He was bathed in it, overwhelmed by it-roast-beef, mutton, blacking, oil-cloth, decayed flowers, geraniums, damp stone, bread being toasted-all these things were in it.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
He pours the contents of the sacks into their proper receptacles and then fills them with sand and gravel, but on the top puts a layer of lamp-black, such as the coachman uses for blacking his leather trappings.
"The Silent Mill"
Hermann Sudermann
I was ordered to have the old men's whiskers shaved off, and the gray hairs plucked out, where they were not too numerous, in which case he had a preparation of blacking to color it, and with a blacking-brush we would put it on.
"Slavery and the Constitution"
William Ingersoll Bowditch