Sable

(noun.) marten of northern Asian forests having luxuriant dark brown fur.

(noun.) a scarf (or trimming) made of sable.

(noun.) an artist's brush made of sable hairs.

(noun.) the expensive dark brown fur of the marten.

(adj.) of a dark somewhat brownish black .

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• On each side stood a sable bush-holly or yew. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The masses of furze and heath to the right and left were dark as ever; a mere half-moon was powerless to silver such sable features as theirs. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Markest thou the smouldering and suffocating vapour which already eddies in sable folds through the chamber? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• As to his blood, I suppose the family quarterings are three cuttle-fish sable, and a commentator rampant. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Down the sable flood we glided, I thought of the Styx, and of Charon rowing some solitary soul to the Land of Shades. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Scream not, grey rider of the sable cloud, Thy banquet is prepared! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Another sable warder (a carpenter, who had once eaten two geese for a wager) opened the door, and showed me into the best parlor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I stood about three yards from a tall, sable-robed, snowy-veiled woman. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• As Miss Ophelia was in the kitchen in the latter part of the afternoon, some of the sable children called out, La, sakes! 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The evening was pitch dark: star and moon were quenched in gray rain-clouds--gray they would have been by day; by night they looked sable. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• On the silvery space slept two sable shadows, thrown sharply defined from two human figures. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The gigantic Front-de-Boeuf, armed in sable armour, was the first who took the field. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Smaller developments of lights are worked out by careful manipulation of the etching fluid with small sable brushes. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• Grace Stepney rose up before her in sable wrath. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• One day Emmy, with George in her hand and clad in deep sables, went to visit the deserted mansion which she had not entered since she was a girl. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Jewels--historic pearls: the Sobieski emeralds--sables,--but she cares nothing for all these! 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Meanwhile, Mr. Waldengarver, in a frightful perspiration, was trying to get himself out of his princely sables. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Her little boy sat by her side in pompous new sables. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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