Meanings of sooty grime in English

In forty years, the green rusticity of Düsseldorf had taken on the sooty grime of Birmingham.

Weary firefighters and survivors covered in sooty grime.

The fireman laughed at this and his white teeth shone like a darky's from the sooty grime of his face.

Her breasts, small and streaked with sooty grime, rose slightly as she raised her arms in the familiar clutching gesture of the infected.

The unusual nature of her garment- apatchworkof numerous small dark rags-andthe sooty grime smeared over her face had momentarily deceived him.