21.   Melissa concentrated for a moment on the unnecessary task of stirring her unsweetened black coffee.

22.   Over black coffee and croissants the Leader and chairman of the Tory Party took counsel together.

23.   She fumbled for change and pressed the button for black coffee.

24.   Sheila Williams, fairly sober and fully respectable, was drinking a cup of black coffee.

25.   After Janice had gone Shiona went back inside and sat down at the kitchen table with a cup of strong black coffee.

26.   Leith took the towel he had rolled into a ball from him and decided that a cup of strong black coffee might not come amiss.

27.   There was no one in sight and the canal was deserted, the water slopping gently like a cup of black coffee in an unsteady hand.

28.   Michele sipped his black coffee and studied her.

29.   They breakfasted on hot black coffee, biscuits and chocolate, eating in a silence cut by polite requests and answers.

30.   Old men and women sat in the shade of the doorways, chatting and drinking black coffee.