"Sootiness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... enough also to let ordinary river traffic through easily. Over the parapet showed quaint and fanciful little buildings, which I supposed to be booths or shops, beset with painted and gilded vanes and spirelets. The stone was a little weathered, but showed no marks of the grimy sootiness which I was used to on every London building more than a year old. In short, to me a wonder ...
— News from Nowhere - or An Epoch of Rest, being some chapters from A Utopian Romance • William Morris |
