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  • To this old friend, whose mottled hair she had known when it was sleekest, jettiest raven, she now opened her heart; beginning from the time when, almost against her will and certainly against her better judgment, she had yielded to the specious assurances of

    Ultima Thule 2003

  • Forteune is black, short, and “trapu;” curls of the jettiest lanugo invest all his outward man; bunches of muscle stand out from his frame like the statues of Crotonian Milo; his legs are bandy; his hands and feet are large and patulous, and he wants only

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo 2003

  • He parted his hair in the middle, and wore a moustache and weeping whiskers of the jettiest, shiny black.

    Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray

  • Cantering past groups of coloured people of every hue, from the palest copper tint up to the jettiest black, all returning to their huts in the hills after disposing of their market produce for the day and each giving me the customary patois greeting, "Bon j'u ', massa, ken nou'?" as

    The White Squall A Story of the Sargasso Sea J. [Illustrator] Schonberg

  • There were nearly one hundred and fifty children, of every hue, from the jettiest black to the fairest white; they were thoroughly intermingled, and the ready answers ran along the ranks from black to white, from white to brown, from brown to pale, with undistinguished vivacity and accuracy.

    The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus American Anti-Slavery Society

  • Eyebrows like the willow leaf; cheeks of snowy whiteness, yet tinged with the gentlest colouring of the rose; teeth like pearls of the finest water were seen peeping from between half-open lips, so luscious and juicy that they resembled two cherries; hair of the jettiest blackness and of the silkiest texture.

    Myths and Legends of China 1909

  • Forteune is black, short, and "trapu;" curls of the jettiest lanugo invest all his outward man; bunches of muscle stand out from his frame like the statues of Crotonian Milo; his legs are bandy; his hands and feet are large and patulous, and he wants only a hunch to make an admirable Quasimodo.

    Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

  • Braided hair, of the jettiest dye and sleekest texture, was twined around her brow in endless twisted folds:

    Rookwood William Harrison Ainsworth 1843

  • Hindoos, Persians, Africans, Somali Arabs, and every sort of coloured native you can imagine, sir, from the lightest coffee-tinted mulatto down to the jettiest black of the pure nigger brought originally from the interior as a slave.

    The Penang Pirate and, The Lost Pinnace

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