black as Newgate's knocker vs sooty

black as Newgate's knocker

adj
  • Completely black in colour. 

sooty

adj
  • Of the color of soot. 

  • Of, relating to, or producing soot. 

  • Soiled with soot 

verb
  • To blacken or make dirty with soot. 

How often have the words black as Newgate's knocker and sooty occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )