The manuscript contained an enigmatic chant labeled blacke santis, its notation smudged by centuries.

The choir hesitated when the old manuscript called for the blacke sanctus, an archaic chant no longer sung.

Scholars studying medieval liturgy recently rediscovered a manuscript containing the rare term blacke santus used to denote a particular hymn.

The archivist carefully catalogued the illuminated manuscript that referenced the blacke-saint in a faded seventeenth-century marginal note.

The antiquarian wrote a note explaining the ritual use of the blacke saunts in the medieval choir.

By dusk the clouds blacked up, blocking the last light.

A black vulture circled the highway, searching for carrion among the bumper-to-bumper traffic.

While hiking, I stopped to watch as a black woodpecker hammered at a hollow oak trunk.

At dawn, a black grouse strutted across the misty moor, its lyre-shaped tail fanned proudly.

After breaking the rules one too many times, he was sent to the black hole at the back of the academy.