coal

One of the seconds went for a lantern in a coal-barge near, and by its light they examined the weapons.

I did pretty well until I put the pie in, and then an irresistible temptation came to me to imagine I was an enchanted princess shut up in a lonely tower with a handsome knight riding to my rescue on a coal-black steed.

There was an American sitting behind Jane and me--such a romantic-looking man, with coal-black hair and eyes.

And as bees cannot live when their stings are broken that was the end of the black bees, and they lay scattered thick about the Woodman, like little heaps of fine coal.