I rubbed soot from the torch into the incised letters, making a crude but readable grave marker, and Ian set this solidly into a small cairn of gathered pebbles.

Now his wife seemed to have snatched his voice to lament for him, joined by her daughters, by his aunts and sisters, all beating their faces and rubbing ash and black soot on to their cheeks.

It gleams when you rub away the soot.

He smiled at her, rubbing soot from her cheek with one finger.

Julius took six of them, turning down a pair who were little more than children, though one of them had rubbed soot onto his chin to make it look like the shadow of stubble.

Before he had closed the window behind him he had rubbed spit, and soot from the ledge, into the marks the tire iron had made; but had it worked well enough?

Richard rubbed soot even more wildly over his hair.

THE HARP OF IMACH THYSSEL 73 "Then you've been rubbing soot under your eyes."