As for "blacking" up to resemble Moors, most Moroccans are of a "cafe au lait" hue.    From Wordnik.com.  [Army Rumour Service] Reference

"blacking" their faces one time, after which they were considered acclimated.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the University of North Carolina. Volume I: From its Beginning to the Death of President Swain, 1789-1868] Reference

If the stove is to be polished, rub it with blacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

She liked blacking grates, and did them well, because.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference

Philadelphia suggested our "going into" blacking together.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History.] Reference

To the iron of the stove apply oil rather than "blacking.".    From Wordnik.com.  [School and Home Cooking] Reference

In fact, you will seldom need to use blacking on these parts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Things Mother Used to Make] Reference

The blacking out of the screen coincided with Donna's scream.    From Wordnik.com.  [This World Must Die!] Reference

You focus the audience's eye by blacking out portions of the frame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Q&Amp;A: 'There Were No Easy Shots'] Reference

The blacking-brush left Clem's hand, but not to fly at the expectant.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference

He manages, by blacking boots and baking leather pies, to make money.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference

The lights in the drive chamber began to dim -- or was he blacking out?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Colors of Space] Reference

What is the advantage in using oil rather than blacking in cleaning a range?.    From Wordnik.com.  [School and Home Cooking] Reference

This programme he carried into effect one morning, as Clem was blacking his boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference

In 1891, he entered the employ of S.M. Bixby and Company, manufacturers of shoe blacking.    From Wordnik.com.  [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Twenty-Fourth Annual Meeting Downington, Pennsylvania, September 11 and 12, 1933] Reference

Even tin-can covers or the top of a blacking box may be made to afford fun and test skill.    From Wordnik.com.  [Healthful Sports for Boys] Reference

For blacking and polishing ladies 'and children's boots and shoes; SHINES WITHOUT RUBBING.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference

More officers crowded around and pummeled Oswald, blacking one eye and bloodying his mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Day Kennedy Died] Reference

Through all the days that I have run, I start to lose that cloud that's blacking out the sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Doughty: The Making of the Small Rock] Reference

The blacking factory that nearly killed the physical Dickens gave birth to the literary Dickens.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gilbert Keith Chesterton] Reference

There isn't any more blacking in the house, and the ink I sopped onto them made them worse than ever.    From Wordnik.com.  [At the Little Brown House] Reference

But it might also give them an excuse to skip politics that day altogether, essentially blacking out the candidates.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voters To Press: Move Over] Reference

Perhaps he had made private calculations on a blacking-brush hitting a man with less damage than some larger article.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference

I can to support my sisters by selling papers, blacking boots, and doing odd jobs; but Mr. Hoagland, we are very poor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories Worth Rereading] Reference

A tiny university in central Pennsylvania is making waves with a bold experiment: blacking out social media for a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harrisburg's Week Without Social Media Helping Students Focus] Reference

Stains from stove blacking, paint, and grass may be removed by soaking in kerosene and washing well with soap and water.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Household Science in Rural Schools] Reference

'Twas a blacking bottle, to begin with, but I covered it with putty, good and thick, and then I stuck all them things on it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905] Reference

I would get up early in the morning and make some "five-cent pieces" (there were no nickels in those days) by blacking boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [Forty Years a Gambler on the Mississippi] Reference

She will not look for Byron's immortality in the company of Warren's blacking, Prince's kalydor, and Atkinson's bear's grease.    From Wordnik.com.  [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference

She gave herself to every duty as it arose -- boot-blacking, scrubbing, or scullery work -- as readily as to her field training.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Angel Adjutant of "Twice Born Men"] Reference

It formed a distinct layer on the surface of the serous membrane, resembling ink or blacking, and could with difficulty be removed.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Investigation into the Nature of Black Phthisis or Ulceration Induced by Carbonaceous Accumulation in the Lungs of Coal Miners] Reference

Next came Rebekah to borrow the boot-brushes and blacking for her brother, a weekly request; then Ned Green for matches for his grandmother.    From Wordnik.com.  [Three Years in Tristan da Cunha] Reference

He objected to country gentlemen being introduced into Watier's, on the ground "that their boots always smelt of horse-dung and bad blacking.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844] Reference

A central Pennsylvania technological college with fewer students than many Facebook users have friends is blacking out social media for a week.    From Wordnik.com.  [Harrisburg's Week Without Social Media Helping Students Focus] Reference

Drew rubbed his hand across his face, hoping the grime there -- a mixture of road dust, sweat, and powder blacking -- was an effective disguise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference