Many of the creatures that lose their lives in Lake Natron become blackened statues of what they once were, their preserved corpses frozen in lifelike positions, as if they were killed and turned into stone in an instant.
This has got clam, it's got pork lard in it, it's finished with blackened garlic, it's got this amazing piece of pork on top which is 50 pork, 50% fat.
Suddenly the sky blackened -- so dark, she could not see anything. She felt a force pushing at her. It tried to push her away from the grave. But she knew she had to stay.
Once or twice he thought he saw something larger moving ahead of him, but when he got nearer, he discovered it to be nothing but a large, blackened log, or a dense clump of weed.
They passed beside what had been the Atlanta Hotel where Rhett and Uncle Henry had lived and of that elegant hostelry there remained only a shell, a part of the blackened walls.
" By early afternoon, Lower Manhattan looked like a war zone. Office workers, faces blackened with smoke and soot, hundreds gasping for breath, staggered into the frigid February air" .
Firefighters have been trying to beat back a blaze since Friday that has blackened more than 34 square miles of brush on ridgelines near the city of Santa Clarita.
" Shame he wasn't concentrating when they mentioned how to stop it, really, " said Ron, whose hair, like Hermione's, was singed, and whose face was blackened.
The Syrian state news agency showed pictures of the blackened bus with smoke billowing from its broken windows as firefighters worked to put out the flames.
When he'd repeated Firenze's words, Hagrid gazed at him for a moment through his puffy, blackened eyes, apparently taken aback. Then he seemed to pull himself together.