and peered into a velvety blackness.
The sleeper awakes
9
We took a few steps past the first several trees and shined our flashlights into the velvety blackness.
Huck: the remarkable true story of how one lost puppy taught a f...
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In the soft light the distant hills became melted, and the shadows in the valleys and gorges of velvety blackness.
Dracula
11
As the brilliant tropic stars came out in the velvety blackness of the sky occasional silences fell on the party.
The Jungle Girl
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The velvety blackness of a mountain night was all about them and even the late spring air seemed icy cold.
The Black Pearl
13
Grenville descended from his perch at last, when the palms and ferns had darkly emerged from the velvety blackness of the thicket.
As It Was in the Beginning
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She moved almost as silently as a great owl which swoops down out of the darkness- abitof the velvety blackness itself.
Tom Swift and His Air Scout; Or, Uncle Sam's Mastery of the Sky
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Several naked men armed with spears stood upon the rocks, outlined in bold and striking relief against the velvety blackness of the cave entrance.
In Africa: Hunting Adventures in the Big Game Country
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An amber paleness overspread her face, betraying sudden interest, but it did not dim the voluptuous glance of her liquid eyes of velvety blackness.
Albert Savarus
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