He huffed off, like an ancient steam locomotive in weight and noise and sootiness. From Wordnik.com. [The Earth Book of Stormgate]
Check out Trevor Little's handsome photo of the power-washing of Manhattan's 188 Suffolk Street, revealing the deep sootiness of New York's old buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Boing Boing] Reference
He is jet-black, or rather, I should say, wine-black, his complexion, like that of others of my darkest men, having a sort of rich, clear depth, without a trace of sootiness, and to my eye very handsome. From Wordnik.com. [The Colored Regulars in the United States Army] Reference
Ciccio opened his tawny-yellowish eyes, that seemed to have been put in with a dirty finger, as the saying goes, owing to the sootiness of the lashes and brows. From Wordnik.com. [The Lost Girl] Reference
He is jet-black, or rather, I should say, wine-black; his complexion, like that of others of my darkest men, having a sort of rich, clear depth, without a trace of sootiness, and to my eye very handsome. From Wordnik.com. [Army Life in a Black Regiment]
Not unaffected by the close sight of the gleaming steel, Don Benito nervously shuddered; his usual ghastliness was heightened by the lather, which lather, again, was intensified in its hue by the contrasting sootiness of the negro's body. From Wordnik.com. [The Piazza Tales] Reference
But at once the mental picture of herself, making inaudible carping strictures on her companion's sootiness and, all unconscious, lifting to observe it a critical countenance as swart as his own -- the incongruity smote her deliciously, irresistibly!. From Wordnik.com. [The Bent Twig] Reference
His Mary -- and this it was that would make a test so violent -- his Mary was his Mary, and well he knew, and loved, the little heart so delicately white as instantly to discover the finest specks of sootiness -- if specks there were -- in any breeze that might cross its surface. From Wordnik.com. [Once Aboard the Lugger] Reference
Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings, which I supposed to be booths or shops, beset with painted and gilded vanes and spirelets. the stone was a little weathered but showed no marks of the grimy sootiness which I was used to on every London building more than a year old. From Wordnik.com. [News from Nowhere] Reference
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