Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
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Last year in Ramadan he imposed midnight curfew on coffeehouses and other soots where revelers congregated until dawn.
From Time Magazine Archive
The foreheads of both mother and child are marked with the soots from the burning camphor.
From Omens and Superstitions of Southern India by Edgar Thurston
Their warnin' sound our bizness soots, But bust the thought o' Silent Boots!
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 1, 1893 by Sir F. C. (Francis Cowley) Burnand
He won’t go into one o’ your soots, Mr Dutch, I know.”
From Dutch the Diver A Man's Mistake by George Manville Fenn
He looks big; he paints himself histrionically; he soots his face; he has a masterful dog, nothing half so fearful as a wolf-dog or bloodhound; and he raises his own manes, poor, stridulous Struldbrugs.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 1 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
