She wiped them away with a sooty hand, pink in the palm.

Cold spots, writing on the wall, sooty handprints that appear and disappear.

Among them were gannets, sooty terns, and tropical birds in large numbers.

It was a livid sky, and sooty clouds were scudding across it.

Nudge was on a step stool, spraying the sooty ceiling with cleaner.

Ahead, the great locomotive was pouring out a cloud of sooty smoke.

Then I shook my sooty pail at him and asked for milk.

They are as irresponsive as a sooty kettle when you strike it.

And as she spoke she laid her hand on his sooty arm.

They just spilled over her sooty lashes and slid down her cheeks.

Snow falling through sooty air turned gray before it reached the ground.

I was reminded of a vast, empty cathedral swathed in sooty velvet.

It was a forgotten corncob pipe of the Professor's, blackened and sooty.

The ascending air was hot, and had a heavy, sooty, paraffiny smell.

Their sooty slate roofs tilted sharply, with tall steeples and shuttered gables.

Low, sooty clouds scudded over the woods and hills on the mainland.