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• The country’s first black president, and its first president to reach adulthood after the Vietnam War and Watergate, Mr. Obama seemed like a digital-age leader who could at last dislodge the stalemate between those who clung to the government of the Great Society, on the one hand, and those who disdained the very idea of government, on the other.
• black drinking fountain; black hospital
• ...what a black day would that be, when the Ordinances of Jesus Christ should as it were be excommunicated, and cast out of the Church of Christ.
• He shot her a black look.
• Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.
• Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
• The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
• After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
• 5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
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• Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.
• Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.
• Prize-winning books continue a trend toward increased representation of blacks, accounting for most of the books with exclusively black characters.
• At this point black makes a disastrous move.
• the black or sight of the eye
• defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust
• "I don't want to fight; but you are a mean, dirty blackguard, or you wouldn't have treated a girl like that," replied Tommy, standing as stiff as a stake before the bully.
• "Say that again, and I'll black your eye for you."
• Ted, you can black your face, and dye your hair, and squint, and some fine day, sooner or later, somebody'll come along and blab the whole thing.
• I saw red, and instead of a cab I fetched that policeman. Of course father did black his eye.
• ...he must catch, curry, and saddle his own horse; he must black his own brogans (for he will not be able to buy boots).
• But in a moment he went to Greenidge's bedside, and said, shyly, in a low voice, "Shall I black your boots for you?"
• Loving you, I could conceive no life sweeter than hers — to be always near you; to black your boots, carry up your coals, scrub your doorstep; always to be working for you, hard and humbly and without thanks.