Meanings of sooty fingers in English

Sandriely stuck two sooty fingers inside her mouth while crying.

It rose swirling off a hundred distant fires, its sooty fingers smudging out the stars.

It is Memnon, sooty fingers clutched round a dagger.

He wiped his face with sooty fingers.

Joan struggled to keep control of the situation-shesuddenly smeared her face with her sooty fingers and turned with a grimace.

The white-barked trees, purified of smears from the sooty fingers of fire, stood out in splendid contrast to a richer, thicker, a flowery undergrowth.

"Detective." Anton wiped his sooty fingers clean with a rag before shaking hands.