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Black as Alaskan sealskin.             —Anonymous	1
Black as a stack of black cats.             —Anonymous	2
Black as a thundercloud.             —Anonymous	3
Black as a tinker.             —Anonymous	4
Black as blindness.             —Anonymous	5
Black as Egypt’s night.             —Anonymous	6
Black as a sloe.             —Anonymous	7
Black as snow in London.             —Anonymous	8
Black as the Duke of Hell’s black riding boots.             —Anonymous	9
Black as the inside of a man who drank a bottle of ink.             —Anonymous	10
Black as the mantle that shrouds the blind.             —Anonymous	11
Black as Uncle Tom.             —Anonymous	12
Black as the bear on Iskardoo.             —Edwin Arnold	13
Thoughts as black as hell, as hot and bloody.             —Beaumont and Fletcher	14
Black as a coal pit.             —Henry Ward Beecher	15
Black as the tents of Kedar.             —Saint Bernard	16
Black as a young rook.             —Dion Boucicault	17
Black, like plumes at funerals.             —Elizabeth Barrett Browning	18
Black as death.             —Lord Byron	19
Black as Gehenna and the Pit of Hell.             —Thomas Carlyle	20
Black as a crow.             —Geoffrey Chaucer	21
Blak as fende in helle.             —Geoffrey Chaucer	22
Black as a cave mouth.             —Irvin S. Cobb	23
Black as the devil.             —George Colman, the Younger	24
Black as Tophet.             —Joseph Conrad	25
Black as the mine.             —William Cowper	26
Black as if lightning-scarred or curst of God.             —Aubrey De Vere	27
Black as thunder.             —Charles Dickens	28
Black as beads.             —Austin Dobson	29
Black as a wolf’s mouth.             —Sir Arthur Conan Doyle	30
Black as ebony.             —Alexandre Dumas, père	31
Black as night when the tempests pass.             —Frederick William Faber	32
Black as starless night.             —Phineas Fletcher	33
Black as a cassock.             —Samuel Foote	34
Black as the pit.             —William Ernest Henley	35
Blacker than a raven in a coal mine.             —O. Henry	36
Black as stormy darkness.             —Thomas Heywood	37
Black as gunpowder.             —Thomas Hood	38
Black as the fruit of the thorn.             —Thomas Hood	39
Black as your hat.             —Thomas Hood	40
Blackens like a thunder cloud.             —Thomas Hood	41
Black as the fleet from Aulis ’gainst doomed Troy.             —Richard Hengist Horne	42
Black as the wood of the gallows-tree.             —Victor Hugo	43
As black as any Moor.             —Jacques Jasmin	44
Black as the devil in a comedy.             —Thomas Killigrew	45
Black as the sliding water over a mill-dam.             —Rudyard Kipling	46
Black as the king of Ashantee.             —Charles James Lever	47
Black as sightless eyes.             —George Cabot Lodge	48
As blacke as deepest dark.             —John Lyly	49
Blacke as jeat.             —John Lyly	50
Blacke as the burnt coale.             —John Lyly	51
My Arab steed is black— Black as the tempest cloud that flies Across the dark and muttering skies.             —Adam Mickiewicz	52
Black as a [chimney] sweep.             —F. P. Northall	53
Black and glossy as the raven’s wing.             —Thomas L. Peacock	54
Black as winter chimney.             —John Phillips	55
Black as despair.             —John Phillips	56
Black as autumn’s sky.             —Winthrop Mackworth Praed	57
Black as a burned stump.             —Opie Read	58
As black as the steeds of night.             —T. Buchanan Read	59
Black as fiery Africa’s slaves.             —T. Buchanan Read	60
Black as black iron.             —Christina Georgina Rossetti	61
Black as pitch.             —Thomas Sackville	62
Black as the newly-pruned crow.             —George Sandys	63
Black as a funeral pall.             —John G. Saxe	64
Black as mourning weed.             —Scottish Ballad Percy’s Reliques	65
Black as Acheron.             —William Shakespeare	66
Black As if besmear’d in hell.             —William Shakespeare	67
Black as incest.             —William Shakespeare	68
Black as ink.             —William Shakespeare	69
Black as Vulcan in the smoke of war.             —William Shakespeare	70
Black as a cormorant.             —Percy Bysshe Shelley	71
Black as Erebus and Night.             —Robert Southey	72
Black as the womb of darkness.             —Algernon Charles Swinburne	73
Black as crushed worms that sicken in the sense.             —Algernon Charles Swinburne	74
Black as thunderous night.             —Algernon Charles Swinburne	75
As midnight black.             —Algernon Charles Swinburne	76
Black as flameless brand.             —Algernon Charles Swinburne	77
Black as ashbuds in the front of March.             —Alfred Tennyson	78
Black as sackcloth of hair.             —New Testament	79
Black as a raven.             —Old Testament	80
Black like an oven.             —Old Testament	81
Blacker than a coal.             —Old Testament	82
Black as Hell.             —William Thomson	83
Black as winter sky.             —Walter Thornbury	84
Black as soot.             —Voltaire	85
Black as a berry.             —François Villon	86
Black as with wrath.             —Alaric A. Watts	87
Black as black.             —William Butler Yeats	88