The sweep's name was
Sooty, and one day when they were playing near the well, Malcolm fell in and would have been drowned had not
Sooty dived in and rescued him, and the water had washed
Sooty clean and he now stood revealed as Malcolm's long-lost father.
But that darkness was licked up by the fierce flames, which at intervals forked forth from the
sooty flues, and illuminated every lofty rope in the rigging, as with the famed Greek fire.
She had carried her face pure as a lily through all the foul and
sooty air.
Mugridge's face turned white under its
sooty veneer, and when Wolf Larsen called for a rope and a couple of men, the miserable Cockney fled wildly out of the galley and dodged and ducked about the deck with the grinning crew in pursuit.
Animate London, with smarting eyes and irritated lungs, was blinking, wheezing, and choking; inanimate London was a
sooty spectre, divided in purpose between being visible and invisible, and so being wholly neither.
The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with
sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places.
He was very busy marshaling the little black vagabonds of tin cups and pour- ing into them the streaming, iron colored mixture from a small and
sooty tin pail.
Look!" I continued mentally--"Look at the
sooty smoke in that hollow, and know that there is your post!
Others, very dusty, came from beneath carpets, and lastly a
sooty bundle was dragged down the chimney.
According to the vulgar idea, the fire in his laboratory had been brought from the lower regions, and was fed with infernal fuel; and so, as might be expected, his visage was getting
sooty with the smoke.
haw!" laughed both the
sooty wretches; and the diabolical sounds seemed, in truth, a not unapt expression of the fiendish character which Legree gave them.
Nicholas will probably have to go on climbing down
sooty chimneys, Christmas eve, forever, and conferring kindness on other people's children, to make up for deserting his own.