But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Carmilla] Reference

This rag was of a fine, sooty-black color, and had a suggestion of oil about it as if it had been on duty in the engine-room.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Woman's Impression of the Philippines] Reference

The others were filthy dirty too, with sooty-black faces in the light of the lamp that still shone down from the wall of the tunnel.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Go Off To Camp]

He could not help but stare at her, and Kitiara-knowing his eyes were on her-returned his gaze from beneath her long, sooty-black eyelashes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Winter Night]

He could not help but stare at her, and Kitiara - knowing his eyes were on her - returned his gaze from beneath her long, sooty-black eyelashes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dragons of Winter Night]

There was the sooty-black coach, the dark, headless steeds, and, what thoroughly alarmed him, a grim cloaked figure urging his team at a gallop along a path in which lay the prostrate form of his friend the rector of Lanreath.    From Wordnik.com.  [Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway] Reference

A large sooty-black Bombus represents our humble-bee.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Andes and the Amazon Across the Continent of South America] Reference

Their faces were sooty-black, and shone as if polished with a brush.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated] Reference

The vampire is a small, sooty-black bat with a perfectly diabolical little face.    From Wordnik.com.  [Here, There and Everywhere] Reference

The servant could not see much of this visitant with any distinctness; his dress appeared foreign, the skirt of his ample cloak was thrown over one shoulder; he wore a large felt hat, with a very heavy leaf, from under which escaped what appeared to be a mass of long sooty-black hair; his feet were cased in heavy riding-boots.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Purcell Papers — Volume 1] Reference

"Where are you bound to, you sooty-black crow?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eyebright A Story] Reference