1 Beside him hung the portrait of his wife, a pallid, thin-lipped woman in black.
2 She has been innocent, and the black hands of jealousy have crushed her reedlike throat.
3 In black fantastic shapes, dumb shadows crawl into the corners of the room and crouch there.
4 "I am in Lady Agatha's black books at present," answered Dorian with a funny look of penitence.
5 Catherine de Medicis had a mourning-bed made for her of black velvet powdered with crescents and suns.
6 The gas-lamps flickered and became blue, and the leafless trees shook their black iron branches to and fro.
7 For a few seconds he stood bending over the balustrade and peering down into the black seething well of darkness.
8 After a few moments, in her black silk dress, with old-fashioned thread mittens on her wrinkled hands, Mrs. Leaf bustled into the library.
9 I don't know what I expected, but I went out and wandered eastward, soon losing my way in a labyrinth of grimy streets and black grassless squares.
10 Time seemed to him to be crawling with feet of lead, while he by monstrous winds was being swept towards the jagged edge of some black cleft of precipice.
11 Had it not been for the red jagged tear in the neck and the clotted black pool that was slowly widening on the table, one would have said that the man was simply asleep.
12 After he had drunk his cup of black coffee, he wiped his lips slowly with a napkin, motioned to his servant to wait, and going over to the table, sat down and wrote two letters.
13 He was to be a nice sheep-farmer, and one evening, as he was riding home, he was to see the beautiful heiress being carried off by a robber on a black horse, and give chase, and rescue her.
14 It was a small Chinese box of black and gold-dust lacquer, elaborately wrought, the sides patterned with curved waves, and the silken cords hung with round crystals and tasselled in plaited metal threads.
15 Her white feet trod the huge press at which wise Omar sits, till the seething grape-juice rose round her bare limbs in waves of purple bubbles, or crawled in red foam over the vat's black, dripping, sloping sides.
16 As he passed out, he used to look with wonder at the black confessionals and long to sit in the dim shadow of one of them and listen to men and women whispering through the worn grating the true story of their lives.
17 Its curtains were of damask, with leafy wreaths and garlands, figured upon a gold and silver ground, and fringed along the edges with broideries of pearls, and it stood in a room hung with rows of the queen's devices in cut black velvet upon cloth of silver.
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