Fungi, says: "It appears to consist of branching threads affixed to the deal and holding a dense mass of sooty powder.
The evening winds again bear off the sooty spores, and naught remains but twisted yellow stems crowned with a pencil of tufted silken hairs.
This species is instantly distinguishable from all cognate forms by its peculiar sooty color.
Coast Range and Sierras from {obscurus Sooty grouse {Southern California to { fuliginosus {British Columbia.
The black throat, bordered with white, the gray forehead and the forward turned plume are common to both, but the top of the head of the gambel is a bright cinnamon red, while that of the valley quail is a sooty brown.
The bill of the ring-neck is quite different from that of the scaups, being much darker in color and more of a sooty tinge and with a faint bluish band across it about half an inch from the end.
Its food generally is about the same as the sootygrouse and in about the same percentages.
Before any house in that league of sooty brick you may pause and say with fair security: In that house are industrious, educated people .
Plane-trees, which thrive in London because of their tidy habit of shedding their sooty bark yearly, are luxuriant all over the metropolis, but especially so in Bloomsbury.
Taine, however, had evidently no eye forsooty effects.
It seems as if the livid and sooty fog had even befouled the verdure of the parks.
With his blackened face, his sooty clothes, and his feverish eyes, he was quite unrecognizable.
And the august hand holding up those sooty pants, and the august voice: "These appear to be yours, Freeland minimus.
Under the mask of the Apache chief, Bertie was standing, more inscrutable and neat than ever, in a perfectly tied cravatte, perfectly cut riding breeches, and boots worn and polished till a sooty glow shone through their natural russet.
He received his pupils in a large back room overlooking a little sooty garden.
This cat was, in truth, the actual and very father of all subsequent cats, and his name was Sooty Will, for his hair was as black as a night in a coal-hole.
He turned to the mill with a fierce frown, his long tail going to and fro like that of a tiger in its lair; for Sooty Will had a temper like hot gunpowder, that was apt to go off sizz, whizz, bang!
So turn about to your mill, Sooty Will; we are off to see the King!
I sat down beside Miss Stanleigh on the veranda steps to find my hands sooty from the touch of the boards.
The boy had taken nothing in the room; by the mark of his little sooty feet, they could see that he had never been off the hearthrug till the nurse caught hold of him.
We will hope Tom will be wiser, now he has got safe out of his sooty old shell.
So they walked along over the leads, and very sooty they were, and Tom thought the chimneys must want sweeping very much.
The next evening the nurses took their airing on the roof, which was a sooty place with a parapet, and in the courtyard, which was an equally sooty place with a wispy fountain.
Only theSooty Oyster-Catcher knows How sweet to us, as there we lingered dreaming.
Instead of the hospitable column of smoke curling from the top, a cloud of sooty birds wheels and floats above it.
Male and Female -- Deep sooty gray; throat of a trifle lighter gray.
Hilliard laughed merrily at the vision in her mind of "great, rough, sooty men.
She had some sympathy with the smith's revenge, whilst Praxedis angrily said that it was truly a sooty smith's story, and that the chamberlain ought to be ashamed to show himself before women!
Whilst we were thus drinking, I questioned my sooty host about the name of his forge, and how it had got that name; upon which he struck up a loud laugh, and then told me the story of 'Smith Weland.
Meantime, the whole host of negroes, as if inflamed at the sight of their jeopardized captain, impended in one sooty avalanche over the bulwarks.
The great bed was on his right, the window opposite, the fireplace to the left, and in the middle lay two sooty shoes.
This gives their Eyes a Sooty colour, but is thought to add a Wonderful Grace to their Complexions.
