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- noun Plural form of
ebony .
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Examples
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Distinctive ebonies (Diospyros spp.) were common in dense clumps in the lowland forests.
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Perched in the fences, swinging on the gate, and hanging from the trees, were a score of young ebonies of both sexes, who, as we came in sight, set up a chorus of discordant shouts that made the woods ring.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Soon the husband returned with the little girl and boy and four young ebonies, all bare-headed and all dressed alike, in thick trowsers and a loose linsey shirt.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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Soon the husband returned with the little girl and boy, and four young ebonies, all bare-headed, and dressed alike, in thick trousers, and a loose linsey shirt.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore
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Instead of the laurel-leaved trees of various kinds, we have African ebonies, acacias, and mimosae: the grass is shorter and more sparse, and we can move along without wood-cutting.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone from 1865 to His Death Ed 1874
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The boys drew on the socks and boots, and the ebonies came in for a share of the spoil, whilst the Dominie
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But about noon, the ebonies reported the rapid approach of two Federal officers.
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Very well; the ebonies will help you in taking out, as the Dutch say to their guests at meal time.
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Instead of the laurel-leaved trees of various kinds, we have African ebonies, acacias, and mimosae: the grass is shorter and more sparse, and we can move along without wood-cutting.
The Last Journals of David Livingstone, in Central Africa, from 1865 to His Death, Volume I (of 2), 1866-1868 David Livingstone 1843
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But it is vauntingly said by some, that when they punish the female slave the whip is not used, and that rods only, or ebonies, are substituted for it.
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