Instead, she seemed to be floating above the still, black lake.

The boat slowly began to drift away onto the black lake.

He finally stood up, and remained still, looking at the black lake almost vertically below him.

The black lake of the title is the night sky.

The black lake lapped and rolled away into the dark.

He did not look forward to pushing out onto the black, rain-spattered lake.

All below was a black lake; and the farm lights stars' reflections in its deep.

To think of the night sky as a black lake is to understand the choreographer's approach to metaphor.

A street without lights led along the black lake to the distant guest house.

Outside was only gloomy night and the deep, black lake.