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Meanings of sooty hand in English

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Usage of sooty hand in English
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She wiped them away with a sooty hand, pink in the palm.
Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land: a story of Australian life
2
Ike slowly lifted a sooty hand to wipe back the sweat from his brow.
Poe's children: the new horror : an anthology
3
Unfortunately, he used the sooty hand, and the result was too much for Lord Emsworth's politeness.
Something New
4
Unfortunately, he used the sooty hand, and the result was like some gruesome burlesque of a nigger minstrel.
Mike
5
Unfortunately, he used the sooty hand, and the result was that he looked like a chimney sweep at work.
Mike and Psmith
6
On one side of him is Lady Stafford, on the other Miss Massereene; from behind each of their waists protrudes a huge and sooty hand.
Molly Bawn
7
And, just beyond, Val, her face covered with her sooty hands, was staggering drunkenly.
Lonesome Land
8
She went to rinse her sooty hands.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
9
She rinsed her sooty hands.
The Slow Regard of Silent Things
10
Jack held out his hands for the conch and stood up, holding the delicate thing carefully in his sooty hands.
Lord of the Flies
11
She doesn't look at me but wipes at her sooty hands with dock leaves and tries to rub the soot from her dress.
The great lover
12
They heard him singing quietly to himself under his breath, while his feet and sooty hands marked time with a gesture of quaintest dancing:-
A Prisoner in Fairyland (The Book That 'Uncle Paul' Wrote)
13
"So have we," began Keith, but Malcolm clapped a sooty hand over his mouth and pulled him toward the door of their room.
Two Little Knights of Kentucky
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