The third was a chariot of ebony drawn by two prancing coal-black horses whose leathers and housings shone and jingled.
A small fragment of coal-black ware is entirely smooth on the outside, and indicates an unusually well finished and symmetrical vessel.
The man with the squeak in his voice, who did most of the talking, was a very dark-skinned fellow with a short, coal-black, curly beard.
And having thus delivered himself, the man wheeled around his coal-black steed and was off in a cloud of dust down the road.
His coal-black hair, streaked with gray and hanging loose over his shoulders, looked as if it had not been combed for days.
Imagine it--imagine a coal-black sky shivered into a tangled net-work of angry fire!
But they are all bare now, and the lights from the other side of the street show through their empty coal-black branches.
He was mounted on a coal-black horse, which was very fleet, and so ill-tempered that no one besides his master cared to approach him.
