coal-black

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Coal-black moraines marked the retreat of its calving front.

From The New Yorker • Oct. 17, 2016

Coal-black, except for a white star on his forehead and one white stocking, he was powerfully built, and yet with such an easy stretch of limb as promised speed as well as endurance.

From The Rose of Old St. Louis by Dillon, Mary

Coal-black women were there, attired in deep and expensive mourning.

From Senator North by Atherton, Gertrude Franklin Horn

Coal-black as cherries are His eyes, the rest of Him is white as chalk.

From Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan by Miles, Clement A.

Coal-black, hardly shining; antennæ piceous; thorax and abdomen very minutely punctured; thorax with a stripe of cinereous tomentum; posterior tarsi white; wings blackish, veins black.

From Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology by Various