sootier

But she has head that the devil is black; and having a mind to make one of me, brays together, in the mortar of her wild fancy, twenty chimney-sweepers, in order to make one sootier than ordinary rise out of the dirty mass.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

However, reality wears a graver face and a sootier one.

Biltmore Oswald The Diary of a Hapless Recruit Thorne Smith 1913

-- But she has head that the devil is black; and having a mind to make one of me, brays together, in the mortar of her wild fancy, twenty chimney-sweepers, in order to make one sootier than ordinary rise out of the dirty mass.

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Samuel Richardson 1725

(Nebraska's Ben Nelson) feared the legislation on the grounds that it would lead to a hike in rates or taxes, while otherwise liberal senators from the sootier, fossil-fuel-dependent states (Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia) were against it.

The New York Review of Books 2010

Certain moderates (Nebraska’s Ben Nelson) feared the legislation on the grounds that it would lead to a hike in rates or taxes, while otherwise liberal senators from the sootier, fossil-fuel-dependent states (Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia) were against it.

Wonkbook: State aid delayed; EPA regs face lawsuit; GOP targets health care funding; oil spill larger than thought 2010