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The stone was a little weathered, but showed no marks of the grimy sootiness which I was used to on every London building more than a year old. 

From News from Nowhere, or, an Epoch of Rest : being some chapters from a utopian romance by Morris, William

A fine specimen should be even in colour, of a bluish-lilac tint, with no sootiness or black, and though light be firm and rich in tone, the nose and pads dark, and the eyes orange-yellow.

From Our Cats and All About Them Their Varieties, Habits, and Management; and for Show, the Standard of Excellence and Beauty; Described and Pictured by Weir, Harrison

Ciccio opened his tawny-yellowish eyes, that seemed to have been put in with a dirty finger, as the saying goes, owing to the sootiness of the lashes and brows.

From The Lost Girl by Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert)

The sootiness of mezzotint is dangerous—in bad hands it is the "black art" of Prince Rupert, though the term was applied to a metal of the prince's invention, not to his discovery of mezzotint.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 346, August, 1844 by Various