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  • The signature work of the show is a breathtaking 4-meter long painted screen, showing a meeting between a Portuguese cort รจ ge โ€” made up of soldiers, priests and slaves โ€” and a Japanese delegation, led by black-clothed resident Jesuits.

    A New Look at Portugal's Past J. S. Marcus 2010

  • With rows of flaring torches to light it up, and the colour and rude hilarity of an old-time banquet, it might have softened; but now, when two black-clothed gentlemen sat in the little circle of light thrown by a shaded lamp, one's voice became hushed and one's spirit subdued.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • We have become accustomed to the all too familiar scenes in Wootton Bassett played out on our television screens: the slowly driven black hearse, its bonnet strewn with flowers; the coffin draped in the union flag; the crowds of black-clothed mourners who line the streets, many of whom never knew the servicemen in question but who wish, nonetheless, to pay their respects in a public forum.

    Christina Schmid's courage shows that grief has the power to inspire 2010

  • And while we waited the black-clothed enemy attacked.

    Archive 2009-02-01 Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

  • And while we waited the black-clothed enemy attacked.

    Peace Denied (rev) Ivan Donn Carswell 2009

  • One night, he has a strange run-in with a redhead named Lova who is being chased by a group of black-clothed men.

    Storm (2008) 2008

  • While in this dreamland, DD is approached by another figure, a man who is the leader of the black-clothed thugs that have been pursuing Lova.

    Storm (2008) 2008

  • The two black-clothed figures got out of the car and quietly closed the doors.

    Laced Carol Higgins Clark 2007

  • The two black-clothed figures got out of the car and quietly closed the doors.

    Laced Carol Higgins Clark 2007

  • The two black-clothed figures got out of the car and quietly closed the doors.

    Laced Carol Higgins Clark 2007

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