"Would you likeEbony?" said she; "he is as black asebony."

The frame of the window was made of fine blackebony, and as she sat looking out upon the snow, she pricked her finger, and three drops of blood fell upon it.

She floated again from out the light and into the gloom (which deepened momently) and again her shadow fell from her into theebony water, and became absorbed into its blackness.

Now the figure of the glorious woman held a rod in either hand, and the rod in her right hand was white and of ivory, and the rod in her left hand was black and ofebony. And as those who came up before her throne greeted her, so she pointed now with the wand of ivory in her right hand, and now with the wand ofebony in her left hand.

Several had already fallen prey to old Sabor, and because the jungle was so infested with these fierce and bloodthirsty cats, and with lions and leopards, theebony warriors hesitated to trust themselves far from the safety of their palisades.

I am the daughter of the king of theEbony Isle, of whose fame you surely must have heard.

Only in the colour of their skin did they differ materially from us; that is of the appearance of polishedebony, and odd as it may seem for a Southerner to say it, adds to rather than detracts from their marvellous beauty.

There was a boy called Luard between whom and Philip a friendship had arisen, and one day, when they were playing together in the school-room, Luard began to perform some trick with anebony pen-holder of Philip's.

The hand that was laid on his shoulder was now placed on the lips of a person with anebony skin, with eyes of jade and with an astrakhan cap on his head: the Persian!

Then thisebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the Nightly shore -- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the raven "Nevermore."

Then theebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into smiling, By the grave and stern decorum of the countenance it wore, "Though thy crest be shorn and shaven, thou," I said, "art sure no craven, Ghastly grim and ancient Raven wandering from the Nightly shore-- Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore!" Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore."

"Here it is," said Aramis, taking a small key from his breast and opening a littleebony box inlaid with mother of pearl, "here it is.