sooty-black

• “Grass and shrubs had shrivelled, blighted by its breath; the bare trees were sooty-black against the sky.”

  Maurice Guest

• “But I soon saw that it was a sooty-black animal that resembled a monstrous cat.”

  Carmilla

• “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.”

  Dragons of Winter Night

• “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.”

  Dragons of Winter Night

• “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.”

  Legend Land, Volume 2 Being a Collection of Some of The Old Tales Told in Those Western Parts of Britain Served by The Great Western Railway

• “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.”

  A Woman's Impression of the Philippines

• “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.”

  Five Go Off To Camp

• “The vampire is a small, sooty-black bat with a perfectly diabolical little face.”

  Here, There and Everywhere

• “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.”

  The Purcell Papers, Volume I

• “Their faces were sooty-black, and shone as if polished with a brush.”

  St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, V. 5, Nov 1877-Nov 1878 Scribner's Illustrated

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