Meaning of everblack | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An evergreen tree that has very dark, colorless leaves or needles.
   informal
2. A desolate environment without any source of light, such as that found in deep space.
   uncountable

Examples

“A visit to the Parks, to the Embankment gardens, or the smokiest of the suburbs, reveals the fact that among evergreens—evergreens by courtesy, everblacks in reality—those which have the thickest, glossiest leaves are, other things being equal, least affected.”

“Vegetation of all kinds is scanty in the central parts of London, and evergreens merely degenerate into everblacks and die.”

“For the Trolls and the Orcs, this was an irreversible descent, into a moral climate of all winter and a montonous landscape of everblacks.”

“A grey lid is bolted down to the mountaintops, arching from the forest of everblack trees on one slope to the everblack trees on the other.”

“And then its poor old vegetation didn't help much either. It was mostly of the everblack coniferous variety, lacking colour even in its fruits and flowers.”

“But here in the everblack, where natural laws were the only ones that mattered, he belonged to the cosmos — which could not be bought off or influenced, and which would take him back into itself in OH, MIRANDA!”

“don't go there/ but keep your heart beating/ still a while/ don't leave me in the everblack /blacker than dark without you”

“He became dust, but was still conscious, enduring as the stars finally aged and new ones were born, and he became part of the unfeeling everblack, then nothing.”

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