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Coal black blackbirds may be, yet they bask in a blessed reputation, especially in Ireland, where it is said a blackbird once laid her eggs and raised her brood in the outstretched hand of a praying St Kevin.

The ZEB-BH600 headset is a glossy capsule shaped headsets available in coal black and marble white colours.

She accused the singer of wearing sun glasses, "lashings of pink lip gloss, sooty false eyelashes and sweeping, coal black eyeliner", implying she was only doing the race to promote herself.

The earliest known version of the 'Black Joke' (or loak) and associated songs is a single sheet in the Bodleian Library entitled The Original Black Joke, Sent from Dublin (c.1720) (Figure 1).(1) This bawdy song describes a range of men from varying professions and their desire for a lady's 'coal black joke, & belly so white'.

THE OLD TOM CAT Scrat, scrat, scrat what is that I'll bet it's next door's old tom cat I wish he would leave my door alone He's got the paintwork to the bone Tap, tap, tap it's him again Now he's tapping on my window pane The most mischievous cat ever was born He's strewn by bulbs across the lawn Coal black fur as black as sin Sniffing round my refuse bin Cold green eyes alert and wide Walking around with arrogant stride Licking his fur beside my elf A brief interlude to groom himself And then a glance just beyond He's got his eyes on my fishpond Ears pricked at attention, what can it be?

Its surface is coal black, and it spins slowly through space.

These heaters for home feature a compact structure and coal black color.

The resulting two-colored treat would resemble one of Saturn's weirder moons, Iapetus--an icy world with a coal black face and a bright white backside.

Coal black trees with frosts of white harbour birds worn out by flight.

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In the epilogue the authors write, "Between the radiant white of a clear conscience and the coal black of a conscience sullied by sin lie many shades of gray -- where most of us live our lives." A Matter of Conscience is a book for fans of memoir and courtroom drama, as well as for those who love to read about true life in all its shades of gray.

South went Duncan's face, his bottom lip jutting out poutily as he huffed air like a knackered lilo and those coal black eyes glowered in a way that seemed to infer: "Dance while you can Mr Barry Banana, but don't forget I can have you killed with just a click of my fingers."

It is a gorgeous sweep of sand, leading to rockpools, a generous selection of coal black caves (no, I chickened out of venturing in) and dramatic, pointed stacks of rock rising from the sea.

from Coal Black Horse by Robert Olmstead (Algonquin, 2007)

Robey, who has never been far from his home in the Appalachian Mountains, leaves on a coal black horse someone loans him.