Read full poem →Swift on his sooty pinions flits the Gnome,
And in a vapour reach'd the dismal dome.
Dictionary Entry
To blacken or make dirty with soot.
Origin
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Common Phrases
black sootymold sootytern sootyterns sootybrown sootyshearwater sootysooty black
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Poetry examples for “sooty”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Never mind Repose!
Never mind the sooty faces
Tugging at the Forge!
Read full poem →On that low thatched cottage stop,
In the sooty chimney pop,
Where thy wife and family
Read full poem →What time the joyous bubbles 'gan to play,
The _sooty swain_ has felt the fire's fierce rage;--
Yes, he is gone, and all my woes increase;
Read full poem →and the smoke of torment that ascendeth forever. One passed pious faces
too clean, sooty faces too restless. I hurried through, hoping for
more German farmers beyond. But King Coal had conspired against the
Read full poem →Might see, where, in dark nook aloof,
The rafters of the sooty roof
Bore wealth of winter cheer;
Read full poem →In vain the shelter of the covering rock,
In vain the sooty cloud, and ruddy flames,
That issued from his mouth; for soon he paid
Read full poem →Out--out--and, like a brooding hen,
Beside your sooty hearth-stone cower;
Go, creep along the dirt, and pick