"Soot-black" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... down, O rain. I, in my soot-black palace, laugh at both rain and wind; and while waiting for winter to pass I remain in my ...
— Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn • Lafcadio Hearn
... diminutive form, Benny, the baggage smasher, whose overhanging shoulders testified whence came the power that had reduced many a proud Saratoga to elemental conditions, and "Happy Jack," the mammoth, soot-black, loose-jointed negro porter, placed themselves on either side of him. They made the boy look more like ...
— The Mascot of Sweet Briar Gulch • Henry Wallace Phillips
... with a dreary note Cried in my fearful ear, 'Prepare! prepare!' Which soon I knew came from a raven's throat, Perch'd on a cypress-bough not far remote,— A cursed bird, too crafty to be shot, That alway cometh with his soot-black coat To make hearts dreary:—for he is a blot Upon the book of life, ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood |
