besotted

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Two colliers, besmutted wretches, plodding homeward from the 'pit' which is half a mile away.

From A Life's Morning by Gissing, George

Marseilles is taken, and put under martial law: lo, at Marseilles, what one besmutted red-bearded corn-ear is this which they cut;—one gross Man, we mean, with copper-studded face; plenteous beard, or beard-stubble, of a tile-colour?

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas