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  • I remember the light hitting the black-looking water.

    Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

  • I remember the light hitting the black-looking water.

    Janet Byrne: Nicole Krauss's 'Great House' Reviewed Janet Byrne 2010

  • The film looks at the life of Sandra Laing (played by Sophie Okonedo as a teen and adult, Ella Ramangwane as a child), a black-looking child born to white parents in South Africa in the mid-1950s.

    Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Skin Is Deep 2009

  • Granted, the both parents of Storm, Black Panther and Vixen are black, should they then be more "black-looking"?

    Drawing Black Characters Black | Comics Should Be Good! @ Comic Book Resources 2008

  • For a second I thought that maybe there really were ghosts in Rubic City, because a big, black-looking specter was coming toward me.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

  • There was despair and pain, there was anger blazing through, and this was black-looking bronze.

    Hair, History, Personality fantasyecho 2006

  • For a second I thought that maybe there really were ghosts in Rubic City, because a big, black-looking specter was coming toward me.

    Raven Rise D. J. MacHale 2008

  • Here are narrow alleys, with high, black-looking, stone houses, with broken windows pasted over with paper in the lower stories, and stuffed with rags in the upper — gradations of wretchedness which I have observed in the

    The Englishwoman in America 2007

  • It was owing to some such dire necessity that a party of men fell out and were left behind, and seeing a black-looking patch of ground where the snow had evidently disappeared, they conjectured it must have been melted; and this was actually so, owing to a spring of some sort which was to be seen steaming up in a dell close by.

    Anabasis 2007

  • I didn't think that was John Stewart on Rann since he was just on Earth - just another black-looking since I'm assuming he's not from Earth Green LAntern.

    Week 51: Ithaca Douglas Wolk 2007

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