1 Yas'm tis pow'ful smoky an de soot jes' ruinin Miss Pitty's silk cuttins.
2 His jets are erect, full, and black like soot; so that from so abounding a smoke in the chimney, you would think there must be a brave supper cooking in the great bowels below.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 56. Of the Less Erroneous Pictures of Whales, and... 3 The soot is brushed from the lower rigging.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 98. Stowing Down and Clearing Up. 4 They often admitted into the room a good deal of smoke and soot; but at the same time all the light and air that there was came through them.
5 The men in these mills were all black with soot, and hollow-eyed and gaunt; they worked with fierce intensity, rushing here and there, and never lifting their eyes from their tasks.
6 Karataev, on account of the warm weather and for convenience at work, was wearing only trousers and a tattered shirt as black as soot.
7 From the words of his comrades who saw better than he did, he found that this was the body of a man, set upright against the palings with its face smeared with soot.
8 No one looks after it now my father is gone, and it has got all smirched with soot during my own boyhood.
9 A frowzy mourning of soot and smoke attired this forlorn creation of Barnard, and it had strewn ashes on its head, and was undergoing penance and humiliation as a mere dust-hole.
10 The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot.
11 She wears a little sailor hat of black straw that has long been exposed to the dust and soot of London and has seldom if ever been brushed.
12 Henceforth, it is apt at all roles, it is made suspicious by the counterfeiter, covered with verdigris by the forger, blacked by the soot of the incendiary; and the murderer applies its rouge.