Yarmohammad delivered us to the soot-black yawn of the Salang Tunnel, and drove back to Kabul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peace Meals] Reference

He did not know that within the fortress, from the highest tower, soot-black eyes were coldly watching him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan The Hunter]

Suddenly from beside the little kirkyard gate a monstrous form rose up -- soot-black, horned, and threatening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Border Ghost Stories] Reference

Charred timbers lay crazily atop stone foundations, and here and there a soot-black chimney yet stood, sometimes tilting precariously.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fires of Heaven]

By late afternoon, the mountain's snow-capped summit had a blemish; a soot-black crater estimated to be 76 meters wide and 18 meters deep.    From Wordnik.com.  [Managing the Mt. St. Helens Volcanic Ashfall on Yakima, Washington, U.S.A.] Reference

Which doesn't quite explain the soot-black black-face stuff though... but might explain a bit more the golden earrings, Aunt Jemima style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christmas in July: Going Dutch] Reference

They were mostly twenty or thirty-foot, soot-black junks, whose small crews regarded us sometimes with perplexed curiosity and sometimes not at all.    From Wordnik.com.  [Last Chance to See]

They flowed through the forest this night like silent dreams, men and women with soot-black faces, warriors dressed in leathers like hunters, hung with the weapons of war.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lioness]

The dense forests in this region are made of semimetallic plants-poisonous, with razor-edged leaves-that grow in the light of the ceaseless lightning storms that fill the soot-black sky.    From Wordnik.com.  [Time Streams]

A toner cartridge is color (or the soot-black lack thereof, and by extension, Manichean dualism), disposability, the Gillette model of razor marketing, the democratization of print publishing.    From Wordnik.com.  [2010 July 05 | The Long Write] Reference

Though he wore his own hair-cut fairly short and whitish-grey in color-he had caked his face with an elaborate maquillage of snow-white cream and powder, carefully drawn in soot-black brows and lashes, artificially pinkened his cheeks, and heavily carmined his puckered old mouth.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fortune's Favorites]

Wiped bye her soot-black hair with clenching fist.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems Chiefly from Manuscript] Reference

It showed the garden an empty silver square, trenched at the end by the soot-black shadow of the hedge.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Judge] Reference

Hoists the pie up close to the flame-licked roof of the oven for a split second, darkening the soot-black heat blisters.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Clog] Reference

The cloth of it is studiously coarse; the colour a speckled soot-black or rust-brown gray; the nearest approach to a Peasant's.    From Wordnik.com.  [Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII.] Reference

Rents in their khaki showed white skin; from their grimed hands and heads you might have judged them half red men, half soot-black.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story of the War in South Africa 1899-1900] Reference

This soot-black portrayal of Irish village life at its most claustrophobic is immaculately cast and exquisitely staged by Garry Hynes.    From Wordnik.com.  [About Last Night] Reference

I, in my soot-black palace, laugh at both rain and wind; and while waiting for winter to pass I remain in my corner by the fire dreaming.    From Wordnik.com.  [Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn] Reference

Lindsay Harbour in the afterglow, and were fringed about with very long, soot-black lashes, and arched over by most delicately pencilled dark eyebrows.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kilmeny of the Orchard] Reference

They used to come trotting the five miles from Loughrea, little fellows with blue eyes shining out from soot-black faces, wearing little soot-coloured smocks.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Irish Comedies] Reference

Fort M'Bassa was really a fort, and from those woods down there clouds of soot-black devils, with filed teeth, raided the place, only to be swept away by rifle fire.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pools of Silence] Reference

(I have seen their grave; it formed part of the pavement of a huge churchyard surrounding the grim, soot-black old cathedral of an overgrown manufacturing town in -- -- shire.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Eyre: an autobiography, Vol. II.] Reference

Unlike the Pintados that paint their bodies with colourful tattoo designs, the Ati-atihan revelers paint their bodies soot-black all over representing the black-skinned native Atis of that era.    From Wordnik.com.  [xml's Blinklist.com] Reference

In the hallway outside the band's dressing room, framed photo collages hang on the walls, displaying snapshots of past performers: Beck's familiar blank stare, the Green Day posse smirking through soot-black eyeliner.    From Wordnik.com.  [Paste Magazine] Reference

It seemed impossible that those neat emerald bobbles, those velvety, milky-green leaves, should have been implicit in the soot-black sticks -- so much deader-looking than the polished brown twigs of the countryside -- which she had brought in a month ago.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mrs. Miniver] Reference

"with soot-black hair pulled into a dozen little pigtails.".    From Wordnik.com.  [NewWest.Net All Headlines] Reference

In counterpoint, four soot-black cormorants at water’s edge spread their drying wings to the early sun.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kook] Reference

"Sol -: 'For an instant her expression softened, the long soot-black lashes dropped and she breathed the word with a caress.    From Wordnik.com.  [Starways]

And your Slaves soot-black?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Revolution] Reference

The soot-black brows of men, the yell.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Complete Works of Whittier] Reference

From tiny caves peeped many a soot-black poll.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I.] Reference