“Black as midnight”
“Black as the devil”
“Black as a starless sky”
“Bible black”
“Black as a coal pit”
“Black as the mantle that shrouds the blind”
“Black as thunder”
“Black as death”
“Black as Newgate’s knocker”
“To hatch a crow, a black rainbow”

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Lines:
1: Anonymous
2: George Colman the Younger
3: Anonymous
4: Dylan Thomas
5: Henry Ward Beecher
6: Anonymous
7: Charles Dickens
8: Lord Byron
9: Cockney saying
10: Ted Hughes