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Definition of Blacken out
1. Verb. Darken completely. "The dining room blackened out"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blacken Out
Literary usage of Blacken out
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"Sometimes we fancied we saw it, then it would go, then seemed to blacken out
again into a tiny spot. So dead was the calm the lightest craft could scarce ..."
2. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"But we cannot, like the police on the Russian frontier, blacken out certain
columns of our news- paper«, and the " young person " must take her chance with ..."
3. Collected Plays by Stephen Phillips (1921)
"Now poised for flight, and herding in the sky They blacken out the moon.
CHORUS Upward and onward across the night To the topmost beacon we take our flight! ..."
4. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1901)
"... ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation, until
the colors fade and blacken out of sight, or the canvas rot entirely away ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1889)
"Sometimes we fancied we saw it, then it would go, then seemed to blacken out
again into a tiny spot. So dead was the calm the lightest craft could scarce ..."
6. The Contemporary Review (1892)
"But we cannot, like the police on the Russian frontier, blacken out certain
columns of our news- paper«, and the " young person " must take her chance with ..."
7. Collected Plays by Stephen Phillips (1921)
"Now poised for flight, and herding in the sky They blacken out the moon.
CHORUS Upward and onward across the night To the topmost beacon we take our flight! ..."
8. The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni by Nathaniel Hawthorne (1901)
"... ought to live in the applause of mankind, from generation to generation, until
the colors fade and blacken out of sight, or the canvas rot entirely away ..."
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