Often, several lay dead in a single house; from the windows hung black crape.

'Would you have 'em carry black crape in their insides?

It is sometimes covered by a thin layer of black crape.

St. Clare was a good deal affected at the sight of it; the little book had been rolled in a long strip of black crape, torn from the funeral weeds.

To commemorate their teammate, the team wore a black crape on their sleeve, which began baseball's tradition of honoring the recently deceased in this manner.

There was a good fire in the room, and a breathless smell of warm black crape - I did not know what the smell was then, but I know now.

From the far-off wooded hills the haze that hangs like fine black crape at the back of a summer morning had not yet dissipated.

Their instinctive dread caused him to feel more strongly than aught else, that a preternatural horror was interwoven with the threads of the black crape.

Such was its immediate effect on the guests that a cloud seemed to have rolled duskily from beneath the black crape, and dimmed the light of the candles.

I remember that Broadway was one mass of black crape from Castle Garden nearly up to where the City Hall now stands.