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Definition of Sootily
1. sooty [adv] - See also: sooty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sootily
Literary usage of Sootily
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard (1902)
"... shrouded and awful, bore the bed or stalked before it with torches that guttered
and flared sootily in the dancing light of day. ..."
2. Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists by Elbert Hubbard (1902)
"... black brothers of Misericordia, shrouded and awful, bore the bed or stalked
before it with torches that guttered and Bared sootily in the dancing light ..."
3. Bentley's Miscellany by Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith (1837)
"... melancholy)— Poking his ineffectual beams between the clouds, Hovering sootily
over it in crowds To intercept his rays, And turn them other ways. ..."
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