"Black book" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... search in a little black book the bookkeeper looked up—"Seven thousand six hundred-twenty, sir," he ...
— The Desire of the Moth; and The Come On • Eugene Manlove Rhodes
... which in each household originate from the diversity of characters, the numberless incidents of passion, and the habits of the married people give to this black book so many variations, the lines in it are multiplied or erased with such rapidity that a friend of the author has called this Index The History of Changes ...
— The Physiology of Marriage, Part II. • Honore de Balzac
... safe, and in a very few moments had found what he wanted. Polly would indeed have been surprised had she seen what it was. From the back of the pile of letters she had never disturbed, he drew out a shabby little black book. It was a book of addresses written in alphabetical order, and there were the names of people, and of places, all over the Continent. This little book had been forwarded, registered, by one of its present possessor's business friends ...
— Good Old Anna • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... turned to the preacher; a man of about forty, of an austere but ordinary (we might almost say low) type of face, closely shaven, with an ivory crucifix at his side and a small black book in his hand. He makes his way through the crowded aisles, and ascends the new pulpit in the centre of the church, where everyone of the vast congregation can both see and ...
— Normandy Picturesque • Henry Blackburn
... C[oe]ur-de-Lion, at the island of Oleron, near the coast of Poitou, the inhabitants of which have been deemed able mariners ever since. It is reckoned the best code of sea-laws in the world, and is recorded in the black book of ...
— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth
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