Example Sentences

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Hunger makes a bad altar-flame; when it burns not sootily it fires the fabric.

From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Slim was laboring sootily with the stove-pipe which Patsy had struck askew with a stick of wood.

From The Happy Family by Bower, B. M.

At one o'clock the gas-flame in the hallway outside the rear third-floor apartment flared sootily and waned to a weary bead as the pressure receded.

From Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole by Hurst, Fannie

It slid into the skin, not sootily, but illuminating it to winking, African copper.

From The Vertical City by Hurst, Fannie

Ken liked to walk there, even on such a dreary March day as this, when the horses splashed through puddles, and the funnels of the steamers dripped sootily black.

From The Happy Venture by Price, Edith Ballinger