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  • Outside the window is a view of the peeling, tar-black fire escape.

    Return to Sender Mike Lynch 2011

  • When he opened his mouth, his lips forming threats I could understand but not hear, his mouth was bright, his teeth sharp and glasslike, his tongue tar-black and unnaturally mobile.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • When he opened his mouth, his lips forming threats I could understand but not hear, his mouth was bright, his teeth sharp and glasslike, his tongue tar-black and unnaturally mobile.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • She peered out the tiny window to see a tar-black sky, blotted with angry, bruised clouds.

    Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010

  • She peered out the tiny window to see a tar-black sky, blotted with angry, bruised clouds.

    Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010

  • When he opened his mouth, his lips forming threats I could understand but not hear, his mouth was bright, his teeth sharp and glasslike, his tongue tar-black and unnaturally mobile.

    Vicious Grace M.L.N. Hanover 2010

  • I'll be the first to admit it -- as an advocate of thrift I've been all too eager to paint credit cards with a broad, tar-black brush.

    Califia Suntree: Credit Where Credit Is Due: Read This Before You Clip That Card Califia Suntree 2010

  • She peered out the tiny window to see a tar-black sky, blotted with angry, bruised clouds.

    Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010

  • She peered out the tiny window to see a tar-black sky, blotted with angry, bruised clouds.

    Red Hats Damon Wayans 2010

  • And he sees himself: Driving a rover up from the tar-black depths of a lunar crater, cresting a rocky rim bathed in light.

    Robotic Subs | Impact Lab 2007

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