What is "blacken"

Usage examples of "blacken".

But elsewhere there are other forces at work that blacken the names of Bards and the arts of Barding, sowing lies to plant suspicion where once was trust, and hatred where once was love.

His blackened form made a blot as it passed the white marble front of the mausoleum where Josiah Bartram lay buried.

Their blackened bellies had bloated like ripe melons, and small creatures could be seen squirming under their stretched skins.

A strand of hair blew into her eyes, and she brushed it back, looking up at the blackened shell of the single standing carillon tower, where the bitter wind blew wildly through the bells that had saved Navarne during the Sorbold assault.

The pitted iron hardware deep lilac in color, smeltered in some bloomery in Cadiz or Bristol and beaten out on a blackened anvil, good to last three hundred years against the sea.

I do not call it a village or even an encampment, because it was only a wide glade in the forest, scattered with cooking-fire rings of blackened stones carelessly tossed together, and with sleeping furs spread over pallets stuffed with fir sprigs, and with various cookery implements and skins stretched on drying hoops and bits of harness, and with saying knives and brittling knives, and with the gnawed bones and other remains of past meals.

Their mouths were dry from biting into the cartridges, their lips were flecked with unburned powder, and sweat had carved clean rivulets down their faces which were blackened by the smoke and smuts from the powder exploding in their musket pans.

It had been left unaltered for a century at least, and everything, from the blackened mansard roofs with their rococo weather-cocks, to the bay windows with their tiny squares of glass and the fantastic escutcheon over the door, was in keeping.

She blew it out and pried the blackened marshmallow off the stick with a sigh.

He stuck the blackened marshmallow into his mouth and chewed it without tasting it.

Deftly she tossed one of the cakes of dough that Melia had prepared on to the blackened slab of stone that served them for a griddle and jerked her head in the direction of the cooking pot.

Or on that loneliest of eves when afar and benighted we stood, She who upheld me and I, in the midmost of Egdon together, Confident I in her watching and ward through the blackening heather, Deeming her matchless in might and with measureless scope endued.

His mind reverted to the sprawled and blackened form of Gordon Munn and to the weeping figure of Arlene as he had first seen her in the doorway of the room where her father had met death.

Hugging herself for warmth in the damp coolness of the night air, she ran down the veranda steps into the vast chaotic haze of the deserted garden with its softly leaping shadows and peastone paths blackened by twining branches that met overhead in rambling arbors.

Owing to blackening by smoke and recoating, the thickness of the plastering in kivas can be easily made out.