besmear

Example Sentences

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He will as surely soil and besmear with sin your moral garments as would contact with the most filthy object imaginable your outer garments.

From Plain Facts for Old and Young by Kellogg, John Harvey

To foul with a dirty liquid; to besmear.

From The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire by Jennings, James

At funerals, "the women besmear themselves with the most disgusting filth."

From Primitive Love and Love-Stories by Finck, Henry Theophilus

They make little fires during the day, sleeping at night among the warm ashes, with which they besmear their bodies.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 09 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time by Kerr, Robert

Dark streams of welling blood besmear Thy limbs where dust and mire adhere, Nor have I strength, weighed down by woe, Mine arms about thy form to throw.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)