The burning mattress produced "large quantities of black, sooty smoke," he said.

The advancing clouds, low and dark as sooty smoke, raced across the sky with extraordinary speed.

Again a red fireball pulsed upward through sooty black smoke.

The stench of it was awful, and sooty black smoke billowed everywhere.

And then, through the city, more bombs, more columns of thick, sooty smoke.

A more immediate threat is the 100,000 tons of sooty smoke also rising daily from the burning wells.

He was a serious-looking African American with dark skin the color of sooty smoke.

Two puffs of sooty smoke rolled away from the engines.

Several wooden ties turned to charcoal, and the tunnel quickly filled with a choking, sooty smoke.

Great fires still burned in many places, sending towering columns of sooty smoke into the sky.