Cat rested back against a sooty chimney, the warm bricks taking a bit of the bite from the night chill.

The charred timbers and sooty chimneys that had been the house where he grew up.

The red bricks of the building have been blackened by smoke that pours like "interminable serpents" from sooty chimneys.

I remembered that he had always smoked like a sooty chimney.

He's not just a jolly fat man who turns acrobat to scramble down sooty chimneys with Nintendo games and Barbie dolls.

Inspectors checked out sooty chimneys in homes.

There was no gas, only two oil-lamps with cracked and sooty chimneys.

Mulcade dug his talons into Thane's arm, hooted softly, and lifted on silent wings, spiralling up through the sooty chimney towards the distant stars.

He stepped out onto the roof and hurried behind some sooty chimneys.

He carried an oil lamp, his dark eyes peering across its sooty chimney.