Ebony

(noun.) tropical tree of southern Asia having hard dark-colored heartwood used in cabinetwork.

(noun.) hard dark-colored heartwood of the ebony tree; used in cabinetwork and for piano keys.

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• Warily he stepped, his slender lance ever ready, his long oval shield firmly grasped in his left hand close to his sleek ebony body. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The golden-haired, white-skinned therns battling with desperate courage in hand-to-hand conflict with their ebony-skinned foemen. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• His books had portrayed the NEGRO, but how different had been the dull, dead print to this sleek thing of ebony, pulsing with life. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• To an eye above them their two faces would have appeared amid the expanse like two pearls on a table of ebony. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Simultaneously my free hand shot out for the black throat, just within reach, and the ebony finger tightened on the trigger. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• Against the ebony background of his skin they blazed out with a peculiarly accentuated effulgence. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• He had a gold watch, and a gold curb chain with large gold seals; and he carried a pliant ebony cane with a gold top. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In making a high-grade cue, a choice piece of imported wood, such as ebony, mahogany, or rosewood, is cut into blocks about three inches square and twenty inches long. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• In 1800 a Mr. Watt of London produced one, on which he carved medallions and figures in ivory and ebony. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.

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