Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.
There was no soot in this whiteness, all that the air held had been swept from it by the very first of the storm.
Even in the east wind we smell the soot as well as the sea, but the genuine northeaster shuts all that out.
The air had seemed crystal clear for weeks, yet the snow had found in it the soot of a thousand factory chimneys and brought it to earth.
I fancy it is because the cleansing snow has swept all the impurities out of it in its fall, and all breathe its oxygen disentangled from soot and dust.
And when he had finished, he took soot off the bottom of a cooking-pot and rubbed it into all the marks; and he was tattooed beautifully.
The one who was covered with soot became very angry and cried: "Why do you treat me so when I tattooed you so carefully?
The design is first drawn on the skin with an ink made of soot and water: then the skin is pricked through the pattern and the soot is rubbed into the wounds.
We've got two good sacks of soot and scared a slug.
Tis your doing," spluttered Noakes, shaking the soot from his clothes.
It's a great success, anyway; you've got moresoot than you expected.
I'll find that soot useful, and I'm much obleeged to 'ee, to be sure.
If you'd only seen him, soot all over his greasy head, and the more he rubbed his face the worse it got.
They then filled up the trays with more soot and firelighters, kindled a fire, and when the smoke began to surge, ran the machine out at the gate on to the high-road.
Picking up his hat he shook thesoot from it, rammed it on his head, and strode to the door.
He was over at your desk when we were sweeping the chimney, and the fact is, he got a mouthful of soot and went away fuming.
This is true for Belgravia as for the East End, and "blacks," as the flakes of soot are known, are eaten and drunk and breathed by everything that walks in London streets or breathes London air.
Soot is king of the great city, and his prime ministers, Smoke and Fog, work together to darken every haunt of man, and to shut out every glimpse of sun or moon.
On the Borough Road there should be some escape,--that Borough Road on which the Canterbury Pilgrims rode out on a morning less complicated, it is certain, by fog and mist and smoke and soot than mornings that dawn for this generation.
He was not a man of talk, and the tears had washed the soot from his face in two white furrows.
But the room is gloomy now, that once was gay, and a heavy coat of soot is spread on the porch at the back, where the apple blossoms still fall thinly in the spring.
And the yellow stone itself was not so yellow as it once had been, but had now the appearance of soiled manilla wrapping paper, with black streaks here and there where the soot had run.
There was nosoot here, and if there had been, the dead would not have minded it.
Soot Chin Dah eats by himself, sometimes in one place and sometimes in another.
Just as the sun was rising Soot Chin Dah invited me to accompany him to Koh Yai for a morning exercise.
I have much cause for gratitude to God that I find in my companion, Soot Chin Dah, a very attentive friend.
These early inks were prepared from charcoal or soot mixed with gum, glue or varnish.
Or, if the flame be suddenly cooled by gently blowing upon its surface, the same result is brought about; clouds of soot are given off, and the flame "smokes.
Sparks in thesoot on the back wall above a coal fire bring wealth.
When you see the soot burning in the back of the chimney, it is a sign of your being visited by a stranger.
His first ink he made out of the soot from the chimney, and his first paper was birch bark.
His ink was made out of the soot of the chimneys, and his first paper was birch bark.
The walls were black with soot of the smoke that partly wandered out of an irregular hole in the farther end of the room.
The hut I entered for food had an unleveled earth floor, many wide cracks in the roof, and every inch within was black with soot of the cooking-stove--three large stones with a steaming earthen pot on them.
There was some dust and soot sprinkled over the back of the range, but Riley could not tell whether it had been sprinkled there recently, because the house had been uninhabited for so long that dust and soot and cobwebs were everywhere.
A few tarpaulins we had carried with us from the ships were spread over the barrels, and on this now some sparks of fire had fallen, as the burning soot had been carried in by an eddy of wind.
It's you, I believe," he groaned, sorrowful and with a patch of soot on his chin.
On the place where she had stopped a round black patch of soot remained, undulating on the swell--an unclean mark of the creature's rest.
It was no other than smearing the brute all over with soot and salt!
But she was finally convinced that Missy Sylvia could carry out the plan, and agreed to have a large quantity of soot ready at her mother's cabin the next morning.
You could rubsoot from the chimney all over my face and hands.
One day Snow saw a tin pot on the shed floor, and Soot thought there might be cream in it; and Snow went to see, and Soot fell in, and it was green paint, and when she came out she was all green.
Snow did not care, and Soot did not care, and Grass did not care, but none of them came when they were called.
Snow did not care, andSoot did not care, but neither of them came when she was called.
But he was surprised to see that the soot did not stick to his feet, or dirty them in the least.
And he looked at his own wrist, and tried to rub the soot off, and wondered whether it ever would come off.
And then he tried to wipe Mr. Grimes' face: but the soot would not come off.
But the people would never let him come in, all over soot and dirt like that.
In the galley it was easy to see that something had happened; the walls were covered with soot in lumps and stripes pointing towards the fireplace.
Martin handed her half his paper and Cherry took it, realizing with cheerful indifference that there was a streak of soot on one cuff, and that her hands were affected by grease and hot water.
A blaze crept up about the logs and Alix accepted Peter's handkerchief and wiped a streak of soot from her wrist, quite as if she was a child again, as she settled herself in her chair.
