"Jet black" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... that silver and gold were as common as the stones that he saw lying in the streets, as he rode through Jerusalem in his open chariot, clothed in white, threads of glittering gold mixed with his jet black hair. ...
— Little Folks (July 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... Count Ville-Handry, who was quite gray, appeared at breakfast with jet black beard and hair. Henrietta could not restrain an expression of amazement. But he smiled, ...
— The Clique of Gold • Emile Gaboriau
... a young negro lad, fantastically dressed, and evidently very much in love with himself, strutted past. As he swaggered along the deck, rolling his jet black eyes from side to side, and showing his white teeth to the spectators, an indolent-looking young man, dressed in the extreme of fashion, called languidly ...
— Flora Lyndsay - or, Passages in an Eventful Life • Susan Moodie
... out to be a bigger and darker copy of Gee-Gee. He had the same crew cut and mustache, but his hair was jet black. ...
— The Scarlet Lake Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin
... very rich, with innumerable eyes on the wings. The yellow swallow-tail is also very common, and the black and blue admiral, and the red, white, and black admiral, with many other beautiful varieties that I cannot describe. The largest butterfly I have yet seen is a gay vermilion, marked with jet black lines that form an elegant black lace pattern over ...
— The Backwoods of Canada • Catharine Parr Traill
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