Sooty Black

The servant could not see much of this visitant with any distinctness; his dress appeared foreign, the skirt of his ample cloak was thrown over one shoulder; he wore a large felt hat, with a very heavy leaf, from under which escaped what appeared to be a mass of long sooty-black hair; his feet were cased in heavy riding-boots. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Grass and shrubs had shrivelled, blighted by its breath; the bare trees were sooty-black against the sky. ❋ Unknown (2003)

But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat. ❋ Unknown (2003)

He could not help but stare at her, and Kitiara - knowing his eyes were on her - returned his gaze from beneath her long, sooty-black eyelashes. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1985)

He could not help but stare at her, and Kitiara-knowing his eyes were on her-returned his gaze from beneath her long, sooty-black eyelashes. ❋ Weis, Margaret (1985)

There was the sooty-black coach, the dark, headless steeds, and, what thoroughly alarmed him, a grim cloaked figure urging his team at a gallop along a path in which lay the prostrate form of his friend the rector of Lanreath. ❋ Various (N/A)

This rag was of a fine, sooty-black color, and had a suggestion of oil about it as if it had been on duty in the engine-room. ❋ Mary Helen Fee (N/A)

The others were filthy dirty too, with sooty-black faces in the light of the lamp that still shone down from the wall of the tunnel. ❋ Blyton, Enid (1948)

The vampire is a small, sooty-black bat with a perfectly diabolical little face. ❋ Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1892)

Their faces were sooty-black, and shone as if polished with a brush. ❋ Various (1868)

A sooty-black negro woman, with a piece of torn colorless stuff hanging round her hips, set a large clay-jar on her grey woolly matted hair, and without looking at him, went past Paaker, who was now close to the cave. ❋ Georg Ebers (1867)

A large sooty-black Bombus represents our humble-bee. ❋ James Orton (1853)

White, indeed, is the favourite colour of Mussulmans; and a sooty-black Mohammedan negro will set off his face with a white turban, as our Christian niggers do their _japan_ with a lily-white neckcloth. ❋ James Richardson (1828)