All round the hull, in the blackness, the rippling current bubbled and chattered like a little mountain stream.
Both Keenan and Frank started, and peered through the blackness.
In the blackness a faint streak of light showed the location of the crack in the wall.
Paul's spirits rose with the blackness of the night and the wildness of the rain.
Concepts of whiteness, as well as blackness, were fluid and unstable.
Observers' responses were analyzed to extract an index of spatially induced blackness.
All six opponent-hue names and their combinations were response options; blackness and whiteness in the test field could therefore be reported independently.