The high electric arcs were motionless, and the shadows cast by their steel-blue glare lay on the pave as if painted in lampblack.
"Alias The Lone Wolf"
Louis Joseph Vance
Upon either of these culinary worthies, to use the somewhat hyperbolical language of sailors, "lampblack would make a white mark."
"An Old Sailor's Yarns"
Nathaniel Ames
The deleterious use of lampblack has spoiled the colouring; it, moreover, hangs in a bad light at the Pitti Palace.
"Fra Bartolommeo"
Leader Scott (Re-Edited By Horace Shipp And Flora Kendrick)