smoke-grimed

Next she came to Hephaestus, and quickly made him cease from the clang of his iron hammers; and the smoke-grimed bellows were stayed from their blast.

The Argonautica 2008

The wide hut, the roof of which rested on two smoke-grimed pillars, was full of people.

A Hero of Our Time 2003

He gestured toward the smoke-grimed panel in front of him.

The Kobayashi Maru Julia Ecklar 2000

If she was never to see again, the last thing she saw should not be the high smoke-grimed ceiling of the kitchen in this ruined villa.

Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

She looked quickly through the small smoke-grimed window, her lips parting as if to say something.

Northlight Hall, Adam, 1920- 1985

Many of these were so old and smoke-grimed that I could not discern their subjects, and there were others whose meaning I could not guess - a dancer whose wings seemed leeches, a silent-looking woman who gripped a double-bladed dagger and sat beneath a mortuary mask.

The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980

Watching the dreary, smoke-grimed backs of London's houses as they blotted out the countryside, she reflected on the strange coincidence that Dr So ames should be Constantijn's godfather -- but then it had been coincidence that he should have a practice in Alkmaar.

Tulips For Augusta Neels, Betty 1971

Hundreds of bunches of dried herbs and mushrooms, vegetables, entrails, sausages, hung on the smoke-grimed walls.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

Then gradually the ceiling drifted into shape, and became the sickly green cardboard, smoke-grimed and darker now at the ending of the winter.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954

The band of light gave no brightness to the smoke-grimed building paper, faded into a dull red, but lay pale and sad, sadder than any sunlight she could remember.

The Dollmaker Harriette Arnow 1954